Happy Monday Evening!    Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow as it will be a jam-packed fun meeting!  We will have our second Student of the Month presentation from Preston Middle School.  Thanks Allison for all of your work putting this together!  I always look forward to the student presentations!  

We will also have a check presentation for Project Self Sufficiency from our Pickleball Tournament.  This has been such a great event each year and I'm excited to hear the final number of what we raised!   This event keeps getting better each year and the best part is to see what our efforts have raised and how many cars that equates to.  Thank you Pickleball committee for all that you do! 

Our speaker tomorrow will be Diane Lapierre who is the Executive Director of Poudre Libraries. Just like KUNC, there is no doubt that working in libraries has changed dramatically in recent years!    

Please be sure to register for our Quad Club picnic that is this Sunday at the Drake Centre.   Last year's event was so much fun and I know that this year's version will be as well.  I have a link attached:  Rotary Quad Club Potluck Social 2026 | Rotary Club of Fort Collins (Foothills)

I want to thank everyone that participated in Slammin Famine the Friday before Presidents Day. It was a great high energy event!  We packed a lot of food and raised a lot of money for this great cause.  Getting to do hands on projects like this is one of the many great things that I love about being a Rotarian!   Happy Hour afterwards was also a lot of fun.  Thanks Lisa for all of work in coordinating this event!

I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of what we have planned for March 31st.  Instead of meeting at the Marriott we will have our meeting at City Hall which is at 300 Laporte.  City Manager Kim DiMartino will be our speaker for that week.  We will have a boxed lunch prior to her presentation.   Due to limited space of where we will have lunch and to get a good head count, I'm asking that you register for this event ahead of time.  Here is the link to register:  Meet with the City Manager! | Rotary Club of Fort Collins (Foothills)

Please don't forget about RYLA registration.   The link is here to forward to anyone who may be interested.   www.RockyMountainryla.org .   I'm hoping that we receive a lot of great applicants for this! 

Finally I wanted to remind everyone that our Board Meeting is tomorrow right after our meeting.