Celi presented our club’s financials and expenditures for the past year. Income was $28,000 from dues, River City Days beverage sales and our holiday auction. Expenses were $32,200. Quick math revealed the bad news.

Possible short-term solutions and long-term choices were discussed with attendees. Intentions of previous changes in dues, providing meals, meeting location and frequency were tossed about. No decisions about leadership succession were made. Committees did not have time to meet. 

Good food and drinks at the club social on Sept. 26 may provide the opportunity for informal discussion and paths forward.

Emma enjoyed the fireworks at Steamboat Days in Carver. She worked at a Chick-fil-A fundraiser for the Chaska High School cheerleading program. Emma will be in her purple and gold uniform at the school’s football game on Friday night. 

In the photo Emma is standing in the top row, on the right, behind the Chick-fil-A cow mascot. Also seen at the game – new Rotarian principal Victor Johnson.

Ken Hiller shared his investigative prowess with an update on the Chaska Rotary bench, formerly in place outside City Hall. The bench has been discovered by the Chaska Police Department drone and is now under FLOCK surveillance. It was placed haphazardly behind a rickety old garage where weeds have overtaken it. It's actually kind of spooky. So spooky that it attracted the ghost of Sid Hartman. Rotarian Matt Podhradsky has also discovered it and apparently is taking his coffee breaks there to escape the intense criticism over the new home for the bench.