Omaha West Rotary Club Secretary Report for August 3, 2018: 

This past Friday, we had several guests.  Visiting Rotarians included John Marburger and Brett Frevert from Downtown and David Kutler from Suburban.  Lori Benton invited Jermaine Hickey.  Don Otis had several guests from Skinner Magnet school, including Nicole Aune, Myra Manuel, and Bobbie Martinie.  Finally, Michelle Schrage was a guest for the last time…she will become a new member next week! 

We had several red badge members in attendance.  We also had our club board members stand so that everyone is aware of who they are and so that they could be recognized. 

There are several birthdays this month:  Shrier, Michael (1), Gaughen, Thomas (5), Yost, Micah (8), Fuhrman, Anne (14), Manhart, Mark Christopher (14), Rohrig, Suzan (17); Otis, Jim (20), Paz, Manny (24), Mamdani, Nizar (29), Waite, Starla (31) 

For good news: Nick Rosenberry welcomed a new baby boy, Peter.  Randy Parks is celebrating his 33rd wedding anniversary.  John Morey received a phone call from Kent Templien (he dialed the phone himself!) and he is doing better all the time.  Bonnie Gill’s exchange student is in Miami for a few days.  He is hoping to go to a Husker game this fall.  Bonnie had a request – if anyone has an extra ticket for him, he would be very excited to go to the game.  Steve Redler recently had over 6 pounds of bees and 100 pounds of honey removed from his house.  A bee keeper came and removed them for free.  Contact Steve if you have bees that you would like removed.  Last, but not least, Butch Ethington reminded everyone that the golf tournament is August 23rd.  We already have 9 foursomes signed up. 

As warned last week, those that have yet to buy their raffle tickets for the golf tournament were fined.   

Nick closed with some Dad jokes that went over about as well as Dad jokes should. 

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