Bulletin for April 12-18, 2013

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Provo Rotary President Dr. Vaughn Park with speaker Erika Cohn, Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Upcoming Provo Rotary Luncheon Programs and Events 

April 18: Matt Montague, former BYU basketball point guard who now works for Hartford Investments


April 25: Provo Mayor John Curtis

Report of the Provo Rotary Luncheon Meeting April 11, 2013

The meeting was conducted by President Vaughn Park. Dinner music was provided by Ron Roberts. The singing was conducted by Tom Powell. Julie Bolton offered an invocation.

Guest included Heather Rogers, wife of David, and David Kinkaid, guest of Steve Tolley.

Tom Powell reported that Strat Wendelboe is very weak as he spends time in the Riverwoods Specialty Hospital recovering from pneumonia.

Scott Smith spoke about raising money for the club's pledge of $50,000 for the new Provo Recreation Center's bouldering wall.

Ray Beckham spoke about the twenty park benches being donated by the club to Provo City for placement in parks and the Provo River trail path.

Dean Jackson is retiring as pastor of the Rock Canyon Church. There will be an open house honoring him April 18 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Riverside Country Club.

President Vaughn Park spoke about the annual Rotary district conference May 3-5, Friday to Sunday in Ogden. 

David Rogers, Steve Tolley, Pete Pletsch
Pete Pletsch served as sergeant.

Erika Cohn and Robert Redd
Steve Tolley introduced the speaker, Erika Cohn, a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. She has become a documentary film producer and director and showed clips from "When the Voices Fade", "God in America", "Giant Step", "In Football We Trust" about Polynesians playing football at BYU and elsewhere, and "Three Judges", a film about three female judges in Palestine working under Sharia law.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6vb4XwV0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG2kt9VcDUo

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