Weekly Bulletin for January 14-21, 2010

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Speaker Tom Dickson (left) with Stan Miller and Andy Anderson.
Upcoming Provo Rotary Club Programs and Activities

January 20: Becky Lockhart, Speaker of the Utah House of Representativies
January 27: Dr. Ned Hill speaking on Provo's natural resources survey
February 3: Burk Hoffman, Metech Recycling, speaking about responsible electronics recycling
February 10: Joan Dixon & Teresa Tavares, Centro Hispano
February 17: Dennis Hall of Provo's McDonalds restaurants, mixing Big Macs, Redbox and automobiles
February 24: Bill Peperone, Provo City Community Development Director, The Provo City 2030 Vision

Report of the Rotary luncheon meeting held January 13, 2011
The Rotary luncheon was held at the Provo Downtown Marriott Hotel. President Steve Tolley conducted the meeting. Jill Moon lead and Ron Roberts accompanied the singing of the Anthem and Pledge.  Carl Belliston offered an invocation.
Cameron Jaccard was introduced as a guest of today's speaker, Tom Dickson.
President Steve Tolley pointed out there are forms on each table for members to nominate people who would make good members of our club.

Kris Forbush served as sergeant recognizing those who have had special events in their lives:
  • Steve Densley was in the hospital in Hawaii with pneumonia
  • Jill Moon recently welcomed her 25th grandchild
  • Don Jarvis has a child who recently finished with detoxification and is doing well



Stan Miller introduced Tom Dickson, founder of Blendtec and inventor of a succession of blenders and mixers for home and commercial use. In the past few years he has become something of a television and YouTube celebrity with his crazy uses of blenders under the moniker, "Will It Blend?" After spending a while telling stories of some of his inventions and experiences on Good Morning America, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and numerous others, he demonstrated the strength of one of his mixers by blending up a rake handle before a fascinated audience of Rotarians. At the end he offered all Rotarians and friends a 50% discount on his most famous signature model blender with two bowls. Simply mention the Provo Rotary Club at the factory store just west of UVU.

Tom Dickson assists volunteer Jack May in demonstrating the remarkable strength
of a Blendtec blender by blending a rake handle.


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