ROTARY NEWSLETTER FOR WEEK OF              October 31, 2007

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Margo Scott needs help collecting the cheer uniforms on November 3rd. The Rotary Cheer competition will be held at Madisonville North Hopkins High School on November 3rd at 7 PM. Margo encourages everyone who can to attend! She will need additional help to collect the cheer uniforms from the girls after the competition is over. Please come and enjoy the evening. For more information contact Margo Scott.

When you invite someone to Rotary, be sure to give them a brochure and an application to fill out.

We extend our deepest sympathy to fellow Rotarian Captain Steward and to Rotarian Frank Williams. Captain Steward’s brother recently past away and Frank’s father passed away as well.

Mark your calendar: The Rotary Club Christmas party will be Thursday, December 6th.

Everybody is doing great wearing your Rotary Badges during the meeting! Keep up the new habit!

Don’t forget to turn off all cell-phones during the meeting or set them to vibrate. I am not sure but, I think this includes your “Blackberries” and so forth. Please, let us have respect for our guests and speakers.

MADISONVILLE ROTARY HISTORY MOMENT

Our Historian, Bliss Powell, was in attendance. However, he didn’t share any Rotary History Moments with us. He needed some help from a few Rotarians who were not in attendance. So he will hold the story for his next opportunity.

PROGRAM

MaryAnn Durban and Margo Scott were responsible for the program. Dr. Tim Todd and LaDonna McEwen of Murray State University were our guests. President Kent Waide made the introduction of our speaker Dr. Tim Todd, who is originally from Hopkins County.

Dr. Todd spoke about the Madisonville Regional Postsecondary Education Center Capital Construction Project. This 55,000 square feet facility will be a Regional Postsecondary Education Center located on the Madisonville Community College North Campus. We should all be excited that KCTCS, MCC and MSU are growing together to meet our area’s educational needs in Kentucky. The Regional Postsecondary Education Center will provide for the necessary expansion of classroom and other program space for Regional Postsecondary programs in conjunction with Murray State University on the Madisonville Community College Campus. This new facility will serve the growing educational needs for Postsecondary Education in the Western Kentucky Region served by Madisonville Community College. Currently the 2 +2 programs are scattered in 11 different locations. One centralized building on the Madisonville Community College campus will ensure efficient delivery of educational services to the community.