Rotary Thursday

Yesterday I spent most all day working on preparing for this year's RYLA Camp. Rotary Youth Leadership Awards is a one week camp that our Rotary District (5190) sponsors jointly with District 5180. This year I am one of the Camp directors. The camp will take place at a local facility (Grizzly Creek Ranch) for two straight weeks in June (right after school lets out. It is a great experience for students completing their junior years in high school. Anyway, not to get into details about the camp (check it out at www.camp-ryla.org) but I had some frustrations. I was preparing handouts based on hard copies I had left over from last year. I used OCR software to scan them and convert the image into a word document for editing. A very handy thing to be able to do. Unfortunately, after I finished (about 12 pages) I wen to store the new documents and found the electronic version of the hard-copy handouts I had just finished working on! Now I have duplicates. Oh well, good practice!

Today is my weekly Rotary lunch meeting in Loyalton. It is always a good time, and very good food. Saturday is our annual work day. The picture is of one of our projects from last year (irrigation for city park). We will be cleaning and weeding the public landscaping along main street in town this year. Not as ambitious as last year, but still a worthwhile community service project. Later this year we will be undertaking some very nice hands on projects with the local schools. More on that later.

Because of the Rotary commitment, I will be missing a QLG meeting. I'll get into what the QLG is later. Suffice to say, that this is one of those conflicted "retirement" days where I want/need to be in two places at once. No biggie. The tough days are where I need to be in three places at once!!

Later....