When Tracy Woolman, assistant governor, and I arrived at Jaker’s in Twin Falls to meet the Rotary Club of Jerome on Monday, July 19, we didn’t know what surprises awaited us.
Once the leadership team gathered, Bryan Craig, secretary and past president, represented the club and his brother, Barrett Craig, president, by showing Tracy and me a notebook of pictures of the many Jerome club projects. (The leadership team that night was comprised of Barrett and Rachel Craig, Bryan Craig, Linda Hadam, Gretchen Clelland, Jason and Brandi Peterson, and Jeff Jacobson.)
PAINT MAGIC...A COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
It so happened that when I was in the Twin Falls area several weeks before my Jerome visit, I had taken a picture of the Jerome Paint Magic crew, who posed in a lighthearted manner with Magistrate Judge Tom Borreson scraping Bryan Craig’s hatted head.
MANY OTHER GREAT PROJECTS
The notebook of projects was a notebook of surprises for the depth and breadth of Jerome community involvement. The club engages in many other projects like the following:
- Posting a Rotary International & Jerome Rotary Club billboard
- Providing bleacher covers at Gayle Forsyth Park
- Distributing dictionaries
- Providing Christmas baskets to 270 families
- Providing three full tuition scholarships
- Donating 5 computers to the city public library and 2 to the Jerome Senior Citizen Center and 3 to Jerome Headstart
- Donating a skeleton to the Jerome School District Talented and Gifted Students
JOE ROSE (TO THE OCCASION!)
At the club meeting the next day, I had the privilege of awarding Joe Rose a perfect attendance pin for his 42 years. Amazing record. (Joe also attended the RC of Burley meeting on July 6 to honor Jeff Hanssen, club president, who was a Jerome member at one time.)
And this same day when I had I met 92-year old Rotarian Thomas Mahan, gave Joe Rose a 42-year perfect attendance pin, I also welcomed into the Rotary family Matt Jacobson.
WELCOME MATT!
I urged the Jerome Club to share its good work with other clubs at the Foundation and Membership Seminars (either Oct. 2 in the Pocatello area or Sept. 25 in the Boise area) and at the mid-winter assembly (either Jan. 8 in Twin Falls or Jan. 15 in the Boise area).
Clubs can learn a lot from Jerome and viceversa!
Good work, Jerome.
Respectfully submitted by Terry Gilbert
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