Greeter Barb Brackett

Invocation: Bob Marshall

Family of Rotary:

Thoughts and prayers for Mickey Kempf and Dave Shroyer

Announcements:

Reminder to sign up for Hands Across Littleton May 12. Contact Kevin Kostoff if needed.

Interfaith Community Service is sponsoring a Spring Cleaning Donation collection/sale at Home Depot this coming Saturday. Bruce Stahlman will provide futher details.

The Interfaith minigolf tournament is May 12, and our club has/will have two teams representing us. Please support team members as registration fee is $1000 per team.

Dave Beall informed us of upcoming changes to Shots for Tots held at the Buck Center every month to provide free vaccines to children. Our club agreed with great support to provide Rotary membership staffing every other month. Thanks for your support!

Mindy Hendricks (John’s daughter) invited us to a Rotaract Fundraiser June 9.

Pres Robert Blay is seeking ideas for fundraising for our club/foundation. We have lost several of our beer sales events which have raised money for lots of our projects over the last several years.

Lottery drawing: John Hendricks won the weekly lottery, but failed to draw the Ace of Hearts, so the pot increases for next week (last total was over $250).

Program

Amanda Croxton, daughter of Tom and Vikki Ashcraft, spoke about her experiences in Tanzania. Amanda is a medical student at Des Moines University, and will soon graduate and start a residency in Pediatric Neurology at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indiana. She traveled to Tanzania with Outreach on a pediatric medical mission where the team ran a pediatric clinic for 3 weeks. She shared pictures of the facilities as well as some of her patients, including newborns.  She told of learning how to communicate without much knowledge of the local language in order to triage and provide medical care for diagnosis of Tuberculosis, HIV, malnutrition, worms, Trachoma, vitamin deficiencies and anemia. She also told about the care provided to ease the death of a child with HIV, TB, and malnutrition.

Amanda expressed her appreciation to our Littleton Foundation for helping provide financial support for supplies for the Outreach Medical mission.