Posted by Skip Thomas on Jun 14, 2018
 
The program speaker at our June 14 Rotary Club of Edina meeting was Eric Curry, a longtime Division I college basketball official. He spoke about "Called for Traveling: The Life of a College Basketball Official." 

Youth Service Director Kip Peterson introduced two participants to Rotary Camp RYLA, who visited our club and shared their experience at camp. Our club sponsored four students to Camp RYLA this Rotary year.
 
Rotarian Jake Johnson gave his Classification Talk at the meeting.
 
Two local grant checks were presented by the Community Service—Local Funding Committee to Open Arms Minnesota and Oasis for Youth.
 
Rotarian Wooj Byun shared with us some history of Korea and his thoughts on why the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is so important.
 
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You were greeted today by Mike Kallas and Mike OpitzPresident San Asato called the meeting to order at 12:30 p.m. Bob Perkins gave the invocation. Dave Hatzung introduced the guests.
 
Kip Peterson, Youth Service Director for our club, then had two of the 2018 Camp RYLA attendees give a short presentation. Our club sponsored four students to Camp RYLA this year, a Rotary camp sponsored by the Rotary Club of St. Paul. 
 
Social Director Renee Harberts gave an update on the Minnesota Lynx outing coming up on July 24. Register now!
 
Wooj Byun gave us a nice talk on North Korea and President Donald Trump.
 
Jake Johnson gave us his Classification Talk. 
 
Paul Peterson, Community Service-Local Funding Co-Director, and Hannelore Brucker, a member of the local funding committee, then presented two $2,500 grants to Open Arms Minnesota and Oasis for Youth. 
 
Tom Bach came to the podium to introduce our speaker, Eric Curry, who is a NCAA Division I basketball official. He had some great stories to tell about how it works in this high pressure sports arena. It was very interesting. 
 
Bill Milota did the “thank you" to the speaker and San adjourned the meeting. See YOU at the Rotary Picnic!