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Gae announced 1st Thursday is next week 5-7 at Travel Advisors. As usual, bring a beverage and if you’d like, an appetizer as well. Morning Rotary will join us. Mike F. announced another Fisher house dinner hosted by our club is this Thursday. Meet him at the lodge at 4:00 sharp if you’d like a ride. Andrew H. announced the annual grant request process deadline is this Thursday 2/28.

Art B. has resigned from the club. He says that though he loves us, he has a new love, rekindled from decades ago in Germany, so spends much time there.

Gordon L. auctioned off 2 tickets to James Comey’s talk 3/21 to Greg S. for $100 to the club.
There were many 20 for 20 announcements: Ron C. announced Jack Cody passed recently. He was a big figure at Los Gatos High School for many years. Judy R. thanked Marshall S. for his hard work every week with AV support. Patti v., noted that Nicholas W. recently won Citizen of the Year for Downtown Campbell. Then Nicholas made it a bell ringer $100 and also noted he was celebrating finally getting permits for work at Darling Fischer after 3 years! Avis announced she got a 2 am purse call from Tina in India. Apparently the purse was having a great trip so far. Haryl P. asked Doug B. if he could help him get the domain name for his initials HP.

Eric E. announced the speaker Tim Elias from West Valley Collection and Recycling. He spoke of Recycling Guides, composting and sustainability. He noted Recycling reduces pollution and energy use, and reduces need for landfill space. He emphasized that recycling can’t have contaminants, so please rinse items, and don’t put paper towels and Kleenex in recycling. Also plastic bags are not wanted in recycling because they get caught in machinery. Many businesses and multi-family dwellings have large compost green bins, and soon they will promote a home compost system. Styrofoam never decomposes, and glass takes 1-2 million years. The 4th R has been added: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot (Composting). He also noted the Guadalupe Landfill has tours.