On March 3 our club will have its first meeting at our new location, Flaherty's Arden Bowl, 1273 W. County Road E in Arden Hills. With the fortunate increase in membership the board believed the club has outgrown the capacity of the meeting room at Shore 96 and a move was necessary. Flaherty's has a larger meeting room with a direct entrance from the parking lot at the rear of Flaherty's building. Breakfast will be served buffet style. Flaherty's has a large flat screen TV and projector for our speakers as well as plenty of parking. Flaherty's is located just east of the intersection of Snelling Ave. N. and County Road E.
We have appreciated the hospitality of Shore 96 the past several years and will begin holding the meetings of the board of directors at Shore 96 on February 17. We will need some volunteers to move the Rotary property from Shore 96 to Flaherty's at the end of the month. Many thanks to Kay Baker for exploring possible new meeting locations and to Jerry Peterson for helping to negotiate the financial arrangements.
Club volunteers led by Ken Hola will be serving water from Cub, food from Mansetti's and beer from Fulton at the Taste of Shoreview February 20 from 4:45 to 8 pm. Mike Spellman and I will help Ken but we still need two additional members to volunteer. The Taste of Shoreview is held at the Shoreview Community Center. This is our second year appearing at the Taste to increase the visibility of the club. Contact Ken if you can help.
Please mark your calendars for Rotary Super Bingo at the Slice of Shoreview July 24-26 and the Taste of the Hops fundraiser at Snail Lake Park August 13 from 5-8 pm. More details will follow as we get closer to those events.
Ken Hola and Mike Spellman represented our Rotary Club and collected food for the Ralph Reeder Food Shelf at the Dive In at the Shoreview Community Center in January.