Tony Rodriguez, director
La Porte County Office of Community and Economic Development

 

We will be meeting on Thursday at Noon in Patrick's Grille's main dining room.  Masks are required.  If you do not have a mask, a limited number will be available for purchase.

On June 25th we met at the Friendship Botanic Gardens.  This was the first onsite meeting since the pandemic moved us to virtual meetings in April.

 

Marty Corley ran the Sarge program. Many stories of past events at the garden were discussed. Everyone thanked Jessica O'Brien for her year as club president.  Jim Welborne announced that with the help of John Wendel's points, the club is going to present Jessica with a Paul Harrris Fellowship.

 

John Leinweber indicated that the Rotary Garden is in need of work.  Jim asked Leigh Morris if the La Porte Rotary club would like to partner with us in maintaining the garden.  Leigh indicated they would.

 

Maintenance of the garden will be discussed at our next club meeting on July 2nd.

 

 

Adam Parkhouse

Director of communications at INDOT's La Porte District

 

The LaPorte District is responsible for maintaining 5,668 lane miles of state roads, 560 lane miles of interstate, 892 large culverts 824 state bridges, 170 snow routes, 618 traffic signals, 234 flashers, and 58,600 road signs.

There are five subdistricts (Gary, LaPorte, Monticello, Rensselaer and Plymouth) and 13 counties (Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke and White) in this northwest Indiana district.

 

Due to technical difficulties, this meeting was not recorded.

At our meeting on June 11th, Jim Welborne our President Elect, presented his goals for the 2020-2021 club year.

 

His top goal was to have all members have fun while in Rotary.

 

Click here to see all his goals.