MEETING MINUTES, March 12, 2008

WELCOME ROTARIANS, and guests!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mona announced the First Hispanic Art Show to take
place in Building 98 during the Cinco de Mayo
festivities. She will invite Dr. Ricardo Aldana
of San Juanito (see below)to do a showing at this
exhibition.

Jon announced that he will meet Michael Degiglio,
the President of Village Farms next week. Jon hopes
to have an opportunity to propose a stronger community
profile for the company in Marfa.

UPDATES:

SISTER CITY INITIATIVE:

Jon reported that the Sister City initiative of
Marfa Rotary is perfectly aligned with the goals
and strategy of Rotary International, which is
the focus on international understanding, goodwill
and peace.

Our leadership in this arena has been noticed by
the community of Alpine, which is now considering
a sister city relationship in the state of Chihuahua
also.


Jon has written to Sol and Lauro Marquez of the
Noritari Cabins in San Juanito, inviting them to
come to Marfa in April.

Dr. Juan Silveyra of San Juanito visited Marfa
last week and is applying for the position of
Medical Director for the Presidio County Health
Clinics. Much of the credit for this goes to
Rudy Garcia, who met Dr. Silveyra during the
Rotary Club visit to San Juanito, and saw in
him a potential candidate to fill this recently
vacated post.

John and Hilary Slaughter, part-time residents
of Marfa, traveled through San Juanito over
this past weekend and presented a box of
Village Farms tomatoes from the club to Sol and
Lauro during their overnight at the Noritari
Cabins in the high Sierras of Chihuahua.

Jon has made contact with Bea Pierce, who is
part owner of the firetruck that sits on the
Pierce Motors lot in Marfa. He wants to find
out if this truck is working and if it could
be donated to the community of Carichi, a
community situated near to San Juanito, and
whose representatives made an appeal for help
in equipping their firefighters during the
Rotary visit to San Juanito in early February.
Mr. Pierce is communicating our interest to
the co-owners of the truck.

CINCO DE MAYO FUNDRAISER:
Robin told the group that the First Annual
Marfa Film Festival has secured a portable
screen and projection system for the outdoor
screening of movies during the festival.

She has also secured permission from TXDoT
to close the highway on Highland street for four
hours on Sunday evening, May 4. This should
allow more space for vendors.

SPRING FLING BINGO
Everyone is reminded to get busy soliciting
prizes for the event on Sunday, April 6.