Jim Rider has been approved for a heart transplant! Let’s all hold our breath and/or pray for our cheerful numbers guy.

The Wine Train Trip is chugging  along, scheduled for next Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016.  The cost is $125 per person, including wine and lunch.  More details next friday. Questions: Mike Real.

Please be sure to join your fellow Arcadia Rotarians at the Day at the Races on Friday, 03/04/2016 at the Frontrunner Cafe at Santa Anita Race Track. The cost is $38 per person, which includes Club House Admission, lunch from a select menu, parking, racing program, tax, and service charge. There will be a sign-up sheet at the next few club meetings. Contact Jim as he already has the tickets. Please note that the club will be dark at the Embassy Suites that day. Please see Jim Pontello for more information.

District 5300 is in need of facilitators for RYLA which will be held from 04/13/2016 to 04/17/2016. Both Rotarians and non-Rotarians can be facilitators, and there must be an equal number of male and female facilitators. If you are interested or have any questions please contact Mike Real or Teri Muse.

Let’s all start selling those flags!!! The Arcadia Rotary Club Field of Honor will be held from 05/21/2016 to 05/29/2016 at the corner of Santa Anita & Huntington Avenues in Arcadia County Park. 1,000 American flags will be flown to celebrate patriotism and those who are or have been special in our lives. The cost is $50 per flag and 1/3 of the proceeds raised being donated toward the building of a veterans’ memorial in Arcadia. Contact Bob for a flag order form. The fundraising committee has raised $40,000 in sponsorships to date and is hoping to raise more. Contact Bob if you are interested in being a sponsor, or if you know of somebody who may be interested.

Monte Carlo Night is scheduled for June 4, 2016.  More details to come.

Finally, put on your calendar that the installation of Rose Mares as Arcadia Rotary President for 2016-2017 will be held on Friday, 06/24/2016 at Monrovia’s Double Tree Hotel.

The Dan Stover Music Contest was held friday, and was a resounding success and enjoyment, as usual.   Donna Xue stunned on the Cello, to take home first place ( Her sister did the same several years ago!) . She hopes to follow her sister to Stanford. Josephine Yip spellbound us all with her piano rendition, that did our old piano proud.  Jeremy Wang presented a technically  very difficult piece on his silver trumpet.