About 75 club Presidents-elect and Vice Presidents, along with District leaders and trainers, gathered in Twin Falls March 7-8 for the annual PETS conference. The mission of the conference is to prepare these Rotarians for their year in club leadership. Featured speaker at the Friday night dinner was 1968 Olympian Dick "the Flop" Fosbury, a member of the Ketchum/Sun Valley Rotary Club. Attendees, under the enthusiastic leadership of District Trainer Terry Gilbert, DG Marianne Barker and and DGE Rick Phillips, were enlightened about a bunch of subjects:
  • Membership and Retention must be a high priority
  • The "Happy Clap"
  • Clubs Big, Medium and Small are VERY different
  • Revisit visioning
  • "Expect the unexpected"
  • If everyone sold all their raffle tickets, we'd make $190,000
  • 22 of us work for Idaho Power!
  • What does Paul Harris look like, anyway?
  • 39 Youth involved in Youth exchange this year!
  • Gate City Poky sings a song to their meeting guests!