Jim Green, the head of Score in Citrus County introduced the Florida Virtural
Entrepreneur Center to the Club(flvec.com). Anybody who has a business that
they want to rank high on Google should be on Flvec.com. There is no cost
for membership.  The purpose of the site is to promote Florida small business
owners/entrepreneurs high on the Google Search
Jim then covered what SCORE can do for startup businesses and existing
businesses who need help. There is cost for SCORE. SCORE is staffed with
volunteers most of them retired.. The SCORE office is at the College of Cental
Florida Citrus campus. Below Jim Green & Roger Carlson.

Nancy Ayres presented Paul Slosberg with a certificate recognizing his contributions
to Rotary and  an annual $1000 scholarship to be given to a student at WTC in his
name. This was  the highlight of the Christmas Party on December 20, 2017. The
other happening of note was Mike Busler showing up with his Santa Claus suit on
after being Santa for children at another event earlier in the day.

For those of you who visit the Black Diamond Clubhouse or attend the welcome
dinner on Friday night there will be a 1931 red convertible in the lobby as shown
in the picture below. The car will be there until the show Saturday, November 4th.

A picture for the front of the Club fund raising calendar is provided each year by a
local artist. Th artist for the 2017 calendar was Richard Devine. He is a member
artist of the Floral City Artists Gallery and Cafe in Floral City. He donated his
$500 award to the Citrus County Cultural Alliance. Michele was at our breakfast
meeting to accept the award for the CCCA. The award was presented by John
Clardy and President Lou Newman to Michele Wirt as shown in the picture
below.