Jonas Bartholer from Denmark exchanged Rotary club flags
with President Eric Hoyer. Katy Neely with “Aspire” home
of the RIVER project was the meeting speaker, She gave an
inspiring talk about what they are doing promoting positive
influences for students at 14 schools in the county. Aspire
is a Citrus County non-profit that exists to share the
life-changing message of healthy relationships.

            Jonas and Eric                                          Katy and Eric

Rotary Youth Exchange at work on the Homossasa Rike the River project.
Svein and Jonas really work hard in loading the muck gathered from the
river. Our club was well represented and 5 exchange youth were there, too.

Our speaker at the meeting was Tom Chancy who is in charge of the
operation of the Citrus County Community Food Bank. He gave an
overview how the food bank got started and how it is successfully
helping to feed thousands of low income residents & many homeless
people in Citrus County.

Two of our Rotary Youth Exchange students were at the meeting:
Jonas  Bartholer from Denmark and Svein Sandvold from Norway.

     Tom Chancy & Eric Hoyer       Jonas Bartholer & Svein Sandvold

The date is set for the annual 2015 Rotary Bike Ride for the Y –  April 18, 2015.
The bike ride will originate in Liberty Park in Inverness, FL. There are 4 ride choices:
easy, medium & metric 100 & double metric 100. Please consider sponsoring this
worthy event that supports the Citrus County YMCA. The Rotary Club can be contacted
on the right of this message for sponsorship opportunities. Early registration is open
on RotaryBikeRidefortheY.com