Senator Charles Grassley will be our speaker this week. Senator Grassley has asked to meet with our group and is planning to answer questions that you have about our Country.
P.E.T.S. (President Elect Training Seminar) is for incoming Rotary Club Presidents. Rotary International requires training for Presidents-Elect, and this is the very best way that Rotary leaders can help them become prepared. NCPETS is a unique opportunity to network with other incoming Presidents from 4 Districts 6000, 5970, 5960 and 5950! Presidents-Nominee are also invited.
NCPETS will be held in Ames on March 14 - 16 this year. Mckinley is planning to attend.
A year after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, local Rotary members continue to rebuild homes and lives
By Vanessa Glavinskas
Photos by Alyce Henson
Eladio Montalvo faced a stark choice: risk drowning in his one-story home or climb through a window into the house next door. It was under construction but had a second floor where he could escape the rising floodwaters. He boosted his dog through and scrambled in after him. The two huddled inside an upstairs bathroom for 22 hours while Hurricane Maria raged over Puerto Rico. With 155 mph winds and torrential rains, Maria was the strongest hurricane to hit the island in more than 80 years.
After the storm, Montalvo went out to see what was left of the home he had lived in since 1958. The walls were standing, but the water inside had risen chest-high. Everything was destroyed. Without any family nearby, he had nowhere to go. He moved into his car.
“But after the storm came the calm,” he says. “Good people came.”
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