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GUESTS Bob Harris, retired and former charter member of our club was visiting. Del Metcalf, Marketing Director for Peterson Predictive Maintenance, guest of Chuck Peterson.
TUIT No help. See last weeks newsletter.
T-shirt Committee meeting at 6:15 AM this Friday. Our next concession work opportunity is Memorial Weekend May 21, 22 and 23 for the Track & Field Championship. Sign-up to begin this week.
Installation Banquet and Orientation for New Members will be held May 30th at the Downtown Sampler $20 per person BYOB with sign-up again this Friday.
PROGRAM Since we met off-site to tour the Hutchinson Water Treatment Center none of the regular business, drawings etc. were held. A very special thank you to our new Mayor Bob Bush, for arranging a tour of the facility. Also, special thanks to Dean Brigman, former Mayor when the project was conceived, for making the introductions and carrying on in Bobs absence. Reg Jones, Director of Public Works, provided a PowerPoint presentation with background information as to why the facility was built, costs and operation information prior to the group breaking up into three groups to tour the facility. The project began with advertisement of bids on December 21, 2006, bid opening February 13, 2007, award construction contract March 6, 2007, start construction May 7, 2007 and construction completion April 2, 2009. Two handouts were provided to us. The first, showing a drawing and written description of how the center processes the water. The second, listing five of the most commonly asked questions and answers about the reverse osmosis water treatment plant project. Both of these handouts are available online at www.hutchgov.com. The plant is in its final testing stage at this time and should be fully functioning within 7-10 days. Once processed, the raw water from several contamination sites will provide essentially pure drinking water and will be blended with existing city well water to provide a 60% RO and 40% City blend. The process will also lower the water hardness from its present 18 grains to 8 grains per gallon. In case you did not see enough or you wish to bring your family a public open house of the facility will be held Saturday, May 9th from 1:00 until 4:00 PM.
This weeks newsletter drawing question is: Who was the first President of our club and in what year?
Steve Conard, Editor