Lilias Jarding, representing CARD, is originally from Billings, Montana, and owns a small business in Fort Collins. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from CSU, with a focus on Environmental Policy. Dr. Jarding has received a number of awards for leadership, natural resources research, and service. These include an award from the U.S. Department of Energy and two fellowships from the federal Environmental Protection Agency. She is here today as a representative of Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction (CARD).

Using information from a variety of sources, Lilias Jarding will talk about experience with uranium activities – both in our area and across the United States. The current and potential impacts of uranium activities in our area will be summarized, with a focus on health, environmental, and economic impacts and references to other sources of information.

She will also talk about the reactions of local experts, organizations, businesses, the public, and government entities to the current proposal. And she’ll let people know what they can do to find out more about this issue or become directly involved.
CARD's web site has more information, see at: http://www.nunnglow.com

Mr. Richard Blubaugh and Mr. James Bonner are the presenters for Powertech (USA). Their presentation will be mainly addressing the proposed Centennial Mine Project in Weld County, Colorado. There will be an overview of the company and Powertech’s management. They will be explaining the mining process and why uranium is in demand and will discuss the impact to the environment, health issues and, in closing, the economic benefits of the proposed mine.

Mr. Blubaugh has been with Powertech in the position of Vice President – Environmental Health & Safety Resources since August 2006. He has been involved in the environmental health and safety field for more than 30 years. For Powertech, he manages and directs corporate activities related to exploration and operating properties as they pertain to federal, state and county permitting, bonding, compliance, reclamation, decommissioning, and public and governmental relations. Mr. Blubaugh began his career as an environmental scientist for the State of New Mexico, where he became New Mexico’s enforcement officer for uranium milling operations in the Grants Mineral Belt. Both his undergraduate and graduate degrees were earned at the University of New Mexico. In addition, he received a certificate in Health Physics from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Mr. Bonner is Powertech’s Vice President of Exploration. He is a Certified Professional Geologist and has over 25 years of experience working with uranium exploration, development and production projects. Mr. Bonner is responsible for Powertech’s uranium exploration programs, currently being conducted in the states of South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. He is the past Exploration Manager for Rocky Mountain Energy Company (the mining subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad) and was involved in the initial exploration and delineation of uranium resources in Weld County, Colorado during the 1970’s and 1980’s.
More information can be found at: http://www.powertechuranium.com/s/Home.asp

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I have to say that (1) there will be no power point presentation; I am technologically challenged. And, (2) I’ve been told that I don’t know how to be funny so I won’t. This will all be straight forward and dry.

However, when I was preparing these remarks, it struck me as interesting if not unusual, that this girl who grew up in Brooklyn, where, as you know, only one tree grows, should end up with the classification “agriculture”; it gets worse, as I tell people I was actually born in Newark, New Jersey and my family upgraded to Brooklyn. Then I reflected that I have had three careers, three husbands and this is the third Rotary Club in which I have been an active member. I’m not sure that there is any connection. Nevertheless, I am prepared to give you the short version of how I came from Brooklyn to the classification “agriculture”.

I attended Erasmus Hall High School, the oldest High School in New York City. I graduated with 1500 other students. Among those distinguished graduates were names you might recognize: Lainie Kazan (who played the mother in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and Doug Moe who served a stint as head coach of the Denver nuggets. I continued my education at Barnard College, part of Columbia University, where I majored in philosophy, with a minor in political science (all in preparation for my later immersion in “agriculture”). I commuted on the subway from my home in Brooklyn to 116th Street and Broadway because all the scholarships and monetary awards that I received still would not enable me to live on campus. All through high school and then while at Barnard I worked in my aunt and uncle’s furniture business in Long Island (career # 1). I married my first husband, the father of my two children and I continued to work in the furniture business to support him through his last two years of Law School at Columbia.

Thirteen years later, my then lawyer husband determined to move the family to Colorado, after attending a seminar in Colorado Springs. This prompted the sale of the family business and, in 1972 we arrived in Lafayette, Colorado and I started Law School at Boulder. The summer of my second year in law school I had been offered a summer internship with Monfort. That summer I became enthralled with the company. When I graduated, there was no room for me at Monfort. Finally, the company reorganized and I was asked to come back to Monfort as Staff Attorney (Career # 2). I advanced over the years from Staff Attorney to Associate General Counsel and finally, to Group Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Monfort of Colorado and held them until retirement in 1990.

In 1979 Monfort experienced many serious problems. A side effect of working extraordinary hours and being under enormous stress, my marriage fell apart and Ken Monfort’s marriage did likewise. Suffice to say we were married in 1982 after our divorces were finalized. (thus, Husband # 2). We were married for 18 ½ years until his death, February 2, 2001.

When Kenny’s health deteriorated, we started a Foundation in Florida because Kenny believed that wherever you lived you had to give back to the community. When Kenny died he left the bulk of his estate, after providing for his and my children, to the Monfort Family Foundation and the Kenneth and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation and today, I am still a Trustee of the Monfort Family Foundation and the President of the Kenneth and Myra Monfort charitable Foundation.

I sometimes think that my real vocation is Rotary. I joined the Rotary Club of Sarasota in 1996. My classification then was “prior service”, as Rotary was then opened to retired persons. I have held many positions in Rotary, both in the clubs and district wide.

I have always tried to do something somewhat reckless on my birthdays which got me into riding horses, buying horses and building a horse ranch near Windsor reservoir. We now have six mountain horses—registered Rocky Mountain and Kentucky Saddle bred. Our horses can be seen on our website—Highland Horses.com. This new career has provided new learning experiences and challenges. It is definitely a business and not a hobby. I breed fine horses and expect to sell them.

Michael Stradt

1. Merit Badge University occurs on the first two Saturdays of January, 8:00 to 12:00 am.
2. Rotarians volunteer to teach or assist in a class room setting in one of 20-24 merit badges being offered. The list of badges is distributed in November along with a merit badge book and computer codes to help the instructors plan their presentation.
3. Other Rotarians may volunteer to work the second Saturday by reviewing and checking off homework boys need to do for some badge requirements.
4. Rotarians may determine if the boys may follow up with the Rotarian to complete any remaining requirements after the two one hour sessions or just continue through Boy Scout channels.

Members can find information about all committees by visiting the online list of all of the club's committees on the web at: FC Rotary Club Committees

The program started with Larry Kunter reading some writings of St. Paul about love that paraphrased 1st Corinthians 13. It started, “If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows and strands of twinkling lights and shinny balls but do not show love to my family, I’m just another decorator.”……. the quote ended with, “loves bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things. Love never fails. Things break and are lost, but giving the love, the gift of Christmas, is something that endures all year long.”

Tanis Roeder then asked us to write a message to soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on a few Christmas cards that were on the tables. This was followed by a swag at the first five questions of the holiday trivia quiz.

1. Who said the famous line, “God bless us every one”?
2. What is the last ghost called in, “A Christmas Carol”?
3. What popular holiday drink was an American discovery?
4. What holiday film annually appears on television more than 300 times a year?
5. What country started the tradition of exchanging Christmas gifts?

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