Posted by Jim Garrett
 
 
We celebrated our very own Brazilian Exchange Student!  We have been so blessed to have this young women in our community this year!  Hopefully, her Rotary Exchange year will have impacted her future and her life's journey forever.  Service above Self, will become her moto, and soon she will become a  future Rotarian.
 
ALL our exchange students could use your support!  They are all trying to raise funds and are willing to work to do so!  Here are their numbers!  Remember, get it done NOW and support our students.  Soon they all leave on their epic journeys and we won't have the opportunity again!
Laura               970-507-1629
Sahvanna        239-560-3432
Lauren             573-944-3004
 
 
So, need some more 'muscular' type of help?  We have pledged to our CSI students that we would put them to work too!  It seems to me their date to leave on their journey is June 25th, still plenty of time to get lots of work done!
Mason Blakemore      970-394-0657
Cole Cayard                 972-977-3369
Case Harris                  817-944-5835 
 
three Pagosa students comprising a “CSI” team which is headed for a competition in Louisville, Kentucky: Mason Blakemore, Cole Cayard and Case Harris.  (For those who don’t watch TV and haven’t spent a lifetime in law enforcement, CSI is an abbreviation for crime scene investigation – an activity simply called “evidence collection” in a more prosaic day, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and yours truly prowled the halls of justice as a callow youth). 
 
The Pagosa team is participating in a contest sponsored by SkillsUSA, an organization which describes itself on its website as “a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce.”  The crime scene investigation competition is one of many that will be staged by the organization this summer in Louisville, for teams engaged in a wide variety of occupational fields, from advertising design to welding. 
 
The three-student team of aspiring law enforcement professionals is seeking to raise funds to attend the event in late June.  It needs $6000 from donations combined with the anticipated proceeds of its able-bodied members’ labor, offered to community residents for yard work, to reach the goal.  President Kim Moore announced Rotary has pledged $500 to help.