Emma Novak, a senior at Grundy R-5 High School, presented the program at Thursday’s meeting of the Trenton Rotary Club. Cathy McKay was the program chairman.
Miss Novak talked about her trip to Washington D.C. last summer as part of the Missouri delegation to the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour. Miss Novak, who called it “a trip of a lifetime,” represented Grundy Electric Cooperative at the event and was one of 132 individuals from Missouri who took part.
She said the group toured several historical sites in and around Washington D.C. as well as visited with her local legislators. It was the first time she had been to Washington D.C. and the first time to ride on an airplane. She said the highlight of the trip was a visit to the Iwo Jima monument, where her grandfather had fought and where a friend of her grandfather had died. She got to experience that with her grandfather by telephone on that day as he called while she was making her visit there.
A short video about the Youth Tour program was shown. The local trip is open to youth who are juniors in high school and who submit an essay to Grundy Electric which, in turn, selects the recipient of the trip. The deadline to submit an essay for 2017 is Jan. 31.
During the business meeting, Tim Michael was formally inducted as a member of the club.
Next week’s program chairman is Hilbert Holeman and the program will be presented by Linda Overton on the Third Judicial Circuit CASA program.