Hello to all on Selection Sunday, March 13, 2011 ...

Another week is wrapping up or beginning depending on how you look at your weekly calender.

• Selection Sunday: NCAA Big Dance


• Saturday was for 15Th annual Mo Show with a little volunteering and mo entrainment


• Friday was news of the awful earthquake and tsunami in Japan


• Thursday was for the arrival family from Omaha and a birthday in the family


• Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent


• Fat Tuesday


• Monday was for Rotary

Not the year for the State of Iowa or Creighton ...

• It appears seven Big Ten teams are likely in, looking at Bracketology 2011


• The expected Ohio State vs. the surprising Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament Final


• UNI made the Sweet 16 in 2010, but no local teams will Dance in 2011


• The UNI women, along with Iowa and Iowa State should get an opportunity this season to participate in the Dance on the ladies side


• The Valley is a one team conference for the men, sorry Missouri State!

Great Mo Show this past Saturday at Washington High School, as we enjoyed volunteering, as well as our visit from family from Omaha hear to watch Vivace and Momentum, as well as the other show choirs from Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Following Momentum's performance, we enjoyed a surprise birthday party for one of our daughters.

Received a nice link from my alma mater this past week. Lent - 2011: March 9- April 20 and the online ministries at Creighton University has a nice Praying Lent web page. May Our Lord grant us all the graces we need and desire.

Last Monday, the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids had a program on the new Events Center in Downtown Cedar Rapids, which will revitalize the current Five Seasons Hotel and U.S. Cellular Center, along with a new convention center and parking lot to serve our community.

Don't forget to pull together your brackets before Tuesday and the kickoff of the Road to Houston for 2011. March Madness begins, now with 68 teams playing, with an interesting First Four bracket kicking off on Tuesday and Wednesday. The final four 16 seeds will face one another in two games, along with the final four in at-larges as 12 seeds playing in the other two game in the new First Four bracket on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Robin Tucker