Yes, it's cold. It's winter in Minnesota. That happens. But today's a Rotary day. And even better, it's a Student of the Month day. So put on some long underwear. Find your warmest mittens. Wrap a scarf around your entire torso. Then come join us for lunch and help us celebrate a couple of remarkable students.

Our speaker today is Diane Lindo, who along with her business partner created Face 4 Your Future, an elaborate scheme by which your face is replaced with Nicolas Cage's face so you can infiltrate his sinister criminal empire.

Actually, check that. I'm told I'm thinking of the plot to the 1997 film masterpiece Face/Off. Face 4 Your Future is a nonprofit that allows Diane and her partner to "continue their quest of giving back and helping people become the best they can be."

The information I has isn't clear about exactly how they do that, so I can't swear Nic Cage's face isn't involved somehow. Show up and find out, I guess.

The middle part of today's triathlon of potential Rotary activity is our monthly board meeting. You're welcome to attend even if you're not on the board.

If you make it to only one Rotary meeting this month, you should probably work on your attendance. But record keeping aside, you should really be at our Nov. 17 meeting. That's when we'll wrap the gifts we bought for our Armful of Love families. An intrepid crew of Rotarians did the shopping on Monday of this week and got some good things for the two families we adopted. Armful of Love frowns (I assume) on just presenting everything in plastic Target bags, though. So please come by and help wrap next week.

Circling back to that whole, Supporting the Military thing, tonight is Farmington's annual Patriotic Day celebration. Rotary will have a booth there, so if you want to come by and represent the club, we'd love to have you. People will start arriving at around 5 p.m. for a community pork chop dinner. The program starts at 7, which is when we pack up our booth and either head inside to see what's happening or head home. You're obviously free to head somewhere other than home if that's what you prefer. We're not the boss of you.

Please don't show up at Celts for our Dec. 15 meeting. There won't be any other Rotarians there. Instead, please show up at St. Michael's Catholic Church to help with our annual senior holiday luncheon. If you can, come early to help us get everything set up.

If you've never taken part, the luncheon is a lot of fun. It's especially fun if you've ever dreamed of working as a server in a restaurant. And who hasn't, am I right?