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This week our presenter is Lacie Ketelhut, Program Coordinator, Center for Effective Discipline. Program: "No Hit Zone."
Lacie Ketelhut joined the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center team in 2015. She has extensive experience working on community-level prevention strategies to foster positive youth development.
Lacie’s work with the Center for Effective Discipline includes awareness, training, advocacy, community outreach and sustainability of organizational systems to support positive parenting.
Studies show that child abuse often begins as an attempt to discipline a child. The Center for Effective Discipline works to prevent child abuse by providing educational information to the public on the effects of corporal punishment on children and alternatives to its use through positive parenting. Lacie holds a Bachelor of Science in community health education from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is currently working on her Master of Mental Health Counseling from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis.
Last week at Rotary, Jack and Ann Haase gave there classification talk. We thank them for sharing their life journey with us. Jack has been a member of our club since Oct. 14, 1976, he has had 100% attendance since he joined...that is a lot of meetings and make-ups! He served as president from 1990-91. Ann is our weekly piano player and past Administrator of our club. On Dec. 29, 2011 she became an honorary member of our club because of her dedication to Rotary. Click here to view their PowerPoint presentation.
Kids Coulee Work Day Saturday, April 16th ....it is SPRING!....time to spruce up Kids Coulee in Myrick Park. We will plan to start at 10:00 and end with a lunch around 1:00.....please volunteer online so we know how many to plan for. Bring your family!!
We are looking for nominations for "Rotarian of the Year" from our club....please submit you nominations to rotarylax@charter.net by May 1st...click here to find all nomination forms. The board will review the nominations at the May board meeting and make a selection. The Rotarian of the Year will be recognized at our Spring Social and the Avenues of Service Dinner on Tuesday, August 15th. Lifetime Achievement, Rising Star and Avenues of Service forms are also located on our web site with the link above...deadline for those nominations will be July but can be submitted now.
Please note: Raffle, Fines, Birthday, Anniversaries and Scooters are all donations that will go to the club If you are making a donation and would like it to go to the Rotary Works Foundation or Rotary International Foundation, we ask that you write a check to the Foundation of your choice.
March 23rd: Raffle $33; Fines $331; Scooters $11; Scrip $160
Happy Birthday Sharon Imes - March 31 Pat Ruda - March 31 Katie Berkedal - April 2
Happy Wedding Anniversary Ann (David) Snow - April 1
Happy Rotary Anniversary Alex Lueck - April 7 - 1 year Tita Yutuc - April 7 - 1 year Elmer Grassman - April 10 - 48 years Richard Kyte - April 10 - 14 years Dave Koudelka - April 11 - 43 years
Youth Exchange Committee: Our club's next exchange student will be Rebeca from Brazil. She should arrive around the middle of August. Please review the letters from her and her mother to get to know her better. Click here to view letters.
We are currently looking for one host family. We have two families, one that will host when she arrives and the other will be her third host family. Each family would host for 3 to 4 months. To hear about the benefits of hosting, please talk to Lisa Herr or Robin Moses, both of whom recently have hosted.
To host:
-- you can live in La Crosse, Onalaska, La Crescent or anywhere in the Coulee Region.
-- you may have no children at home, or younger children, or children around Rebeca's age of 16.
-- thus, all 170 members of our club are eligible to host.
-- if you cannot host for some reason, please suggest someone who can.
District Governor Dean McHugh invites you to the 6250 District Conference in La Crosse on May 12-14, 2017
Rotary International President John Germ has encouraged us this year to be "Rotary Serving Humanity". As I visited the 63 clubs in District 6250, I have seen evidence in every club where we are living up to this, both locally and internationally. Even more powerful, we are working together with our friends as we make meaningful differences in the lives of others.
I encourage you to celebrate Rotary friendship and Rotary progress with your fellow Rotarians in La Crosse. At District Conference 2017 we will learn about some of the outstanding projects happening as a result of the efforts of our District's clubs and assistance from The Rotary Foundation. We will have opportunity to learn more about specific Rotary roles and programs at District Assembly and at workshops. We will hear from several young people whose lives have been changed forever by Rotary Youth programs. We will hear inspiring messages about service and philanthropy from Rotarian and non Rotarian keynote speakers. Probably most important of all, we will meet and talk with Rotarians from all around our District, taking home new ideas to improve our clubs.
Join me in La Crosse to renew old friendships and make new ones in Rotary. May Rotary friends and Rotary ways continue to help us serve.
ROTARY DISTRICT CONFERENCE.....Help us welcome 63 Rotary Clubs to the Rotary District Conference to be held in La Crosse....May 12-14, 2017 at the La Crosse Center. This is a great opportunity for fellowship and showing visiting Rotarians that the La Crosse area is a welcoming and fun place to visit. We hope you will VOLUNTEER a few hours that weekend. Click here to volunteer.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY...(will count as a make-up).
Red Cross is partnering with the La Crosse Fire Department to install free smoke alarms in residential homes on Saturday April 22nd. Our goal is to install 100 alarms, and we are asking for 25 volunteers. We are asking volunteers to arrive at 8:30am at the LCFD (726 5th Ave S. La Crosse, WI) and plan on the event going until about 4pm, unless we finish early. Food and drinks will be provided. If anyone cannot attend the event but would still like to help, we will be doing some pre-canvassing starting April 1st, and we could use volunteers for that as well. The link to sign up to volunteer is: register here.
GET WELL wishes go out to Lindy Saline. Lindy is recovering from a fall at Benedictine Manor until Thursday. Lindy will be moving to Eagle Crest South Thursday...622 Bennora Lee Court apt #254, La Crosse WI 54601. We wish Lindy the best in his new home.
ROTARY ATTENDANCE March 2nd - 54% March 9th - 56% March 16th - 65% March 23rd 65%
Rotary Attendance policy is to attend or makeup at least 50% of the club meetings during the first six months and the second six months. They can be done by: • Attending regular club meetings • Making up meetings at other Rotary Clubs ( which includes E-Clubs) • Engaging in club projects/events/fellowship/board meetings.
100% Attendance Raffle
July - Sue Durtsche August - John Wettstein September - Mary Ann Gschwind October - Tim Durtsche November - Candice Tlustosch December - Bruce Swanwick January - Todd Ondell February - Kurt Schroeder
Honorary Membership is offered to members who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals. Honorary membership is the highest distinction that a club may bestow and should be conferred only in exceptional cases. Honorary members cannot propose new members to the club or hold office and are exempt from attendance requirements and club dues. Honorary members will continue to receive The Rotarian Magazine compliments of the club.
Excused Membership is offered to members if the aggregate of the member’s years of age and years of membership in one or more clubs is 85 years or more, the member has been a member of one or more clubs for at least 20 years, and the member has notified the club's secretary in writing of the member’s desire to be excused from attendance and the board has approved. Excused Members will pay the quarterly dues of $70 and only for meals when they attend a meeting.
Membership Proposals....we will no longer ask for three references when you propose a new member. This was a criteria that our club had set not RI. This will help us process new members into our club more efficiently. You can access the membership proposal form online, under the Club Information site page.
Grant Restel, son of Rotarians Todd and Eva Marie Restel is one of our outbound exchange students...he is in Osaka, Japan. You can follow Grant's year on his Facebook.
Ashlyn Neader, one of our outbound exchange students has arrived in Austria! She will have a blog on her adventures...... click here to view. Updated post...... 'A Day in my Life'
HILLTOPPER ROTARY 2ND ANNUAL SPRING GALA: The Court Above Main, April 21, 2017; 6-9 pm, Field to Fork Gourmet Dinner, $65 per person...Click here for more information.
Rotary Works Foundation Golf Outing: Please join us Wednesday May 24, 2017 at Cedar Creek Lane, Onalaska. 4-person teams, $85 per person includes: 18 holes, cart & dinner; $30 Dinner only. Schedule of Events: 12:30 pm Shot Gun Start, 5:00 pm Cocktails, 6:00 pm Dinner. Register online here. Questions: Contact Bob Allen at 708-785-1727 or email Rotary Works.
If you would like to volunteer to do Rotarians in the News, be a greeter, raffle ticket seller, scrip seller or announce guests, you can email the Monthly Program Chairs that are listed above....just click on their name. If you would like to give your classification talk please contact Program Committee Chair Todd Restel.
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week our presenter is Lacie Ketelhut, Program Coordinator, Center for Effective Discipline. Program: "No Hit Zone."
has had 100% attendance since he joined...that is a lot of meetings and make-ups! He served as president from 1990-91. Ann is our weekly piano player and past Administrator of our club. On Dec. 29, 2011 she became an honorary member of our club because of her dedication to Rotary. 
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Grant Restel, 
