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This week we will be welcoming our District Governor Joe Ruskey. Our Rotary Board will meet with Joe at 10:30 at the Radisson Center. Buffet/Networking will start at 11:30 and meeting at Noon.
Joe has been a member of the Prairie du Chien Rotary club since 2003. He served as President in 2007 -2008, a member of the board of directors, membership chair, and chair of the fundraising committee. In 2008 Joe started to work with the district as an AG for group 10. He held this position from 2008 – 2012. In 2012 Joe accepted the position of District Rotary Foundation Committee Chair. He will continue in this role until July 2016. He has been a part of the team that has helped usher in Future Vision throughout District 6250. Joe feels that with Future Vision, Our Foundation is uniquely positioned to change lives all over the world while ensuring dollars are used to their fullest. That is the power of Our Foundation.
Even though Joe has been in Rotary since 2003, he states he ‘actually’ became a Rotarian in 2007 when becoming president of his club. While in this roll Joe truly learned what Rotary is. It lined up with his and his wife’s belief that we are only here to serve others. Continuing into the role of AG, Joe learned more about the power of Rotary both locally and internationally. As he learned about the Foundation, he became more convinced that Rotary allowed him and his family to walk out their beliefs.
Joe has been involved in both local projects and international projects. He has worked with clubs all over the district to make sure that their ideas and projects are backed and strengthened through both district and global grants. Joe and his team have been involved in awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of grants allowing him to have a front row seat to the power of Rotary and the amazing tool that Our Foundation is. He was personally involved in a project in Ghana that allowed over 86000 people to have their lives changed. Joe believes that is a statement of the importance and necessity of Rotary. He also believes that right now is so important because needs all over the globe increase daily. In addition, we are so close to finishing our job to eradicate polio. We are on track to see it eliminated in 2018. He believes we can’t let up when we are so close.
Joe lives in Prairie du Chien with his wife, Tina, his daughter, Samantha, and his Son, Joseph. His Daughter was an outbound Rotary Exchange Student to Denmark in 2013/14. His family has also hosted 2 inbound exchange students. Joe and Tina are both supporters of the Rotary Foundation. Tina is a Paul Harris and a bequest society member. Joe is a Paul Harris plus member, a sustaining member, a bequest society member, and a Paul Harris society member. Joe and Tina own Dependable Solutions, Inc., a technology consulting firm specializing in Computer Network Support, design, and implementation with locations in Prairie du Chien, Boscobel, and La Crosse.
In his spare time, Joe enjoys diving, grilling, and travelling with his wife and kids. Joe and Tina enjoy travelling throughout the district and beyond to different Rotary events and clubs. It allows them to see all the good Rotary does around the world and it is something so important to both of them.
Every Rotarian is Responsible for Membership Growth
Grant Golson Executive Director La Crosse Community Theatre
Proposed by Mary Ann Gschwind
Lisa Wied Vice President, Clinical Operations Gundersen Health System Proposed by
Beth Smith-Houskamp
If no written objection to the proposal stating reasons is received by the Board of Directors from any member of the club within seven days following publication of the name of the prospective member, the prospective member shall be considered to be elected to membership.
Our next STAR Meeting will be Thursday. November 9th. We will meet at the Radisson Hotel in the Iowa Room - 2nd floor at 7:00 a.m. Please RSVP if you will be attending to Lyn at rotarylax@charter.net
ALL NEW members become a member of this committee for one year. This breakfast is hosted (no cost to the new members). The breakfast and presentation will last no longer than one hour and the meeting will count as a make-up. The STAR Committee, in addition to meeting other new members and some of the present membership will learn more about various aspects of the Club.
UWL adopted a new strategic plan, Sustaining Excellence, earlier this year. Chancellor Gow, and Marie Moeller shared with the Downtown Rotary members the components and the progress of this plan, in particular the priority centered around increasing community engagement.
Rotarian Dave Trapp is recovering at home and doing well after a heart incident. Dave's home address is 1249 Fraser Way, Onalaska, WI 54650.
Rotarian Elmer and Lil Grassman are residents of Bethany St. Joseph Care Center....2501 Shelby Road...Room 712. Yes he would love visitors or send your well wishes to the address above.
Rotarian Lindy Saline is back in his home and doing well. He resides at Eagle Crest South, 622 Bennora Lee Court #254. If you would like to visit him I would call him first at 791.2820...well wishes can be sent to the address above.
Rotarian Dick Wolfe one of our honorary members is a resident of Valley View Nursing Home in Houston, MN (he is in late stage of Alzheimers)...cards can be sent to 10 E. Cedar Street, Houston, MN 55943.
Rotary Lights: Rotary Lights is an annual gift to the Coulee Region as a cooperative effort among the area's Rotary Clubs, numerous other non-profit groups and volunteer organizations, sponsors, and last but not least - the amazing individuals that make up their Steering Committee and Board. This year Rotary Lights in Riverside Park will be from November 24th through December 31st. Would you or your business like to be a sponsor of Rotary Lights? The Sponsorship levels range from $100 to $5,000...Sponsorship Levels and Benefits. You can send your check to Rotary Lights: PO Box 2151, La Crosse WI 54602-2151.
It is time to VOLUNTEER to help out at Rotary Lights. Our club will again be there for opening night..Friday, November 24th..we have two shits...4:30-7:30 and 7:30-10:20. We need a minimum of 25 for the first shift and 20 for the second shift. Click here to volunteer.
Fruit Baskets: Our annual Fruit Basket Fundraiser is only weeks away. We will be taking orders for fruit baskets starting in October......for delivery on Saturday, December 9th and Monday, December 11th. Think Holiday Gift giving ....they make great employee gifts....see if your employer would be interested in supporting our fruit basket sale. We will be making a slight change to the baskets this year....NO grapefruit. We will increase the oranges and get another variety of apples.
We will assemble baskets at the Rotary Light House, 27 Market Street, La Crosse on Saturday, December 9th. We will need a crew for set-up, basket assembly and basket delivery on Saturday. On Monday, December 11th we will need members to deliver baskets.
“Best of all possible worlds” says co-chair David Amborn, “members lend a hand with assembly or delivery and then take their personal baskets home with them. It’s beneficial to all concerned.”
You are Invited to an Indian Cultural Experience OPEN HOUSE at the home of Roger and Sondra LeGrand. Suggested donation of $25 to raise funds for the village of Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu India in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Tirunevelli through a Rotary Global Grant. Click here for more information. Please RSVP by November 1st.
Our Youth Exchange Student for the 2017-18 year is Rebeca from Parana, Brazil.
Rebeca will be turning 17 on November 9th. We will celebrate her birthday Thursday, November 2nd.
We hope you will consider opening up your hearts and home to make Rebeca feel welcome. She will be staying at three host families while she is here however, we would love to have other Rotary families help make Rebeca feel at home in La Crosse. Are you going to have a family gathering or attend a special event....ask Rebeca to join your family. Your family will gain a new global perspective, many memories and quite possibly a new family member for life.
At little insight on Rebeca...she is a member of a Interact Club...she enjoys being part of something that serves humanity. She enjoys watching movies, reading books, taking pictures, meeting new places and going out with her family, usually at a park to play volley. She intends to do an undergraduate course in cinema and work in film directing. She chose this path when she was in 9th grade while doing theater in school.
*****Just a reminder that if you will be one-on-one with Rebeca, you will need a background check. This is done through the Rotary District site and our club will cover the cost. Click here to process your background check.
iFeed is a one-day event where over 50,000 dried meals are packed and boxed, ready for shipment to a country where children are hungry. It's also a one-day all-Coulee Region food drive to fill area food pantries. iFeed is a joint service project of the area Interact Clubs and the La Crosse Area Rotary Clubs as an extension of Rotary Lights Food collections.
This event will be November 4th at Logan High School. Our club will sponsor two teams that will package the dried meals on November 4th. We have our teams!! Thank you to those that volunteered.
Rotary Food Drive....we will have a food drive to support iFeed....bring you non perishable items to Rotary on Nov 2nd. Thank you for your support. Monetary donations can be made out to iFeed.
ROTARY ATTENDANCE Oct 5th - 58% Oct 12 - 58% Oct 19th - 60% Oct 26th - 43%
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 Winners July - Miranda TerBeest August - Sue Durtsche
Corporate Membership is a program to allow multiple employees of a business Rotary participation under one primary membership. Each corporate membership is limited to a three-year term. After the three-year corporate membership term, the individuals are required to become individual members. View Corporate Membership Policy.
Family Membership is a program to allow a second individual Rotary participation under one primary membership. View Family Membership Policy.
Honorary Membership is offered to members who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals. View Honorary Membership Policy.
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.
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.
Oct: 26th: Raffle $57: Fines $96; Scooters $10; Scrip $130
Benefits of sponsoring an ad on the Rotary Club of La Crosse Web Site:
Enhance your business' public relations and image.
Advertise an upcoming event.
Opportunity to sponsor and support the Rotary Club of La Crosse and your community.
Sharing with fellow Rotarians in our club and other local clubs who would like to know what you do.
Why advertise on the Rotary Club of La Crosse's web site?
The majority of visitors to our website are members and friends of our club. This makes our site's web sponsorship an ideal opportunity for small and large businesses to promote their products, services or an upcoming event in our community. Moreover 100% of the advertising revenue goes back to our club; this in turn supports the local community.
Click on the logos under Website Sponsors...located on right side of our home page...or the left side on our newsletter to view information on each sponsor...PeopleFirst HR Solutions, 7 Rivers Region Outdoor Recreation Alliance, Roz Schnick (Sustain Institute) Outback, Rotary Works, Brain Game, Rotary Lights and Girls Scouts.
You benefit from a resilient economy no matter whether you are in government, business, retired, or a resident of any age in the La Crosse area (i.e., the 7 Rivers Region); thus, I encourage you to attend the upcoming Community Resiliency Symposium devoted to the achieving and maintaining a strong, resilient economy on Thursday, November 9th, from 8 am to 12:30 pm at the Lunda Center, Western Technical College.
A resilient economy can withstand disruptive shocks to our environment and infrastructure such as those associated with globalization, flooding and climate change that can cause negative shifts in our economy. To help meet these and other potential challenges, this half-day symposium will provide you with the opportunity to hear from three presenters who will address ways to achieve and maintain economic resiliency. These presentations will be followed by guided table discussions and a Q&A panel. Afterwards, you will enjoy lunch followed by your chance for input on your ideas through interactive polling and word mapping activities.
This event builds upon last year’s symposium on regional resiliency but it will also dig deeper into the economic component and how economic resilience can address both environmental stewardship and social equity.
Join us for presentations by:
Dennis Winters, Department of Workforce Development: Dennis will explore regional interconnectedness as it relates to economic resilience by focusing on the overarching ramifications of Foxconn in Wisconsin.
Andrew Dane, SEH, Inc.: Andrew will use case studies from projects in Wisconsin, including the 7 Rivers Region, to demonstrate how community members can work together to build economic resilience on neighborhood and community scales.
Joel Rogers, COWS: Taking the High Road in the Driftless Region: Joel will emphasize the difference between “high” and “low” road approaches to economic policy at the state level, including the recent Foxconn legislation, and what this means for economic resilience in the 7 Rivers Region.
Please register by November 2nd online at: www.communityresiliency.eventbrite.comor by mailing a check to: Sustainability Institute ITC 207-C, Western Technical College, 400 Seventh Street North, La Crosse, WI 54601 (click her for registration form for registering).
Please let me know if you plan on signing up so I can welcome you at this event! This symposium will be worth your time!
Roz Schnick, Member of the Sustainability Institute Board of Directors
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3RD CARGILL ROOM AT THE WATERFRONT 5:30 - 10:00pm (OR LATER!)
Dinner Tickets $50 per person *Dinner ticket doubles as a raffle ticket*
Raffle Tickets - $20 per ticket
The raffle is "bucket" style, meaning after purchasing your raffle ticket you can put it towards whichever raffle item you'd like. If you are unable to attend the ORA Gala, indicate which item you would like your ticket to go towards by checking the appropriate box.
Really want to win the mountain bike? You can put all your tickets in one bucket or spread them around anyway you'd like. ORA is bringing top-of-the-line raffle items. Below are links to examples* of the prizes you could win!
*Winner will receive items up to the level of the items advertised below, but as shapes and sizes vary per individual, so will the selections!
If you would like to volunteer for Rotarians in the News, be a greeter, a hospitality 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 Tami Woods.
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This week we will be welcoming our District Governor Joe Ruskey. Our Rotary Board will meet with Joe at 10:30 at the Radisson Center. Buffet/Networking will start at 11:30 and meeting at Noon.
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Rotary Lights: Rotary Lights is an annual gift to the Coulee Region as a cooperative effort among the area's Rotary Clubs, numerous other non-profit groups and volunteer organizations, sponsors, and last but not least - the amazing individuals that make up their Steering Committee and Board. This year Rotary Lights in Riverside Park will be from November 24th through December 31st. Would you or your business like to be a sponsor of Rotary Lights? The Sponsorship levels range from $100 to $5,000....png)
great employee gifts....see if your employer would be interested in supporting our fruit basket sale. We will be making a slight change to the baskets this year....NO grapefruit. We will increase the oranges and get another variety of apples.
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