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This week at Rotary our Exchange Student Rebeca will be our speaker. Rebeca is from Curitiba, Parana, Brazil and arrived in La Crosse last August to spend a year. She attends Logan High School and is a member of the Interact Club. She enjoys being part of something that serves humanity. Beca is a special young lady and a joy to have at our meetings each week. She is a a great baker...if you haven't tried one of her Beca's Brazilian Brigadeiros, next time she has them for sale you will want to purchase some. She is fundraising for her trip out East.
A reminder that if you and your family are doing a special outing you may want to consider inviting Beca to come with...what a great way to learn about another country and enrich your family and Beca's lives forever.
Last week we welcomed our very own Rotarian Bill Hoel who reported that there is no question that 2017 was a banner year for Rotary Lights. The most food collected, best gate receipt, most volunteer participation and some of the best weather through the early part of December that we have ever had. The 23 year total food items collected is 3,647,199....how long will it take to hit the 4 MILLION food item mark? Informational Brochure on Rotary Lights 2017.Photos from the meeting. A huge thank to Greater La Crosse for making Rotary Lights a winter icon for our area.
Rotarian Dave Trapp distributed checks to some of the following organizations: WTC Respiratory Club, Boys and Girls Club, La Crosse Citizen Advocacy, Girls Scouts, Health Science Academy, Warehouse Alliance, APTIV, Disability Action Network, American Red Cross and Myrick Park Zoo.
Pat Stephens, President of Rotary Lights was not at the meeting because he was visiting his granddaughter at St. Jude's Hospital. Sascha Stephens, nine years old is battling a brain tumor...you can follow her journey on CaringBridge. I will get her personal address so members can send her get well wishes.
Gary Gunderson will be our guest speaker on Thursday, April 12th. Gary is the author of four books, of which one is titled Leading Causes of Life. Gary shares “I've long known of the Rotary Club's astonishing, truly historic witness around polio, so I am honored to speak about their own tenacious creative imagination that express the leading causes of life at the scale not only of LaCrosse, but globally.”
Gary Gunderson will also be the keynote speaker at the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium’s annual health summit on Friday, April 13th. If interested in attending, please click here for flyer invite and register by Friday, March 30th. Web Site.
Every Rotarian is Responsible for Membership Growth
Lora Anderson Registered Representative Mutual Of Omaha
Proposed by Roz Schnick
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.
We would like to thank Steve O'Malley for taking the lead on our Rotary Habitat for Humanity Project and to all the workers that showed up on behalf of our club to help build the home. We received a District Grant because of YOUR donations to the Rotary International Foundation and Rotary Works. Everyone did their part in making this project a success. The following is the report sent to District. Click here to view photos.
Habitat for Humanity Home dedicated February 3, 2018
La Crosse Area Rotary clubs helped dedicate the 43rd Home built by La Crosse Area Habitat for Humanity at 5th and Mississippi in the City of La Crosse. In cooperation with many other volunteers, area Rotarians helped to complete one of three Habitat homes on one site.
Over six build days three area clubs (Downtown, Holmen and After Hours) at least 50 Rotarians volunteered their time to help paint, caulk, landscape, install trim and doors to help complete the home last fall. Volunteers from several other clubs joined in as well.
The project was funded in part with a $5,000 District 6250 matching grant along with $5,000 from the local Rotary Works Foundation. These two grants funded a specific project for the cost of the Drywall, Paint and Doors within the house.
This home is part of a much larger development addressing the need for affordable quality owner occupied housing in the City of La Crosse. This home is part of redeveloping a challenged corner in the Washburn Neighborhood and convert it into a well-designed, mixed-income development. The overall project will replace three blighted rental properties that have a combined tax base of $150,000 and replace them with eight, high-quality owner-occupied homes with a tax base of more than $1.1 million.
Every year the nine area Rotary Clubs gather for a celebration of club projects and honor members that have lived the Service Above Self motto. Clubs will also honor their Rotarians of the Year. This year our Avenues of Service Banquet will be Tuesday, August 14 at the Lunda Center at WTC. The celebration will begin at 5:30 with a social. This is a fundraiser for our Rotary Works Foundation. We hope you will save the date. It is a great night of fellowship and celebration. More information will come closer to the date.
We are now looking for nominations. Please click on the forms below for more information.
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 view form. 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 14th.
Our Youth Exchange Student for 2018-19 will be a girl, Lucia from Spain.We have already identified twothost families, they live in the Central school district. The first family will have her from mid-August to early December, Her second family will have her from early December to around March 31st, after which her third family would have her until mid-July 2019.
We are looking for one more family that would like to host her from March through mid-July. If hosting an exchange student interests you or if you have any questions, please talk to Maria Norberg, Eva Marie Restel or Jack Haase. Also, feel free to talk to Tami Woods on what it has meant to her family to host Beca.
Katie Shephardson received the Rotary Global Award. Read on Katie's blog about the Rotary Global Award and how Katie with the help of Rotarian Bruce Swanwick applied and was awarded the Rotary Global Grant. Katie will be pursing a Masters degree at the University of London SOAS which specializes in the geographic regions of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. You can follow Katie's adventure on her blog.
Happy Birthday Herb Heili (honorary) - April 6 Mark Cassellius - April 10 Dave Clements (honorary) - April 10 Andy Parrish - April 10
Happy Anniversary Mark (Carol) Solyst - April 8
Happy Rotary Anniversary Alex Lueck - April 7 - 2 years Tita Yutuc - April 7 - 2 years Elmer Grassman - April 10 - 49 years Richard Kyte - April 10 - 15 years Dave Koudelka (honorary) - April 11 - 44 years
ROTARY ATTENDANCE March 1st - 56% March 8th - 61% March 15th - 56% March 22md - 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 Winners July - Miranda TerBeest August - Sue Durtsche September - Tim Durtsche October - Jamie Capuzzi November - Wendell Snodgrass December - Al Louis January - David Amborn
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.
March 22nd: Raffle $50: Fines $72: Scooters $9: Scrip $180
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.
Last week we welcomed our very own Rotarian Bill Hoel who reported that there is no question that 2017 was a banner year for Rotary Lights. The most food collected, best gate receipt, most volunteer participation and some of the best weather through the early part of December that we have ever had. The 23 year total food items collected is 3,647,199....how long will it take to hit the 4 MILLION food item mark? 
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