This Week: Mississippi River Operation Pollination (Environmental Committee)
The Environmental Committee will share a presentation of what projects and other initiatives have happened because of the launch of the Mississippi River Operation Pollination (MR-OP) Partnership Project on September 28, 2023.
That MR-OP event has already launched projects in progress or brought forth ideas for new ones.
Last Week: Alison Fiebig
A Founding Member of The Monthlies Project, Alison Fiebig told her story of maturing and how it reminded her of the work done for volunteer-run community initiative providing period products to school-aged students across Northeast Wisconsin and raising awareness around period poverty.
She feels deep in her being put on this planet to help others share their journey with the rest of the world, to offer up new perspectives, and to expose different ways of life and thought.
She is a journalist, a question-raiser, idea crusader, and a permanent pupil of this strange and beautiful life.
Guests are ALWAYS welcome! RSVP in advance to Niki Pohnl if know you are bringing guests but last minute invites are also welcome!
Club Information
LAST TICKET SALES THIS WEEK.
DRAWING ON JUNE 27TH!
Rotary Members: Check your email for more detailed information.
End of the Rotary Year Check In
End of the Rotary year reminders for all members.
Sign in to your ClubRunner account and update your photo and contact information as needed.
Check your attendance in ClubRunner. We encourage 50% attendance. Did you know you receive meeting "make up" credits for attending meetings, social events, or volunteering with the club? Meeting volunteers are logged through May. Send Niki Pohnl any make up dates you wish to have added to your records BY JUNE 27th.
Account balances - check your email and mail boxes this week for account balance reminders. Contact Niki Pohnl if you have any any questions. We are hoping accounts will be brought up-to-date by the end of June.
Membership Proposals
The following community members have been proposed to become members of our club:
Robert Van Wicklin, Vice President for Advancement at Viberbo University, proposed by Rick Trietly
Mariah McCorquodale, Event Coordinator and Sales for Cappella Wedding and Events, proposed by Matthew Curtis
Anna Sprague, Development Manager for Habitat for Humanity, proposed by Sue Durtsche
According to club procedure, applicant names are to be published in our weekly email bulletin for two weeks. If there are no objections from the current membership, these applications will be approved. Please contact the Club Administrator if you object to these applications by June 25, 2024.
Click the link below if you have a new member to propose!
Welcome to Week THREE of RI’s Month of Fellowships.
The island countries of the South Pacific are tropically warm, economically diverse, and really, really far apart. In this region, which spans millions of square miles, even individual countries’ islands are scattered across vast distances. Public health workers face unique challenges in vaccinating the islands’ children.
The news this week is from a report by Etelka Lehoczky where Rotary’s Give Every Child a Future program vaccinated over 100,000 children in several South Pacific islands. “It’s hard to transport vaccines to the outer islands because of the distance and transport availability. Sometimes they have to wait one to three months to get a boat across,” says Rufina Tutai, who oversees immunizations for the Cook Islands.
The 15 islands in her jurisdiction are spread over nearly 2 million square kilometers
(770,000 square miles). “Flights are expensive to charter, and we’re lucky if a flight can go to the outer islands in less than two weeks,” she adds. Such obstacles did not deter the Rotarians of Australia, New Zealand, and several Pacific Island countries from organizing a major vaccination program in the islands. Called Give Every Child a Future, the effort – which celebrates 100 years of Rotary in the region – is
providing three new vaccines to 100,000 children in nine Pacific Island groups: the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Ultimately, the members applied for 23 Rotary Foundation Global Grants, securing more than US$980,000 in funds from The Rotary Foundation. The program was also funded by about US$807,000 in District Designated Funds, US$990,000 from clubs and individual members, US$264,000 from other foundations, and US$860,000 from the Australian government. That funding paid for much more than vaccines. It was used to purchase special refrigerators, insulated containers, and other equipment to keep vaccines cool and transport them to the most distant islands. The health ministries in the nine island groups will be able to use this equipment for many years. That fulfills the project’s other goal of helping the targeted areas add the three vaccines to their regular immunization schedules. Welcome to Week TWO of RI’s Month of Fellowships.
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