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Our club will have a ZOOM meeting again this week. We will be sending you a browser link via email Thursday morning. We will open at 11:30 and our meeting will start at Noon. If you have an announcement you would like to make...please contact Tami Woods at woodstami13@gmail.com. If you would like to have a guest attend, please let Tami know and YOU can forward your email link to them.
We have put together a Zoom cheat sheet....tips on how to make your experience with Zoom a littler easier. If you have a tip, you would like to share, please let us know. I will add to the sheet each week if necessary until we all become pros at this! ZOOM TIPS LINK
Thanks to Sarah Arendt-Beyer you can now view past Zoom Rotary Meetings - she will post each week on our web site......LINK.
This Week at Rotary:
Kelsey Flock, Dementia Care Specialist
Dementia & Dementia Care
Kelsey Flock, CTRS, is a Dementia Care Specialist with the Aging & Disability Resource Center, La Crosse County. She will be speaking with us about dementia and dementia care.
Our 7 week total comes in at 68,189 lbs. of food and an unbelievable $309,586 in cash collected. Name another community that could do this!
A personal thanks to each of you that helped to make this possible. Your donated time was obviously time well spent.
The Hunger Task Force could not be more pleased. At this very difficult time, they will be able to keep food on the table for thousands.
With pride for the community,
Pat Stephens Food Drive Volunteer Coordinator
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First let me say that we are eternally grateful to all of you for your superb efforts during this food drive! We knew when we started this that the group that could get things done was Rotary-thank you so much for taking this on! Lindsey, thank you for getting this whole thing organized and providing the necessary signage and protective gear for all of the volunteers.
Please pass on our HUGE thanks to everyone with iFeed, Rotary Lights and all the local Rotary groups. We could not have asked for better results and The Hunger Task Force can now breathe a sigh of relief that we are going to be able to keep following our mission to alleviate hunger in the La Crosse area. You all are a shining example of how we can all come together and Git er Done!
Midwest Family Radio is working on a "Thank You" video that can be shared with all the media outlets. I would love to have all of the pictures that any of you took for our album. (Please send your photos to Shelly at lacrossehunger@gmail.com)
Shelly Fortner Executive Director The Hunger Task Force of La Crosse
President - Chamuel LLC Anesthesiologist - Gundersen Health System Proposed by Patt Boge
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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.
Dr. Cheri Olson, a family physician who recently retired from Mayo Clinic Health System where she served for many years as a member of the faculty of the Family Medicine Residency, spoke on the topic of vaping. She was recently named medical director of St. Clare Health Mission.
Thank you to Rotarian Mark Jolivette for sharing the following.....
This interesting, gripping, sad yet triumphant article from the British paper Guardian, via AppleNews, tells about the man in the iron lung in Texas, our only one left in the US.
The man in the iron lung
The long read: When he was six, Paul Alexander contracted polio and was paralysed for life. Today he is 74, and one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. But after surviving one deadly outbreak, he did not expect to find himself threatened by another
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 18th at the La Crescent Area Event Center, 595 Veterans Parkway, La Crescent, MN. A decision will be made on July 18th if we will have the event. 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 details coming.
We are now looking for nominations for the following categories: Avenue of Service Nominations for Club Projects, Lifetime Achievement Nominations and the Rising Star Nominations. More information and nominations forms can be found on the Avenues of Service Dinner page on our web site....LINK. Deadline to submit nominations isJuly 15th
Some of our members work for non-profits, some members serve on boards, some members may know of a worthy cause or organization. Your Rotary BOD is reaching out to all of you for recommendations to be the recipient(s) of “Al Louis’s 2020 Musky Challenge Fundraiser”. Starting July 25 through August 25 Al will be fishing up at Lake Vermillion with the hopes of catching many Muskies. Al is contributing $100 per Musky he catches during that time frame and challenging our members to match any $ amount towards each Musky. If you want to challenge Al to $10 per Musky and he catches 7, your generous contribution of $70 would go towards the fund. Last year we raised over $4,000 which went to The Parenting Place for the 2019 Diaper Drive. This year Al would like to extend this fundraising event with another worthy recipient(s). Al’s minimum donation will be $500 and he will also be promoting this fundraiser at his honorary clubs in Arizona and Minnesota. Anyone donating $50 or more will receive a bronze Centennial coin. If you are interested in receiving funds for your organization or an organization that you care about please submit your request to Lyn or Tami.
Here are some things we would like to know:
What is the organization or cause?
How would the funds be used?
All requests would need to be submitted to Lyn or Tami by June 1st. The Board will vote on the top 5 and make a decision on the recipient(s) at our June BOD meeting on June 8th.
A huge “Thank You” goes out to Al Louis for initiating this fundraiser and being a “Person of Action” in Rotary.
Thank you to Rotarians Jodi Widuch and Mary Beth Hensel for presenting our "Wheels of Hope" project. This is an international project that our club in cooperation with other Rotary Clubs has set a goal to raise money to fund a bus and a van to safely transport girls to their schools in Afghanistan. LINK to PowerPoint Presentation.
Only 12% of women in Afghanistan are considered literate. The Zabuli Education Center is one of the few successful schools for girls that is working to change that sad statistic. The Wheels of Hope Project is an important support to expanding educational opportunities for girls and creating safety. This work is inspired by Razia Jan, last year’s District Conference keynote speaker and founder of the school.
Follow-up from Jodi Widuch...….
Thank you very much for the opportunity to talk with you about the Wheels of Hope Project.
As follow up here details of how to donate:
1. Here is the link to our Go Fund Me Page. This is the easiest way to used a credit or debit card. There is a small processing fee that you can choose to pay for. charity.gofundme.com/razias-wheels-of-hope
2. You can also donate by check, payable to Rotary Works Foundation, Wheels of Hope in the memo, and mail to Jodi Widuch, 2555 Edgewood Pl., La Crosse, WI 54601
Happy Birthday Todd Wilson - June 5 Glena Temple - June 6
Happy Wedding Anniversary Fred (Hedy) Ross (H)- May 31 Dave (Sandra) Riley (H) - June 1 Bob (Marlie) Bendiksen - June 2 Stephanie (Dean) Jobe - June 3 Roger (Carolyn) Sorenson (H) - June 3 Kathy (Paul) Van Kirk-Przywojski - June 5 Al (Brenda) Louis - June 6
Rotary Anniversary Cheryl Hanson - May 31 - 8 years Nick Passe - May 31 - 13 years Dave Riley (H) - June 1 - 33 years Katie Berkedal - June 2 - 4 years Al Louis - June 2 - 4 years Dan Roemhild - June 2 - 4 years Tom Fider (H) - June 4 - 28 years Sandra Cleary - June 6 - 5 years
MEMBERSHIP Active Membership 185 Honorary Members 27 Associate Membershipis a program to recruit younger members, millennials, to membership. Associate Membership is available to anyone who is proposed for membership who is 35 years of age or less. Associate membership will end when that member reaches the age of 38. They would pay for dues and $100 for meals per quarter no matter how many meetings they attend that quarter.
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 Membershipis 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.Unlike other membership categories that can be requested by the member, Honorary Membership is bestowed upon a member by election from the Board of Directors. 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 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.
we can mail them to you or we can figure out how to connect.
THANK YOU!!
Scrip Kwik Trip cards are still available for purchase. We have them in denominations of $10, $20, $25, $50, $100. We have about a $1000 on hand we would like to sell. Send a check to Lyn Sheffer at N6945 Pine Lane, Holmen, 54636 and she will send you the cards. Our club gets 5% back + if you use the card in store we will get another 10% back. Thank you for support our club fundraiser.
Eva Marie and her family at this difficult time.
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