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This week at Rotary our guest speaker will be Idirisu Chin, a member of the Kumbo Rotary Club. Idirisu has been the Kumbo contact for the Rotary Sanitation/Water/Library Project. This project will provide toilets, hand washing and library facilities for ten small schools in Cameroon. Our club has adopted this project as one of our World Service Projects for 2016-17.
We will welcome three new members to our club: Katie Berekedal, Alan Louis and Dan Roemhild....all proposed by David Amborn.
Last week at Rotary....Roger and Sondra LeGrand shared their remarkable experiences in India that started back in 1969 in the Peace Corps teaching English. They were married in India on July 13, 1970 and the past 47 years has been years of friendships and service. They shared the connections our Rotary Club of La Crosse and Valley View Rotary had with India....which included after the Tsunami in 2004 our donations supplied a community with a boat, an ambulance and fish tricycles. In 2008 again our club and Valley View donated 25 artificial limbs. Click here to view PowerPoint that has photos and other connections that Roger and Sondra LeGrand and our club have had with India.
They also shared news on an ambitious Rotary Project to support a secondary school - Sanitation and Menstrual Health Management Project. Our club's Board of Directors approved this as a club project which allows Roger and Sondra to collect donations for the project AND submit a matching grant to our District 6250.
The project site is in a small rural village located in TamilNadu, South India. The project will address the following sanitation needs: to help build toilet blocks for 745 students and 18 teachers at Pattamadai Ramaseshier Secondary School; to provide basic Menstrual Health Management for 253 girls at Ramaseshier School; to provide 1 incinerator and maintenance for disposal of used sanitary napkins and to train school maintenance worker for the incinerator. Total project cost will be $6200....they have submitted a matching grant to District 6250 for $3100. They will need to raise $3100 and have already have raised $2300 need only $800.
THANK YOU. They thank those members that have already made a donation.
DONATIONS are now being accepted for this project....send your check made out to Rotary Club of La Crosse to PO Box 1914, La Crosse or drop off at the registration table. Please put TamilNadu in the memo.
Photo of Roger and Sondra LeGrand presenting banners and gifts to President Roger LeGrand.
Congratulations to Bruce Swanwick 2015-16 La Crosse Downtown Rotarian of the Year. Bruce will be recognized at our Spring Social on June 21st and the Avenues of Service Dinner on August 16th.
Bruce was nominated by a number of Rotarians and they stated....Bruce is currently our Club Secretary and Chair of our Social Committee. Every week Bruce is at our meetings at 10:15 setting up and helps to clean up after the meeting. He is "johnny on the spot" always helping everyone. Bruce also transports some of our senior members to the meetings. He is always upbeat and greets everyone with a smile and hand shake and lives the Four Way Test. This year he was involved in raising funds for Coulee Region RSVP, Smarter than a Fifth Grader. He was involved in our Fruit Basket Fundraiser by visiting every Rotary Club in the area twice to promote the sale of our baskets. He is actively involved in our Club Social activities and is present at every event...he helped organize the bus to Caledonia for the Avenues of Service Dinner. He is a good cheerleader for our club and these social events, Bruce is the perfect selection for our 2015-16 Rotarian of the Year!!!
Every Rotarian is Responsible for Membership Growth
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.
Dan Roemhild Manager
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Proposed by David Amborn
Our club's cell number is 608.526.4491 (no land line only cell). Please update your information...I will no longer use the 317.6033 that some of you have.
Our email address is rotarylax@charter.net. You can not use the mailservice@clubrunner.ca as a direct email address. Emails sent from ClubRunner will have the mailservice address and you can REPLY and I will receive the email...HOWEVER you can not use it as direct email address. Hope this clarifies why I may not receive your emails.
Received this information from our ClubRunner Support: The email mailservice@clubrunner.ca is used to send out email. If someone emails that email address directly, it does not go anywhere. But if you send a communication to your Club and someone replies to the mailservice@clubrunner.ca address it is supposed to change the reply email from mailservice@clubrunner.ca to your email address. So if someone replies it will go directly to you. Unfortunately some cell phones and email clients do not change the email address to yours. They keep the mailservice@clubrunner.ca by mistake. This is our of our control. The issue is at the member's end.
Cards will be for sale before and after our Rotary Meetings.
Graduation, Birthday, Wedding, Sympathy, Get Well, Anniversary, Congratulations, Note Cards and other cards will be available. All cards are unique and hand-made. Thank you cards are only $1.00, as are the note cards, which are blank inside. The regular cards are $2.00 and $3.00 each. Some cards are three for $5.00 and some three for $10. Anita donates all sales to the Rotary Works Foundation!
Save the date for our Spring Social, Tuesday, June 21st at Valley High Golf Club, Houston. Golfing will start around Noon and Social around 5:30.
Cost will be $55 per person for golf - includes a lunch (brat, hotdog, or ham/turkey sandwich, chips-pickle spear and 18 holes of golf with cart. This would be a 4 person team scramble ($15 will be donated back to Rotary).
Cost of the social will be $7.00 for Rotarians and $20 per person - appetizers will be served. Cash bar.
Online Registration Now Open...click here. Please note you will need to register twice if you plan on golfing and attending the evening social. Click on "Members" to register for the evening social...click on Golf Registration to register to golf.
We are looking for items for our raffle baskets. Click here to view list of some suggested items. We will take whatever you donate...if we don't use it for the Spring Social we will use if for the Avenues of Service Dinner in August. You can drop your donated items off at the registration table. Thank you to those that have already donated.
Money raised will go towards the Rotary Vista Trail...our commitment for signage and a Grand Opening that will be held this summer.
MEMBERSHIP 2015-16
Active Membership
June 30, 2015 - 167 May 31, 2016 - 171
Honorary Members May 31, 2016 - 23
Honorary Membership is offered to members who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals. Honorary membership ithe 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 Membershipis 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 $67 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.
Happy Birthday
Dick Swantz - honorary - June 2
Gibran Augustine - June 4
Todd Wilson - June 5
Steve Doll - June 7
David Kilpatrick - June 8
Happy Wedding Anniversary
Kelly (Brian) Barton - June 1
Dave (Sandra) Riley - June 1
Bob (Marlie) Bendiksen - June 2
Bill (Christin) Nelson - June 2
Roger (Carolyn) Sorenson - honorary - June 3
Dan (Nancy) Danou - June 4
Kathy (Paul) Van Kirk-Przywojski - June 5
Merl (Mindy) Case - honorary - June 7
Happy Rotary Anniversary Dave Riley - June 1 - 29 years
Tom Fider - honorary - June 4 - 24 years
Sandra Cleary - June 6 - 1 year
Kurt Schroeder - June 6 - 14 years
Lu Cagin - June 8 - 10 years
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.
May 26th: Raffle $41; Fines $96; Scooters $5; Scrip $10
ROTARY ATTENDANCE May 5th - 62%
May 12th - 60%
May 19th - 58%
May 26th - 54%
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.
As you know, the 2017 Rotary International Convention will take place in Atlanta from June 10-14. While every Rotary Convention is an exciting event, 2017 will be extra special because we will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The Rotary Foundation. As a matter of fact, it was in Atlanta at the 1917 Rotary Convention, that Rotary President Arch Klumphannounced the formation of OUR foundation with the first contribution of $26.50.
In honor of Arch's birthday on June 6th, and in memory of the first donation,Rotary is offering a special registration fee of $265 - but only from May 28th to June 6th. After June 6th, the registration fee will increase to $340.
If you would like to volunteer do Rotarians in the News be a greeter or raffle ticket 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.
Bruce was nominated by a number of Rotarians and they stated....Bruce is currently our Club Secretary and Chair of our Social Committee. Every week Bruce is at our meetings at 10:15 setting up and helps to clean up after the meeting. He is "johnny on the spot" always helping everyone. Bruce also transports some of our senior members to the meetings. He is always upbeat and greets everyone with a smile and hand shake and lives the Four Way Test. This year he was involved in raising funds for Coulee Region RSVP, Smarter than a Fifth Grader. He was involved in our Fruit Basket Fundraiser by visiting every Rotary Club in the area twice to promote the sale of our baskets. He is actively involved in our Club Social activities and is present at every event...he helped organize the bus to Caledonia for the Avenues of Service Dinner. He is a good cheerleader for our club and these social events, Bruce is the perfect selection for our 2015-16 Rotarian of the Year!!!
