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As we celebrate our Centennial anniversary this Thursday, take some time to reflect on one or two of your favorite things about Rotary. Hopefully, you can share these reflections with others at our Centennial event. For me, while the list is long, Rotary’s Youth Exchange program is at the top of my list. Not only has this program changed our family’s lives, I do believe that Rotary’s Youth Exchange program promotes world peace. Through the long term exchange program, our sons have lived in Japan, Germany and France. Our fourth son can’t wait to participate when he is old enough.
I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday evening as we take a short pause from being Rotarians of action in order to celebrate and reflect on one hundred years of service.
SAVE THE DATE: Lucia will be heading home on July 27th. Lucia's flight home leaves at 9:57 am from the La Crosse Airport. Come at 9:00 to help send her off. She has been a delight to host this year and she will be missed!
Lucia is leaving this week for her Youth Exchange trip out West. She will be back in July and hopefully you will be able to wish her well at her last Rotary meetings in July.
Our District Conference Committee worked together to host the Rotary 6250 District Conference in La Crosse to celebrate District Governor Bill Hoel's year. Thank you to David Amborn the District Conference Chair who lead the committee this past year, holding monthly meetings and organizing every detail. We had a number of area Rotarians on the Committee (don't want to list names and leave someone out)....thank you to all. Special thanks goes out to our Rotary District Office at Morgan Data - Heather, Megan and Gail. Working together they provided interesting plenary sessions, breakouts, wonderful fellowship, good food, and great speakers. We video taped the two plenary sessions, heavy topics (Human Trafficking and the Opioid Epidemic) and guest speakers. We will share the links when they are available.
Thank you to all who sponsored the District Conference....your sponsorship helped us to host and bring in excellent speakers; to our Humanitarian Committee who organized a "Support the Survivors" collection for New Horizons/Human Trafficking with the support of the La Crescent and Caledonia Rotary Clubs; to those that volunteered over the weekend and to all who attended.
We would also like to thank the Radisson Hotel and La Crosse Center staff for all their work and help over the weekend.
The result – a very successful District Conference.
We are teaming up with the Riverfest Commodores with a fundraiser. They are selling raffle tickets to benefit their Riverfest Commodore Foundation, Inc....each ticket is $10 or 3 for $25. and you get a free car wash with each ticket....every ticket we sell we will get $5. First place will be four club seats to a Packer Game - plus 2nd- 4th place prizes will be awarded. Last year we made $2,100 from this fundraiser and our club had 3 of the 5 winners! Drawing will be Tuesday night, September 5th at 7 pm at Shenanigan's.
Thank you to Grant Withrow who will chair this fundraiser. Tickets will be for sale at our upcoming meetings. Sell to your family, friends and coworkers.
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 13th at the new La Crescent Area Event Center, 595 Veterans Parkway, La Crescent, MN.
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. Downtown Rotarians $20 and guests $35 (NO Rotary meeting on August 15th).
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 Avenue of Service Dinner page on our web site....LINK. Deadline to submit nominations is July 15th.
Happy Birthday Brian Reitzel - June 16 Tim Ehler - June 18 Kathryn Sexauer - June 18 Tim Gillespie - June 20 Grant Withrow - June 20 Tara Johnson - June 23 Beth Franklin - June 24 Trish Grathen - June 27 Craig Ubbelohde - June 28 Steve O'Malley - June 30 Joe Zoellner - June 30
Happy Wedding Anniversary Tom (Laurie) Berkedal - June 16 John (Diann) Honadel - June 20 Greg (Kathy) Curti - June 21 Mary Kay (Matthew) Wolf - June 25 Peter (Krin) Krause - June 27 Brian (Joyce) Mlsna - June 28 AJ (Anita) Frels - June 29
Rotary Anniversary Anna Prinsen - June 19 - 5 years Eva Marie Restel - June 19 - 5 years Josh Trust - June 19 - 1 year Jeff Odom - June 21 - 12 years Candice Tlustosch - June 25 - 4 years Petra Roter - June 28 - 18 years Bob Riutzel - June 29 - 30 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.
Rotary Attendance policy is to attend or makeup at least 50% of the club meetings 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 - Sheila Wieser August - Bob Riutzel September - Peter Grabow October - Chuck Hanson November - Grant Withrow December - Tami Woods January - Kenna Christians February - Cindy Erickson March - Ed Neuman April - Cindy Erickson
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.
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 Duty Roster Coordinator that are listed above....just click on their name. If you would like to give your classification talk please contact Program Committee Chair Sarah Arendt-Beyer.