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Lindsey Purl is the new Great Rivers Hub Director for Great Rivers United Way. In her role as Director, she is charged with planning, implementation, and maintenance of the Pathways Community Hub Model. The Hub is a collaborative and innovative systems change that aims to bridge the gaps that exist between healthcare and social services by addressing social determinants of health through Community Care Coordination. It is designed to bridge the gap between health care delivery and the social service sector for cost savings, improved population health outcomes, and increased client experience and engagement. This unique collaboration is impressively improving the systems connecting human services with at-risk individuals and families in our community. More information can be found here . LINK.
Great Rivers HUB was developed and launched on August 1st 2017. Its mission is to facilitate cost savings across health systems and the community, improve population health outcomes, and improve client experience and engagement. This is accomplished through the implementation of the evidence-based Pathways Community HUB model which aims to reduce risk through focus on outcomes. The HUB model is a system change initiative that addresses the ingrained and often siloed system issues that many at-risk populations face today. This is an initiative spreading quickly throughout the nation and this community is leading the movement in the state of Wisconsin. Great Rivers HUB shifts our community’s focus from services provided to outcomes achieved, from provider-led to client-led, and from siloed organizations to community collaboration.
Abilities in Harmony is an adaptive show choir camp for kids who love to sing and dance that also have special needs! They have held 5 camps in the La Crosse area, and have begun planting camps throughout the Midwest. Learn more on their web site.
The Board approved honorary membership to Peter Krause.
President Tami Woods and Peter Krause.
Tami presented Peter with a Paul Harris Fellow + 5 and an honorary pin.
Peter has been a very active member of our club for 35 years. He served as president in 2005-06 and also served on the Kids Coulee Committee. He has been our STAR coordinator for many years...we will miss all his stories and history of our club at those meetings going forward! He was also a community minded member - involved in the Boys Scouts and Oktoberfest. We thank Peter for his generosity these past 35 years and wish him well in Sarasota, Florida!
Congratulations to Peter!
Honorary Membership is offered to members who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals. Honorary membership is the 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 are entitled to attend all meetings of this club and others, wear the RI emblem, badge or other insignia, and enjoy all the other privileges of the club other than the right to vote or hold office within the club. These statements are according to the Rotary International Manual of Procedure, Standard Rotary Club Constitution.
Rotary Club of La Crosse designated the following criteria in addition to the above.
February 27th we will be meeting at the Coulee Council on Addictions - Recovery Center. Rotarian Cheryl Hancock and Executive Director of Coulee Council on Addictions will be our speaker. Tours of the building will be available after the meeting. Parking information will be coming ! We would also like to fill their food pantry - if you would like to donate, please bring non-perishable food items to the meeting. Lunch will be catered by Festival Foods.
Lee Rasch and his wife Susan were visiting Lee's brother in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Lee did a makeup at the Chiang Mai Rotary Club...the original club in Chiang Mai. It was a good meeting...the program topic was art therapy.
Al Louis even volunteers at another Rotary Club when is out of town on vacation! Al helped at the 10th Annual Havasu Balloon Festival and fair.
Traveling....want to do a Rotary makeup? You can find a club on the RI web site - Locate a Rotary Club LINK OR Rotary International also has the Rotary Club Locator App (info below).
This is great opportunity to meet other Rotarians and find out what their clubs are doing....bring ideas back to our club! If you are planning on visiting a club on your travels, pick up a banner and one of our Brain Game Books as a gift. Great way to promote our Brain Game..we also have Brain Game brochures that are available.
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Happy Birthday Bud Hammes - Feb 9 Greg Curti - Feb 10 Mike Desmond - Feb 10 Ryan Geister - Feb 13 Lyn Sheffer - Feb 15 Regina Siegel - Feb 15
Happy Wedding Anniversary None
Rotary Anniversary Sandy McCormick (H) - Feb 9 - 29 years Lee Rasch - Feb 9 - 30 years Brent Smith - Feb 9 - 30 years Beth Franklin - Feb 14 - 1 year Bonnie Steidl - Feb 15 - 2 years
If you have never been on an Rotary Friendship Exchange, now is your chance.! The fall Brazil Friendship Exchange will take place from October 3rd through the 14th in central Brazil in Belo Horizonte. Never been on a Friendship Exchange then you have priority! Bring your spouse, bring your son or daughter, bring a friend! For details, contact Mark Etrheim, 608-769-7200 or MARK@MCHLAX.COM. Read more for extra details.
We fly into Rio de Janerio and then a short flight to Belo Horizonte where we get picked up by local Rotarians. Fall break? Bring the family! We typically spend ...3 nights at 3 different clubs, stay in home-hosted accommodations and each club doing its best to show their home towns off. Always an adventure of the best kind. Cost is your airfare (?900-$1200?) and maybe a few hundred dollars for any meals not provided, entry fees, and souvenirs. It will be warm during our stay as they are in the southern hemisphere and is late summer there. Rotary makes friends fast! For details, contact Mark Etrheim, 608-769-7200 or MARK@MCHLAX.COM
Rotary Friendship Exchanges are exchanges between groups of Rotarians for the purpose of creating connections and friendships. The magic of Rotary happens when these friendships morph into relationships from which projects can be born! Anyone Rotarian can participate in a Friendship Exchange. Anyone with connections in certain parts of the world is encouraged to consider leading a Friendship Exchange. More information on the DISTRICT FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE PAGE.
ROTARIAN DAVE KNUTSON MEMORIAL YOUTH SPONSORSHIP FUND
From Rotary After Hours
On December 16th 2019,our friend David Knutson passed away unexpectedly. He was an active member of the Rotary Club of La Crosse-After Hours with a passion for supporting Rotary youth programs. To honor Dave's memory, our club is determined to create an endowed sponsorship for a student to attend Rotary District 6250 - RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) annually, in his name. Our goal is to raise $4200.
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.
Feb 6th: Raffle: $34; Scrip: $160; Fines: $60; Scooters: $2
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. Make ups can be made up anytime during the year.
100% Attendance Winners July - Jim Salmo August - Dan Howes September - Kenna Christians October - Kenna Christians November - Tim Kolek December - Todd Restel
Honorary Members Peter Krause - Honorary Membership
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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.
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