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This week at Rotary our very own Rotarian Dave Trapp will be sharing his personal near-death experience.
We will also have a new member orientation on Thursday. We would like to thank Kerstin Boudreau and Todd Ondell our orientation team who have been very busy this year...we have had 14 new members to date. This week we have 7 more scheduled to join....come and welcome these new members that will bring our total to 190 active members!
Our presenter last week was Bonny Goodenough from the Floating Gardens - Good Enough Farms.
Bonny and her family feel aquaponics will be the new face of farming as it is sustainable, healthier and can supply more food per acre than traditional farming along with it is grown locally year round in a controlled environment. They were the 4th & 5th generation farm family that started as dairy/hog/beef and moved into a grain operation before becoming aquaponics greenhouse growers.
You can visit them at their onsite Farm Market...check out their web site for store hours...tours available by appointment.
USO Rotary Project
Josh Mansee, Grants Sub-Committee Chair, presented a check from the District Matching Grant to our club for $3,200 for our USO project...Rotarian Steve Lindeman accepted the check on our behalf.
Every Rotarian is Responsible for Membership Growth
Dillon McArdle Executive Director Weber Center for the Performing Arts Proposed by Grant Golson
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.
The Downtown La Crosse Rotary Club (along with the Caledonia Rotary Club) partnered in 2016/17 with the Kumbo, Cameroon Rotary Club for an international project to develop bathrooms, hand sanitation units and libraries for ten schools in the Kumbo region. The project was named the WASH and Library Project.
The physical aspects of the project were completed late in 2017. The toilets and hand sanitation units have been installed and the library books were delivered.
The next step involved holding a seminar for stakeholders to develop a plan for effective implementation and support. The seminar was held in early 2018. We received an audio copy of a Kumbo City Radio Report interview about the WASH and Library Project. The radio interview was conducted at the seminar. The Bui Divisional Officer, Chin Iridisu (Cameroon Education Foundation, who also visited the Downtown La Crosse Club in 2016) and the President of the Kumbo Rotary Club were interviewed. Two other radio stations also covered the story.
Our next STAR Meeting will be Thursday, March 8th. We will meet at the Radisson Hotel in the Wisconsin Room 3 - 1st floor at 7:00 a.m. Please RSVP if you will be attending to Lyn at rotarylax@charter.net
ALL NEW members become a member of this committee for one year. This breakfast is hosted (no cost to the new members). The breakfast and presentation will last no longer than one hour and the meeting will count as a make-up. The STAR Committee, in addition to meeting other new members and some of the present membership will learn more about various aspects of the Club.
Rotary Friendship Exchange...The Rotary Friendship Exchange program gives Rotarians and their families the opportunity to host and visit Rotarians around the world. In addition to experiencing other cultures and making lasting friendships, an exchange provides a strong foundation for carrying out other international activities and service projects. The primary goal of a Friendship Exchange is to build greater international understanding and goodwill among Rotarians and their families. In addition, exchange participants can learn how their vocations are practiced in other parts of the world, observe new customs and cultures, and promote an appreciation of cultural diversity worldwide.
Our club will be hosting three friendship exchanges in 2018.
We will host Rotary Friendship exchanges:
9 Latvians from May 13-16;
7 Argentinians tentative dates June 14-16
We will also host delegates from the La Crosse - Forde (Norway) sister city project. At this time we do not know how many will be coming and the tentative date is most likely Oktoberfest Friday and leaving one week later.
Would you like to represent our Rotary Club of La Crosse by volunteering at the USO La Crosse Regional Airport lounge? In order to volunteer you will need to complete the online training and background check.
Information below is how to start the process of becoming a volunteer.
Please also email rotarylax@charter.net so we can include you in the Rotary Contact List in ClubRunner and that the USO knows you are from our Rotary group. We will also have a sign-up sheet at our meeting this Thursday at the registration table.
2) Log in to “Register to Volunteer” and create an account.
3) Enter your personal information.
The application is done in sequence. Need not all in one sitting. You can complete it any time of day or night at home or the office.
NOTE: There is a wait between the first stages to eliminate those who lose wind in their sail to volunteer.
*A background check is done on all applicants.
The USO has received our check and will be purchasing items for the Veteran's Lounge. We hope to have a social in the Veteran's Lounge this Spring once the items are installed. More info on our project.
Answers to a few questions that have been asked:
Military Lounge Hours: Open 24/7 by key pad/code access.
Code available from flight assistants/ Avis Rental office desk and USO online.
Parking: Yes, will be validated
Peak Days to volunteer: USO will give notice when they are due heavy traffic.
Consider for May – August to be busy. As weather cools so does traffic.
Our Youth Exchange Student for 2018-19 will be a girl, Lucia from Spain.We have already identified her first host family, who happens to live in the Central school district. The first family will have her from mid-August to early December, Her second family will have her from early December to around March 31st, after which her second family would have her until mid-July 2019.
We are looking for Rotarians who would like to host her as the second or third family. If hosting an exchange student interests you or if you have any questions, please talk to Maria Norberg, Eva Marie Restel or Jack Haase. Also, feel free to talk to Tami Woods on what it has meant to her family to host Beca.
Rotarian Jud Beck, General Manager at WLAX-TV provided the following link...It’s called County by County and this edition is on La Crosse County. It covers the history of railroads, the river, brewing, healthcare, and more. Click here to view.
Happy Birthday David Stoeffler - March 8 Mary Kay Wolf - March 10 Richard Kyte - March 11 Kurt Schroeder - March 11
Happy Anniversary
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Happy Rotary Anniversary Kyle Visker - March 9 - 12 years Roger Christians - March 12 - 9 years Steve Lindeman - March 12 - 9 years David Stoeffler - March 14 - 22 years Sheila Wieser - March 14 - 22 years
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.
100% Attendance Winners July - Miranda TerBeest August - Sue Durtsche September - Tim Durtsche October - Jamie Capuzzi November - Wendell Snodgrass December - Al Louis January - David Amborn
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 Membership is 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. 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 of $70 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.
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.
March 1st: Raffle $53: Fines $55: Scooters $9: Scrip $110
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 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 Tami Woods.
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