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Happy Hour (Area 9 Rotary Clubs)
Jan 15, 2015
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
 
Rockin' Rotary Variety Night 2015
Shoreview Community Center
Jan 31, 2015 6:30 PM
 
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I would to thank all the Rotarians and their families for their work at the Slice of Shoreview Rotary Bingo.  What a great opportunity to promote Rotary in the community and raise funds!  We also developed two new member leads. 
 
I have not received the results yet, but I am sure we will be voted best Bingo at Slice of Shoreview for the 16th year.
 
Our next project is The Rockin’ Rotary Variety Show.  We are now in the process of recruiting sponsors for the event.  We have our best luck with sponsors that have a Rotary connection.  So if you have an idea for sponsors, let the sponsorship committee know.
 
Thanks for your support. 
 
And remember the Rotary International motto for the 2015-2016 year is “Be a Gift To The World”.

Member Birthdays

David Wick - Sep 10th

Paul Bartyzal - Sep 16th

Spouse Birthdays

Karin (Jeff) Ridlehoover - Sep 14th

Kathy (Dennis) Erno - Sep 14th

Emilee (Ryan) Streff - Sep 29th

Anniversaries

Mark and Cynthia Stange - Sep 6th (46 years)

Jeff and Karin Ridlwhoover - Sep 19th (17 years)

Club Anniversaries
 
<None this month>

 

 

 

 

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Rotary year Club Goals

Membership: 25 (Actual 23)

Annual Fund (TRF): $2300 (Actual $)

Fast for Hope: $600 (Actual $)

Polio Plus: $1000 (Actual $) - This is a Club Match once someone makes a donation

September 1st - Frank Mabley

September 8 - Jerry Peterson

September 15 - Kent Peterson

September 22 - Jeff Ridlehoffer

September - 29 - Andy Sall

October 6 - Ginny Sall

 

 

With the introduction of ClubRunner each member can view their Club Attendance directly. After you Log-In click on "My Attendance" to see your own personal information. Please talk to Paul Bartyzal if there are any discrepancies.
 
Membership is always a concern for our club.  In this month's issue of the "Rotarian", RI President K.R. Ravindran wrote:  "Instead of focusing on the question, "How can we bring more members into Rotary?" we should be asking ourselves, "How can we add more value to Rotary membership, so that more will join and fewer will leave?""  
I think these are very wise words and we should follow them.
The District has invited us to participate in five volunteer sessions at Second Harvest in Maplewood.  The sessions are early in each of the first five months of 2016.  For those who haven’t been to Second Harvest, this is a great chance to see their most impressive operation – probably much bigger than imagined – alongside fellow Rotarians from other district clubs, as well as provide significant service to the community around us.  Sign up NOW!

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Below is the announcement of an upcoming Rotary trip to Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa in November 2015 to participate in a polio immunization exercise, attend the 10th Annual West Africa Project Fair, and engage in a hands-on work project. Cote d’Ivoire (we formerly called Ivory Coast) is near Nigeria when we are in a critical close-out phase of polio eradication.
There have been no new wild poliovirus type 1 cases reported since July 2014. To be certified as polio-free, there must be no new cases within at least 3 years so we are incredibly close to declaring Nigeria and the entire African continent polio-free. You may recall that in 2004 there was a major problem with a halt in polio eradication in northern Nigeria but things have total reversed to the positive during the past 10 years. It is now very important that all other countries in Africa maintain their full effort at immunization and monitoring. Only Pakistan and Afghanistan remain with new cases of wild polio virus. In the past year, the number of immunizations administered has increased and number of reported cases declined substantially because of support from governmental authorities. Rotary, the Gates Foundation and WHO are providing resources for all of these eradication efforts where it’s dangerous work and critical to have support from national and local authorities. Conditions in Cote d’Ivoire are much safer and we are close to celebrating the African continent as polio-free.
If you are interested in the Rotary trip to Cote d’Ivoire, you should contact Bradford Howard, Rotary International Director, at travel@howardtours.net. Here is the announcement:
“The purpose of this correspondence is to announce an upcoming trip to Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa in November 2015 to participate in a polio immunization exercise, attend the 10th Annual West Africa Project Fair, and engage in a hands-on work project.  Attached is detailed trip information.  Please feel free to share this information with the Rotarians in your club as soon as possible as we have a limited amount of space and expect this trip to be filled in the next week or two.
Trip Dates:                         November 10 – 19, 2015
Travel to:                            Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Per Person Price:              $1,779, double occupancy
Price includes: Hotel accommodations, transfers, most meals, polio immunization exercise, hands-on community service field work, West Africa Project Fair registration, special Rotary and fellowship events, sightseeing, etc.
In November 2015, North American Rotarians will travel to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, for a life changing experience.   Have you ever heard a Rotarian speak about their personal experience participating in a polio eradication exercise, a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or work on a humanitarian grant?  These trips have a profound effect upon the individual.  For those of you who have gone on one of these trips you know, and for those of you who have yet to enjoy this experience, you should.
The experiences you have stay with you forever.  You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impoverished neighborhood, and for the next few hours, you change.  Small children come up to you to say thank you.  Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life.  You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes.  It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfortable; it is exquisite. 
The West Africa Project Fair is endorsed by Rotary’s Reach Out to Africa Committee (ROTA), who is trying to generate greater connectivity between the African and North American Rotarians to generate greater support of the projects of Africa.  Your involvement, or your club’s involvement, in this Fair would not only provide an opportunity for project support, it would also help your members to grow and to understand the benefits of being a Rotarian.  Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do anywhere else.  This trip is just such an experience. 
Encourage your members to participate – help them to Be a Gift to the World.”
 
 
 

 

 

After welcoming familiar visiting Rotarians Bill Nielsen from St. Paul and Ron Hughes from Excelsior, we heard from today's guest speaker, Tim "Oz" Oswalt - commanding officer for the Midwest Regional Naval Recruiting Station here in the Twin Cities.  Oswalt enlisted in the Navy following his graduation from college, which allowed him to become commissioned as a naval pilot.  Following a number of years and deployments in that capacity, he moved into the recruiting role he now has.  Given our landlocked status in Minnesota, many of us are not as familiar with the Navy as with the other military branches and Oswalt gave a good high level overview of the functions the U.S. Navy fulfills in the world - protecting shipping lanes thereby ensuring global free trade, providing disaster aid in situations like the recent earthquakes/tsunamis in Nepal, Haiti and Japan, work here at home to detect and break up narcotics smuggling, and - most familiar - providing power from the sea in the form of long range missiles, attack aircraft from carrier vessels, Navy Seal Teams, and unmanned aircraft.  The Navy's enlistment requirements include certain physical fitness and body fat standards, limits around some body tattoos, and absence of significant legal issues.  Sadly, only about 1/3 of young people meet all requirements, therefore recruiting is an important and challenging aspect to mantaining naval ranks.
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ClubRunner will also include a reminder to each recipient for all registrations and club related commitments including event attendance, volunteering, weekly meeting roster, and any responsibilities associated with new membership tasks. The eBulletin will automatically include the club's future speakers and have a link to the club web site to promote awareness.
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Stories
I would to thank all the Rotarians and their families for their work at the Slice of Shoreview Rotary Bingo.  What a great opportunity to promote Rotary in the community and raise funds!  We also developed two new member leads. 
 
I have not received the results yet, but I am sure we will be voted best Bingo at Slice of Shoreview for the 16th year.
 
Our next project is The Rockin’ Rotary Variety Show.  We are now in the process of recruiting sponsors for the event.  We have our best luck with sponsors that have a Rotary connection.  So if you have an idea for sponsors, let the sponsorship committee know.
 
Thanks for your support. 
 
And remember the Rotary International motto for the 2015-2016 year is “Be a Gift To The World”.

Member Birthdays

David Wick - Sep 10th

Paul Bartyzal - Sep 16th

Spouse Birthdays

Karin (Jeff) Ridlehoover - Sep 14th

Kathy (Dennis) Erno - Sep 14th

Emilee (Ryan) Streff - Sep 29th

Anniversaries

Mark and Cynthia Stange - Sep 6th (46 years)

Jeff and Karin Ridlwhoover - Sep 19th (17 years)

Club Anniversaries
 
<None this month>

 

 

 

 

Read more...

Rotary year Club Goals

Membership: 25 (Actual 23)

Annual Fund (TRF): $2300 (Actual $)

Fast for Hope: $600 (Actual $)

Polio Plus: $1000 (Actual $) - This is a Club Match once someone makes a donation

September 1st - Frank Mabley

September 8 - Jerry Peterson

September 15 - Kent Peterson

September 22 - Jeff Ridlehoffer

September - 29 - Andy Sall

October 6 - Ginny Sall

 

 

With the introduction of ClubRunner each member can view their Club Attendance directly. After you Log-In click on "My Attendance" to see your own personal information. Please talk to Paul Bartyzal if there are any discrepancies.
 
Membership is always a concern for our club.  In this month's issue of the "Rotarian", RI President K.R. Ravindran wrote:  "Instead of focusing on the question, "How can we bring more members into Rotary?" we should be asking ourselves, "How can we add more value to Rotary membership, so that more will join and fewer will leave?""  
I think these are very wise words and we should follow them.
The District has invited us to participate in five volunteer sessions at Second Harvest in Maplewood.  The sessions are early in each of the first five months of 2016.  For those who haven’t been to Second Harvest, this is a great chance to see their most impressive operation – probably much bigger than imagined – alongside fellow Rotarians from other district clubs, as well as provide significant service to the community around us.  Sign up NOW!

Image

Below is the announcement of an upcoming Rotary trip to Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa in November 2015 to participate in a polio immunization exercise, attend the 10th Annual West Africa Project Fair, and engage in a hands-on work project. Cote d’Ivoire (we formerly called Ivory Coast) is near Nigeria when we are in a critical close-out phase of polio eradication.
There have been no new wild poliovirus type 1 cases reported since July 2014. To be certified as polio-free, there must be no new cases within at least 3 years so we are incredibly close to declaring Nigeria and the entire African continent polio-free. You may recall that in 2004 there was a major problem with a halt in polio eradication in northern Nigeria but things have total reversed to the positive during the past 10 years. It is now very important that all other countries in Africa maintain their full effort at immunization and monitoring. Only Pakistan and Afghanistan remain with new cases of wild polio virus. In the past year, the number of immunizations administered has increased and number of reported cases declined substantially because of support from governmental authorities. Rotary, the Gates Foundation and WHO are providing resources for all of these eradication efforts where it’s dangerous work and critical to have support from national and local authorities. Conditions in Cote d’Ivoire are much safer and we are close to celebrating the African continent as polio-free.
If you are interested in the Rotary trip to Cote d’Ivoire, you should contact Bradford Howard, Rotary International Director, at travel@howardtours.net. Here is the announcement:
“The purpose of this correspondence is to announce an upcoming trip to Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa in November 2015 to participate in a polio immunization exercise, attend the 10th Annual West Africa Project Fair, and engage in a hands-on work project.  Attached is detailed trip information.  Please feel free to share this information with the Rotarians in your club as soon as possible as we have a limited amount of space and expect this trip to be filled in the next week or two.
Trip Dates:                         November 10 – 19, 2015
Travel to:                            Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Per Person Price:              $1,779, double occupancy
Price includes: Hotel accommodations, transfers, most meals, polio immunization exercise, hands-on community service field work, West Africa Project Fair registration, special Rotary and fellowship events, sightseeing, etc.
In November 2015, North American Rotarians will travel to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, for a life changing experience.   Have you ever heard a Rotarian speak about their personal experience participating in a polio eradication exercise, a cleft lip/cleft palate mission, or work on a humanitarian grant?  These trips have a profound effect upon the individual.  For those of you who have gone on one of these trips you know, and for those of you who have yet to enjoy this experience, you should.
The experiences you have stay with you forever.  You get up early in the morning, travel with local Rotarians to a village, health clinic or impoverished neighborhood, and for the next few hours, you change.  Small children come up to you to say thank you.  Mothers and fathers smile at you knowing that you are giving their child a chance for a better life.  You meet with the leaders in the village to learn of their needs and their hopes.  It is hot; it is dusty; it makes you uncomfortable; it is exquisite. 
The West Africa Project Fair is endorsed by Rotary’s Reach Out to Africa Committee (ROTA), who is trying to generate greater connectivity between the African and North American Rotarians to generate greater support of the projects of Africa.  Your involvement, or your club’s involvement, in this Fair would not only provide an opportunity for project support, it would also help your members to grow and to understand the benefits of being a Rotarian.  Involvement in Rotary gives the ordinary Rotarian extraordinary opportunities to do things that they could never do anywhere else.  This trip is just such an experience. 
Encourage your members to participate – help them to Be a Gift to the World.”
 
 
 

 

 

After welcoming familiar visiting Rotarians Bill Nielsen from St. Paul and Ron Hughes from Excelsior, we heard from today's guest speaker, Tim "Oz" Oswalt - commanding officer for the Midwest Regional Naval Recruiting Station here in the Twin Cities.  Oswalt enlisted in the Navy following his graduation from college, which allowed him to become commissioned as a naval pilot.  Following a number of years and deployments in that capacity, he moved into the recruiting role he now has.  Given our landlocked status in Minnesota, many of us are not as familiar with the Navy as with the other military branches and Oswalt gave a good high level overview of the functions the U.S. Navy fulfills in the world - protecting shipping lanes thereby ensuring global free trade, providing disaster aid in situations like the recent earthquakes/tsunamis in Nepal, Haiti and Japan, work here at home to detect and break up narcotics smuggling, and - most familiar - providing power from the sea in the form of long range missiles, attack aircraft from carrier vessels, Navy Seal Teams, and unmanned aircraft.  The Navy's enlistment requirements include certain physical fitness and body fat standards, limits around some body tattoos, and absence of significant legal issues.  Sadly, only about 1/3 of young people meet all requirements, therefore recruiting is an important and challenging aspect to mantaining naval ranks.
Read more...
ClubRunner makes it easy to publish your eBulletin, and send to all your members and friends.
ClubRunner will also include a reminder to each recipient for all registrations and club related commitments including event attendance, volunteering, weekly meeting roster, and any responsibilities associated with new membership tasks. The eBulletin will automatically include the club's future speakers and have a link to the club web site to promote awareness.
Read more...