Norsk News 1/4/23
Attendance:
R. Christian, S Salerno, S. Helwig, P. Zalucha,
J. Steinhauer, H Kopras, K, White, E Grabe, P. Christiansen, F. & S. Wallitsch,
Guests: Payton Almquist, Student Rotarian, and Bob Johnson.
Happy Bucks
P. Zalucha, K White, S. Bollig
Announcements: December Happy Bucks for Center for Black Excellence. There still is time to help! Please direct last minute happy bucks to Shawn.
Our guest Bob Johnson is new to our area. He is from Colorado to be with the grandkids (Faye is his wife)
Student Rotarian Payton Almquist, senior and Interact Club officer is heading to Winona State to study with the intent to follow her mother's footsteps with a career as an athletic trainer. She also plays trumpet in the band and gets up early mornings for Jazz Ensemble rehearsals as well as Interact meetings.
Youth Ethics facilitators symposium 2/3/23 at Monona Terrace. Rotary is looking for host families for attendees. Susan has more details. Mount Horeb High School has 8 participants.
Sponsor a Ukrainian family through Welcome.US to support displaced Ukrainians. Rotary is working in conjunction with this organization to help refugee families adjusting to life here in the US.
Business Meeting
Treasurer’s Report was presented. Our bank accounts will be configured to help committees directly pay for expenses and keep track of their budget. Committee heads need to submit required forms for parties designated as signors for the club's accounts at Mounds City Bank.
Membership/EREY
Club runner is working since we received an email from today's guest, Bob Johnson.
Reminder for
EREY. Part of our club's funding depends on our members contributing. To make your donation go to "
My Rotary" page to set up payment, or download and mail the PDF file
here.
Youth:
Soren had a great holiday season. He will be visiting 8 countries around Europe.
Joey is lined up to go, just waiting for his passport!
Interact club will be helping with our pancake brunch again.
Grants:
Grant application is completed. We need to distribute through email campaign, advertising co-opted with the brunch in Mount Horeb Mail. The new grant application form can be found on our
club website's home page.
Social Committee:
Thanks from Susan and rotary members for the lovely holiday party event. Susan brought up the topic of possible introduction of a new time on occasions for monthly meeting events. If you have any ideas of an alternate venue or time of day for our a weekly meetings let the committee know.
We have a president elect! Votes are in and Steve Salerno will be our next president after Paul's tenure.
Grant Management Seminar 1/28 9:00-noon go to 6250 rotary site. Registration for zoom meeting
here.
Fundraising:
Now is the time to nail down ad sales. Talking points,
spreadsheet have been shared. Let Paul know by adding to the notes on the spreadsheet, or let him know personally email, note about the status of the contact you have been assigned.
Future committee meetings will go over ad placement, food, worker schedule, publicity.
2 weeks prior to the event the placemats will go out to local businesses.
Optimist is having silent auction and would like to put a place card on our tables. Some discussion about 50/50 raffle last year.
Extra: Russ is trying to get 7 people together for Puerto Rico on the
Libraries Without Borders project. 2 Hurricane- proof, solar powered facilities have been built out of abandoned schools in remote areas to provide technology such as laptops, fax machines to underserved areas. Contact Russ if you are interested in traveling over to Puerto Rico.
Looking like spring may be a good time.
Meeting adjourned 12:56
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