Norsk News 3/22/23
Attendance
J Burns, H Kopras, S Neshlyaeva, P. Christiansen, B Johnson, J Steinhauer, T. Wedig, S Bolling, S & F Wallitsch, P Zalucha, E Grabe
Student rotarians Jenna Clark and Maliya Kopras
Guest: Michael Shoultz fellow Rotarian from Batavia, Illinois.
Student Rotarians: They are looking towards Spring break in 3 days, getting ready for some time away from school.
Happy Bucks: Susan is happy for the two year anniversary of Franke’s caregiver Alyssa.
2nd Happy buck is for her guest Michael who was the go-to instructor regarding autism. He has his own business, Autism Resource Network. Michael was a trainer at the recent PETS.
Announcements:
EREY, please make your contribution count and help our club become eligible for matching grant funding.
Chamber Good Morning Mount Horeb May 3rd at 8 a.m. We look forward to seeing members of our club there.
2 Rotary Online training sessions are available; one on club runner, the other about creating a more vibrant club.
Reminder about issue in Mount Horeb, local planning commission is meeting tonight at 7 with an agenda including a proposed 5 story apartment building located at the site of the former fire station, and the proposed sports complex across the street from the Veteran’s Memorial.
Today is international al world water day.
Updates on Committees
Judy:
New generations committee made scholarship selections. 3 $1,000 Rotary Scholarships and an Albert Grove scholarship for $3k.
Questions about paying out recipients from 2022.
Reminders were sent to recipients to send required paperwork to our club to expedite payment for last year’s recipients.
Our exchange student will arrive in August. Moving along with host families applying. 2nd host family is in the works, and a third family is in the process.
So far all we know there are 2 exchange students assigned to our district.
Working with 2 local students who are interesting in participating in the international exchange program.
Joey received a $2k scholarship for his trip abroad.
Reminder about RYLA applications, Judy will start up with getting Interact students started on the process.
RYLA is two-and-a-half day seminar for Sophomores, an introduction to Rotary with leadership training.
Heidi:
Grants Committee
Reviewing grants with due date end of March. So far they have 8 applications.
Update on the $1000 grant for generators to Ukraine as our international grant for this year from the club. Additional funds of ~$2,600 were raised.
If anyone in the club has a cause they are passionate about contact Heidi.
We received a thank you letter from one of the clubs participating in the generators for Ukraine fundraising effort.
Paul:
Fundraising Committee:
Brunch has some loose ends with payment due for the placement ads. The spreadsheet has a separate tab of the accounts due for payment.
Need to cue up our communication campaign to get the word out to sponsors asking for participation in our next year’s events.
Frolic is coming, 10k comes quickly on the heels. Last year was July 4th when ticket sales and donation campaign started, and trying to get things out earlier.
Paul does not anticipate another fundraising event as we are no longer going the golf outing. If someone wants to step in and take over there is an opportunity, but we are in danger of spreading ourselves too thin to take it on again.
Social/Public Relations/Diversity Membership Committee
Upcoming speakers: Kerry Beheler, member of the Village Commission on Sustainability and Natural Resources . She will be joining us April 12th.
Peggy is getting ready for the short presentation Good Morning Mount Horeb at Martinson hall. She Encourages members to go in April 5th at 8 am to observe and get a feeling for the meetings.
5th Wednesday in May location TBD for us giving out checks to our grant recipients.
Book club 4/30 at Susan's house. Time TBD.
or visit local stores such as Peggy Ginsberg’s studio, Sift and Winnow has a signed copy for sale as well.
Announcement: business meeting in April.
Committees need to submit a proposed budget.
Virtual Meeting Technology Team needs to reach out and engage Will Brueggeman from the district & Mike Dillis who has experience setting up district meetings during COVID. Meeting will take place
April 12th after lunch at Skal.
Some talk ensued about funding for technology for virtual, and reaching out to Bryan at Skal to gather information about the robustness of the WiFi signal and see if there is bandwidth to accommodate video.
Meeting adjourned 12:58
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