Norsk News 2/8/23
Attendance: R Christian, J Steinhauer, F & S Wallitsch, J Burns, E Grabe, P Christiansen, S Neshlyaeva, P Zalucha, H Kopras, T Wedig, SL Smith, S Helwig, M Rooney.
Happy bucks
Peggy is happy for our guest from another club who may be transferring here, and she is happy for her upcoming Rotary trip to Budapest.
T Wedig: happy for trip to Florida including adult activities with her daughter at Disney.
S Wallitsch: happy for new club member Bob Johnson.
Student Rotarians:
Quentin Rosborough, 4 years in soccer, National Honors Society (NHS), Treasurer of Skills USA. He will be going to UW-Madison for Mechanical Engineering.
Rocco Richie senior, basketball 4 years, NHS, Viking Athletic Leadership team, plans on attending Rose Hulman for Computer Science and will be playing basketball.
Alexa Ouradnik, our student rotarian from last month.
Guests:
James Graham real estate and business attorney with his practice in Blanchardville. He lives in Mt. Vernon, long time Rotarian over 20 years from Middleton and is a past president. James is shopping for a new Rotary club.
Paul: Super Brunch update.
He and Steve will be there Saturday from 4-8 for set up.
Michelle from the school will be there to help with the kitchen.
Need all hands on deck afterwards for kitchen clean up.
Placemats are available for local businesses. Heidi will be distributing flyers and placemats today.
Our ad is running in the shopper, should be on the community calendar.
50/50 raffle is taken care of. Need to make sure we have cash for the 50/50 and ticket sales.
We have high chairs. Interact is going to be helping, along with members of the soccer team.
We have take out containers in the trailer.
Need audio for the 50/50.
We will be providing higher quality syrup, and real half and half!
Peggy: we used to keep a tally. Recommends a student to be there to help Dixie. We are asked to find a sub if family members are coming for breakfast and members want to join them.
There is a card with tickets for Jennifer O Connor being passed around. Jennifer works in the district has breast cancer she has been out for the year during treatment. She has small kids, and we have relied on her help in the past.
Heidi update on shirts, $22.65 a piece except the XXXL size. Let her know if you need a shirt, and what size TODAY.
Secretary’s report:
We have a new member and
Members are signing up for EREY.
New Generations:
Welcome to our student rotarians.
Soren is in Poland this week visiting various cities including a visit to Auschwitz.
Joey has completed his application and is headed to Brazil. He is applying for a shoemaker’s grant.
Still looking for a host family for our female exchange student coming next school year.
Grants:
Update on Ukraine grant Madison grant for ~20 generators.
Heidi wants to find a way to get the community grant publicity in the Mt. Horeb Mail. Susan Smith is working on editorial content as well as posting the event on the community calendar.
Social, PR, Membership and diversity committee:
We are having a meeting today after lunch. On the agenda is the lead up to Super Brunch, upcoming guest speakers, student rotarians in the Mount Horeb Mail, and adding our event to the Chamber Scandahoovian schedule.
President’s agenda;
We will be revisiting exploring online meetings, finding out what equipment is required. We are looking for input and have a task force. If you are interested contact Susan.
Rotary handbook is being updated.
Membership: we need more attention to onboarding or off boarding our members. A great role for past presidents.
Mark Rooney: stay tuned with Rotary international regarding the situation in Turkey. Steve has received an email regarding shelter boxes. Anyone interested can contact Steve.
Russ: appreciates the partnership with the school. Asks if there is a will-call list.
Meeting adjourned 12:49
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