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MEMBER GET A MEMBER- In the May Issue of The Rotarian President Wilkinson talks about the importance of membership and the North American's Region, dramatic decline while the pool of qualified prospective members was large and "are just waiting to be invited." President Wilkinson points out that, like many organizations, only a few are responsible for the growth and this has spond the Member Get A Member initiative. Read more.
•From the District Governor; "Rotary allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things" Read more.
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May 1(Thur)- Appreciation Breakfast, 8:30 AM, Volunteer Week. at the Two Rivers Senior Center (contact trahoe@two-rivers.org)
May 5 -Lui Iarocheski- Brazil, home & more.David Charles is the May Jr. Rotarian; Dennis Swetlik B&B and the Pin Penalty PotGreeter is Don Chewning
May 6th (Tue)- Milwaukee Sunrise Club Children's Concert. Recp. 5:30 PM , Concert 7:00 PM More Info.
May 12-
Dick Nitsch
(Chair)- Greeter is Tom Czerwonka
.May 19 - Jerry Paczkowski (Chair)- Greeter is Jeff Dawson
May 26 - NO MEETING - Memorial Day
May 29th(Thur)- Joint Rotary Meeting, 12:00 Noon, Holiday Inn with Ann Backhaus from Indonesia.
Upcoming Events-
Apr 21- 54th Senior Dinner
May 16-17, 2008 - District Conference, Grand Geneva, Lake Geneva, WI
June 14-21- Badger Boys State
June 15-18 -2008 RI Convention in
Los Angeles,
-World Affairs Seminar – UW-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI CANCELLED
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Ron Stangel 5-10
Betty Bittner
5-16
Jane Gates
5-26
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 ROTARY DISTRICT 6270
2008 DISTRICT CONFERENCE
MAY 16 – 18, 2008 GRAND GENEVA RESORT, LAKE GENEVA
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Friday, May 16: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Golf Outing, 5 p.m. Wine & Cheese Welcome Reception (Dan Dance Trio) 6:45 p.m. Picnic Buffet Dinner, 8 p.m. Keynote Speaker (Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau),9 p.m. House of Friendship, Reception
Saturday, May 17: 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Breakfast, 8:15 a.m. Program and Keynote Speaker (NASA Engineer Evan Thomas), 9 a.m. – 11:45 Breakout Sessions, 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:15 p.m. Program and Keynote Speaker (Senator George McGovern), 2 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions, 4p.m. District Meeting, 5:30 p.m. House of Friendship Reception, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 8p.m. Program and Entertainment (Musician Pat McCurdy), 9 p.m. – Midnight Hospitality Suite/Casino Night, 9 p.m. – Midnight Student Dance
Sunday, May 18, 8 a.m. Interfaith Worship Service, 8:45 a.m. Breakfast, 9:30 a.m. Closing Session. Click here for flyer , details & registration. On line- Click here. |
JOINT ROTARY CLUB MEETING
Thursday, May 29th, Noon, Holiday Inn
Featuring Ann Backhaus & A Fund Raising Raffle
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The program will feature Ann Backhaus who was the Charter President (2006) of the Rotary Club of Balikpapan (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Ann is formerly from Two Rivers. In August of 2005, Ann came to our meeting as a guests of Scott Stevens and spoke briefly about the various projects her club was considering and was looking for other clubs assistance as well as a Matching Grant from Rotary International. Ann's club's projects were one of seven considered as a recipient of this years fund raising dinner and auction. Ann will be bringing some Indonesian treasures to be raffled off at the meeting. |
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At Our 3/3/08 meeting, Rick Debe, Polio Plus District Chair told us that the 1985 goal to eradicate polio, world wide was near to a reality. Then Rotary started looking at other projects without completing the Polio Plus campaign.
Now
Rotary has run out of money to support the operation. Rick encourages every Rotary Club to embrace the Polio Plus project because it is a signature project of Rotary. The Gates Foundation will provide matching funds for dollars that are raised for the project. However, the matching funds offer is due to expire June 30th. He estimates that it will take approximately $25 million to finish the project. |
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Rotary Disburses first US$40 million from
Gates Foundation grant
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Nine countries and two World Health Organization regions have received The Rotary Foundation’s first distribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $100 million challenge grant for polio eradication. Read more.
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Looks Like Host Families Are Covered
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| Lui is currently living with the Sarah and David Gallagher and he will be moving to Shaun & Sadie Engellmans on 4/5, a little earlier than planned. Prior to that Lui was with Hans and Marge Schlegel on Jan 14th. The Schlegel's are the parents of Carl Schlegel, our outbound student for 2006-2007. Dennis and Mary Swetlik had been Lui's first host family since his arrival in August 2007. Lui is from São Miguel do Iguaçú in the state of Paraná. It is close to Paraguay & Argentina in SW, Brazil. Lui describes it as a city of 30,000, mostly descendents of European immigrants and the economy is based on tourism and agriculture (his father has a farmer). He likes music, computers, reading, drawing and volleyball with friends. Click here to learn more about Lui. |
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Easter, New Clothes & Prom at the Gallagher's. For a slide show, click here
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RI-President Elect Dong Kurn Lee's
2008-09 THEME ANNOUNCED
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30,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable diseases such as pneumonia, measles, and malaria. Rotary will keep the service emphases of recent years -- water, health and hunger and literacy -- but the focus of the efforts in each of these areas will be on children.- D.K.L.
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From The April 21, 2008- Meeting
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by Dick Mitsch, Photos by Bob Gahl: Betty Bittner brought the April 21st Rotary meeting to order and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Tim Schroeder led the club in prayer. The business meeting included the following: Guests •Kevin Garceau, our April Junior Rotarian was in attendance at the meeting. •Lui Iarochski reported that he went to
Milwaukee
to meet with other inbound students. While in
Milwaukee
he went to the museum and caught a Bucks game at the
Bradley
Center
. He went to
Chicago
with his host family and went to a museum there. On Tuesday he attended a Rotary meeting in
Milwaukee
where they report over 400 members. On Saturday Lui attended the
Two
Rivers
High School
prom. As part of prom activities, Lui had pictures taken at the beach, had dinner at the Lighthouse Inn, won a basketball, watched the sunrise, and had breakfast at Country Kitchen. Miscellaneous Reports •Betty reported that many Rotary Clubs recite the 4-Way Test at every meeting and suggested that we should incorporate that activity in our weekly meetings. •Betty circulated a congratulations card for Jane Gates who recently had a baby. •Betty reported that she and Dennis Swetlik attended the assembly meeting at Slinger. Betty attended a sectional on Youth Protection. She reported that everyone who has one-on-one contact with youth needs to have a background check and needs to be recertified annually. Dennis attended a sectional on Ethics and reported that the 4-Way Test is recited at most club meetings in the state. He described a business person who uses the 4-Way Test as took in conducting his business. When there are questions regarding to sales approaches, he will rely on the 4-Way Test. •The April 2bth meeting will be the senior dinner. Please plan to attend. •Betty has scheduled a joint meeting with the Manitowoc Clubs for May 29th . The meeting will be held at either the Holiday Inn or the
Felecian
Village
(It Will
be at
t
he Holiday Inn)
. •Lauretta Krcma-Olsen was thanked for her assistance in getting some media attention for the Two Rivers Rotary Club. •Bums and Brags was facilitated by Lui who passed the basket to Dennis Swetlik for the May 5th meeting.
4/21/08-Club Assembly
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54th Senior Volunteer's Luncheon
Celebrate AccomplishMints!
"THANK YOU FELLOW TWO RIVER'S ROTARIANS" Sarah
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Click pics to see larger or for a slide show of all of Jeff Dawson's pics, click here |
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Thank you, fellow Two Rivers Rotarians. For 54 years you have sponsored this dinner - starting with the Golden Agers club, with the 1st anniversary dinner in 1955. (Where were you in 1955?). A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty.An optimist sees the same glass as half full. A volunteer sees this same glass of water, and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty!National Volunteer Week was declared by President Richard Nixon for the first time in 1974 and has been every year since then. The Two Rivers City Council has declared this week Volunteer Week. The theme for our Celebrate AccomplishMints! The recorded volunteers hours for the year 2007, totaled 17,126. This is the equivalent of over 8 full time employees, and at minimum wage would be $111,313 (or more than half of the current budget of the Senior Center? In reality, the gift of time is priceless! Whether it was an hour for meals on wheels, or 1200 hours working in the office and at craft, our Senior Center coordinated over 400 DIFFERENT volunteers of which 93 were recording hours for the first time. Those members and friends who passed away during the past year were remembered with a group singing of In the Garden, led by volunteer Jim Goettler. •Bonnie Wilker led a short part of her nationally acclaimed, Breakfast for the Brain mental fitness program. How did your pig drawing turn out?! •Volunteer of the Year •Since 1988, the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year has been awarded based on recorded hours of volunteer service by a member of the Center. It is awarded only once in a lifetime and earns that member the right to receive a life time membership in the Senior Center. •Two Rivers Senior Center Member Marie Funk is our volunteer of the year! Marie has donated her time through our project to make helmet liners for our troops. Since this project began, Marie has crocheted 190 liners, not only has she touched 190 of our troops, she has touched 190 families of these troops. And believe it or not - just came in this week for more yarn! She celebrated her 90th birthday on Saturday! Marie was honored April 21st by the City Council with a Resolution of Commendation. •Following the presentation of awards for volunteer service, the group was entertained by Lloyd Gosz and Lee Alex. •Thank you fellow Rotary Members and thank you to our Volunteers who do so much in the community! Sarah Gallagher
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| As we celebrate this 54th event, take a look back at the 5th event on February 5, 1959. Infomation and picture provided by Sarah Gallagher. Click Here. |
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District Simplified Grant in action at the Lester Library
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Jeff Dawson has posted pictures of the additional toys purchased for the Early Literacy Center at the Lester library. This purchase was made possible by the Rotary Simplified District Grant program. Click to see photos.
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RI and Gates Foundation commit US$200 million for intensified push to finish polio
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Rotary International announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on 26 November that will inject a much needed US$200 million into the global effort to eradicate polio. The Rotary Foundation received a $100 million Gates Foundation challenge grant, which Rotary will raise funds to match, dollar for dollar, over three years. READ MORE.
POLIO- We’ve come so far, yet the nature of the wild poliovirus means that if we slacken our efforts for even a moment, we’ll soon see our hard work reversed. We have only two options: to press on with determination and faith until we succeed, or to lose everything we’ve invested and everything we’ve gained. …. Each of you is forever a part of history – part of Rotary’s legacy and its gift to the world’s children. Today, we call on all Rotarians – but especially on new Rotarians who have not been a part of campaigns in the past – to do what they can, to help in any way they can, to finish this fight once and for all. ... W.J.W -read more.
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YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ROTARY FOUNDATION MAKE A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE IN HELPING THE POOR AROUND THE WORLD.
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The Foundation is the primary way in which we are involved in the fourth Avenue of Service: International Service. The Rotary Foundation was started with a gift of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City in 1917 — the leftover profit from the international convention that year. Earlier that same year, Rotary ’s sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, suggested the creation of just such a fund. The very first grant made by The Rotary Foundation was to the International Society for Crippled Children. The idea of international service has grown. Just in the last 20 years, Rotary has contributed over US$600 million to the polio eradication effort. LEARN MORE. Annual Fund Pledge. See also Jim Lester's Foundation remarks. Click Here. •The Rotary Club of Des Plaines, Illinois, USA, put its Rotary Foundation matching grant into motion teaching schoolchildren math and science in an unconventional way. The students use tiny gears and motors to build working machines under the mentorship of local club members. Watch a video.
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Membership - Let's Keep Up The Work
Click for Committees
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Highlights:-Treasurer’s report. As of 1/16/2008; there is: $1,810.03 in checking; $1,274.00 in savings and $15,054.12 in the scholarship fund. Election of officers: The slate of officers for 2008-2009 are: Betty Bittner, Past President; Dennis Swetlik, President; Jeff Zimmerlee, President-elect; Ned Jacquart, Treasurer; Colleen Inman, Secretary ;
Don Chewning
, At-large; Tim Schroeder, At-large; Dick Nitsch, At-large; Jeff Dawson, At-large. Proceeds from the 2007 Packer stand are $2,195.87 plus tips. Board voted to pay travel and room and board expenses to send Dennis to Rotary International Convention. Vote at the next general meeting between
Domestic
Violence
Center
and Woodland Dunes for dinner proceeds It was suggested thata clock in
Central Park
be funded separately and not through the annual dinner.
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Family of Rotary Photo Link- Click here
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2006-07 Inbound
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2006-07 Outbound
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2006-07 Outbound
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Other Students
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Adriana (Adri) Escorcia- Inbound from Mexico. Click for more information |
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Interact Student Guest
12/10Jennifer and Christine
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The 2007 World Affairs Seminar will be attended by Adriana and Eric Malach.
Two Rivers Rotary, Scholarships Awards- 2007 winner- Brian Deubner- $1000
To see the list of inbound and outbound students back to 1976, click here.
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