If you are listed to do invocation or as the student host and are unable to attend that day, please find a replacement. Thank you.
Student host responsibilities: If you are listed to be student host, please plan to arrive by 11:40 a.m. to greet the students as they come in. Assign one student to a Rotarian so they are spread out at different tables. Try to have different Rotarians each week host students, so the students can meet several people.
Greeter
November - Holly Youngquist
December - need greeter
Greeting is a great way for new members to meet other members.
Fellowship
November - Justin Hartley
and Mark Rutenbeck
December - Carrie Donaire
and Doug Bertrand
Fellowship Fines - Scholarship Fundraiser
October 23 - $235.00
October 30 = $303.75
YTD: $4,144.75
Attendance - October 30 - 49%
Present - 45
Exempt - 2
Absent - 47
Membership - October
Total membership: 94
New members: 0
Members that resigned: 0
Membership goal: 101
Please note: new members will have to pay an application fee of $25 to cover administrative costs (pin and badge), effective November 1, 2017.
RI President Ian Riseley supports to give clubs more flexibility in membership and meetings. "If you want to meet every week, and it suits your club, that's great. But there are people who can't do that, for whatever reason. To me, the flexibility is really important." (excerpt from the article in July 2017 Rotarian)
Member information - please submit any changes to your mailing and/or home addresses and emails to Ida (edal@mchsi.com). Thank you!
Congratulations!
Rotary Birthdays for
November 6 - November 12, 2017
Claire Buyert - November 9
Liz Srp - November 9
Rotary Anniversaries for
November 6 - November 12, 2017
Margo Hanson - 7 yrs (11/8)
Carol Machael - 24 yrs (11/8)
Patti Stark - 9 yrs (11/10)
Mike Kirchhoff - 4 yrs (11/11)
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Volume 72 Number 12 September 25, 2017
Be a Paul Harris Foundation Minute Sponsor for the month of September.
For just $26.50 you can be a sponsor. Contact Ida if interested.
President Rich announced that the club board agreed to support the mission of the Boy Scouts of Clinton County by becoming the chartered organization. Part of the scouting program is for the youth to provide community service. For detailed information about the program contact Matt Steenhard.
The auction committee, chaired again this year by Kathy Klahn and Jennifer Graf will start meeting in October. Kathy encourages members to serve on the committee.
Dictionaries: A sign-up sheet to deliver the dictionaries to the schools will be passed around at the club meetings. We will deliver the dictionaries before the end of the year.
This year's community project is "Josh the Otter". The club will purchase 500 books. The book, "Josh the Otter" teaches water safety to kids and their parents. Rotarians will bring the book to the classroom and talk to Kindergartners about water safety. The kids keep the books. Rich showed a video made by the parents who lost their young child to drowning. To view the video, go tohttps://joshtheotter.org/resources.
World Bicycle Fund: this is an ongoing project and D6000 Governor Mike Ruby encourages all clubs/members to donate.
Project Operation Warm - Coats for kids: The club will match up to $1,000 donations from members. Make checks out to the Clinton Rotary Club Foundation and indicate Coats for kids on the check. The coats in different sizes and colors are ordered by Operation Warm in October and will be directly delivered to the schools in Clinton, Camanche, Northeast, and Fulton.
District Governor Mike Ruby will be visiting our club October 2. The board will meet at 10:15 am at Rastrelli's prior to the club meeting.
UpcomingClub Programs are being posted once a month in the Clinton Herald.
Speaker: Arica Arensdorf, Behavioral Health intervention specialist for Life Connections.
Topic: Assisting children in learning age-appropriate ways to manage their behavior. They also work with the family, including education and support in coping with the child’s mental health symptoms and management of the child’s behaviors.
Program for November 13, 2017
Speakers: Senator Rita Hart, Representatives Mary Wolfe and Norlin Mommsen
Topic: Preview of what to expect at the Des Moines legislature this year.
Program for November 20, 2017
Speaker: JR Kuch, principal at Clinton High School,
Topic:“Project Lead the Way" a Clinton High School program partnering with local businesses to enhance the academic programs at CHS. The PLTW presentation will encompass an overview of the program and its attributes and effect on students in post-secondary.
Program for November 27, 2017
Speakers: Dr. Margaret and Mike Wolf
Topic: Taking you on their journey to the north woods as they recount their time in the boundary waters this past summer.
November Program Chairs: Lori Freudenberg
Val Hill
December Program Chairs: Jennifer Graf
Kathy Klahn
Meeting of October 30, 2017
Guests: Visiting Rotarians from Seattle Brenda and Richard Dimond, Gabi Torres and Nolan Gipe guests of Carrie Donaire and Emily Gipe guest of Jennifer Graf.
Student guests: Andrew Sattler and Angela Thompson of Clinton HS, Jacey House and Hailey Smith of Northeast HS, and Cassie Abernathy and Krysta Mapes of CCC.
Speaker Dean Brainerd, Archer Daniel Midland Plant Manager, gave an overview of the various and numerous products (54 total) made at the Clinton Plant. The plant has 1,100 employees. "Archer Daniels Midland is using seed corn that is no longer suitable for planting, along with coal, to power its 180-MW Clinton cogeneration plant. The cogeneration plant, which began operations in 2008, supports ADM’s Clinton corn processing plant one of the largest corn wet mills in the world." (source: ADM website)
Program chairs Cheryl Frey and Carol Machael with
Speaker Dean Brainerd
Service Projects for 2017
Saturday, September 23: Snack and pizza for Habitat for Humanity volunteers.
Wednesday, November 8: provide food for Getting Ahead
These bicycles mean the world to the recipients in Zambia. It is equivalent to you or me receiving a car or truck. Children can travel to school, entrepreneurs can transport goods, healthcare workers can visit patients, and the list goes on and on. This opens up a whole new world for them. Please consider making a donation. You can do so directly on this site, or checks can be made payable to WBR. We can bundle checks together and do one mailing to World Bicycle Relief, which is a 501c3.
Interested in sharing career information with your future workforce? QC Career Connections fosters building relationships between businesses and area youth by providing opportunities for students in high school and middle schools to interact with professionals.We are currently looking to match volunteers for: Classroom presentations, Worksite tours, Job Shadows, Internships.We work in Clinton and Jackson CountyPlease contact Kathy Pezley at kpezley@eicc.edu or 563-441-4186
This year's community project is "Josh the Otter". The club will purchase 500 books. The book, "Josh the Otter" teaches water safety to kids and their parents. Rotarians will bring the book to the classroom and talk to Kindergartners about water safety. The kids keep the books. Rich showed a video made by the parents who lost their young child to drowning. To view the video, go to
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