Reminder, Rotary Meeting, Thursday, October 19, 7:00 AM Stevies Cafe
Good Afternoon!
It is a beautiful fall day out there today. Hope you are all able to enjoy it in some way. Reminding you that we have our meeting this Thursday, Oct. 19th, 7:00 am at Stevies. Andrew hosts and we tentatively will have Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald talking with us on what it happening in our County. Jeremy hosted Dr. Lauren Wentz, professor of Biology at UWEC-Barron Co with us last week. She shared some of what she has done as a professor and a little bit about what is happening with the Universities within our State. It was an interesting presentation.
We also made the decision to support the Sudan Literacy project headed by Charlie Cogan (whom Clare hosted the previous week). The club voted to support at a $500 level, this was matched by Clare for a total $1000 donation. Here is a little feedback that Clare sent to me from Charlie. With our $1000 donation, they were able to exceed the $10,800 required for a district matching grant. This has wonderful support for education and literacy in the Sudan area - a great way to have an international impact.
In our vote discussion, the Sudan project was supported over the Guatemala project as we previously supported Guatemala and in Sudan we have a personal contact through Charlie.
I think most of the shirts got out - remember we do have an extra Tshirt and numerous aprons for future projects.
We got our tickets and posters for our biggest fund-raiser - Rose Sales! Rose Day is Thursday, Oct. 26. And roses will be $25 per dozen (with a $5 coupon for Adventures/Lehmans). Everyone delivers their own or the recipients can pick them up at the mall on the 26th between 8:00 AM and 5:30 PM. We will have a couple members who are willing to do some delivery (thank you Joe, Jim, and Ken) hopefully a few others can help out. We will not have our meeting on the 26th - so we will meet on Tuesday, October 24th starting at 5:00 pm at Adventures! So we will combine our social event with turning in Rose Tickets/money. So stop in for some beverages, socializing and rose sales final coordination.
I promised some more info on roses - so here are those details:
1. $25 per dozen - they are wrapped and have flower food with them. Purchasers cannot specify color....if they come in to pick up, they can select their own color.
2. Cash or checks payable to Barron Co. Sunrise Rotary.
3. If you have talked to someone within our club to deliver for you - please complete ALL the information on the ticket stub.
4. If you are delivering them yourself - be sure to give the person who bought the flowers the coupon. If they are coming in to pick up the flowers - we will need the coupon number to match up with sales ticket.
5. If you are delivering your own - please turn in your $ by Tuesday the 24th. KEEP your ticket stubs so you know who you need to deliver to.
6. If your purchaser is picking up their flowers - please turn in your money AND ticket stubs by Tuesday, the 24th so we know who is coming and how many roses are spoken for.
7. We will be able to sell more on that Thursday provided we have roses left. This is why we need to know your individual sales so there are enough roses.
8. If you are interested - we - along with noon club members will meet for breakfast on Thursday the 26th at Maxine's. Then we head over to the Mall to our rose sales area to get started. Thank you Monika for coming in to support the project from 9:30-11:30 and Jim from 11:30 - 5:30. I appreciate it!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
Can Am Bon Spiel Committees are set. They will be looking for help during the event on Feb. 1, 2, and 3, 2024 Sign up sheets will be coming soon.
Ruby's Pantry - December 16
Salvation Army Bell Ringing - will start in November. If you have any preferential times/places please let me know so I can schedule.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
I received the following from our DG Patricia McCleese -
Maybe we need to look at a Bowling event for one of our social activities! That would be fun - and a way to raise some $$ for Polio Plus!
UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
Oct. 19 - Andrew M. - tentative, Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald
Oct. 24 - Rotary Rose Turn-in Day and Social Event, 5:00 pm, Adventures
Oct. 26 - Rotary Rose Day
Nov. 2 - Drew O. - Board Meeting Discussion
Nov. 9 - Ken P.
Nov. 16 Kathy R.
Nov. 23 - NO MEETING - Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov. 30 - Jason S.
Dec. 7 - Jim S.
Dec. 14 - Ana T.S.
Dec. 21 - Mike VG
Dec. 28 - End of Year Social Event/Holiday Celebration
Please be sure to let me know as soon as you have a program set up so I can get it on our schedule. If you need a zoom link please let me/Joe E. know that as well. Thanks!
Rotary - A community of ordinary people banding together to accomplish extraordinary things.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Trudy Kroeger
Please Sell Those Roses!! $25 a dozen It's our biggest fundraiser!!
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