Meeting Notification Reminder, January 5, 2023 7:00 AM Stevies Cafe, Rice Lake
Good Morning,
Reminding you that we have our meeting this Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7:00 AM at Stevies Cafe. We will be reviewing our Membership Meeting Presentation/Plan.
We had a great meeting last week doing a review of the service projects we have been involved with over the last couple of years....wow - we have been busy!! Thank you Clare for leading us through that review process! Very good prep for our membership meeting. Here is the outline Clare went through with us.
Barron County Rotary Strategic Initiatives 2023
MISSION-service, local and international
-fellowship
-FUN!
VISION-Grow our membership, our presence on social media and expand our in person service
opportunities
VALUES-respect, inclusivity, diversity, collaboration, teamwork
Balance of check writing and in person service
The 5 Avenues of Service
1. Club-responsive to membership needs and fellowship-fellowship, happy bucks, Cinco de Mayo celebration, socials, Ace of Spades in club raffle
2. Vocational-scholarships for students at UWECBC and Northwood Tech, Future Business Leaders Club
3. Community- see below in areas of focus
4. International-partnering with other clubs on international projects such as wells, orphanages, literacy, Rotary youth exchange financial support and program invitation,
5. Youth-major focus of our club - have supported the following
Rotary Youth Leadership Academy
Youth international exchange program
Youth hockey
Kinship
Archery club
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Barron Skate Park and Anderson Park Project, partnered with Kiwanis
Cameron Star Academy
7 Areas of Focus
1. Peace and conflict resolution
-Fielded 3 candidates for International Peace Academy with one candidate being chosen for
training in Thailand
–Restorative Justice Program, Barron County
2. Disease prevention and treatment
-Polio eradication
-Children’s Safety Fair
-Rice Lake Area Free Clinic
-Fistula Clinic in Africa
3. Water and sanitation
-Fast for Hope-Wells in Nicaragua
4. Maternal and child health
--Adopt a family
-County wide food pantries including Ruby’s Pantry
-Embrace-domestic abuse program
- Pregnancy Help Center
-Corrective shoes for children
-Backpack program for food on weekends
5. Basic education and literacy
-Dictionaries for all third graders in Barron County
-Rice Lake Summer Reading Program
6. Economic and community development
-Salvation Army bell ringing
7. Environment
-Highway clean up
-Waste drive thru
-Moon Lake park (update project in 2023 for all abilities modifications plus pickleball courts)
-All abilities playground park in Barron (partnered with Kiwanis)
-Pocket pollinator park next to Rice Lake Public Library
- Hunt Hill Nature Sanctuary
We also played a little dice game for some holiday gifts.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Hat/Mitten Donation - If you didn't get a chance to - you can still bring your hats/mittens to our meeting. Clare can still use them for the Free Clinic distribution.
- Food Pantry Donation - We did agree as a club to donate $500 to the county food pantries. We will be making our donations at our January 12 meeting.
- Valentines Raffle - Most members have received your raffle tickets!! It was nice to see our very own one-armed bandit Jim at our meeting handing them out! 5 per most members......lets get them all sold!
- Membership Information Meeting - Jan. 19 - please put together your list of invitees. If you have asked someone and they have said no....let Don know. If you have asked someone and they have said yes....let Don know. We have started getting some numbers and its looking good! Keep on asking! Also please review the link below for information on how one club was able to increase their membership and keep their current members as well. This is the information from our DG Dayle:
Growing Membership via Service – If you haven’t heard Alex Johnson speak, you have missed out. The district membership team had him at their monthly meeting in November and he was once again fantastic. You missed it???? That’s a shame. However, you have two more opportunities. You can
click here and see the tape session.
The purpose of our membership meeting is to invite those interested in learning about Rotary. It is an opportunity to showcase what we are all about and increase our membership.
To help with recruitment, we are offering a provisional membership for 3 months (lower cost) so potential members can check us out before committing to a full membership. Please continue to reach out to the people Don Drost helped us to identify and any others you think might be interested.
One last thought - it is VERY important that our own membership plan to attend this meeting...we need to set the example.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
Jan. 5 - Trudy K. - Membership Meeting Final Planning
Jan. 12 - Jeremy M. - Food Pantry Donations/Invitation
Jan. 19 - Membership Meeting
Jan. 26 - Ken P. (tentative) Peg Martin with Students in the Exchange program (hoping to reschedule this for the 22nd or Jan 5)
Feb. 2 - Kathy R
Feb. 9 - Jason S.
Feb. 16 - Valentines Raffle
Feb. 23 - Dean S.
Mar. 2 - Jim S.
Mar. 9 - Mike VG
Mar. 16 - Deanna W.
Mar. 23 - BJ W
Dayle Quigley - Newsletter items - week 27
Here are a few ways you can implement the 4-Way Test in your personal or professional life:
1. Use it as a decision-making tool: When you are faced with a difficult decision, consider how your choice aligns with the principles of the 4-Way Test. This can help you make more ethical choices and ensure that your actions are in line with your values.
2. Incorporate it into your daily life as a guide for how you interact with others. For example, try to be truthful in all your interactions, ensure that you are treating others fairly, and work to build goodwill and strengthen friendships.
3. Share it with others: such as colleagues at work, friends, or family members, and discuss how you can all work to uphold these values in your relationships and decisions.
4. Use it as a teaching tool to teach others about ethical behavior in classrooms to help others develop their own ethical code and make better decisions in their personal and professional lives.”
MUST READS/TO DOS
1. Succession – The next short, sweet, and sensational training for PEs immediately following the mid-term. January 7th – it will be a working lunch and your PE will be out to still enjoy the afternoon. There are currently clubs without a PE listed in Rotary Central. Getting going, you don’t want to be the last one.
2. Register for Mid-term – If you haven’t done this already, get going. It’s time. Click the button. It will be fact and fun filled. You don’t want to miss out. Please encourage your club members to attend as well. Cost? It’s free. Nothing better than that.
3. Pass on your Goals – The next PE training is all about setting goals. Your PE will be setting their 2023-24 goals on Jan 7th. To do this, they need to know what your goals were for membership and foundation. What you say? I was supposed to have goals? CRAZY. Like everything thing else in life, the key is to keep turning the wheel and getting a little bit better every year. So yes, Patricia McCleese the current DGE is turning the wheel and making sure that clubs have goals actually listed in Rotary Central. So please pass on your current goals to your PE prior to the mid-term. Why wait? Send them an email with the info right now.
4. Grants – Does your club want to obtain a district or global grant for the year 2023-24? If so, someone from your club MUST attend a Grant Management Seminar. If they want to go for a global grant then someone must also attend a Global Grant Seminar. This requirement is not waived. The Grant Team does not hold extra sessions for those who don’t show up. My recommendation, send someone. It’s great information and then you are set if suddenly it seems like a good idea. Here are the dates. They are all via zoom.
GRANTS MANAGEMENT SEMINARS
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 3- 7:00-8:30pm
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 9:00-10:30am
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 3:00-4:30pm
GLOBAL GRANTS WORKSHOPS
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 7:00-8:30pm
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 3:00-4:30pm
INTERESTING OPPORTUNITIES
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan 7
th – Mid-term Conference – Hamlin University – 8-11:30
Register Now.
UPCOMING PODCASTS – SEARCHING for SERVICE - check it out – Radio AM 950 – Sundays at 3pm, your favorite supplier of podcasts the following day.
Jan 8th – Mike Kaiser – Good Samaritan Clubs
Jan 15th – Sylvia Allen – Sylvia’s Children
Jan 22th – Stephanie Urchick – RI President 20224-25 (there will be a live Q&A via YouTube Live on Friday January 20th from 1-2pm)
Jan 29th – Mike Deluca – Global Traveler’s Club
Feb – 4 weeks about Youth Exchange – all the aspects – incoming, outgoing, host families, etc
General Speakers
1. Deano Pape - Deano Pape is president of Austin Rotary and has a talk that he is happy to deliver to area Rotary clubs called The 100 Hour Day: Welcome to Your Cell phone. He does an exercise with the audience that measures their technology consumption and discusses the effects of our social media and cellphone engagement. He also tailors his talk to specific requests, such as effects on our personal relationships, productivity in the workplace, education, political polarization, and/or post-lockdown uses of technology and where we go from here. You can reach out directly to him at
deanopape@gmail.com.
2. Annie Nolte-Henning - Annie is Director of the Americas for Alight (previously the American Refugee Committee) - she is knowledgeable and inspiring. If she can't come and talk, she has a staff that can. Very cool. Give her a ring 402.297.2368
3. Bill Goodwin - This one comes to use via our own Kathy Hughitt. She has heard Bill speak on leadership but states that he is capable of speaking on multiple topics. Kathy says he is very engaging. Bill is also one of our Lakeville Rotarian.
bill@prioritylivingmn.com
MEETING REMINDERS:
- Please let Trudy know your program speaker as soon as possible. Thanks!
- If you want a Zoom link - let Joe Erickson know by MONDAY before our Thursday meetings.
- Any program materials for presentations can be emailed to barronsunriserotary@outlook.com (link is also found in the cc section of every email reminder). This email goes directly to our club computer and will make presentations easier for our guest speakers.
Respectfully Submitted by Trudy Kroeger
(I will pay my dollar......sorry.)
Wait....if I apply the 4-way test...that is NOT the truth....not sorry.....I'll pay $2
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