Our next regular meeting will be Friday (1/20) at Newcastle Place - 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI 53092.
Our meeting will feature John Hoff who will speak on Being Open to Serving Others. To read John's bio click here.
The greeter will provide either the thought, a Rotary minute, share a family moment or a cultural tradition ... anything they would like to start off the day positive.
Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:
Fr. Mike Shay (1/20)
Lynn Streeter (1/27)
Elizabeth Suran (2/3)
Jennifer Sutherland (2/10)
Lee Szymborski (2/17)
Note: If you are unable to to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
What did you want to be when you grew up? An F.B.I. agent, following the 1955 movie, “The FBI,” with Jimmy Stewart.
First Job? D.H. Associates (MD) Accounting clerk, (following high school job of taking the Dog Census for the City of Wichita!)
Interests/hobbies? I have been “into” computers since 1982, both Apple and IBM platforms. Can you say, “Trash-80?” (Radio Shack’s TRS-80). Taught and called square dancing eight years. For sixteen years, Rotary has been my “hobby.”
Best business decision, or hardest business decision? Whether to continue teaching high school juniors and seniors, or enter the seminary. Never regretted for one moment the decision for the latter!
Biggest career accomplishment/highlight to date? Being named, “Citizen of the Year,” of Elko County, Nevada, 1986, owing to many civic involvements and board services, That, in addition to 43 great years in eight parishes in six states in the Catholic priesthood and civic services.
Most memorable Rotary moment or event? R.I. International Convention, Osaka, Japan. 45,000 Rotarians under one roof, and I sat behind whom I discovered was the other local Rotary Club’s exchange student to Japan!
We are partnering with Family Sharing of Ozaukee County to collect non-perishable food items through the month of February.
Family Sharing provides food, at no charge, to people in need in Ozaukee County. All donations of food are distributed directly to those who need it. Their supply is at a critical low this time of year, and we’d like to help support their efforts in collecting items.
Please bring your food donations to our Friday meetings. Items may also be dropped off at Ozaukee Bank at the Mequon and Thiensville locations.
I was 18 when I was drafted. I turned 19 in Europe. I landed in Normandy a week after the D-Day invasion as a replacement for casualties that occurred during the initial assault. I was a part of the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. That November, I was with a group of soldiers that was surrounded for four days by Germans in the Hürtgen Forest in Germany. I had been wounded and was lying in a foxhole. We had been cut off from all supplies – ammunition, food, water, and medical supplies. The officer in charge decided to try to get the able-bodied out. They took off very early one morning and left 14 of us wounded behind.
Later that day, German forces came through. Once they satisfied themselves that we were wounded, they told us to get back in our holes and to stay there, “as the next German group that comes through might shoot you.”
Mequon — Possible zoning code changes may shut down plans for a cell tower set to be built in a residential neighborhood in Mequon.
The proposed changes, which state non-residential structures must be as far from residential properties as they are tall, will be on the Jan. 10 common council agenda for public hearing and potential action.
"We all understand the impact of this, protecting our residential neighborhood," said Mayor Dan Abendroth.
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