Fundraiser to feature 13.25 mile canoe/kayak trip

By Conley Publishing Group

FREDONIA — Mel’s Charities, already widely known for its successful Mel’s Pig Roast, BC’s 8-Pin Tap, Lollapalooza, Pig Scramble Golf Outing and more, is adding another event to its fundraising family.

Mel’s River Run will be held May 28 and is a family friendly trip down the Milwaukee River via canoe or kayak. The approximately 13.25-mile trip starts at Waubedonia Park in Fredonia and ends at Veterans Park in Grafton. Registration and loading starts at 7:30 a.m., with paddles in the water at 9 a.m.

Participants must bring their own canoe or kayak.

The run can take three to four hours to complete and participants are advised to bring plenty of water. This is not a race, but an opportunity to take a scenic trip for a good cause.

Since 1999, Mel’s Charities has awarded more than $1.6 million to dozens of charities, with a strong emphasis on human services, special needs and memorial scholarships.

The cost of the River Run is $20 in advance and $40 the day of the event.

Since the event will take place on Memorial Day weekend, Mel’s is hosting two patriotic contests: bestdressed individual and bestdressed canoe/kayak.

To register, see the River Run route or for more information, go to https://givebutter. com/2022MelsRiverRun.

This is an UNTIMED, family-friendly river run. Bring your own canoe or kayak. This is not a race, we just want everyone to enjoy their time on the Milwaukee River. When you reach Veteran’s park in Grafton, Mel’s will be waiting for you with beverages, and food to enjoy!

By Randy Bretz, Rotary Club of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

A woman from Africa and her six children will soon have a new home in Lincoln, Nebraska, thanks to our Rotary club and Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln.

Construction will begin soon on the home for Martha and her children, giving them a place to live that isn’t cramped and even with a yard for the family to enjoy. Martha’s salary can only afford a two-bedroom apartment, but with the help of nearly $40,000 from our club, Habitat for Humanity will be able to construct a three-bedroom home on a lot in Lincoln that she can afford to buy.

The co-chairs of our annual fundraiser, Rise.Shine.Give, were overwhelmed at the support and donations that came in. Kate Holman and Penny Johnston note that sponsorships, silent auctions, and a lottery drawing resulted in more than $86,000 raised at our event on 12 February. After a year off because of COVID-19, nearly 150 people gathered at Nebraska Innovation Campus for the event.

We have a custom of donating half of the money raised to a charity of the club president’s choice. Club president Christina Usher said she selected Habitat because “it is an organization that is focused on building community and helping provide affordable housing.”

by Louis Greenstein

Most of us associate the word "bias" with bad things like racism, sexism, and homophobia. 

To social scientists, however, those things go beyond bias; they're bigotry. Social scientists define bias as a preference, and without it, well, imagine how long it'd take you to place an order in a restaurant. 

Psychologist Matt Grawitch, director of strategic research at Saint Louis University's School for Professional Studies, says our brains evolved to make decisions quickly, based on small amounts of information. And in prehistoric times, experts believe that the more someone seemed like us, the less dangerous we assumed them to be, whether or not this was true. 

But many of our prehistoric tendencies aren't necessarily good for us today. Studies have shown that the most diverse companies are more likely to outperform their competitors. And you may have a bias toward burgers and against vegetables, but that doesn't mean you should only eat burgers or hate vegetables. 

Part of being a modern, evolved human or organization might mean avoiding some of the things we're biased toward and seeking out alternatives.

While we are often bad at spotting our own biases, we can learn to distinguish bias from bigotry and keep it from negatively affecting our decisions. 

Here are some tips for keeping bias from becoming a detriment. 

By Conley Publishing Group

MEQUON — They are National Merit Scholarship finalists and were already one of the top competitive math teams in the country last week, when four Homestead High School students recently took the top spot in a prestigious international math competition. Adam Garsha, Jacob Schmidman, Eric Wan and Ethan Wang were among nearly 2,700 students working in 612 teams, who participated in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), a prestigious competition that demonstrates the importance of math in everyday life.

The team of four 11th- and 12th-graders took home the top prize of $20,000 in college scholarships, out of the total $100,000-plus being awarded, after being chosen as winners during the final event in New York City April 25.

Thousands of high school juniors and seniors across the U.S. and six students from the U.K. vied for distinction in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge. The competition was judged by an international panel of Ph.D.-level mathematicians.

The 2022 M3 Challenge saw students spend 14 consecutive hours in late February using mathematical modeling to solve a real-world problem by collecting data and creating models, developing insight on the problem and submitting their solutions online.

This year’s competition asked students to use math modeling to predict the future of remote work, analyzing the percent of jobs that are remote-ready and whether workers in those jobs will be willing or able to work remotely, then determining the percentage of workers who will go remote in a given city or metro area.

By Eddie Morales - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network opened a community hospital in Mequon on May 2.

The new hospital, across the street from the Froedtert & MCW Mequon Health Center, at 11421 N. Port Washington Road, will aim to provide “high quality care in an inviting, streamlined setting close to home when sudden needs arise,” according to a news release from Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin.

“We are proud to announce the opening of our fourth community hospital within our health network which expands our ability to provide access to care in more communities with an easy to navigate footprint,” said Cathy Jacobson, president and chief executive officer of Froedtert Health, in a statement.

“Our newest community hospital in Mequon supports our mission by providing access to academic medicine for the diverse communities we serve,” Jacobson added.

Mequon joins New Berlin, Oak Creek and Pewaukee in having its own small-scale Froedtert & MCW hospital.

The 17,000-square-foot Mequon hospital is open 24 hours a day and features a seven-bed emergency department with eight inpatient beds and includes laboratory, pharmacy and imaging services.

“The addition of a new community hospital in Mequon also supports our continued growth in the North Shore area and beyond and supports our focus of adding specialty care within the region and complements our expansion of primary care access across the health network,” Jacobson said.

Froedtert Health Center Urgent Care in Mequon closed indefinitely Feb. 1, citing staffing issues related to COVID-19. About 40 full-and part-time emergency physicians and registered nurses staff the community hospitals.

“We are extremely grateful to our providers and staff whose tireless work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled us to open four new hospitals during these challenging times which has allowed us to provide access to safe, high-quality care close to home,” said Jacobson.

ROTARY CAMP SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA (Madrid)
From July 30th to August 14th, 2022

Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Majadahonda in collaboration with the Rotary Clubs of Madrid and Castilla and Leon (SPAIN)

Download Program Details (PDF)

For more information contact John Cabaniss at 414-491-4019