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Our next regular meeting will be Friday (1/6) at Newcastle Place - 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI  53092.

Our meeting will feature club members under 40 sharing their thoughts on how membership in Rotary became important to their professional and personal lives.

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:

  • Rene Settle-Robinson (1/6)
  • Cindy Shaffer (1/13)

Note: If you are unable to to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.

Visit our website at mtsunriserotary.org.

Community News

This must be the place Cedarburg, Mequon ranked among top Wisconsin communities
By Alison Henderson News Graphic Staff

CEDARBURG — It’s a good time to be a Cedarburg resident, according to Niche.com’s yearly “Best of” rankings.
Formerly College Prowler, Niche.com is a review site that produces comprehensive rankings, report cards and profiles for schools, colleges and neighborhoods across the United States. This is done by analyzing a combination of public data sets, from sources like the U.S. Census and the FBI, and millions of reviews written by students, parents and residents.

Fun Facts

  • Thiensville was named third in “Safest Places to Live in Wisconsin”
  • Cedarburg is among the top 10 best suburbs in Wisconsin for millennials
  • Homestead High School was ranked second in Wisconsin as “2017 Best High Schools for STEM”
  • Out of 1,037 elementary schools in Wisconsin, Thorson Elementary was ranked fourth for “Best Teachers in Wisconsin”

Out of 224 communities in the state, Cedarburg was ranked first in “Best Places to Raise a Family in Wisconsin” and “Best Places to Buy a House in Wisconsin”; second in “Best Suburbs to Live in Wisconsin” and third in “Suburbs with the Best Public Schools in Wisconsin” – the site defines a suburb as a place located within a census-defined urbanized area, but outside a principal city, with a population of at least 1,000.

Thought of the Week

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. - Dave Barry

Rotary Members Link Love Of Beer, Clean Water Crisis

When you sit down to enjoy a beer, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about one of its main ingredients – water. Or the fact that 3,000 children die each day from diseases caused by unsafe water.

A group of innovative Rotarians aren't just thinking; they're doing something about it.

Their group, Beers Rotarians Enjoy Worldwide (BREW), has organized events around the world and is working to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Rotary's global water, sanitation, and hygiene efforts.

"By drinking a beer, I can help bring fresh water to a village in Africa," says Steven Lack, a member of the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill, California, USA. "If you can drink beer and some of the money goes to doing good in the world, that is something you can feel good about."

Fellowships like BREW are Rotary's way of bringing together members who share a particular passion. Rotarian Action Groups unite members who have expertise in a specific service area. The beer fellowship's leaders realized that joining forces with an action group dedicated to providing access to clean water would create a sum larger than the two parts.

"Beer and water have a natural affinity; you need water to brew beer" says Moses Aryee, past president of the Rotary Club of Accra-West, Ghana, and co-chair of the beer fellowship. "Our vision is a global approach to fresh water around the world, because beer is around the world."

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