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Lobsterfest Photos
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 26, 2019
Club Meeting Information
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 26, 2019

Our next meeting will be Friday (9/27) at Newcastle Place 12600 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53092.

Our program will feature Kathleen Fisher - CEO of Family Promise Ozaukee County. Scroll down for bio.

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:

  • Alice Sedgwick (9/27)
  • Rene Settle-Robinson (10/4)
  • Carol Wessels (10/11)
  • Cindy Shaffer (10/18)
  • Fr. Mike Shay (10/25

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

Visit our website at mtsunriserotary.org.
Kathy's House Cookout Sept 30th
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 26, 2019

Reminder.

Our Kathy's House event is Monday, September 30 at 5 pm.  Volunteers are still needed and welcomed!

We will be serving dinner at 5 pm.  It will be great if volunteers can arrive sometime between 4 and 4:30 pm.

Questions? Contact me at Diana.Raasch@lcef.org or call my cell 414-931-1254.

Diana Raasch
Friday Last Day to Bring Chemo Comfort Packs
Posted by Steve Lettau on Oct 03, 2019

Mike Kim's son is a member of Boy Scout Troop 815 and they are collecting items to assemble Chemo Comfort Packs for distribution to the Aurora facilities in both Grafton and West Allis.

Troop 815's project is in conjunction with Ovarian Cancer Awareness month (September) and Breast Cancer Awareness month (October).

Here is where we need your help. Please drop off your donated items (see the list below) at our club meeting on Friday (10/4).

Suggested Items:

  • Personal sized hand sanitizers
  • Personal sized hand lotions
  • Lip Balm
  • Hard candies or gum (preferably with Xylitol)
  • Small tissue packs
  • Fuzzy socks
  • Adult coloring books
  • Colored pencils
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Notebooks
  • Pens
  • Eye drops
  • Inspirational or humorous books

Thanks you in advance for your support!!!

 

Lynn Streeter and Steve Lettau
Member Spotlight - Alice Sedgwick
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 26, 2019

Alice has been a member of Sunrise Rotary since 1995 and has had many good experiences through Rotary. Among them are being team leader for a Group Study Exchange to So. Korea, attending several Rotary world conferences, being club president twice, serving as an Assistant Governor for 5 years and just meeting great people through Rotary! She is currently secretary of the Paul Harris Room 711 Club. Just ask her about it. Now she is just happy to take part in our club activities and help where ever needed.

Outside of Rotary, Alice is active in her church tying quilts twice a month, serving as advisor to a new 4-H club that meets here at Newcastle and hosting guests from Japan and Korea through the 4-H exchange program. Her many years as a librarian leads her into 3 monthy book discussion groups. Newcastle provides many opportunities for residents so Alice plays and teaches a sheepshead group, participates in a "stitichers" group knitting caps for cancer patients, and serves on the landscape committee. For recreation there is lawn bowling in the summer and curling in the winter.  

Retirement is good!
A Rotary LOL Moment
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 26, 2019

Dilbert Classics by Scott Adams
Thought of the Week
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 26, 2019

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ~ Will Rogers
Extra Helping
Posted by Steve Lettau on Sep 25, 2019

Volunteers keep food pantries from going without

By David Sarasohn in the October 2019 issue of The Rotarian magazine

The space looks a bit like a small-town grocery store. Open cartons of potatoes, cabbages, oranges, and other produce stretch down the middle of the room. Boxes and cans of food are arranged on shelves along the walls. Customers walk around, checking out the items on offer.

What’s missing is a cash register.

There are 66,000 food pantries in the United States, places where millions of people come to fill the empty space between their cupboards and the end of the month. The pantries operate in church basements, community centers, and schools. This one — the Westside Food Pantry of FISH (Friends in Service to Humanity) of Vancouver, Washington — used to be tucked into a corner of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. But at the end of 2015, it bought its own building with the help of a state grant, a mortgage — and a capital campaign led by Katlin Smith, a member of the Rotary Club of Vancouver and the current president of the FISH of Vancouver board of directors.
Want to learn more about the causes we support? Check out these videos:
Posted by Steve Lettau on Apr 18, 2019
Online Version
Posted by Steve Lettau on Apr 18, 2019
Upcoming Speakers
Oct 04, 2019
Jeff Reed - Past District Governor
Rotary Global Grant – Save Limbs
Rotary Global Grant – Save Limbs

Born in Wisconsin, I moved away, and then returned in 1998. I have worked both in industry (consulting and Xerox Corporation) and in higher education (professor of psychology, management and academic dean). 

The Fond du Lac Morning Rotary Club became home and a source of Rotary friends starting in 2000. Travel and international service are passions, along with music, theater, and gardening. My wife Sylvia just retired after years as an institutional researcher and my son Daniel is starting his career as a naturopathic physician.

A new project is being proposed for a Global Grant – Save Limbs: Diabetes treatment and education to prevent amputation.  It is proposed by the Rotary Club of Coimbatore Cosmopolitan in Tamil Nadu, India (Rotary District 3201).  
 
Diabetes is a rapidly growing problem in south India.  An extreme consequence of untreated diabetes is the need to amputate a damaged limb.  This often results in severe problems for the patient – reduction in mobility, loss of work and income, and many other challenges.  The purpose of the project is to intervene, educate and treat diabetics in the Coimbatore area of India to prevent this tragic outcome.  
 
I have maintained contact with Rotary District 3201 visited on our Rotary Friendship Exchange to south India in January 2018.  I was approached by Indian counterparts about this project.  Rotary Club of Fond du Lac Morning has agreed to serve as International Partner club for the project.   District 6270 Global Grant Committee is supporting the project.  
Oct 18, 2019
Dean Rennicke - CUW Foundation
TBD
Oct 25, 2019
Mark Schmitz - Director CCES
Concordia’s Aquaponics System
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