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Club Meeting Information
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 08, 2021

We meet Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM at Newcastle Place, 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon WI 53092. Our next meeting is 7:00 AM on Friday (12/10).

Note: Masks are not required in our dining area, but we are asked to wear masks from the front door to the dining room and back.

Our program this week will feature David Bialk - Mequon Fire Chief. Chief Bialk will give us a Mequon Fire Department update. (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:

  • Matthew Wolak (12/10)
  • Errol Barnett (12/17)
  • Scott Bern (1/7)
  • Bob Blazich (1/14)

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.
Thought of the Week
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 08, 2021

Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’? - Jay Leno
2021 M-T Sunrise Rotary Sponsor-a-Family Holiday Program
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 08, 2021

Our club's annual holiday gift giving program is an opportunity for you to personally & positively influence the lives of four families in our community.

This year we are once again partnering with Family Promise.

They have identified 4 local families who are greatly in need of our assistance (click here for a brief synopsis of each family). We have been given personalized wish lists for all families. I have a link for you at the bottom of this email to visit where you can sign up to purchase a specific item(s). Sign up for as many as you would like! Please note all 4 families celebrate Christmas.

All donations can be dropped at the main entrance at Newcastle Place between now and December 17th. Simply pull up to the circle drive and drop off your gift to the receptionist at the front desk. She will take your gift and deliver it to our secure location inside. An even easier way is to bring your donations to one of our next couple Rotary meetings.

If you choose to order a gift on Amazon or from another online retailer, you may have it shipped directly to: 12600 N. Port Washington Rd. Mequon, WI 53092 Attn: Jennifer Sutherland

Additionally, we will collect new, regular sized personal toiletry items for the families along with holiday food items if you would like to contribute.

We are so grateful to you for blessing four Ozaukee County families with your generosity. This will help bring hope and joy to them this holiday season.

Happy Holidays,

Jennifer
HHS Interact Club Christmas Cards
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 06, 2021

Homestead High School Interact Club made Christmas cards to be distributed to seniors who may need tender loving care and some warm wishes for the Holiday Season.

Some of the cards were written in Spanish and they all included warm wishes for the Holidays. The cards will be distributed to residents of Newcastle Place in Mequon and seniors who attend the United Community Senior Center in Milwaukee.
Leave no girl behind
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 08, 2021

In his address to the Rotary International Convention in June 2021, Shekhar Mehta urged Rotary members to put improving girls’ futures at the forefront of their work. “It is important that we empower girls,” said Mehta, who was shortly to take office as the 2021-22 Rotary president, “as we all find that more often than not, the girl is disadvantaged. We will serve all children, but our laser focus will be specially on the girl.”

Mehta made empowering girls one of his presidential initiatives, and his focus is particularly timely. Women continue to face economic hurdles, declining levels of political participation, and challenges in the workplace, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. And the COVID-19 pandemic is among the factors that have extended the amount of time that experts estimate it will take to close the gender gap from an already daunting 99.5 years to 135.6 years.
A Rotary LOL Moment
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 08, 2021

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis
Rotary projects around the globe - Guyana
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 08, 2021

Editors Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting Rotary projects around the world.

Chartered in September 2020 as a cause-based club with an environmental focus, the Rotary Club of Garden City (Georgetown) has created a garden at the Cheshire Home, a residence for about 30 adults and children with disabilities in the village of Unity. 

About two dozen members of the club spent several months making plans, clearing land, digging drains, and overseeing construction of the garden, which includes a wheelchair-accessible shade house designed to protect tomatoes, herbs, and leafy vegetables from the tropical sun.

The $7,000 project was funded through a $5,000 grant from District 7030 and a takeout-meal fundraiser. The garden will eventually reduce the residence’s food bill while helping the people who live there to gain agricultural skills, says club member Elizabeth Cox.
Online Version
Posted by Steve Lettau on Oct 27, 2021
Upcoming Speakers
Posted by Steve Lettau on Oct 27, 2021
Jan 14, 2022
Lori Lorenz - President MCF
Mequon Community Foundation
Mequon Community Foundation

Lori Lorenz, the president of Mequon Community Foundation (MCF), is excited to bring the most recent news of MCF to the Sunrise Rotary Club. MCF’s all-volunteer board has been helping enhance the quality of life in our community since 1999. Places you go and events you attend in the community often are recipients of MCF grants. Their impact is far and wide in the areas of recreation, education, culture, outdoor beautification, public safety and general public improvement.  

Lori will tell you about the impact MCF has had in the community and their plans for the future.  She also looks forward to engaging with you as to what you would like to see in our community going forward and how you can get involved in seeing those dreams become a reality.

Lori started her new role as president in May 2021, having served as treasurer of MCF since 2017. As a retired CPA (Arthur Andersen/RSM McGladrey), Lori is passionate about serving others through the Mequon Community Foundation, Fox Point Lutheran Church, the UW-Whitewater Foundation Board, Gems of Hope WI Executive Board and other organizations.  She also volunteers as an accounting consultant for local start-ups and non- profits.

Lori and her husband, Eric, are Wisconsin natives and moved to Mequon in 1984. Although work took them out of the area from 1998-2008, they could not wait to return in 2009 and have been enjoying the new amenities continually being added to their lovely city of Mequon since then. 

In addition to her volunteer work, Lori enjoys golfing, tennis, hiking, boating up north and spending time with her three married children and four beautiful grandchildren.

To find out more about the Mequon Community Foundation, please go to www.mcfgives.org.
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