Our next meeting will be Friday (1/18) at Newcastle Place, 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon, WI 53092.
Friday's program will feature Wendy Bowman who will update us on the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation.
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:
Jo Ann Vetter (1/18)
Ryan Walsh (1/25)
Bill Wandsnider (2/1)
Chad Winterfield (2/8)
Note: If you are unable to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
Last year Lynn Streeter introduced us to an exceptional young man by the name of Matthew Ceelen. Matt's story began with a letter to our club requesting financial support for his Eagle Scout project of building two bat houses to be placed in the Mequon Nature Preserve. With the request approved, we heard what Paul Harvey used to call "The rest of the story".
Matthew was diagnosed with bone cancer just weeks shy of his 15th birthday. In medical terms it is a high grade sclerosing subtype of osteosarcoma. Approximately 450 children in North America are diagnosed with osteosarcoma each year. He is 1 of approximately 4 children who will be diagnosed with his subtype of osteosarcoma in 2017.
Update:
Posted by Deb Lehman (1/11/2019)
Matthew was discharged yesterday and is doing well!
He was in the OR for a couple hours on Thursday. Everything looked really good! The drain will remain in his arm for a couple of weeks. They also took out the sutures in his leg. This is the area where the skin graft, from his left thigh, was placed in order to close the area where his fibula was removed. He enjoyed his traditional inpatient visit with John St. Peter and Bill Jarecki.
They have visited Matthew, barring illness, every time he has been admitted since his chemo journey began in September of 2017. He also had friends visit which he truly appreciates.
A PICC line (long term IV) was placed on Friday and he was told he may not be discharged until Monday. He was thrilled to be discharged on Saturday. Home Health delivered the supplies at 9 pm Saturday and his first home dose of IV antibiotics were given. He will receive those twice a day and an oral antibiotic once a day. Hopefully this will take care of the small amount of Staph that grew on the cultures and anything else that was shielded by the antibiotics he was already taking.
He has follow-up appointments on Jan 14 (previously scheduled) and Jan 23.
Thank you for all the shares of the GoFundMe and continued support of Matthew!
Last May, my 86-year-old mother-in-law moved from the Wisconsin farm where she had lived for 40 years to a smaller house 15 miles away. With help from seven children and 11 grandchildren, she has accumulated more stuff over her lifetime than she (or they) could ever use, and so during the week leading up to moving day, family members made a dozen round trips in minivans and SUVs, transporting small items — lamps, dishes, knickknacks, plants, wall hangings, her thimble collection, along with a profusion of canned goods — to her new home.
About halfway through the process, my older son whispered, “Please, don’t let this happen to you and Mom.” Someday, it will fall to him and his brother to help move us. And so — although we have no imminent plans to move — the word “downsize” has crept into our vocabulary.
As the 65-mile marker begins to fade in my rearview mirror, I had better get started — you know, while I’m still young. Gazing around my basement office at the walls of magazines and books, at the boxes and cabinets filled with outdated computers, monitors, keyboards, and cables, and at the 10 file drawers stuffed with paper, I realize that I should have started sooner. Like maybe 21 years ago, before we moved into this house.
Rotary International President-elect Mark Daniel Maloney explained his vision for building a stronger Rotary, calling on leaders to expand connections to their communities and to embrace innovative membership models.
Maloney, a member of the Rotary Club of Decatur, Alabama, USA, unveiled the 2019-20 presidential theme, Rotary Connects the World, to incoming district governors at Rotary’s annual training event, the International Assembly, in San Diego, California, USA, on Monday.
“The first emphasis is to grow Rotary — to grow our service, to grow the impact of our projects, but most importantly, to grow our membership so that we can achieve more,” Maloney said.
Maloney believes that connection is at the heart of the Rotary experience.
“(Rotary) allows us to connect with each other, in deep and meaningful ways, across our differences,” Maloney said. “It connects us to people we would never otherwise have met, who are more like us than we ever could have known. It connects us to our communities, to professional opportunities, and to the people who need our help.”
Christine joined Ozaukee Washington Land Trust (OWLT) in Fall of 2014 after M-T Sunrise Rotary negotiated a partnership with the City of Mequon and OWLT; created an opportunity to hire a land stewardship intern to help deliver greater environmental care to the Pukaite Woods in Mequon’s Rotary Park.
After completing her undergraduate degree in Conservation and Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Christine was hired to a full-time position as Project Coordinator for OWLT. She has also been trained through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group in Wildland Fire Behavior and Firefighter Safety.
Her main focus is administering a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to control invasive species and promote the reestablishment of sustainable, native vegetative communities in southeast Wisconsin and northeast Illinois. In addition, Christine now coordinates woodland restoration work and long-term management planning for Pukaite Woods, guiding Sunrise Rotary's stewardship commitment to the woodland. Recently, in recognition of her environmental leadership and work with landowners as well as community groups, she was honored with an invitation to join the well-established Friends of Cedarburg Bog Stewardship Committee.
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