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Club Meeting Information

In light of COVID-19 mandates, MT Sunrise Rotary will be hosting virtual meetings until further notice. Our next meeting will be 7:00 AM Friday (4/17).

Our virtual program will feature our own Brian Kendzor. Brian's topic is the health of the Great Lakes, with a focus on plastics. (See bio below)

Our Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) student this week is Elisabeth Burschel from Beilefeld, Germany. See related article below for details. Thanks again to Bob Blazich for putting this together.

The virtual 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:

  • Lucia Francis (4/17)
  • Corinne Guerin (4/24)
  • Joe Gutsmiedl (5/1)
  • Doug Hansen (5/8)

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

 

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While some are familiar with Zoom, there are others for which this will be an opportunity to experience something new

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German RYE Student to be our Guest

We hope you all enjoyed visiting with our 2006 - 2007 Rotary Youth Exchange student, Shonita Joshi from India, last week.

This week's guest exchange student will be someone very familiar to most of you. Elisabeth Burschel from Beilefeld, Germany, will be at our Zoom Rotary Club meeting on Friday morning.

Elisabeth will give us a short recap of her 2018-19 year at Homestead and her life now that she's back home in Germany.

A Rotary LOL Moment

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

Northern tourism destinations turn inward over COVID-19

‘The only doctors we have are emergency room doctors’

By Myles Danhausen Jr, Door County Pulse and Jake Ekdahl, Conley Media

STURGEON BAY — At the time, it seemed almost absurd. During an emergency meeting of the Sister Bay Village Board on March 16, trustee Rob Zoschke leaned back in his chair and asked bluntly: “Should we be telling resorts to close down and not accept reservations and cancel existing ones?”

In northern Door County where tourism isn’t just an industry but the only industry the question silenced the room. The county is a Midwest vacation Mecca that draws about 2.5 million visitors each year.

Here, saying no to visitors is saying no to their own economy.

Sister Bay’s board ultimately decided not to make a statement, but next day the Door County government sent a message statewide encouraging visitors not to come to the peninsula.

Door County joins a long list of vacation spots around Wisconsin and the country that are asking visitors and part-time residents to stay away until the coronavirus crisis subsides.

“We were looking for the state or federal government to do something,” said Dave Lienau, chairman of the Door County Board and Sister Bay village president. “We were looking for something we could do to try to prevent the spread and at least slow it down. It was a difficult thing to do.”

At least 420 second-home owners and their families have moved to the county to open cabins and summer homes months earlier than normal, according to postal counts. Some residents had a hobby of counting Illinois license plates at grocery stores and restaurants. A few residents implored county leaders to literally raise the drawbridge in Sturgeon Bay, which would cut off Wisconsin’s “thumb” from the rest of the state.

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Rethinking Our Self-Care During the Pandemic

By Shelly Tygielski

Shelly Tygielski, who has connected 10,000 families (and counting) to support each other during the pandemic, explains why intentional care for yourself is also needed, now more than ever.

For several weeks—or even longer, depending where you are in the world—we’ve been finding ourselves trying to gain footing and get used to our new realities, which present differently for each person. As the pandemic continues to unfold, a few universal truths are reaffirming themselves to me: First, in almost all but extreme cases, we have a choice about how we want to respond to what is happening. Second, the cliché and often-time overused metaphor of putting the oxygen mask on ourselves first so that we can help others has never been truer, whether we are on the front lines providing an essential service or finding ourselves at home. And finally, and perhaps most importantly, love and compassion are more viral than COVID-19.

We Have a Choice to Remain in Control

Two weekends ago, as the state where I live was finally waking up to the realization that preparation was in order and that we wouldn’t be spared, my husband and I made a trip to the supermarket to stock up on supplies and essentials. Now you have to understand that I live in a state that is under a threat of hurricanes almost annually at this point, and that what I saw was beyond the frenzy we experience when we are in the “cone of uncertainty” and being told to brace for impact. All around us, people were frantically loading their carts with toilet paper, jugs of bleach, and bottled water. The panic in the air was infectious; we humans are not immune to panic.

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Milwaukee Community Sailing Center

As a life-long sailor, Teresa is passionate about getting people out on the water; happily, her job as the Program Manager for the Milwaukee Community Sailing Center allows her to do just that. The mission of the Milwaukee Community Sailing Center is to make Lake Michigan accessible through quality programming. Over the past 40 years, MCSC has met its mission by building on its foundation of providing quality programming that teaches sailing, and also teaches transferable skills in the way of communication, leadership, and team-building.

Teresa regularly crews for Milwaukee area sailboat races, charters in the Caribbean and Great Lakes, and is a member of the Milwaukee Bay Women’s Sailing Organization, as well as an organizing member of the Midwest Women’s Sailing Conference.  Teresa’s certifications include: US Sailing Keelboat certification; AED/CPR/First Aid Infant, Child, Adult, Red Cross certification; US Sailing Level 1 Instructor certification; US Sailing REACH instructor certification; US Sailing Keelboat Instructor certification; US Sailing/US Powerboating Powerboat Safety Certification; and US Sailing/US Powerboating Powerboat Safety Instructor. Teresa also has a PhD in Early American Literature from the University of Oregon.

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Family Sharing of Qzaukee County
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Not Without My Father
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