When: We meet Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM.
Where: We meet at the Mequon Public Market, 6300 W Mequon Rd, Mequon, WI 53092.
Special Treat: The baked goods for this Friday's Rotary meeting was specially prepared for us by Lubna Beg of Lubna's Tasty Treats of Mequon. (see article below)
Program: This week's program will feature our own Matt Wolf. The topic of Matt's presentation is Empathetic Elephants.
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:
Bruce Carter (12/9)
Seth Duhnke (12/16)
Bobby Fisher (12/23)
Lucia Francis (12/30)
Note: If you are unable to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
Club Assemblies have been scheduled for the following date(s): 12/16, 1/20, 2/17, 3/17, 4/21, 5/19
I’ve been married for 35 years this coming January 30th to my best friend, Beth. Have 4 fantastic children: Bridget, who resides in Houston, Texas with her husband Jarrod, George 3, and as of this writing another child born December 7th! Twins: William a 3rd year law student at The Ohio State University, who will work for a firm in Charlotte upon graduation and Olivia – stand up comedian who resides in Chicago and relocating to NYC in July. Andrew, is a Junior at Kansas State University working towards a degree in HR Management and would love a paid internship this summer. Proud parent moment was he was Tail Gate chair for the Delta Sig fraternity this year.
I’m Vice President of Home Health for our Continuing Health Division which after a merger this week is Advocate Health (merger of Aurora, Advocate, and Atriums). I also serve as a Board Member for the Great Lakes Hemophilia Federation, a non profit group focused upon bleeding disorders within the Great Lakes area. Most important lesson learned in business is to over communicate and add value. I joined Rotary when we re-located at the recommendation of a good friend, who is a member of Rotary in Leawood, KS. I value service over self. Most memorable Rotary moment, is the pleasure meeting each one of you and look forward to creating those memorable moments!
Our Rotary club's annual holiday gift giving program is an opportunity for you to personally & positively influence the lives of six families in our community.
Family Promise has identified 6 local families who are greatly in need of our assistance. We have been given personalized wish lists for all families. I have a link where you can sign up to purchase a specific item(s). Sign up for as many as you would like! Please note all 6 families celebrate Christmas.
All donations can be brought to the Friday morning Rotary meetings up until December 16th. We will spend part of our Rotary meeting wrapping the gifts (on the 16th). If you can stay afterwards to finish up the wrapping, it will be greatly appreciated. We would love for you to bring scissors, tape and wrapping paper along with you.
Additionally, our families would love for us to personally deliver the gifts to their place of residence. Please let me know if you'd like to help with the delivery which will need to take place on either December 20th or 21st!
Finally, we will collect new, regular sized personal toiletry items & cleaning supplies for the families along with holiday food items if you would like to contribute.
We are so grateful to you for blessing six Ozaukee County families with your generosity. This will help bring hope and joy to them this holiday season.
If you'd rather donate cash, I can do the shopping for you and give you the receipt afterwards! Simply bring your donation to one of our upcoming Friday Rotary meetings.
The baked goods for this Friday's Rotary meeting was specially prepared for us by Lubna Beg of Lubna's Tasty Treats of Mequon.
Lubna attended Bayside Middle School and was a 2009 graduate of Nicolet High School. Lubna later attended Waukesha County Technical College where she studied Baking and Pastry Management and Business.
Lubna specializes in providing cupcakes, cookies, breads, and bars for small gatherings. She describes her business as "... a fun way to make people happy and satisfied with my goodies."
Lubna's Tasty Treats is 5-STAR rated and is easily found on Facebook. Her email is lubnastastytreats@gmail.com and her phone number is 414-364-4137.
Ditch the holiday wrapping stress AND support Advocates of Ozaukee!
Our great friends at the Mequon P.D. are assembling their mightiest ribbon curlers for our annual Gift Wrapping Fundraiser: Dec. 10, 2022, 9am-12pm, Council Chambers Mequon City Hall. All donations for wrapping will go directly to support the vital services and resources at Advocates. AND don't miss out on a special meet and greet with K-9 Officer Djuke and his handler, Officer Bottoni!
This event is family friendly with crafts, light refreshments, and more! Please spread the word and join us!
Top: Today's featured speaker was Adam Albrecht - Founder & CEO The Weaponry.
Middle: For the second week in a row we had a winner in our weekly drawing. The winner this week was John Cabaniss (center). Congratulations John!
Bottom: We welcome Matt Monaco as our newest member. From left: Don O'Connor, Connie Pukaite (Matt's sponsor), Matt Monaco and Cori Guerin club President. Photos by Dean Johnson.
Up to 169 million tons of unused food is wasted in the European Union every year, and only about 40 percent of Italians take home their uneaten restaurant food.
Working with the office of agriculture and food in the Piedmont region, the Rotary Club of Acqui Terme launched a project in April to encourage people to take home their leftovers. It offers recyclable and compostable boxes and wine bags to restaurants, bed and breakfasts, and farmhouses.
Rotarians enlist members of the hospitality industry to reduce food waste and develop awareness of the value of quality foods produced by local farmers, says Giacomo Guerrina, immediate past president of the club.
Backed by Rotary’s Programs of Scale award, Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia confronts a worldwide malady at the local level
By Diana Schoberg Photography by Esther Ruth Mbabazi
Latham Chisanga had been in a car accident a few years back, and he’d dealt with the physical repercussions ever since. So in February 2020, when a backache and fever came on, Chisanga skipped another visit to the clinic, swallowed a couple of painkillers, and got on with his life. Days later, he collapsed outside a neighbor’s house and fell into a coma. At the hospital, his malaria test came back positive. He died a few days later.
His mother, Martha Lungu, wondered how this could have happened to a member of her family. After all, she was the executive administrator of Malaria Partners Zambia, the local branch of an international campaign led by Rotary members to end malaria. Lungu, a member of the Rotary Club of Ndola, didn’t see how she could continue her work. “How did I fail?” she lamented. “How come I didn’t do this right? And how am I going to talk to people about the prevention of malaria?”
A few months later, two people intervened. "You need to use your son's death to educate others, so we don't lose another life," insisted a minister who had attended her son's funeral. And a friend convinced Lungu that her son's death gave her more credibility, not less. "If it happened to me, it could happen to anyone," Lungu says, conveying her friend's message. "I know what I'm talking about. I know malaria kills. And I know malaria can be cured."
This message is a reminder that only five weeks remain to apply for our D-6270 Global Grant Scholarship in the amount of U.S. $30,000 (offered for matriculation in the Fall 2023 or Spring 2024). We have discovered over the years that the best applicants come through referrals from local club leaders. Hence, we appeal for your assistance.
Applicants must hold at least an undergraduate degree or anticipate graduation within the current year. Application deadline is January 13, 2023; interviews, February 4; announcement of grant recipient, February 13. Application form and applicable reference documents are accessible on the RI District 6270 web site (www.rotary6270.org). Simply click “Scholarship Resource Center.”
Some people are not eligible to be candidates for a Global Grant Scholarship. They include:
Current Rotarians
Employees of clubs, districts, other Rotary entities (as defined in section 1.040. of the Rotary Code of Policies) and of Rotary International
Rotarian spouses; children or grandchildren by blood, legal adoption, or marriage without adoption; the spouses of those children or grandchildren, or parents or grandparents by blood of people listed above; and employees of agencies, organizations, or institutions that work with Rotary International or the Foundation.
NOTE: Applicant cannot be a Rotarian or be related to a Rotarian but can be a member of Rotaract. To be eligible, applicant must be a resident in the geographical area of District 6270, be a student at a college/university in the geographical area of District 6270 or have strong ties to Southeast Wisconsin (see District 6270 map). Experience (professional or volunteer) in the field of study is required. All fellowship/scholarship/stipend funding opportunities must relate to one of Rotary’s Seven Areas of Focus.
Please pass along this information to any aspiring scholar whom you know or meet who might be qualified to apply. Advertising this wonderful opportunity on your website and/or on your social media platforms would also be appreciated. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
LARRY W. MYERS Chair, Scholarships Subcommittee & Rotary Peace Fellowships Subcommittee RI District 6270
Chair, Registration Committee Rotary Western Great Lakes District Conference
The Redress Movement is an emerging racial justice organization that aims to organize racially and ethnically diverse local movements in communities throughout the U.S. We will help residents to build and wield collective power needed to redress residential segregation of their own and neighboring communities.
We believe that just as segregation was caused by specific laws, specific policies and specific decision makers, segregation and its multi-generational impacts can be redressed. Our vision is a society no longer divided and separated.
While we know that segregation that took decades to establish cannot be undone overnight, we are determined to take the first steps on an unwavering path to redress it as a moral and constitutional obligation.
Bio:
Originally from rural Illinois, Brittany has called the Greater Milwaukee Area homebase for the past 16 years. After graduating from UW-Milwaukee with a double major in Global Studies and Spanish, she was selected as one of 26 volunteers for the inaugural cohort to the Republic of Kosovo with the Peace Corps serving as an ESL instructor for two years.
She began her organizing career volunteering to knock doors and ask voters about the issues that mattered most to them. She was serving as the Financial Director in the home stretch of a Wisconsin Supreme Court race when the COVID pandemic hit. Nationwide, campaigns turned to digital organizing and physically-distant outdoor events. Likewise Brittany went on to work for several local races and coordinated campaigns focusing on digital organizing, car rallies, and literature drops to help turn out the vote in the fall of 2020.
That same year, she founded Break the Silence in the Burbs (BSB) to create a space in Milwaukee suburbs to amplify BIPOC voices and for residents to show up in solidarity with demands for justice for victims of police brutality and call for systemic change. In partnership with allied and Black-led organizations, BSB co-organized dozens of marches, community conversations, and direct-actions including letter writing campaigns to state legislators and school boards in support of anti-racist policies.
Brittany looks forward to helping the Redress Movement create an inclusive, multiracial coalition reflective of the Greater Milwaukee Area to effectively redress the legacy of racial segregation and advance housing justice in southeatern Wisconsin.
