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Club Meeting Information

When: We meet Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM.

Where: Our next meeting is Friday (7/1) will be at the Mequon Public Market, 6300 W Mequon Rd, Mequon, WI 53092.

Program: Our program this Friday TBD.

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:

  • Dave Schlageter (7/1)
  • Alice Sedgwick (7/8)
  • Rene Settle-Robinson (7/15)
  • Cindy Shaffer (7/22)

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.

Laura Schlageter Presented Family and Community Service Award

The following is from the nomination document submitted by Lynn Streeter.

This award was created to recognize those that provide significant support to our Club, often behind the scenes. In particular in the creation of this award, we thought of those family members of Rotarians that put forward significant effort on behalf of the Club and are our unseen, unsung heroes!

Well, I have found one of those heroes and she is Laura Schlageter. If you watch closely, you will notice Laura’s presence at so many of our Club activities. Let me give you a few examples: Laura participates in many of our work days at the park, she helps with the goats, she is with us from beginning to end on those cold days when we walk in the woods. Laura took the lead in decorating the River Club for our highly successful international fund-raising event. Some of you will remember our Club’s kayaking event that ended with a cook out in the Schlageter’s back yard. 

You may or may not notice that Laura is the “second car” for many of our events. She stays behind and waits for Dave’s call: “we need more clippers or loppers at the park” and most recently “we need a bucket and cleaning supplies for our alumni dinner”. Then Laura arrives in the “second car” with whatever we need.

Laura is the perfect example of why our Club selected this award. I hope that you share my thoughts and gratitude and will honor Laura with the Family and community Service award.

Thought of the Week

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving faster than you is a maniac, and anyone going slower than you is a moron? - George Carlin

Cedarburg Strawberry Festival June 25 & 26
Changing of the Guard 2022
5 ways to help on World Refugee Day
 

By Quentin Wodon, Chair of the Rotary Action Group for Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Migration

UNHCR estimates that there are more than 100 million forcibly displaced people globally. The number rose to 89 million by the end of 2021 according to the latest report on global displacement, released a few days ago. But since then, apart from crises elsewhere in the world, eight million people were displaced in Ukraine and six million became refugees in other countries.

Rotarians and Rotaractors have stepped up to respond to the crisis in Ukraine. Through April 2022, donations to the Disaster Response Fund were allocated for humanitarian aid to support Ukrainian refugees and communities impacted by the war, with more than $15 million raised. At the time of writing this post, The Rotary Foundation has supported 138 disaster response grants through $4.2 million allocated across 27 countries. Districts can continue to apply for these grants to support communities impacted by the war throughout 2022.

20 June is World Refugee Day. The annual observance honors the strength and resilience of refugees. Celebrations first started in Africa, with the United Nations later adopting a resolution for the Day in 2001, during the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention on Refugees. Issues related to refugees, forced displacement, and migration are here to stay, with climate change likely to bring additional stress. Here are five simple ways through which Rotary members, our clubs, and our districts can help:

  • Raise awareness and advocate. In many areas of the world, support available to refugees, forcibly displaced persons, and migrants is inadequate. Rotarians and Rotaractors can help raise awareness of their plight and advocate for humane policies and humanitarian assistance, as well as longer-term investments through education and employment opportunities. Clubs can allocate one or more meetings to discuss ways for their members to engage. You can:
    • Invite refugees and migrants as speakers, or agencies who work directly with newcomers; 
    • Organize events in collaboration with newcomers and resettlement agencies in your community; 
    • Explore partnership opportunities with immigration resettlement agencies. 

As just one example, thanks to a member of my club who teaches at a university, the university made two full scholarships plus housing available to Afghan women. This type of advocacy makes a difference! 

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A Rotary LOL Moment

Frank and Ernest by Thaves

Melodies and memories

The good things music does for aging brains

by Kate Silver 

Carol Rosenstein was watching her husband, Irwin, slip away inch by inch.

At one time he had been a brilliant lawyer, a lover of Broadway musicals, a world traveler. But after his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 2006, he developed dementia, and slowly everything changed. His gait flattened to a shuffle. The sparkle in his eyes turned into a blank stare. His mood soured. Worsening matters, the medications he took caused hallucinations and extreme agitation. As communication grew more challenging, Carol felt the distance between them growing.

Then, in 2014, something happened. Irwin, who had been a gifted pianist since childhood, sat down at the piano and began to play.  As his fingers floated through American classics like “Fly Me to the Moon,” “What a Wonderful World,” and “Try to Remember,” Carol saw his posture straighten. The sparkle returned to his eyes. The husband she once knew came back, bit by bit, if only briefly. “I could see this human being resurrect and start to reconnect with his environment,” she says, “just like I had given him a dose of medication.”

Mystified, she called his neurologist and asked what was happening. “He said, ‘Carol, you are watching the power of music, changing brain chemistry.’” 

That statement would go on to change not only their lives but the lives of countless others. 

Music, it turns out, is medicine for the mind.

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Jul 08, 2022
OZ County Parks
OZ County Parks

Andrew Struck has a M.S. in Applied Ecology/Regional Planning from Indiana University – Bloomington, a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and more than 20 years of planning and restoration experience.

He is the Director of the Planning and Parks Department for Ozaukee County and specializes in regional planning, natural resource planning, management, protection and restoration, education, park and open space design and implementation. He has lead collaborations with numerous governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations and private sector firms on planning and natural resource design, management, protection, education and restoration projects including: the USEPA, NOAA, USFWS, USFS, WDNR, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, WisDOT, NFWF, and other conservation organizations.

He is the Program Director and main point of contact for the Ozaukee Fish Passage Program and currently serves as a member of the WDNR Fish and Wildlife Technical Team and Citizen Advisory Committee Leadership Team for the Milwaukee River Estuary AOC. Andrew also served as Program Director for the nationally recognized, USEPA-funded sustainable brownfield redevelopment of the Menomonee River Valley in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Andrew serves on several planning and environmental nonprofit organizations Board of Directors including officer positions (e.g., President, Treasurer, etc) and received the Conservationist of the Year award from Gathering Waters in 2013.

Jul 15, 2022
Harnessing the Power of our Transformational Will
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