ROTARY Newsletter May 3 2024 (May 03, 2024)

Posted by Jim DeLillo on May 17, 2024

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

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Where: We meet at the Mequon Public Market, 6300 W Mequon Rd, Mequon, WI 53092; (Entrance in rear.)

Next scheduled meeting 5/17/2024

Club Assembly, Fund Raiser follow up

At our meetings, the Greeter will provide either the thought, a Rotary minute, share a family moment or a cultural tradition ... anything with which they would like to start off the day positive.

Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:

Jennifer Quinnies (5/17/2024)
Janet Ransdell (5/24/2024)
David Schlageter (5/31/2024)
Alice Sedgwick (6/7/2024)

Note: If you cannot act as an "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled, please arrange for your replacement.

United Soccer Club Run
Walk

Saturday, May 4 from 11 or 11:30 to 1 pm at Rotary Park.

I'm looking for a few Rotarian Volunteers for just a couple of hours

Here's the deal:

The Northshore United Soccer Club, which serves primarily kids from Mequon, Thiensville, Cedarburg, is putting on a small Run/Walk around Rotary Park and through the Woods,

and they need help to keep Walkers/Runners on track through the meandering race trail and safe from vehicular traffic entering the park.

It will be especially helpful if we can recruit Rotary volunteers with bright yellow 'Rotarians at Work' safety vests. They will stand out!! (and I have a supply of vests!!)

While the actual Walk-Run starts at noon, the organizers (led by the primary organizer - a 14 year old girl who is raising funds to make sure all her teammates can travel with the Team even if their families are strapped for funds ) will need volunteers to show up Saturday at the Rotary Pavilion in Rotary Park between 11 and 11:30 a.m. ... hopefully before most of the 100 registered Runners/Walkers show up so the organizers will be able to explain where they want volunteers to stage themselves. Rotary Volunteers will likely be done by 1 p.m.

As I understand it, the organizers plan to put barricades at the West entrance at Highland Road, so they'll need volunteers at that barricade to direct motorists east to enter the Park, park their vehicles on the west side and walk back over to the Rotary Pavilion to register and que up for the start of the Run/Walk.
The Run/Walk will move from Rotary Pavilion south on the entrance driveway to the south end of the Park, move east to the east entrance, and then north on the pavement to trails into the Woods.
When the Run/Walk begins, they will need volunteers also on the Park's east entrance to slow vehicles entering the drive to protect Runners/Walkers who will be moving north on the paved area. Volunteers need to keep the Runners/Walkers separate from cars on the west side for everyone's safety.
The organizers will also need volunteers at a number of specific spots along the meandering race-trail through the Woods and Park to keep people on track.

The expectation is that even the slowest walker will have pretty much completed the course by 1 p.m., and most of the Rotary-vested volunteers will be free to leave ... though they're also invited to stay around and socialize around a number of Food Trucks that will be stationed in the parking lot of the Rotary Pavilion by 1 pm.

The organizers expect between 200 and 300 people ... maybe more for socializing through the afternoon. This is a great opportunity for Rotarians to demonstrate how much a part of the community we are ... and how much fun it would be to JOIN ROTARY!!

Please send me an email at pukaite@sbcglobal.net if you think you can volunteer a couple of hours on Saturday.

Thanks for considering the opportunity!!

Connie Pukaite

Mystery Tour

Saturday May 18th

Mystery tour starting at 9:00 a.m.

Please meet outside the Mequon Public Market.

Please allow an hour and a half for the tour.

Coffee and pastries are provided.

RSVP is encouraged but not required. Just show up! To Scott Bern <scottbern63@gmail.com>

AFS thanks

Thank you Bob and Sunrise Rotary Club for hosting AFS at your meeting!

Everyone was so welcoming and the breakfast was delicious. I

I’ve never seen our students quite so high energy in their presenting as they were today and I think they were feeding off the attentiveness and enthusiasm of your group.

(And at that early hour! - LOL!)

I apologize for going long. I think a couple of students may have used their longer chapter presentation instead of their shorter school presentation as I instructed - sometimes details are lost on teenagers I guess. So thank you for accommodating them and to everyone for being so gracious with their time.

Stacey Bodi

district changing of the guard

District 6270 Changing of the Guard!

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Jun. 06, 2024 5:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Chandelier Ballroom

150 Jefferson Avenue Hartford, WI

Join us for an inspiring evening! All Rotarians, Rotaractors, and their spouses/significant others are invited join us to celebrate the accomplishments of the 2023-24 Rotary year under the leadership of District Governor Don Griffing and look ahead to 2024-25 with Pete Bosch as our new District Governor!

Meme of the week

Posted by Jim DeLillo on May 03, 2024

Please RSVP to swhalen22@sbcglobal.net

MT Sunrise Rotary Club

Friendship Feast Dinner on Thursday, May 16^th

Lime Cantina

W62N550 Washington Ave

Cedarburg, wI

5:30 cocktails
6-8 buffet dinner

$30 per person

May 24, 2024

Deb Andraca

Wi. Election Maps

May 31, 2024

Steve Bloom

Leukemia Foundation

Jun 14, 2024

Dave Kliber

Bike Trip in Europe

Jun 21, 2024

No Meeting

Changing of the Guard

Jul 12, 2024

Brian Kendzor

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Member Birthdays

Kurt Zellmann

May 6

Dean Johnson

May 11

Janet Ransdell

May 17

Dave Kliber

May 22

Lance Parve

May 30

Join Date

Wally Sommer

May 1, 1994

30 years

Jo Ann Vetter

May 3, 2016

8 years

Carol Wessels

May 11, 2019

5 years

Michael Kim

May 24, 2006

18 years

Benjamin Zang

May 27, 2022

2 years

Chuck Zamora

May 27, 2005

19 years