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 (6/26).

Our virtual program will feature Andra Watkins a New York Times Best Selling Author who will talk about her book Not Without My Father. (See bio below) 

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:

• Tom Martin (6/26)
• Mike Meinolf (7/3)
• Brian Monroe (7/10)
• Andy Moss (7/17)

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

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

Helpful Resources:

• Joining a Meeting Instructional Video: Click Here
• Join a Test Meeting: Click Here

It's as easy as one-two-three. Honest! (You may want to check off the first two steps in advance of the meeting start time)

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3. Click "Join Meeting" button below - Check

The “waiting room” will open at 6:50 AM with our meeting starting at 7:00 AM. Attendees should mute themselves when not speaking, or if they have background noise. Attendees can communicate with one another through the “Chat” icon. Click button below to join our Zoom meeting!

Hope to see you Friday!

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CEDARBURG — The Cedarburg Art Museum’s exhibition “Remembering Cedarburg’s Historic Mills” is open to the public now through Aug. 30. As earlier presented in the first of this series, a generous benefactor of the museum provided a gift to commission five artists to create artworks of area mills. This article focuses on the artworks by Lynne Ruehl and Benjamin Sloma who created paintings of the Concordia Mill and the Excelsior Mill, respectively.

Lynne Ruehl of Cedarburg has always been interested in local history. As a retired teacher, she would often give tours to make Cedarburg history come alive for school children. “The growth of Cedarburg was truly due to Cedar Creek and the development of its mills,” she said. “I was drawn to the rural and tranquil location of the Concordia Mill. My great, great grandparents emigrated from Luxembourg and purchased a farm in Grafton in 1858. I could just visualize them traveling in a wagon along quiet dirt roads to a grist mill such as the Concordia Mill.”

For her commissioned project, Ruehl referred to a black-and-white, historic photo of the Concordia Mill built in 1853. She would often visit the site on Green Bay Road in Hamilton to refer to the construction details. She observed that corners of the building went up with smoothly dressed stones and stone rubble was filled in elsewhere. While Lynne is known for her watercolor landscapes, sometimes with landmark buildings, she found the Concordia Mill a pleasant challenge to represent with watercolor because of its varying stonework.

Benjamin Sloma won the commission to recreate the Excelsior Mill. This mill was originally constructed of stone as a water-powered sawmill and flour mill in 1871. The mill is still located along Cedar Creek near Columbia Road, east of the Cedarburg city limits. There were additions built of wood by 1875, but most of these framed buildings were consumed by fire in 1888 and the remains were purchased in 1890 by John Weber.

Dilbert by Scott Adams

By Ekaterina Tashlykova, secretary, and Julia Fedeneva, president-elect, Rotary Club of Novosibirsk-Initiative, Russia

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of our self-awareness. Virtual meetings are now common, but what about doing service projects? Can these be virtual too? As a club, we explored this idea with our first service project since the pandemic hit.

As a doctor, I am in touch with a lot of essential medical workers. These men and women are on the front lines, battling to keep us healthy and alive. They risk their own health and hardly see their families to provide us with high-quality, timely medical care. Many of them work in hospitals that have a shortage of protective supplies. The facilities do not have enough masks, gloves, or antiseptics to keep them protected from the virus.

We decided to focus our attention on donating masks to these hospitals, and created two plans.

First, we connected with women who were currently on maternity leave who were sewing masks for multiple purposes. We found people who could supply us with textile and elastic bands, and worked out the logistics for delivering more than 1,000 masks to 10 area hospitals.

Second, we raised money to buy more masks. We were able to secure a discount on masks that were more comfortable and ecological. We let the community know what we were doing, and when they found out, many people donated to our cause.

After that, we decided we wanted to help kindergartens that were still in operation through these times. We provided them with sanitizers and masks. The teachers, many of whom were in a state of anxiety over the threat of contracting the virus, were delighted to receive our help.

Now we are organizing a children’s art project to show our support for the doctor’s working on the front lines.

So the answer to our question was yes, service is possible virtually. What can you do to help?

By Eddee Daniel, with input from Ozaukee Washington Land Trust

The goats arrive at Mequon Rotary Park in a large silver livestock trailer. All 38 of them stand inside waiting quietly, patiently, but alert with anticipation. They’ve been through this before. It is new to me, however, and I also wait with eager anticipation.

I had watched as the crew strung temporary fencing to contain the goats. The trail leading into Rotary Pukaite Woods Nature Preserve was lined with fencing that led into the woods to a one-acre paddock within which they would be free to roam. A dense thicket of buckthorn filled the paddock. It doesn’t take long to understand the need for the fencing!