Our meeting for 9/4 will be at River Barn Park - Sommer Pavilion. Our guest speaker will be Justice Michael Gableman from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The greeter will provide either the thought, rotary minute or anything they would like to share to start off the day positive. Mark Hauschel you are up to bat.
Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:
Diana Hetzel - (9/11)
Dave Jackson (9/18)
Note: If you are unable to to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
From 2 to 8 July, I led my club’s second H2OpenDoors expedition to central Mexico. The three-year-old Rotary project provides SunSpring water purification systems for poor villages and schools and allows the villages to sell the surplus water from the systems.
The project touches on several of Rotary’s areas of focus: providing clean water, building peace (by combating poverty), and educating youth.
We bring along a dozen or so students, as well as a few teachers, so they can see how a simple idea can become a project and benefit thousands of people. We hope the students return to their schools empowered to make a difference.
When Mariana Day moved in 1989 to the small beach town of Chacala, in Nayarit, Mexico, she noticed that the surrounding rural areas struggled to maintain schools. And most children weren’t able to go beyond an eighth-grade education. Day, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Bahía de Jaltemba-La Peñita, in Nayarit, had started a local scholarship program before she joined Rotary. Called Changing Lives, the program provided students with high school tuition, uniforms, school supplies, and transportation.
In addition, Rotary clubs from the United States and Mexico have been investing in the education of children in Nayarit since 2003, providing scholarships and libraries and rehabbing school buildings.
Large medical office building proposed in Mequon By Jeff Rumage
Mequon - A developer is planning to build a three-story, 86,000-square-foot medical office building in Mequon next year.
The medical office building, which is valued at $21 million, would be built at the northeast corner of Port Washington Road and Venture Court. The building would be 47 feet tall, which is within the city's zoning code.
The three-building Venture Court retail complex would be razed to make way for the building, which would also occupy undeveloped land to the north. The Venture Court complex, which includes Wooden Goose Cafe and other businesses, has had numerous vacancies in recent years.
The city's zoning code allows medical offices no larger than 20,000 square feet, so developer Ryan Companies is using the city's planned unit development process to build the larger building. Ryan is proposing to break ground in the spring of 2016, with the first medical groups opening in late 2016.
The Mequon Plan Commission on Monday, Aug. 31, voted in favor of the concept plan and rezoning the property. Final approval is still needed from the Mequon Common Council.
Ryan has not revealed the name of the building's tenants, but told city officials the building will be used for medical, rehabilitation and wellness services. The building will not include ambulatory service, urgent care or overnight stays.
The building is expected to include specialty services such as patient consolation rooms, x-ray services and a 9,600-square-foot physical rehabilitation space. The two-story open space will allow patients to run, throw and perform other activities related to their rehabilitation.
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