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 (7/31).
Our program this week will be our annual Changing of the Guard.
This combination live and virtual event will take place at the Thiensville City Hall (250 Elm St, Thiensville, WI 53092) with masks and social distancing procedures being followed. The meeting will also be on Zoom.
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:
Rachel Newson (7/31)
Dan O'Connor (8/7)
Lance Parve (8/14)
Steve Peterman (8/21)
Note: If you are unable to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.
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August 2020: Rotarians connect people , transform communities, and solve problems. Our causes include promote peace, support education, grow local economies. The Mequon-Thiensville Sunrise Rotary Club will continue our commitment to fairness and justice . We are listening and are ready to adapt drawing upon our core values of service, fellowship, diversity, integrity, and leadership serving others and making communities better through that service.
We echo the words of Rotary International, who issued these statements:
At Rotary, we have no tolerance for racism. Promoting respect, celebrating diversity, demanding ethical leadership, and working tirelessly to advance peace are central tenets of our work. We have more work to do to create more just, open, and welcoming communities for all people. We know there are no easy fixes and that challenging conversations and work lie before all of us. Rotary’s strength has long been our ability and commitment to bringing people together. We will tap into that strength now as we stand with those who are working for peace and justice. Rotary will do our part to listen, learn and take action to ensure that we continue to make positive change.
As a global network that strives to build a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change. Rotary values diversity and celebrates the contributions of people of all backgrounds, regardless of their age, ethnicity, race, color, abilities, religion, socioeconomic status, culture, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Rotary will cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture in which people from underrepresented groups have greater opportunities to participate as members and leaders. Making diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority is everyone’s responsibility.
For the first time since he was an adolescent probably, Dave Keel’s schedule will be wide open in the fall.
Keel, who spent the past 30 seasons as the head football coach at Homestead, resigned Friday, ending a career that included 292 victories, an .807 winning percentage and six state championships.
The news came one day after the WIAA pushed the start of football practice from Aug. 3 to Sept. 7 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Keel’s departure was first reported Friday by Travis Wilson of the Wisconsin Sports Network and later confirmed by Homestead athletic director Erich Hinterstocker.
Saturday Keel, 66, said he had considered retiring for the past few years and noted that the uncertainly of the upcoming season due to the pandemic played a role.
“I think it just made sense to step away now,” he said. “It’s a good time all in all for the program and the kids and for our family.”
Keel's three-decade run at Homestead made him the second-longest tenured coach at his current school in southeast Wisconsin behind Bill Young, who has been at Catholic Memorial for 42 years.
A Milwaukee Hamilton graduate who played at UW-La Crosse, Keel started his career as an assistant to Phil Datka at Germantown and came to Homestead in 1979. He succeeded John Brodie as head coach in 1989.
Keel led Homestead to the state final seven times and won in 1999, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015 and 2018. His teams had a string of 18 straight North Shore Conference titles that was snapped last season.
Keel leaves with a record of 292-70 and ranks 10th all-time in the state in coaching victories. The Wisconsin Football Coaches Association inducted him into its hall of fame in 2012.
As news of Keel’s departure spread, he said heard from a many former players and colleagues.
“I wish I had a nickel for every former player that or coach that has been part of our program who contacted me and wished well and said good things about their experience in our program and how much they appreciated what they learned in the Homestead football program and how the Homestead football program has helped them to become a better person,” Keel said. “It’s been overwhelmingly heart warming.”
By Michelle Davis, past president of the Rotary Club of New Albany, Ohio, USA, and an assistant governor in District 6690
Wash your hands. Wear face masks. Self-quarantine. COVID-19. Pandemic. Whoever thought these phrases or words would become part of our everyday life!
As a Rotarian, I know we are “problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change.” When our District 6690 leaders communicated an opportunity to use a district grant in response to the global COVID-19 crisis, I knew we needed to jump in. But how? What impact could we make in our community using a district grant?
The Rotary Club of New Albany, Ohio, proceeded to submit a grant proposal to purchase a 3-D printer for Form5 Prosthetics to increase their production of the re-usable face shields for first responders and medical professionals. Form5 Prosthetics is no ordinary non-profit organization. The young CEO and innovator, Aaron Westbrook, was a newly inducted Rotarian with big ideas and a big heart. Form5 is also near and dear to the hearts of our community.
In true Rotary fashion as People of Action, our club rallied to not only respond to the pandemic but to also support one of our own. I’ll let Aaron tell the rest of the story:
Although I have only been a Rotarian for about four months, I feel like I have been a Rotarian my entire life. I have always had the heart to serve others and to give to my community. I was inducted roughly two weeks before COVID-19. I made it one of my goals for 2020 to serve my community in a new way, beyond my work at Form5 Prosthetics. I believe that Rotary is the way to connect those with voices in your community – “the do-gooders” — and together make a collective impact, especially in a time of need. And that’s exactly what Rotary has proven to be for me.
That collective impact is something that inspires me to get up in the morning and drives me late into the night working. It is what has made all the impossible things in my life possible. As following executive orders, health guidelines, and stay-at-home orders became our normal, our team at Form5 could not help but follow the innovation happening overseas by makers and engineers stepping up to provide PPE in a dire shortage. In just four days, our board and committee members designed and 3-D printed a re-usable face shield to protect the eyes and airways of those on the front lines of the pandemic.
Three months later, we have now produced 5,000 face shields with a goal of 10,000 to donate to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We pivoted our work to print our face shield design – leveraging our creativity, passion, and idle printers due to not being able to work with recipients. This expansion of our impact could not have been possible without community organizations like The Columbus Foundation and The Rotary Club of New Albany, Ohio, and others that funded our production of face shields – providing additional 3D printers, materials, supplies, etc.
The health and safety of our team, recipients, and volunteers remain at the forefront of our work going forward and we have been mindful of the service of our Rotarians in our face shield production.
We were happy to begin pick-up and drop-offs of supplies in June – allowing Rotarians to assemble shields and bring back to Form5 to sterilize and distribute to those on the front lines.
The Rotary Vision is more than just a statement – it is who we are! “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.”
Lisa Hare is the Program Manager for Customer Experience & Performance Excellence, a Froedtert Health department designed to create exceptional patient and customer experiences through coaching and training of evidence based communication best practices. In 2013, Froedtert transitioned from an external service coach to a new internal team called Performance Excellence.
She developed her coaching skill set and was trained and validated through this external coach and was a founding member of the Performance Excellence team. This past November she celebrated 15 years with the organization. Lisa is a trained LifeXT coach; a science based program designed to help improve wellbeing, eliminate burnout, increase resiliency to stress, increase focus and promote teamwork. She is a gifted presenter and loves to connect or reconnect people back to purpose. She prides herself on her ability to inspire and enjoys working with Froedtert Health partners in the community.
Lisa completed her Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and Administration in December 2018, with a focus on mindfulness in leadership, a topic she is very passionate about.
