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 (8/14).

Our program this week will feature Keith Streicher. Keith is the Director the Veterans Upward Bound program at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. (Scroll down for bio)

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:

• Lance Parve (8/14)
• Steve Peterman (8/21)
• Connie Pukaite (8/28)
• Diana Raasch (9/4)

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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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. - Bill Vaughan

The Mequon-Thiensville School District (MTSD) has developed an operational plan detailing the ability to provide families with the option of on campus or distance learning. On campus instruction would include maximum physical distancing throughout school buildings, while the amount of contacts an individual has with others would be based on data derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Families are asked to declare their intent for their child(ren) to attend school on campus or via distance learning through an addendum to enrollment later this week. To further inform the plan, all on campus and distance learning provided this school year will be implemented using the district’s new learning management system - a platform that will allow teachers to manage and organize lessons online.

According to the plan, at times throughout the school year, a hybrid instructional model (a combination of both on campus and distance learning) may be considered for some or all grade levels when positive cases of COVID-19 are identified within the system.

MTSD informed families last week of mitigation procedures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including the implementation of face coverings, physical distancing, self-monitoring and screening, hand washing/hand sanitizing, and cleaning and disinfecting practices.

As MTSD monitors external and internal factors relating to local COVID-19 data, it is expected that instructional scenarios and operating procedures will change. For the most up to date information about MTSD's responsible return to the 2020-2021 school year, click button below.

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

By Bob Tomlinson, president of the Rotary Club of Kirkintilloch, Scotland

The COVID-19 pandemic is horrifying. The lives lost are not just statistics. Each death is a life cut short and a family and friends left grieving. This reality is something we must never forget. Our way of life has been profoundly challenged.

For organizations, such as Rotary, a common question asked is: “what will Rotary be like if we survive this?” The questioner invariably makes the addendum, “We’ve never been through anything like this before.” As individuals, very few of us have been through anything like this. But Rotary International has, several times, and came through to the other side — 1918 Spanish Flu, the Great Depression of the 1930’s, World War II, Korean and Vietnam wars, etc.

This is the account of how one club is working to survive.

My club, the Rotary Club of Kirkintilloch in Scotland, meets every Tuesday night at the town’s golf club. Rotarians started meeting in Kirkintilloch in 1953, a few hundred meters from the site of a Roman fort built in 142 A.D. which marks the northernmost point of the Roman Empire. After only 20 years, the Romans pulled out. Now tourists come to Kirkintilloch to see the remains of the Antonine Wall.

On the last Tuesday club meeting of February, the world was talking about a virus coming our way, but we knew the health service would deal with it. We arranged for our usual Saturday food collection to donate to households on the breadline, something we did three of four times a year. We had no idea what was ahead of us.

We had six new members in the club and their membership reduced the average age by a good margin. They helped at the food collection. Everyone in the club has a title. Our “transport manager” owns a road building company. He provides a truck for us to carry the donated food for distribution. He said two things that day that brought silence. “Don’t shake my hand” and “I’m just back from Italy and going into isolation!”