We hope that you'll be able to join us at our Oktoberfest celebration. To be held at the new Foxtown Annex, we'll have food, beer, polka music, best costume contest and more!

OKTOBERFEST

Thursday, October 7, 2021
A fundraiser to benefit the Gathering on the Green Music Together and Scholarship Program
5:00 pm - 8:00pm
Polka Music by The Tom Brusky Band
Costume Contest

Ticket package options:

The Sampler - $50 (plus fees and sales tax):  4 tasting pours, appetizers, and a commemorative 5oz Tasting Glass 

The Full Glass - $65 (plus fees and sales tax):  the sampler package PLUS 2 full pour beers, and a cave tour of Foxtown Brewing beer caves (tours limited in size and will require time reservation)

Foxtown Brewing, 6411 W Mequon Road, Mequon, WI 54092

Gathering on the Green - a 501(c)(3) Non Profit Corporation

Rene serenades Mike "Birthday Boy" Kim. Photo by Bob Blazich.

Rotary is forging a path to full literacy in India

by Vanessa Glavinskas

Long before he became Rotary International’s president, Shekhar Mehta was known for setting ambitious goals.

His reputation for successfully tackling difficult problems is why, in 2014, former RI president Kalyan Banerjee asked him to lead an effort to make India fully literate — a goal that has eluded the Indian government as well as many NGOs.

“I realized making a country literate is no easy task,” says Mehta, who defines full literacy as an overall rate of 95 percent or above for those aged 7 and up. (The government of India estimates India’s current literacy rate among that group at 78 percent.) “But I strongly believe in Gandhi’s view that if you find the goal, the means will follow.’”

An accountant and real estate developer, Mehta didn’t enter the endeavor with any experience in education. “I had no clue, no background in education at all,” he says. He spent about nine months learning from experts before founding the Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM), a nonprofit that aims to strengthen and standardize Rotary clubs’ literacy initiatives across India.