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Gift Wrapping Party
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 15, 2021
Club Meeting Information
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 14, 2021

We meet Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM at Newcastle Place, 12600 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon WI 53092. Our next meeting is 7:00 AM on Friday (12/17).

Note: Masks are not required in our dining area, but we are asked to wear masks from the front door to the dining room and back.

This week's program will be our annual Family Holiday Program wrapping party.

The 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:

  • Errol Barnett (12/17)
  • Scott Bern (1/7)
  • Bob Blazich (1/14)
  • John Cabaniss (1/21)

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

Visit our website at mtsunriserotary.org.
Thought of the Week
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 14, 2021

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.’ - Conan O’Brien
Pukaite Woods Buckthorn Removal
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 15, 2021

On Friday Dec. 17th several Rotarians along with Christine from OWLT will be removing buckthorn from Pukaite woods. We will start around 9 am and end at 1pm. If you can come out and help even if it is for an hour or two that would be great!

Bring work gloves we will supply the tools. 

David Schlageter
Send In the Goats
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 15, 2021

Just thought you all might like to know that our M-T Sunrise Rotary Demonstration Project with goats-on-buckthorn has made an environmental impact beyond our own Mequon Rotary Park.

Christine Bohn forwarded two recent news stories (below) noting that out use of goats is being used to convince Milwaukee County to consider using goats in their Park System; and we have also been told the Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewage District has budgeted money to use goats on invasive species in a number of that agency's properties throughout the watershed and District after observing the work of our goats in the Woods at Rotary Park.

As a Club, we should be feeling pretty good about our partnership with Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, the City of Mequon and our quiet-but-relentless environmental leadership in management of invasive plant species. And soon, we'll launch our efforts to promote Operation Pollination as well. Great work!!

Connie
Joint working group to study fire department merger
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 15, 2021

By Lisa Curtis - Special to the News Graphic

THIENSVILLLE — The memorandum of understanding being considered for a consolidated Mequon and Thiensville fire department calls for a joint working group to establish the necessary framework by which the two departments can merge into one.

The MOU was made public late last week as part of packets for the Thiensville Village Board, which met Monday night, and the Mequon Common Council, which meets at 7:30 p.m. today in the council chambers of Mequon City Hall. The Thiensville Village Board discussions occurred after the News Graphic deadline and will be covered in the Thursday paper.

Both communities, as well as those across Ozaukee County, have identified significant challenges in continuing to provide effective and efficient fire and EMS services, including current and future budget considerations and staffing constraints, according to data provided by each community.
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A Rotary LOL Moment
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 14, 2021

Frank and Ernest by Thaves
Community Spirit
Posted by Steve Lettau on Dec 15, 2021

by Brad Webber

Fearing for his safety, Than Hre, a student whose activism had attracted the attention of Myanmar’s military government, fled his homeland in 2000. He made his way from Hakha, the capital of the country’s mountainous Chin State, to Guam, where he would wait two years before securing permission to immigrate to the U.S. mainland. Hre eventually settled in Indiana, followed by his wife and young son. They joined thousands of other Burmese refugees, most of them Chin tribal people whose ancestors had converted to Christianity around the end of the 19th century, incurring enmity and persecution in their Buddhist-majority homeland.

In his new home, Hre relished his freedom to worship, assimilate, and prosper. He worked at a warehouse and ran a cleaning business. In 2008, he took over an Indian grocery store, stocking it with goods he knew would appeal to the Chin people living on the south side of Indianapolis — a population that has grown from a few hundred in the 1990s to more than 20,000 today. The store and Hre’s adjacent Chin Brothers restaurant now serve as a community hub for refugees in and around Southport — a city situated within the boundaries of Indianapolis that is at the heart of what the residents have dubbed “Chindianapolis.”
Online Version
Posted by Steve Lettau on Oct 27, 2021
Upcoming Speakers
Posted by Steve Lettau on Oct 27, 2021
Jan 14, 2022
Lori Lorenz - President MCF
Mequon Community Foundation
Mequon Community Foundation

Lori Lorenz, the president of Mequon Community Foundation (MCF), is excited to bring the most recent news of MCF to the Sunrise Rotary Club. MCF’s all-volunteer board has been helping enhance the quality of life in our community since 1999. Places you go and events you attend in the community often are recipients of MCF grants. Their impact is far and wide in the areas of recreation, education, culture, outdoor beautification, public safety and general public improvement.  

Lori will tell you about the impact MCF has had in the community and their plans for the future.  She also looks forward to engaging with you as to what you would like to see in our community going forward and how you can get involved in seeing those dreams become a reality.

Lori started her new role as president in May 2021, having served as treasurer of MCF since 2017. As a retired CPA (Arthur Andersen/RSM McGladrey), Lori is passionate about serving others through the Mequon Community Foundation, Fox Point Lutheran Church, the UW-Whitewater Foundation Board, Gems of Hope WI Executive Board and other organizations.  She also volunteers as an accounting consultant for local start-ups and non- profits.

Lori and her husband, Eric, are Wisconsin natives and moved to Mequon in 1984. Although work took them out of the area from 1998-2008, they could not wait to return in 2009 and have been enjoying the new amenities continually being added to their lovely city of Mequon since then. 

In addition to her volunteer work, Lori enjoys golfing, tennis, hiking, boating up north and spending time with her three married children and four beautiful grandchildren.

To find out more about the Mequon Community Foundation, please go to www.mcfgives.org.
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