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Club Meeting Information

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 (12/11).

Our meeting this week will feature Mike Wroblewski. Mike is the co-owner of Fiddleheads Coffee. (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:

  • Ryan Walsh (12/11)
  • Bill Wandsnider (12/18)
  • Carol Wessels (1/8)
  • Matt Wolf (1/15)

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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While some are familiar with Zoom, there are others for which this will be an opportunity to experience something new

Helpful Resources:

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)

  1. Device connected to the internet - Check
  2. Zoom app installed on your device - Check
  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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Password: 808986

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Thought of the Week

The strongest people are the ones who fight battles that nobody knows about - Unknown

In a time of social upheaval, where should America go?

Chicago Rotarian Xavier Ramey says the key to creating an equitable society is understanding where we’ve been

by Bryan Smith Photography by Frank Ishman in The Rotarian Magazine 

Wearing a dark suit, a white shirt, and a blue tie held in place by a silver clasp, the young man walked onto the stage, flashed a disarming smile, and introduced himself to the 24,000 people assembled there. “My name is Xavier Ramey,” he said, “and I bring you greetings from the wonderful city of Chicago, Illinois.” A smattering of cheers followed, and then the young man launched into an oration that would be one of the most powerful, persuasive, and memorable speeches at the 2018 Rotary International Convention in Toronto — an event that, among its speakers, included Justin Trudeau, the charismatic prime minister of Canada.

Over the next quarter of an hour, Ramey alluded to the Book of Esther (“we were created for a time such as this”), quoted from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail (“we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality”), and invoked what he called “the first step in [Rotary’s] four-step process to building peace”: Is it true?

But the speech was also grounded in the personal. The words from the Old Testament, he said, could be found in “the Bible that my grandmother Eudora Ramey used to read to me.” The moral code he lived by — which emphasized the importance of “acknowledging not only other people’s pain, but where it came from” — sprang from boyhood lessons he learned from his mother, Airetta. And, as Ramey explained, his firsthand understanding of life’s inequities came from living in a city that King — who lived for several months in the same Chicago neighborhood where Ramey grew up — claimed “had deeper racism than he had ever seen in his life.”

A Rotary LOL Moment

Peanuts by Charles Schulz

Santa's Helpers

 

Some of the residents at Newcastle Place wrapping the Hanukkah gifts this morning. A special thank you to Jennifer Sutherland for all she has done to make this program a success.

Online Version
Upcoming Speakers
Dec 18, 2020
Meaningful Conversations
Meaningful Conversations

We continue a series of meaningful conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This Friday, December 18, we will have most of the meeting time for Meaningful  Conversations in small groups and we will also have large group sharing. This will be another  opportunity to continue to listen and learn from each other. The groups will be facilitated.by your fellow Rotarians. They are ready, willing, and able to showcase the rigorous training they have received.

Our team of your fellow Rotarians have been planning these sessions and our goal is that through meaningful conversations we will experience growth, gain deeper understanding, and renew our commitment to fairness and justice.

A Rotarian member of our team will guide each conversation within small groups of  4-5 people.   Small groups will feedback appropriate and significant information to the whole group.

What can you do to get the most out of each conversation ?

  • Look forward to an exciting, encouraging, insightful experience.
  • Review the Rotary Statement on racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion found in our web page.
  • View recommended  videos, listed below, before or after our conversations.  They will provide background and  information to help us in making our conversations meaningful.
  • Actively listen and participate in each conversation with your fellow Rotarians

Videos

Uncomfortable conversations with a black man. https://uncomfortableconvos.com/episode/episode-1

Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them. Click Here

Jan 08, 2021
Classification Talk
Jan 15, 2021
The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luhther King
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