Paul Mooty, Don Hutchison and Jim Ryman were happy to be at the October 10th meeting along with 115 other Rotarians and their guests.
President Josh opened the meeting with the Rock and Roll M-TV video and went right into recapping the most successful Gala Event. $114,000 raised just in corporate sponsors (60 corporate sponsors). The grand total for this year’s fundraiser is the awesome amount of $214,000 dollars, unreal!!! President Josh thanked Gary Pedersen and Katy Campbell for running this successful Gala. Katy thanked all those involved with the fundraiser with key members: Heather Hansen: Silent Auction, Jon Barnett: Live Auction, Paul Mooty: Live Ask, and Tom Bach, Kip Peterson, and Marty Kupper: Raffle.
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New member, but not new to Rotary, Sandra Krebsbach was inducted and introduced to the club members.
Todays volunteers:
We were greeted by Sharon Chandler and Lisa Walker.
Front desk was handled by Steve Slyce.
Sonja Tengdin did the Invocation, Pledge and Four-way Test.
Sutton McGraw did Guest Introductions.
Brad Hepp reviewed the Fireside Chat dates: Oct. 21-25, see The Barker to sign up or check your email for an invite.
Wooj Byun introduced our newest member Sandra Krebsbach.
Sandra Krebsbach gave her classification talk. Welcome Sandra to the #1 Rotary group in the universe.
Steve Buettner introduced our student guests.
Jean Morrison gave Au Revoir for Dear Friend: Chrysanne Manoles.
Chrysanne is our first female member of Edina Rotary. Chrysanne is moving to Denver, Colorado with her kids Ruby and Max. Chrysanne, our club is a better place because of your membership and wish you the best in Denver.
Michael Stanzak introduced our speaker Commissioner Steve Grove.
Commissioner Grove heads up the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Originally from Northfield Minnesota, Commissioner Grove is focused on growing the state’s workforce, closing the opportunity gap and providing businesses with help they need to grow, stay and thrive in Minnesota. Commissioner Grove was previously an executive at Google for 12 years, most recently serving as the founding director of Google’s News Lab, a global division of the company that partners with media companies and startups to drive innovation in the news industry. Grove also led Google’s civic engagement work, including the company’s non-partisan voter information and get-out-the vote outreach efforts. Prior to all this he led YouTube’s first news and politics team, building a global partnership effort for political candidates, news organizations, nonprofits, and citizen journalists. Grove talked on three areas he is concentrating on: #1: workforce crisis in Minnesota, needing more people available for employers to hire, #2: increase of employment by color, and #3: getting Minnesota a national leader in tech.
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Jim Ryman, pictured here with Brad Hepp, thanked our speaker and President Josh ended the meeting just in time.
Lifetime friends lunch together almost every Thursday, Frank Cardarelle, Lloyd Pearson, and Dr. Harold Hanson
Scott Blake and Bonnie Rolstad