New Westside Principal Rachel Mader introduced herself to our club at the last Tuesday morning meeting of 2025. The club has a long standing, successful and much-valued reading assistance program at Westside, with the Principal and Reading Specialist playing important roles. Because your newsletter editor was not at the meeting, the usual summary is not possible; however, Rachel provided her very informative slides, which are available by clicking the link at the bottom of this Tidings. Rachel covered her family, hobbies, her professional journey, educational background, details about her role and duties as principal, and she concluded with a slide about the principles guiding the RFSD as part of the River Falls community.
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Direct Primary Care: Improving Access and Affordability for Medical Care -- Dr. Miller's presentation focused on how the US health care system became broken, why it has become unaffordable for many, and how the complexities of health care have created barrieers between physician and patient, and how direct primary care can address problems for patients. He showed how many DPC clinics are operating in the US, and he provided an overview of what a clinic such as his recently-established Cascade Primary Care can do to benefit both physicians and patients. Click the link to Greg's slides at the bottom of the Tidings to review his presentation, and click READ MORE to read about Dr. Miller.
Foundation to River Falls 2025: Here's a different story summary: Barbara Tischart's slides are available by clicking the link in Download Files below. Here's a guide to her excellent presentation.
Slides 2-4: how River Falls Rotary supports Foundation projects.
Slide 6: a reminder about our club's Jamaica solar power project in 2022-23.
Slides 7-11: How the RF works and some examples.
Slides 13-18: Encouragement to do more.
Slides 19-22: A 'scorecard' for 2023-24
Slide 23: A reminder about ways to give.
Slide 23: A reminder about ways to give.
On March 4th, we moved our Rotary meeting to Tattersall to hear City Administrator and River Falls Rotarian Scot Simpson update us on the state of the city. The "Back to the Future" theme was both entertaining and informative, and it gave us a lot to think about regarding where River Falls has come from as a city and where it's going.
Dr. Holly Dolliver presented an overview of the long history and role that UW-River Falls has played in Soil Science and Soil Science education. Using archival photos of some of the pioneers and major figures in the school's history, Dr. Dolliver took us through the development of soil science as an academic discipline. She talked about the undergraduate research, and professional development that her student do, as well as the successes of UWRF's national championship Soil Judging team. Click READ MORE to read about Dr. Dolliver. To see the photos Holly Dolliver provided, Click Download Files below.
