This Saturday 10/1 we are working on the Shelter/Stage project at the Hermantown Community Learning Center 4333 Hawk Circle Drive starting at 9:00 AM and through the day. Bring hammers and drills. We hope to complete the project on Saturday.
This Friday, September 30th we will be back at the YMCA and our speaker will be Tara Gallagher from the Ronald McDonald House. Duties will be: Invocation - Stacy Johnson, Fellowship - Kevin Kalligher, and Greeter - Crystal Bowen. Russ mentioned that we may have a guest at our meeting who will need help with translation to Spanish language.
Next week October 7th we will be at the YMCA and our speaker will be Kelly Burger from the Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse. Duties will be: Invocation - Jodi May, Fellowship - Hugo Hietapelto, and Greeter - Adam Daoust. Garret has rescheduled Highway Cleanup for following the meeting. Please plan to help.
Upcoming Rock the Skyline Committee Zoom meetings will be tomorrow 9/28 at 4:00 and on 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, and 10/26.
Earl will bring Rotary Roses to our meeting on Friday, October 14th. Please buy roses and let Earl know if you would like him to deliver them to you on the 14th.
Last week's guest was Colton Suihkonen, and we were pleased to see Kent Oliver. Our speakers were Dr. Tom Morgan and Phil Anderson speaking on Setting Sail to End Nuclear Weapons. Our speakers were veterans who are now committed to Veterans for Peace. As Rotarians know and they said, " Peace is a lot more than the absence of war". We understand that all of our international service projects including polio inoculations are peace making.
Dr. Tom told the story of the Golden Rule, a 34 foot sailboat which attempted to sail to the Marshall Islands to oppose nuclear weapons testing. The boat was restored by Veterans for Peace and since 2015 has been sailing to promote abolition of nuclear weapons. The boat and crew is now on an 11,000 mile, 15 month tour. Phil described a number of nuclear explosion doomsday scenarios and talked about the enormous cost to the military budget to maintain and update our nuclear weapons that can never be used. "....the way to make sure [nuclear war] never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind." Gen. Omar Bradley
Even though at the end of the Cold war there were 75,000 nuclear weapons in the world and there are now 13,500 we are currently closer than we have ever been to nuclear war. Rotarians need to continue to work for peace.
September is Rotary Basic Education and Literacy Month.
Thought for the Week
“Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education"
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have scheduled recurring Zoom meetings for this Rotary year.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88055955851?pwd=RUVVN1RkK2duMW5RWlgzTmxRLzhxUT09
We will see you this Friday at the YMCA.
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