May 5, 2021 (May 05, 2021)

Rotary Minute Plus Insurance for the 2020-21 Rotary year ending June 30, 2021, will take a little different form this year. As necessary background, over the years there have been donations to The Rotary Foundation in the club’s name but not submitted in the name of a specific donor. That has allowed our club to accumulate what our called Foundation Recognition Points, one point for each dollar given and not identified to a specific person. Those Donor Recognition Points now total 25,In honor of our Club’s 100^th Anniversary and to encourage continued giving to The Rotary Foundation, our Board is issuing a challenge to every club member to give at least $95 to Rotary Minute Plus Insurance by June 30, 2021, up from $92.50 the last several years. In exchange for this donation and a member’s commitment to continue to support our efforts through Rotary Minute Plus Insurance on an annual basis, the Club will make available to every such member 500 of its Rotary Foundation Recognition Points. This will result in all members of our club becoming a Paul Harris Fellow[1], or if already a Fellow, that member receiving additional points toward the next level of recognition as a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow. Through this process we will achieve the goal of every member being a Paul Harris Fellow in our 100^th anniversary year. We are also hoping to recognize a huge new influx of Paul Harris Fellows at every level of giving at our centennial celebration next September.

With your $95 donation, the Club will also give another $105 in cash in your name in addition to the 500 Recognition Points. The total of $200 will be used as follows: $100.00 to the Annual Fund of The Rotary Foundation (down from $130.00 the previous years), $50.00 to PolioPlus and $50.00 to our Centennial project, the Splash Pad. This will ensure that our Club continues its two-year tradition of Every Rotarian Every Year (an average of $100 given to the Annual Fund of the Rotary Foundation with each member giving at least $25), effectively result in $150 per member for polio eradication (with the $2 for every $1 given from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and further support our 100^th anniversary project.

If you have any questions about this year’s Rotary Minute Plus Insurance, contact Bob Russell at robert@russelllawoffice.com or on his cell, 218-205-6944.

Thank you for your continued support of Rotary and out Club!

[1] There are four members who would not quite make it to Paul Harris Fellow status and for those four the Club will give a total of an additional 410 in Foundation Recognition Points to they too can become Paul Harris Fellows.