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President Lori called the meeting to order and welcomed our guests, Exchange Student Lulie and visiting morning Rotarian Guy Olson. After singing the anthems, John MacFarlane led us in invocation and Wally Cole led us in songs: #6 - That Rotary Smile #18 - If You’re Happy and You Know It #3 - Smile Brad Hoganson introduced student athletes joining us from Hillcrest today: - Kayla Thompson from Fergus Falls, senior on the golf team
- Eldad Ejimife from Nigeria, competes in discus & shot put on the track team
Announcements:- Mike Clark was the winner of baby photo contest last week (picture was of Ben Durbin)
- We need a club representative at the Dollars for Scholars Luncheon on May 1. Thank you to Dean Monke for volunteering.
- Everyone needs to sell at least two books of raffle tickets for our Cash Raffle fundraiser for the Centennial Splash Pad Project. Drawing is April 17th at our Wine Down Wednesday meeting. All ticket stubs, sold or unsold must be returned.
- The Board met prior to today's meeting and approved an outbound student for the Rotary Exchange in two years. Lori will share details in the minutes from the meeting.
- Next Wine Down Wednesday is April 17th 5:30pm at OT County Historical Society. Sign up sheet was passed around or you should have received an email invitation you can respond to. Breck/Wahpeton club has been invited also. It’s a Hot Dish Festival so please bring an authentic hot dish to share. Also bring your own beverage & eating utensils. The Fergus Falls Cyclone of 1919 is the current exhibit a the museum which should be fun to see.
- Next week’s meeting is Kim Anderson Moen from someplace Safe.
Brags & Fines- Keith Olson & Anthony Nordan - Scooter bucks
- Greg Darling - for celebrating his 62nd Birthday
- Dean Monke - for his new grandson McCallum - Lucas, Anna & Baby Mac are doing great
- Bob Russell - paid fine & apologized for not getting Rounds out the last two weeks, unfortunately been out battling influenza A
- Steve Leitte - paid for Lulie to share some stories about her snowmobile ride. She said it was foggy & hard to see, but she would definitely do it again. Then Steve took her to Perkins afterward. She said it was a very nice day!
Program - OSPTIKathy Austvold introduced Gwen Humann and Shawn Krause-Roberts from Orthopedics and Sports Physical Therapy, Inc. (OSTPI) in Fergus Falls. They told us the business has been in Breckenridge for 16 years and in Fergus Falls since October of 2017. They now also have locations in Fargo and Hankinson. Gwen & Shawn gave us a very interesting presentation on preventing low back pain, a problem they said that 1 in 4 people is currently experienced or has experienced in the last 3 months. They demonstrated several prevention techniques such as: - Good posture (they demonstrated a “get set” position and proper lifting technique, stressing the importance of strengthening back muscles and glut muscles, and showed us the difference in our strength with good posture vs. poor posture.....suggested wall pushups as a good preventive exercise).
- Good body mechanics. (Using the two step and keeping belt buckle forward.)
- Strengthening. (we learned that a good exercise to strengthen your glutes is to stand up from your chair without using your hands on the chair or table to assist you.....do this several times per day.)
- Good rest
- Plenty of water
Then the floor was opened to questions and topics covered included the process of retraining the nerves and connections between the brain and the movements of the body, good walking techniques, and how to walk with a cane and with a walking stick(s). The meeting adjourned with a reminder to sell those raffle tickets!
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