Announcements
* We will meet next Wednesday, Dec. 16, at noon for our weekly meeting. There will be no meeting on Dec. 23 or 30 in observation of the holidays.
*We will celebrate our club's 30-year anniversary on Feb. 3, 2021. All members are requested to invite past members, Rotary scholars, and prospective members to join us by Zoom at noon on the third of Feb. More details to come.
* Two of our club members attended a morning session sponsored by Prior Lake Rotary on the topic of Covid-19. Speakers included Rotarians from several countries, including England, India, and Uganda. They described many similar concerns in how their clubs were dealing with the virus.
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Brag-a-Bucks
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Minneapolis University Rotary Service Foundation. Thanks to all who donate!
* Virginia B sent holiday greetings to all of the various religious affiliations.
* Allan B welcomed our guests: Shanon Joan Palikunnel, Holly Callen, Deborah Watts. He highlighted the Zoom meeting last night for the Center for Victims of Torture.
* Lou B welcomed Shanon's visit and said it was joy to host her as a youth exchange student.
*Shanon P joined us from Vienna, Austria where she is a physician. She said being a Rotary youth exchange student was a highlight and the Burdicks were a 2nd family to her.
*Ellen K is celebrating the Dec. 1948 UN adoption of the Convention for the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
* Carol S welcomed Deborah Watts. They are both former employees of NW Bell.
* Mahmood Z welcomed Deborah and said she is a great example of the lessons he taught in the U's business program.
* Holly C remembered, per the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, attending the 1998 MURC fundraiser at which Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Laureate, was celebrated.
* Jean W bragged of the talent and leadership represented by the folks at today's meeting.
* Carole P said her husband's golf game in the middle of Dec. is evidence--if we needed more--of our warming climate.
