The Rotary Spoke Ver. 2019.17 (May 03, 2019)

May 1, 2019

Shane brought his wife Olivia

Dr. Bob brought the morning coffee group - John Caron, Cliff Robins, Paul Pearson

Steve Trishman

Call for nominations for Secretary Elect So far: Nate Rundquist, Caroline Anderson, Ron Usem. Election May 22 will be online.
MRF - Board meeting May 9 at 5 PM at The Moline.
Postal Food Drive - May 11 - 2 hours slots - sign up with Christine - more workers needed.
Katy Fisk - goal for Polio fundraiser was $3000 and we did $3592.43.
Shane - Citizen's Bank - May 9 open house @7:30 - 9:00 AM - Mayor of Hopkins speaking.
Donna - May 15 - Lawn Bowling at Brookview Golf Course - Free Lawn Bowling
Donna - June 26 - Pass the Gavel - at The Moline
Caroline - Mayuka was in an accident on Sunday night and is recovering. She is home from school and will be fine.

Results from visioning session:

1. Analyze community service and relationship to signature project

2. Increase PR outreach to community at large

3. Form vocational service committees

4. Grow fundraising efforts to $80-100k.

5. Include families in service projects.

District Conference May 17

Breakouts include:

1. Chef Amelia Damgaard - Latin Flavors

2. Heart of the Dance of Leadership

3. New approaches to fundraising

4. Global opportunities in water/ecology

Half or full day sessions.

Lenny had the winning ticket but couldn't find the joker. No winner this week.

Chris Carr - Great time at Hwy 7 clean up. Great time with Mayuka at Twins game. gone next week, will be in the Dominican Republic.
Shane - happy to bring his wife.
Regina - happy to be here, apologized for missing last week.
Char -Shane reminding us about the community shed at Community Bank
Lenny - $5 - tomorrow his family heads to Evan's commencement from U of Michigan! !!
Donna - Commencement of daughter's master's in Chicago last week.
Darlyne - Spent time with Mayuka at the "Black Violins" at the Ordway.
Mary - On Friday they are headed to Sedona for a week.
Ron - also going to Sedona for a week. He has been reading personal growth books for awhile and has never grown.
Diana - Happy to go with Bill to Naples for a week.
Dr. Bob - Recognized the plaid his guests were wearing. His 2 sons are coming home this weekend.
Nancy - Ater waiting for 5 years, her mom is getting a room at her desired assisted living home. Only 9 more weeks of being president.

Great video that showed the Art class that he runs at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

John led us through an exercise of drawing a cactus. The group had a lot of fun sketching.

His personal website is http://www.john-caron.com