Events

Barry Kirchoff (veteran, Small Business Development Center and HRC Board Treasurer), John Donovan (recently retired MN Guard’s EEOC officer and HRC board Vice Chair)  and Maureen Gaedy (former rotary member, GWES regional director and HRC board Secretary) will be the speakers for the February 6th meeting. 

Important  reminder:  The meeting will be held at the Stearns History Museum located at 235 South 33rd Avenue, St Cloud, MN 56301 .

John Ruis, United Way, will discuss the Neighborhood Resource Centers at Lincoln Elementary and Discovery Elementary Schools. 

 Interim Superintendent Bruce Watkins will present an overview of  the upcoming Sauk Rapids-Rice school building referendum.

City of Waite Park Mayor Rick Miller and City Administrator Shaunna Johnson will provide an overview on the proposed amphitheater project. 

Join us today for the open house and dedication of Pathways 4 Youth (P4Y). The meeting will start promptly at 11:45 a.m. at P4Y (203 Cooper Ave North). 

The regular Rotary meeting will begin promptly at  11:45 A.M. at the Courtyard by Marriott. Club members then will walk or drive to City hall for the mayor's State of the City address.

The St. Cloud State of the City Address will take place on April 10th at 12:30 P.M. at St. Cloud City Hall. 

Chris Clark, Xcel Energy MN, ND & SD President, will be the speaker at the April 17th Rotary meeting. 

Katie Boecker, Child Advocacy Center Executive Director, will be the speaker at the April 24th Rotary meeting. 

 Mighty Axe Hops is Minnesota's hop farm growing 80 acres of hops outside of Foley with a state-of-the-art on farm harvesting and processing facility. Eric Sannerud, CEO, will be the speaker at the May 8th meeting. 

Henry Jakubowski received a BS in Chemistry after spending several years as an Astronomy/Physics major.  Following his undergraduate degree, he developed clinical diagnostic tests at the Mayo Clinic for four years before pursuing a Ph.D in Biochemistry at the University of Iowa.  He returned to Mayo for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Biophysics before taking a faculty position in the Chemistry Department at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, where he has taught for 30 years. He is also a visiting Professor of Chemistry at Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing, China as a result of his teaching there and work developing a student research collaboration between the two universities.

In recent years he has increasingly realized the impact of climate change on the world we are leaving for our children and grandchildren and has felt he has not done enough to bring the science of climate change to his students and to the general public. The urgency of this issue has led him to develop programs and give talks on climate change and present solutions which offer hope for future generations.

Paige McConkey, Trauma Informed Advocate with the Central Minnesota Mental Center, will be the speaker at the May 22nd meeting. 

Todd Mueller is a St. Paul native who, as a youngster, wore a Minnesota Twins uniform with block lettering ironed on by his mother. His number seven was a tribute to his favorite Twin, centerfielder Lenny Green.

Todd’s career was in communications and marketing, most recently as a marketing executive at a top twenty Minnesota company. He resides in a suburb of St. Paul. Town Baseball Parks of Minnesota is Todd’s first book.

Matt Glaesman, Scott Zlotnik, Dave Liliberte and Marilyn Birkland will provide an update on  the Riverwalk Project. 

Stearns County is home to a highly diverse landscape of soils. We will explore some of the history of how the soils across our county were formed and what type of characteristics they have. Even more interesting is the history of how early settlers of Stearns County have interacted with those soils through various agricultural practices. This talk will bring together the topics of Stearns County soils and how humans have interacted with these soils across our diverse landscape.

 Dr. Joe Storlien is a native of Dawson, MN. He received his B.S. and M.S. from St. Cloud State University and his Ph.D. in Soil Science from Texas A&M University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at St. John’s University and a U of MN Extension Master Gardener.