Speaker - November 18, 2020 - Scott Young

November 18, 2020

This meeting will be virtually!

Scott Young, Executive Director

Food Bank of Lincoln

Notice - Changes!

NOTICE!!

Lincoln East Rotary Club is going virtual until the first of the year, then we will be evaluating if we continue virtually or in person meetings! There will be NO MEETING on Wednesday, November 25th because of Thanksgiving.

There will be NO MEETINGS on December 23 and 30 because of Christmas and New Years. We will not have a Board meeting in December. Hopefully things will turn around for us in 2021.

Please check the SPOKE about how you can contribute to Polio Plus (under our Polio Plus heading).

Tom Randa - November 11, 2020

Tom Randa, Executive Director

Good Neighbor Community Center

In 1973, the Seventh-day Adventist Churches of Lincoln saw a need for basic and emergency services in our community. They founded the Good Neighbor Community Center. Over the years, we have provided emergency food, clothing and household items in a kind, understanding environment. Each client is personally welcomed and encouraged to participate in our programs. Their passion is not only assisting individuals with basic and emergency needs but also giving them opportunities to build bright futures for their families and the entire community. In 2003, Good Neighbor Community Center was duly incorporated under the laws of NE state and we are now collaborating with like-minded organizations, schools, businesses, churches, and individuals in Welcoming Neighbors and Supporting Stability.

DONATIONS

Thanksgiving Donations to People's City Mission and Christmas Donations to Salvation Army --

Since our club is going virtually until at least the first of January you will find information on how you can make your donations below:

President's Message

Lincoln East Rotary Club

At our Wednesday, 11/11/20 meeting, we honored Andrea Ahrens as it was her birthday. Yeah!!! One of Andrea’s colleagues (Lonnie) attended our meeting to honor Andrea’s birthday and to honor the speaker as he serves on that Board. We also honored Steve Grosserode as it was his 99^th birthday. Did you all see the really nice picture of him in the paper Sunday? Our members have been busy. Duane Tappe, Paul Horton, Greg Schnasse, and Lyle Schoen assisted in raising flags at the Veterans’ Memorial Park on Monday. They’ll assist in taking them down on Saturday.

Our members participated in doing a SWOT Analysis of the Club’s Strengths (S), Weaknesses (W), Opportunities (O), and Threats (T) a little over a month ago. We reviewed the results of this analysis at our meeting. We can’t do anything about some of the threats during the pandemic, but we felt that a commonly identified weakness was not always having a speaker for our club meetings. So, we decided to redouble our efforts to always try as hard as we can to get a speaker for our meetings. That will be both harder and easier in the next 2 months as we meet virtually. Some speakers prefer virtual and others prefer in person. However, we’ll reach out and do our best. Please contact a Board Member if you have a suggestion for a speaker and we’ll F/U if you can’t. Thanks so much!

Happy Dollars for Polio Plus

Reminder our goal for 2020-2021 is: $1800.00

A total of $29.00 was collected in "Happy Dollars" on November 11th.

Those that contributed are as follows: Sue Schuerman, Barry Stelk, Gordon Bair, Al Burdick, Dennis Duckworth, Paul Horton, Duane Tappe and Greg Schnasse

Since we are going virtual during the rest of November and December, you can send your Polio Plus dollars in a check made out to Lincoln East Rotary and send it to our Treasurer, Dick Cumming, 2312 S. 75th Street, Lincoln, NE 68506.

Birthdays

November 18, 2020 through December 4, 2020

Happy Birthday greetings to the following Rotarians:

Al Burdick - November 20

Mary Oestmann Goldberg - December 4

Something from the Past

Andrea McNutley was a former member of Lincoln East Rotary and the Club's Treasurer.

Quote of the Week

"The formula for a successful relationship is simple. Treat all disasters as if they were triviaities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." (p 96, Quotable Quotes, 2016)

Wellness

ellness Chairman Greg Schnasse has requested information in regard to any illness by club members and/or their family members.

Greg’s contacts:

Phone: 402-440-9917

Email: greg.schnasse@gmail.com

Please keep the following Rotarians in your Prayers and Thoughts:

Mike Carr

Barry Stelk -- Barry joined us for the Board meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 11th and stayed for meeting. It was great to have you back with us. Continue to take care and stay safe.

Gene Frederick -- Gene has been hospitalized.

We should continue to keep all of our teachers, school officials, and students, EMT's and first responders, hospital doctors and nurses, supermarket clerks, restaurant workers laid off or furloughed and waiting for unemployment, all those who are currently unemployed, human service organizations who still are open to serve those poor/homeless/hungry, funeral home workers, churches, airline employees, hotel employees, gas station and convenience store workers.

If you know of any of our members you would like for us to mention who are ill or need a prayer, please let Greg know and we will put it in the SPOKE.

November 18, 2020

This meeting will be virtually!

Scott Young, Executive Director

Food Bank of Lincoln

NOTICE!!

Lincoln East Rotary Club is going virtual until the first of the year, then we will be evaluating if we continue virtually or in person meetings! There will be NO MEETING on Wednesday, November 25th because of Thanksgiving.

There will be NO MEETINGS on December 23 and 30 because of Christmas and New Years. We will not have a Board meeting in December. Hopefully things will turn around for us in 2021.

Tom Randa, Executive Director

Good Neighbor Community Center

Thanksgiving Donations to People's City Mission and Christmas Donations to Salvation Army --

Lincoln East Rotary Club

Reminder our goal for 2020-2021 is: $1800.00

Since we are going virtual during the rest of November and December, you can send your Polio Plus dollars in a check made out to Lincoln East Rotary and send it to our Treasurer, Dick Cumming, 2312 S. 75th Street, Lincoln, NE 68506.

Happy Birthday greetings to the following Rotarians:

Al Burdick - November 20

Mary Oestmann Goldberg - December 4

Wednesdays at 11:45 AM

Virtually holding our meetings!