I am humbled and honored to serve as your 2021-22 District 5950 Governor.
Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta (India) encourages us to Each One, Bring One so we can grow more and do more. Let us be changemakers -- increasing our impact, expanding our reach, enhancing participant engagement, and increasing our ability to adapt.
This year’s Rotary Theme, Serve to Change Lives, is very meaning to me. I am in the hospitality business, so serving others is my fundamental training. Rotary takes me to another level of service: Service Above Self. Serving others to change their lives ultimately changes our lives. We become better human beings and, together, we build a better commUNITY (i.e., U N I working in unity to build a better community).
I look forward to visit all the 66 Rotary Clubs in our district and I am very excited to meet everyone of you soon. Thank you to all of you for being a part of the Rotary Family!
Marianna Khauv (Monticello) made history when she was installed as District 5950 Governor. Marianna is the first Chinese-American in Rotary District 5950 to hold the post.
In a scenic setting along the Mississippi River in Monticello’s Ellison Park, the Monticello Rotary Club hosted District 5950 Rotarians as 2020-21 District Governor Tom Gump (Edina/Morningside) handed off duties to Marianna, calling on her husband,Onn, to pin her with the DG pin.
Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta has three special initiatives for the 2021-22 Rotary year, each aimed at increasing our impact through service and expanding our reach to new members. Mehta asks every Rotarian to make membership a responsibility through the Each One, Bring One campaign.
His initiatives are:
Empowering girls. To address the inequities that girls face worldwide, Mehta encourages members to launch a club-based initiative or be part of a district or global grant that improves the health, wellbeing, education, and economic security of girls in their communities and ensures their access to resources.
Rotary Day of Service. Clubs are asked to collaborate and conduct hands-on service activities with members of their communities. Then share those activities on Rotary Showcase.
Presidential conferences. A series of presidential conferences will highlight clubs' humanitarian efforts in communities and around the world. Invite a friend to an event so they learn about Rotary’s work and are inspired to join in its commitment to service.
For nearly a year, District 5950 Rotary Clubs joined the Lake Street Council in mentoring businesses devastated by the May 2020 unrest following the death of George Floyd. Seven Rotary clubs from District 5950 teamed with the Lake Street Council to bring eight of those businesses back to life.
On Saturday, June 26, the Rotary Clubs of Edina, Minneapolis #9, Eden Prairie A.M., City of Lakes, Minneapolis South, Minnetonka-Excelsior and Minneapolis Uptown joined with the eight businesses and the Lake Street Council to celebrate the businesses' reopening with a series of open houses.
The businesses who partnered with Rotary District 5950 and hosted open houses were: El Amor Fashion, Healing Path Wellness Services, La Loteria Market, La Michoacana Purepecha, Los Andes, Midori’s Floating World Café, Pineda Tacos Plus, and Post Plus, Inc.
Flip flops. Work boots. Athletic shoes. Kids' shoes. All new and gently used shoes are genuinely valuable as a way to help families in need. Several 5950 clubs are collecting shoes they will donate toward a variety of programs.
Brooklyn Park Rotary:
Rotarian Nancy Laible is shown with a small 'mountain' of shoes that will be shipped to Nicaragua.
The shoes are part of a Play Ball Project, a collaboration of the Rotary Clubs of Brooklyn Park and the E-Club of Global Travelers along with the Salvation Army. Their goal is to equip ten girls' softball teams (120 youth ages 8 to 14) in Nicaragua.
Area 7Challenge:
Area 7 clubs (Buffalo, Maple Grove, Monticello, Rogers, St. Michael-Albertville) are competing against each other to secure the greatest number of gently worn shoes.
Rogers RotaryPresident Floyd Ingersoll (far left) is spearheading a shoe collection in support of Shoe Away Hunger. Club members gathered around the overflowing gaylord box of new and gently used shoes that has already been donated at the CROSS Services location (12915 Weinand Circle in Rogers). Other drop-off sites are available. Shoe Away Hunger sells shoes for $5/pair — with $5 enough to feed two people for a week through their program.
The Kaleidoscope Rotaract Club is one of the most unique clubs in the Rotary family. The club chartered on June 26 during a Zoom ceremony.
This club focuses on serving those with autism and their families. Its goals are: - Connect individuals with autism and their families with others facing similar challenges - Help foster the development of leaders within the club - Serve both the club and the community of those with autism.
Club leaders seek to provide those with autism and their families with opportunities, resources, and fellowship. The Kaleidoscope Rotaract Club meets twice each month. Each meeting is designed to be about a half hour in length. To refer a prospective member, contact District Governor-Elect Lloyd Campbell at lloydwcampbelljr@gmail.com.
Rotary International's Board of Directors recently updated Rotary's policy on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Check out the new policy in the Committing to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion course. You can start taking this course by clicking this linkand signing into My Rotary. Learn how Rotary's history laid the foundation for this approach and how diversity, equity, and inclusion can be part of everyone's Rotary experience.
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Rotary's focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion will be central to our success in the 21st century. By increasing our efforts to put this concept at the core of the Rotary experience, we create an environment that makes everyone feel welcome, included, and valued, and one that represents Rotary at its very best.
This year’s Rotary Theme, Serve to Change Lives, is very meaning to me. I am in the hospitality business, so serving others is my fundamental training. Rotary takes me to another level of service: Service Above Self. Serving others to change their lives ultimately changes our lives. We become better human beings and, together, we build a better comm
Marianna Khauv (Monticello) made history when she was installed as District 5950 Governor. Marianna is the first Chinese-American in Rotary District 5950 to hold the post.
On Saturday, June 26,
Area 7 clubs (Buffalo, Maple Grove, Monticello, Rogers, St. Michael-Albertville) are competing against each other to secure the greatest number of gently worn shoes.
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