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Jul 30, 2017 4:05 PM
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Paint-a-thon 2017
Aug 05, 2017
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
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Welcome to the Madison Breakfast Rotary Club
www.madisonbreakfastrotary.org
mbrotary6250@gmail.com
Service Above Self One Profits Most Who Serves Best
Vitense Golfland
Madison, WI 53711
United States
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With your help, the story of thousands of books doesn’t have to end in a landfill. We’re aiming to give textbooks and library books a second life by sending them to kids overseas.
Wisconsin Books for the World supports global literacy and education by collecting used school and library books throughout the state and sending them to developing countries. Books for the World is coordinated by the Madison Breakfast Rotary Club.
This is the final week in our month-long campaign to raise $5,000, enough to ship two truckloads of books and give them a new home. We need your help to get across the finish line!
A $15 contribution is enough to ship 5 boxes of books, so each dollar counts. Please click below to donate!
The Books for the World project provides Rotarians & the community an opportunity to connect for a cause.
Wisconsin Books for the World supports global literacy and education by collecting used school and library books throughout the state and sending them to developing countries. Books for the World is coordinated by the Madison Breakfast Rotary Club.
Since Books for the World began in 2000, Rotary clubs from across the country have shipped thousands of tons of used textbooks that would have otherwise been discarded to 25 countries in southern Africa, Central and South America, India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Now, we need your help. We’re so lucky to have local schools that have generously donated books and volunteers willing to prepare them to be shipped, but getting the books overseas is an expensive endeavor.
We are half way into our campaign to raise enough money to ship two truck-loads of books. We need your help to meet our goal of $5000.
A $15 contribution is enough to ship 5 boxes of books, so each dollar counts. Please click below to donate!
Share your love of reading with budding book-lovers across the globe!
Wisconsin Books for the World supports global literacy and education by collecting used school and library books throughout the state and sending them to developing countries. Books for the World is coordinated by the Madison Breakfast Rotary Club.
If you have already donated, thank you very much. If you have not, please consider donating what you can.
Our goal is to reach $5000 so we can send two truck loads of books.
Click below to donate! A $15 contribution is enough to ship 5 boxes of books, so each dollar counts.
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The club enjoyed a visit on January 9 from Sari, our 2014-15 exchange student from Finland, Franci, our current exchange student from Italy, and Daniel, our 2017-18 outbound change student going to Denmark.
Sari, from Finland
Sari graduated from high school last spring and has started at the University of Helsinki, majoring in psychology. Right after high school, she traveled to nine countries. She currently lives with a friend from high school.
Franci from Italy
Franci went to Ohio with his host family Brenda and Thom Weiss for Christmas. He practices basketball every day and has games three times a week. He calls his family every Sunday morning.
Franci went on the hockey weekend with the exchange students. It was the first time he had seen hockey.
Daniel, 20017-18 Outbound to Denmark
Daniel, an Eagle Scout and a member of the National Honor Society plays soccer. As a senior in high school, he has been applying to colleges. His older brother and sister each went on two exchanges. He recently met a kid from Denmark and practices his Danish. For his Eagle Scout project, he created a gravel pathway and garden in an Elementary School.
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On December 21, the club voted for the following officers effective July 1, 2016.
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At the September 2 club gathering at Sprecher’s Restaurant, Doug Nordstrom presented Thom Weiss with the Rotarian of the Year award. Thom has worked tirelessly after taking over the operation of the Rotary Books for the World from the Dombroski's two years ago.
Thom and his wife Brenda have hosted exchange students in their home every year for more than ten years, most recently a summer student from Spain. Thom has had a major role in the paint-a-thons for a number of years with his wife Brenda.
In addition to serving on the board of directors, the club has enjoyed his enthusiasm and wit as a sergeant at arms at club meetings. Congratulations to Thom Weiss.
Jasmine from Taiwan will be hosted by Madison Breakfast Rotary for the 2015-16 year.
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On September 27, Madison Breakfast Rotary reached a milestone of two million pounds of books collected for the Books for the World program.
Doug Nordstrom was honored as Rotarian of the Year at the club gathering at Sprecher’s on Sunday, August 24 for his outstanding work as the club’s webmaster. Doug has made the club’s website relevant, interesting, easy to navigate, and functional. In the case of our club, the first thing visitors see when coming to our website is how engaged the club is – with the community (local and global) and in the projects we undertake, with the youth through our exchange programs, and with out partnerships with businesses and non-Rotarians, at the same time having fun through our fundraising and social activities.
Doug has served as president, president elect, and past president for our cub. He has served on the executive board at least two extra years. As a member of the fundraising committee, he handles the finances and much of the behind the scenes set up. He also does a lot to keep the youth exchange running smoothly and is a generous financial donor to that program.
Doug Nordstrom has been a Rotarian since July 1995 when he was a charter member of the Middleton Sunrise club. He served as president of that club three times and was very involved with that club’s community events and their youth exchange program. The club congratulates Doug Nordstrom and thanks him for his service.
Bruce Harville presented Priscilla Thain with a Certificate of Appreciation for her many years of service to the club. Priscilla, a member for over 15 years and past president, has been the newsletter editor for many years. She faithfully provides the club with the weekly newsletter as well as an inspiration message on Monday mornings.
Judy Levine, Betsy Nordstrom with Xaver and host family.
Xaver from Austria will be hosted by Madison Breakfast Rotary for the 2014-15 year.
Club members and their families are invited to gather at Sprecher’s on Sunday August 24 starting at 3 p.m., to welcome our incoming exchange student and new and old host families, celebrate the incoming and outgoing board of directors, and honor the recipient of the Rotarian of the Year Award.
Please invite friends who might be interested in joining the club.
Hosted appetizers and soft drinks provided. Cash bar available.
Please RSVP to Betsy at bnordstrom@tds.net or (608)695-7847.
Madison Breakfast Rotary teamed up with the After Hours Rotary for the August 2 Paint-a-thon, a program of Project Home. Brenda Weiss coordinated the project where volunteers from both clubs painted the exterior home of a family on Toban Drive. Hallman Lindsay Paint Company provided the paint and the Manna Café provided lunch for the painters. Project Home paints 8 to 12 homes in Dane County every year.
Club members gathered at the home of Thom and Brenda Weiss on Sunday August 3 for a cookout and birthday cake, to say farewell to Tomas, our exchange student from the Czech Republic from a couple of years ago. Tomas visited Madison for a month and stayed with the Weisses. Tomas had offered to do chores for club members and did some gardening with Helen Baldwin on Monday July 21and cooked an Asian dinner and a pie with Eng and Bill Braun on Sunday, July 27. Club members were invited.
Tomas had spoken to the club on July 28 when he showed slides of Prague, where he has started at Medical School, right out of high school. In the Czech Republic, he has joined Rotex, for former outbounds and also Roteract which supports an orphanage. and where they will start teaching English.
Bruce Harville presented a red badge to Lori Scroggs as she was inducted into Madison Breakfast Rotary on July 14.
The club thanks John Feller for an outstanding year as club president. John started the year with a tour of the newly updated campus of the Madison College Truax campus by his firm J. H. Findorff and Sons. He presided over excellent programs each week, service projects, fundraising events, an increase in membership, and the inbound and outbound exchange programs. In particular, the club is appreciative that John and his firm J.H. Findorff and Sons supported our fundraising and social events. Above all, we had great sociability and fun. He passes the gavel to Bob Dombroski as the 2014-15 club president.
Club grant recipients Carol & Bob Dombroski, Rotary Books for the World; Al Arnold of Reading Clinic; Tom Meyer, Aaron’s House; Emily Auerbach, the Odyssey Project; Heidi Hastings, Connect House, club foundation president Bruce Harville on June 23.
Club members, friends, Rotarians from area clubs, and area exchange students enjoyed a lively party at Sprecher’s on April 24. They were offered beer and food parings, and root beer floats as they checked out the 20 raffle gifts displayed in the center of the room. Among the raffle gifts were a Trek bicycle, jewelry, golf gift cards, and picnic foods to name a few.
Many thanks go to Betsy and Doug Nordstrom and their committee for all the work putting this event together. A special thanks to the sponsors: J.H. Findorff & Sons Inc., Jim and Melissa Sirianni, Future Foam, and Doug and Betsy Nordstrom. Area exchange students took turns drawing the winning raffle tickets for each prize. Among the guests were Sari’s visiting parents and brother, Dean Ryerson, District Governor; Dave Warren, the District Governor Elect; and Mary Van Hoot the area Assistant DG and DG Elect-Elect.
The Friends of the Libraries Semiannual Book Sale ended on October 19th wrapping up another hugely successful event with lots of interesting and sometimes rare books. (Did you see the line of people waiting on the first day? It’s like Black Friday for the Libraries!) Most of the books donated to the Friends are sold at the sale; but what about the books that aren’t chosen for a good home? What happens to them and where do they go?
Madison Breakfast Rotary Club members decorating trees at UW Hospital. Each year, Friends of UW Hospital and Clinics, Inc., offers Love Lights as a special way to honor and remember loved ones through the sale of blue and white lights that adorn trees outside the main entrances of UW Hospital and Clinics.
Club Party at Sprecher’s on August 13
Club members and new and old friends are invited to gather at Sprecher’s on Saturday, August 13 from 5-7 pm, to welcome the incoming exchange student and new and old host families.
The gathering will be held outside (weather permitting) on the patio. Chips and Dips and hot pretzels will be provided by the club on each table. There will be wait service for people to order beverages. Tuesday is also $8 burger night for those wishing to stay later. See Betsy Nordstrom for details.
Kudos to AJ Ernst and club members who hosted the GSE team from Brazil from Friday, May 3 to Monday, May 6.
Pictured: Mike Kafka, Brenda and Thom Weiss, George Yelder, and Jackie Williams at the Special Olympics at Oregon High School on May 11.
Madison Breakfast Rotary Club ships 16 pallets of books to schools in Afghanistan in cooperation with the 115th Fighter Wing at Truax Field
