In exactly 31days, the Faribault Rotary Club will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on May 1, 2020. This week’s historical highlight is from 2010.
Our club raised $50,000 for naming rights on one of the fields by sponsoring a couple of circus fundraisers
The second of two $25,000 checks were presented to Troy Temple of the Soccer Association by the soccer committee which included Dick Cook, Shelli Frana, Lisa Humfeld and Angela Storch.
The annual picnic was held at the Rotary Camp.
Rotarian of the Year was Richard Cook.
Our club’s 90th president in 2009-10 was Dr. Lisa Humfeld. Lisa has been a member since April 2002. She married Grant Wilson in February, four months before becoming club president.
Lisa had the following memories of her year as president:
In April 2009, we hosted the GSE Team from India. This team consisted of 1 Rotarian Krisha Sagar, and 4 non-Rotarians. I have stayed in touch with 3 out of the 5. Krisha returned to MN with wife and son in 2017.
The email newsletter was done by Kymn Anderson and sent through Constant Contact.
In August of 2009, Tim Penny from SMIF (Southern MN Initiative Foundation) joined me at an open house at Jefferson Elementary. Earlier that year, we had applied for some grant money for another book donation. Over $1700 worth of books were donated to kids in 1st-3rd grade at Jefferson Elementary as part of their Kickstart Program.
On November 3rd, 2009, Rachel’s Challenge was held at the Faribault High School. Rachel Joy Scott was the first person who died in the Columbine High School shooting in April 1999. After her death, many students that Rachel reached out to share stories with her parents about the profound impact her simple acts of kindness had on their lives; even preventing one young man for taking his own life. Her parents realized the transformational effect of Rachel’s story and started Rachel’s Challenge. This program was brought here to help prevent bullying and violence and replace it with acts of kindness.
In December 2009, we held our first ever Rotary Reindeer 5K Run. This was held at Boston’s and started on the bike path.
I ended my year with a trip to Montreal to the International Rotary Convention with my husband Grant and Matt and Shelli Frana. Shelli Frana was the new incoming President.