It was a great evening last Monday July 7th for fun and fellowship at Stone Orchard to start off the new Rotary year with Mark Kenney as President! - Announcements:
- International Festival – This Saturday July 12th, Flag Ceremony at Noon – Central Park
- Red Cross Blood Drive – Friday July 18th 11a-5p – River Valley Church
- Rotary Visioning Session – Tuesday July 29th 5-9p – River Valley Church
- New Member Orientation – Wednesday July 30th 1:30-2p – The Inn
- Next Week’s Speaker: Jamie Bente, Superintendent of Faribault Public Schools
- Help Needed: Helping at Rotary Meetings – Sergeant at Arms openings available – See Kay Hoaglin
- A Little Fun:
- New things we will be doing this year during A Little Fun at Rotary Meetings: On this day in history, Minute to Win It! Random Trivia, or just something Inspiring
- Today’s Little Fun: On this day in history….
- 1850 – 12th President of the U.S Zachary Taylor died only 16 months after taking office
- 1889 – Journalist Charles Henry Dow published the first issue of the Wall Street Journal
- 1947 - a local newspaper erroneously reported that a “flying saucer” had been recovered near Roswell New Mexico, although that claim was quickly refuted by authorities. Roswell incident eventually became the center of many conspiracy theories involving UFO’s and extraterrestrial activity.
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- The Return of Dad Jokes! – Where can a Rotary President find good dad jokes? In a daddabase of course!
- Unite For Good: everyone took a couple minutes to talk with those at their table about your two of your favorite parts of Rotary.
- Fellowship with Greg Ciesluk:
- Welcome again Shawn Stoll as a guest today.
- Becky Ford – commended and congratulated Mark, and thanked David for his past leadership. Also – she will be at the CAC today if anyone wants to see it and be shown around, stop in and see her!
- Natalie Halverson – thanked to both incoming and outgoing president. Excited to share with Kurt that the dad jokes are returning!
- David Connelly – excited for what Mark will do this year. Attended the Northfield Centennial and represented Rotary – learned some good history points about their club. 2nd thing – district grant is approved, thanks to Chris Kaufman for all his help with the grant. 3rd thing – this past weekend went to Lacrosse seeing a drum show, the Casper Troopers from Wyoming. Talked about connections that has to Kristen’s family
- Brandon Gliem – inspired by Mark’s words, thank you to David also.
- Chad Koepke – echoed words from Brandon.
- George Wickstrom – thanked both presidents, also talked about virtues and how they build character. Rotary is a great opportunity to analyze ourselves and see how we can be better people. Wants everyone to concentrate on the 4-way test and virtues – opportunity to take something home from Rotary and get better. He encourages everyone to use the virtues.
- Paul LaRoche – thank you to both President’s for their dedication to Rotary.
- Kay Hoaglin – thank you to both President’s. Thanks for the prayers about a tree hitting her house and how that process for repairs went.
- Greg Ciesluk - thank you to David and Mark – talked about the importance of inviting others to our meetings.
- Four Way Test Dismissal: moved to the end of meetings now too!
- Today’s meeting was adjourned by President Kenney after all Rotarians again read the 4-way test.
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