Rotary Notes February 8, 2023
A large group gathered at the Inn on a warm winter day (40 degrees) to celebrate Faribault and have lunch together! Many were in good spirits!
Virtue- Cooperation
Announcements
- STRIVE had its last meeting this morning
- STRIVE banquet is coming up March 5th
- Rotary readers
- Looking for volunteers
- Let
- Special Guests
- FHS Principal Joel Olson
- Introduced students of the month Abdi works with Somalia students at FHS
- Mohamed Hassan
- Going to college for science
- Female Somalia student Zuhur
- Going to be a senior next year
- Sara Folstad, Rice County Administrator
- Tim Penny, Retired Federal Representative
- Ann Richards, Northfield Rotary
- Dave Nichols, New executive director for our Historical Society
- FHS Principal Joel Olson
- Fellowship
- Murray brought dad jokes for everyone!
- Laura Bock encouraged everyone to come out and support concerts at FHS
- Dr Huston was excited to announce University of MN is 3rd in the country for veterinary care!
- Also brought up Sam Ouk who is bringing a group to Cambodia soon
- Sam won an award for a presentation about his immigration to the US from Cambodia
- Contact Dr. Huston if you are interested in attending.
- Mary Ellen recently visited the Marietta, Georgia Rotary club where her father resides
- Our wisest and oldest Rotary member the one and only George Wickstrom celebrated his 93rd birthday yesterday!
- A group of our people working on the virtue project spent some time celebrating with George
- An inspirational quote was “Everything that is said at funerals should be said for someone’s birthday”
- Natalie had the opportunity to meet a young Somalia woman who was looking to work in healthcare
- Natalie assisted her with a resume review and made a few phone calls to people hiring, she found out today that the women got the job!