Rotary Meeting Notes: 04/10/2024 - Opening: President Laura Bock: Pledge of Allegiance, Four-Way Test, Patriotic Song
- Virtue Reading: Beauty, read by Theresa Vold
- Invocation: Ellie Holmquist
- Club Announcements
- End of April marks the opening of the Rotary Camp for the year!
- May 5th Cinco de Mayo! Celebration/Recognition being planned
- Rotary hosted Red Cross Blood Drive at River Valley Church
- May – Adopt a Highway cleanup-date and time TBD
- June 3-7 will be Meals on Wheels deliveries
- Thursday June 6th – Safe Summer Kick-off at North Alexander Park. Looking for Rotary member’s participation and some fun idea to interact with kids at the event!
- Big 9 Choir Select Concert- Friday May 3rd. More details on volunteer opportunities will be coming.
- May 4th- Celebration of Clubs in Hudson WI. $20/person, details on the district website.
- April 26th there will be Purse/Yeti Bingo at Boxers. Also, another Bingo opportunity on Mother’s Day. Boxers also has a great breakfast worth checking out!
- Cindy Yerington’s mother recently passed away. Please keep Cindy and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
- Help Wanted: New Member Mentors (see Kurt Halverson), Sgt at Arms (see Kay Hoaglin)- still in need of help during the summer
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- Rotarian re-classification speech this week: Happy Birthday to Murray Hanson! Murray celebrated his birthday April 3rd and his 31 years in Rotary on April 7th. He gave an update talking about how he has been an Optometrist for 36 years, enjoys time with his 4 grandkids, celebrating 30 years of marriage, and has downsized and moved to town. He also shared a picture of himself and a slide, both of which were from his classification speech when he joined Rotary in 1994! Really good job on your presentation and congratulations on all of your accomplishments Murray!
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- Fellowship: led by Mary Ellen Bondhus
- Each table had to answer a question about fun facts involving the state of Minnesota!
- Brandon Gliem thanked everyone who helped out at the EID celebration this morning at FHS, also reminded everyone of the Safe-Summer Kickoff event June 6th. Would like to have Rotarians help with a fun event for kids.
- Dick Huston asked that everyone keep Dan Little and his family in your thoughts and prayers over the recent loss of his mother. Dan visited our club recently and has a long relationship with Dr. Huston.
- Jan Kjergaard had fun helping with Cotton Candy at the EID this AM.
- Kurt expressed his appreciation for all Murray does for Rotary and congratulated him.
- Greg mentioned how he and his wife are enjoying watching the Red Sox!
- Murray – spoke about long time relationship with Dr. Huston – friendly banter ensued between the two.
- Rod Mahler provided an update on Bob Speckhals; he is out of the hospital and has moved to a place in Owatonna to further recover.
- Paul LaRoche, Gail Kaderlik, Kay and Dick all congratulated Murray and welcomed our guests!
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