- Opening: Welcome from President Mark Kenney, Pledge of Allegiance, Four Way Test
- Invocation: Shawn Stoll, Pastor at 4th Avenue United Methodist Church Faribault.
- Virtue: This week’s virtue was Charity, read by Laura Bock and mentioned she can personally attest to a fulfilling life when practicing Charity.
- Welcome Today’s Guests:
- Lt. Joshua Sterling: MN DOC
- Rice County Fair Jr. Ambassadors: each of whom represent Rice County at parades and other fairs to bring new ideas to the Rice County Fair.
- Sarah Welander
- Willow Connelly
- Shawn Stoll: Pastor at Faribault 4th Avenue United Methodist Church.
- Club Announcements:
- New Member Orientation, AKA “Let’s get to know Rotary” – August 27th 1:30-2p – The Inn
- Annual Faribault Rotary Picnic – September 3rd - 5p at the Rotary Camp
- Red Cross Blood Drive – September 12th - 11a-5p at River Valley Church Sign up to Volunteer and Donate!
- Warm Our Community – Winter Gear Driver – Sept 3-Oct 3
- Rotarian of the Year – Nominees due in by Sept 19
- STRIVE meetings start the second Wednesday in September at SCC
- Sign-up sheets still available for Rotary meeting assignments
- A little Fun – On this Date in History – August 20th
- 1833 Benjamin Harrison, a moderate Republican who became the 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893) despite losing the popular vote by more than 95,000 to Democrat Grover Cleveland, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
- 1920 – At a meeting in Canton, Ohio the National Football League was formed (as the American Professional Football Conference)
- 1975 – The robotic U.S. spacecraft Viking 1, built to explore the surface of Mars, was launched this day in 1975, and nearly one year later landed on Chryse Planitia, a flat lowland region in the northern hemisphere of the Red Planet.
- Dad Joke of the Week!
- There was a big unsolved robbery at our local IKEA store…. The police are having trouble putting all the pieces together.
- BONUS Dad Joke – The police are also investigating the death of a man who was killed by a can of chickpeas……It’s an obvious case of Hummuscide!
