- Opening: Welcome from President Mark Kenney, Pledge of Allegiance, Four Way Test
- Invocation: Ryan Holmquist
- Virtue: Appreciation read by David Nichols along with personal appreciation for all the great work that was done at the Rice County Fair.
- Club Announcements:
- 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: newly installed Glenn Bowers presenting at our noon meeting
- August 6th – noon meeting will be at River Valley Church…not The Inn!
- Strive Meeting to begin preparations for this Fall – 11am next Wednesday 7/30 at The Inn
- Dog Days of Summer lunch event tomorrow at Tony Langerud’s Office
- End Polio Now
- Dr. Dick Huston and Our Savior’s Church Associate Pastor Andrew Yackel proudly explained the donations raised for polio eradication efforts. Monies raised this year at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church was $3,000 and the first $1,000 was matched by Dr. Huston.
- Gambling Update – Chad Koepke – provided an update to the club, see email for exact details
- Dad Joke of the Week! Mark was reading the other day about the guy who invented air conditioning and learned he was really cool!
- Fellowship with Greg Ciesluk:
- Welcome Andrew Yackel as a guest today.
- George Wickstrom – very pleased that his great granddaughter is doing better.
- Brenda DeMars- her guest today is her husband, Drew DeMars. They are celebrating their 42nd wedding anniversary. Brenda reflected on the last 42 years of marriage! Congrats to the DeMars!
- David Nichols – centennial fundraiser for the Historical Society – trying to raise $540k over the next year and a half. Half way to their goal so far.
- Ellie Holmquist – their daughter got her permit yesterday. Family went out to eat in downtown Northfield and happened to see all the Model T’s and Bank Robbery reenactment in Northfield – it was pretty cool to see!
- Kymn Anderson – thank you to Devin for all his work for this community and encouraged everyone to be positive about the great things Faribault has.
- Erica Staab-Absher – looking for a location for a Saturday afternoon board retreat for about a dozen people if anyone has ideas for her!
- Greg Ciesluk – thanks to Our Savior’s for their generosity to end polio.
- Mark Kenney – encourages everyone to follow the visit Faribault Facebook page.
- Four Way Test Dismissal:
- Today’s meeting was adjourned by President Kenney after all Rotarians again read the 4-way test.