Rotary Meeting Bulletin 8-29-2024 (Aug. 30, 2024)

DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES PARKS AND RECREATION

9/5 NO MEETING AT THE COD. Instead, club members will meet at the Reno ACES game at 6:30pm for Fellowship!

Saturday, 9/21: Food Closet assistance 7:30 to 9 am.

10/5: Library Gala at 5pm.

11/9 District Rotary Clubs in Action meeting - success stories for fundraisers, grants, etc.

5/2-5/4/2025: District Conference in Fallon "Top Gun Rotary". RV Friendly and no suits or ties!

5/17: Club Leadership Assembly

9/5 NO MEETING AT THE COD - fellowship at the Reno ACES game.

9/12 Mark Gardner, Douglas County Board of Commissioners

9/19 Courtney Burrows, school nurse at PWL

9/26 Eddie Sanderson, photographer

UPDATE FROM OUR RYE OUTBOUND STUDENT SAMANTHA BROWN

First month done, many more to go. So far on this exchange I have been welcomed into my host family, explored the surrounding areas some, and have gone to the language camp. I have picked blueberries, swam in the lake nearby and gone on walks in the forest.

Went to an island off the East Coast of Sweden and had stayed in a cottage there. We explored the island and swam in the ocean a little.

I went to the language camp for my second week here, met tons of great people there and made lots of friends. Loads of fun and we went to a game area called Boda Borg, it's like a huge arcade but with different rooms being different games.

After I came back from the language camp I went to the last two days of the August Festival. The first day that I was there it was a concert, and the second day was a movie in the park. Both were extremely fun.

Went up to Stockholm just recently to meet up with some of the exchange students. We went over to the parliament building and some other places there. I was only there for about four hours.

I also went over to a village called Söderköping, for a Medieval festival. Went there with one of my friends and we had wandered around, ate some pizza, and listened to the live music that had been playing.

From the Editor: Stay tuned to monthly updates from Samantha!

Rotary Exchange Inbound Students from District 5190 spent the weekend in the Carson Valley for their introduction program the last weekend of August. Welcome to the United States students!

Bill and Paul from Young at Heart

YOUNG AT HEART

Ice Cream before lunch? “Why not?” says Paul Osserman, current board member of the Young at Heart (YAH) group at the Douglas County Senior Center. The Minden Rotary club was invited to hold their meeting at the senior center this past Thursday and were pampered with a delicious lunch of ice cream, soup, entree and dessert.

YAH has been active in Douglas County for over 30 years, previously located in a building near Lampe Park before the Senior Center was built. Their main purpose is to be a support to seniors and to serve as a fundraising arm for the Senior Center. Membership is $10 per year and open to all, regardless of age.

Paul shared that support activities include senior trips to places such as the ACES games and the Pioneer Theater as well as a huge variety of onsite activities including a car show, dances, craft fair, luau, bingo (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday after lunch and every third Saturday), daily lunches, barbeques and a resource for equipment such as wheelchairs and walkers. YAH is also a sponsor of the MInden Concerts in the Park. Many of these activities as well as a swap meet and a gift shop filled with items from local artisans also serve as fundraisers for the Senior Center. Recent expenditures of this fundraising arm have provided 15 new round tables for the senior center, a machine to sign in for lunch and volunteer hours and larger TV screens for bingo including sound and technology. Pinion Hills Elementary did a coin fundraiser this past spring and donated the funds to the YAH group who in turn purchased box fans for seniors without air conditioning.

Ken Miller, Rotarian, shared that he recently visited a board meeting for a Senior Center out of the area and the Douglas County Senior Center was described as “the country club” Senior Center.

For more information about Young at Heart, visit their Facebook page. They also have a website which is currently being updated and can be found at youngatheartseniorcitizens.org.

The Rotary Club of Minden meets most Thursdays from 12-1 at the COD Casino Garage. Join us for our next speaker on September 12th - Mark Gardner, Douglas County Board of Commissioners.

Ice Cream before lunch?!!

Paul Osserman receives a big thank you from President Sam Steele

Rotarians from the Minden Rotary Club!

Our Rotary Wheel added to a new planter at the DC Community Center in recognition of our $5000 donation (with a 50% donation from a District 5190 grant).

A Community Center update from President Sam - this is what it looks like when you install a pre-built restroom!

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