Your board of directors has approved Anna Raway as our newest club member.  Anna lives in Hastings, MN, with her husband Brad.  Anna works for the Southview Acres Health Center on Oakdale. Welcome to the club Anna!!!!

Our speakers last week were Marguerite Zauner (right) and Sophie Kalow (left) from the Dakota County Health promotion team.  This team works within the larger Public Health Department.  Marguerite is the SHIP coordinator for Dakota County.  (SHIP: statewide health improvement partnership)  Marguerite and Sophie work in partnership with schools, cities, community organizations, healthcare and more.  They work on preventing illness or disease before it becomes a problem with the population.  They also work on mental health and well being and chemical health!  For more information visit  https://www.co.dakota.mn.us/Government/publiccommittees/SHIP.  Dave Hanson also has a copy of the presentation deck if you'd like it he'll send it to you!  Thanks for coming Marguerite & Sophie.

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Here are some highlights from the meeting: 

1 - Community Service (Mark Landy) said a highway clean up will be in October.  Next L & F is August 30th.  Currently serving over 200 people!

2 - Membership (Alan Ruvelson & Val Namen) - investigating getting new members via other organizations like the South Robert Business Association.

3 - Susan Hommes mentioned we got $720 for those working the Prior Lake Music Fest.  David Miller will pick up our check from the Prior Lake Rotary.  Susan mentioned we should try and get more people to participate next year.  It's a fun project.  Our funds will be going to Polio Plus.

4 - Ethic's Day will be held every other year.  We did it last year, so we're off this year.

5 - We're going to do two MATTERBoxes on the September 7th meeting.

6 - Bob Gullick reported we are financially in good shape.  He is also going to print tickets for a wine and beer raffle.  We will announce the winners at the November 9th meeting at the Copperfield restaurant. 

7 - We are always looking for fundraising ideas like "Ask people who previously participated in Moonstruck to consider a donation to the club going to a community effort with a sponsorship"