Happy 4th of July everyone! 

Thank you to Rotarian Jennifer Giovinazzo for this Facebook Post:

From Rotarian Cody Semo: "An update for the group. My beautiful daughter Ella Mae was born on Saturday, June 8th. She was 7.9lbs and is perfect in every way. Her and mom are both healthy and going great."  And from Cody's email out of office message "I'm thrilled to announce I'll be out of the office on parental leave until June 24th, soaking up all of life’s new adventures."  Congratulations to Cody and his new family!

Somerset Elementary in Mendota Heights has set a goal of $345,000 for their All Inclusive Playground.  An anonymous donation of $200,000 has been received if construction would start this summer instead of 2025.  Your Rotary board would like to help with a donation of $10,000.  To start, we have pledged $2500 in current dollars available plus dollars raised from this summer's Prior Lake Music Fest.  Here's what you can do if the spirit moves you.  You can make a tax deductible donation to our club's 501c3 by giving monies to "West St. Paul/Mendota Heights Rotary Foundation".  And tell Treasurer Bob Gullick you want the monies to go to the Somerset All Inclusive Playground.  We can do this!

1 - Our club is finishing our year at the end on June 30 with $600 in the bank!  Thanks Bob Gullick!

2 - We have approved these amounts to spend: 

    a. $2500 from the club for Somerset all inclusive playground.  $7500 has been collected.

    b. $500 to the Rotary club of Forest Lake for an international water project.

    c. $250 to the American Cancer Society (result of Wednesday, June 19 speaker - Jeff Molby)

3. - Next Loaves & Fishes is July 30th.

4 - We're going to do a MatterBox pack in July.

5 - Prior Lake Music Fest fundraiser is July 12th and 13th.

6 - Board is considering a wine/beer raffle on November 13th.

7 - July 10 will be the presidential hand off to Val Namen.

8 - Next board meeting is via zoom on July 16th at 7:30a.m. Notify Dave Hanson if you'd like to attend.

Rotarian Tom Atmore will coordinate our Rose Sale Fundraiser this Fall.  Move information to follow!  Thanks Tom!  You are one of the best!

The board would like to have local businesses present a 3 minute introduction to their company at each meeting.

Please let Dave Hanson know if you have someone and he'll add them to the meeting schedule.

One 3 minute presentation at each meeting would be the goal.

Thanks in advance.

 

Co Prez David Miller and Prez Elect Val Namen are heading up our club's Fundraising Committee.  Please let them know if you have any fundraising ideas and/or would like to join their committee!

Do you enjoy our weekly meetings?  Share them with others.  Be on the lookout for prospective members!