S Helwig, S Salerno,, Heidi Kopras, Dave Reed, Dana Droessler-Fager, Susan Lampert Smith, P Christiansen, Peggy (via zoom) Judy Steinhauer, K White, E Grabe,  S Bollig, Brent Yauchler, Brent, Bob and Faye Johnson, S Neshlyaeva, Student rotarians Delaney Chronister and Lucas Gonzalez.

 

Karla's update on her trip out West to Arizona and beyond. She visited national monuments and parks including the grand canyon. The amount of walking and hiking was challenging. She got a reminder of home at a Mexican restaurant she and her host family visited. The beans she ordered set off memories of her mother’s cooking in Brazil. Karla watched “Mama Mia”, sang a lot of the songs along with discovering country music.

Now she has a sweater from her host family with "Country Roads" on it. During the road trip she frequently sang John Denver's hit song of the '70s. Karla discovered pistachio ice cream as the best ice cream she ever had.

 

Bob brought Jorge and Tracy, Jaren Nelson, Dave Reed (now a member) Kaitlin is back.

Guest speaker Sharon Bradish and her friend Linda. A Mount Horeb resident,  Sharon and Linda met as freshmen at registration at UW Whitewater. They both were Spanish language teachers.

 

New Member! Welcome Dave Reed.

 

Svetlana was gone for a month and half to visit her daughter and new grand daughter. Part of her trip included visiting Canada, which she wants to share with the club soon.

Bob is happy to see how well Wisconsin people handle snow.

Brent: Happy to be at this meeting. No longer CEO at his company and can actually attend a meeting in person.

Steve Helwig is happy he went out West to ski on real snow, and happy kids are over their virus.

Susan: happy for Packers in playoffs.

 

Fireside Chat will be on the 5th Wednesday of January - 1/31/2024 at Brent’s Bar & Garage email brent@theelectricianinc.com for directions.

 

Super Brunch:
We need to contact last year’s advertisers and ask if they are interested in renewing for this year’s event.

Advertising rates: $60/$100/$200 see talking points for information in link below.

Tickets are available, and there are hard copies of placemats available to help with sales.

Everything you need as your sales script can be found here:

 

Agenda this week includes a link to content from our Facebook page. Please help us increase our presence on social media by sharing content on our page.

To get to our facebook page click the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMHRotary
 

Next week: Michelle McGrath our district Governor if you have any items for a gift basket to let Paul know for next Wednesday’s meeting.

 

Sharon Bradish guest speaker Changemakers Rotary Club

is a member of a virtual Rotary Club. Her presentation included scenes of Budapest trip including our club member Peggy Zalucha. Sharon's presentation then focused on a Global grant for school for refugees from Ukraine. 

So far there are close to 10k children refugees in Budapest.

Donation and matching information will become available once the Global Grant is submitted.

 

Next Monday 4-7 Culver's is hosting a fundraiser so stop by to eat and help the cause.

1:00 Meeting adjourned