Norsk News 1/17/24
 

Attendance:  T Wedig, Susan Smith, Mark Rooney, P Zalucha, Svetlana Neshlyaeva, P Christiansen, Judy Steinhauer, K White, E Grabe, Jeremy Wright, S Helwig, Brent Yauchler, H Kopras. Student Rotarians and Karla have finals and were unable to attend.

Guests: Tracy Diehm, Michelle McGrath, District Governor from Waunakee.

 

Peggy is happy that her technical problem with her car window was fixed by Steve Helwig who saved the day.

Judy Steinhauer shared a New Year’s newsletter from the lady in the Amazon.

Paul is happy his daughters are back in school and glad to be back at work.

Tammy: Kurt’s brother had cancer surgery, which was caught early. He had an operation that seemed to have gone well.

 

Shout out to Liz for the Norsk News.

 

Fireside chat is 1/31 Paul encourages members to reach out to our new members to attend this event to learn more about Rotary and “find their place” in the club.
 

Super Brunch placemat ad sales; so far we have 116 squares, 98 of which have sold. Please make calls to businesses you know. Paul: It may take more than one touch, and to keep trying, as he has made 2-3 attempts before reaching out to people, all of which have renewed.

There are flyers to post, and Mount Horeb mail will be running an ad.

Brent has plug and play email templates to share to send to prospective advertisers with attachments.

 

Give Peggy ads so she can ad them to the PowerPoint presentation that will be running on the televisions around the dining areas at the event.

 

Club Runner was temporarily down, and is back up! Thanks Shawn for taking care of it. She has successfully migrated our records to QuickBooks online.

 

If you are on Facebook please share the posts found on the Friends of Mount Horeb Rotary page.

 

Tricon is in April, early bird prices end Feb. 15th.

 

Peggy mentioned another Rotary Exchange trip to the Philippines.

 

Guest Speaker Michelle McGrath shared with us her origin story of how she started with Rotary 17 years ago. Our district consists of 55 clubs in the western side of the state. She works with a mental health coalition in her hometown of Waunakee. She shared results of a study that showed 80% of women and 60% of men struggle with mental health challenges.

Michelle broke down her mission with 3 important steps to take:

 

She told stories about her experience at Rotary International event, her time with motivational guru Brené Brown, how a RYLA event changed a student’s life, and a recent exchange trip in Croatia with the Beloit club helping bring STEM classes in elementary schools.
 

The club presented her with a gift basket after Q&A session, and then she took a selfie with us.

 

 

Meeting adjourned at 12:57