Norsk News 10/5/2022

Attendance: S. Neshlyaeva, H. Kopras, R Christian, J Steinhauer, E Grabe, S Salerno, Andy Woodcock, S. Bollig, S & F Wallitsch, P Christiansen, J Burns, K White, T Wedig

Announcements:
Trailer clean up Sat. Oct. 15th at 503 Parkview Dr. 10 a.m.-until finished.

10/26 District Gov. visits. We are still collecting gifts for a basket to present. Board members meet at 11 a.m. prior to lunch to meet with the governor.

Guest: Andy Woodcock, Rotarian from Cedar Rapids of Birch Lake Hospitality which manages Grand Stay Hotel here in Mount Horeb.

Guest Students: Gwen Mahoney, Natalie Broderick from Interact to share about the Neighbors Helping Neighbors event 10/16 at the Intermediate Center school parking lot from 12 until 4 pm

Club interact is picking up and coordinating food. Rotary members are asked to contribute, or hand out food.

Treasurer’s report: Set up a meeting to have accounts match the budgets, coming soon to schedule.

Secretary’s Report: Liz has been covering for our Secretary Peggy who is out of the country.

New Generations: Judy: update on Soren who is having a wonderful experience. Getting a taste of harvesting olives, wine and he thanks us for the opportunity.

Exchange students for next year: put the word out for anyone interested. 1 family is set up for hosting.

Anyone interested in being a host family for ’23-24 contact Judy.

Club members considering working with students need to go through the rotary volunteer application process. Go to website for the volunteer application. Click on this link:
 https://yehub.net/cgi-bin/CEN_get.cgi?pgid=vola

There are 7 applications for student rotarians

Grants: Met Monday night about goals, applications open throughout November with submittal Deadline 3/1 to be presented at the 5th Wed. in May

November: EREY everyone gives $100 to qualify for the district loans. Payment can be made at https://www.rotary.org/en/donate

Still up to be scheduled is International Night, and Travel to Puerto Rico.

Russ: we can go to PR, it is done, it’s ready. The building was hurricane proof, powered by solar. Was up and running after the storm in a few days. Going after hurricane, early Nov. Mid Jan.-early Feb. are good days.

Find out who interested in the club. Depending on the number of people accommodations could be hotel, or whole house. Locations are La Perla (where the video was filmed near Old San Juan) and Louisa, a more indigenous area.

We can fly direct from (ORD) Ohare airport for $500. 4 hour flight.

Shawn discussed having a fund that can be given out at will. There is a set-aside of monies available as a separate grant fund for whatever kind of grant we choose.

Social: Finishing up with follow up thank you and mailed donation for the elevator fund to Mount Horeb United Methodist Church. No social on the next 5th Wednesday. In place of 5th Wednesday social will be lunch meeting at 12:00 on 11/30.

Fundraising Paul: 10th ticket & raffle items, just checking to see if they have been picked up or given out. Super Bowl Brunch will be coming sooner than we think. Notes for the brunch are missing on shared folder on g-drive. Anyone who has any notes or files to share on google drive please forward to Paul.

Future President Elect: Looking for next president elect for ’23-24. Russ expressed that is is a great way to be involved, and if you are on the board you already know what is entailed in the duty.

Susan: there are people who can step in if you can’t run every meeting. People will help, work gets divided up, and we are more organized on dividing up the work.

Recruiting New Members: Russ encouraged people who know the list of possible new members to stay in touch. Liz suggested sending out our Thank You cards to prospects thanking them for what they do for the community as a way to reach out and build rapport.
 

Thanks for your patience as I fill in for Peggy with Norsk News.

Liz