Norsk News 4/23/25

Attendance: Steve Salerno, Heidi Kopras, Dave Reed, Svetlana Neshlyaeva, Mark Rooney, Bob Johnson, Paul Christian, Sarah Straka, Franke Wallitsch, Elizabeth Grabe, Dana Fager

Guests: Gail Morton, Julie Johnson, Susan Wallitsch, Mr. Matt Anderson, MHHS choir teacher.

News: EREY (Every Rotarian Every Year) is our contribution to Rotary International. You can find out where to set up payment through the Rotary International website, or on our club website and clicking the link, “Rotary Direct Giving”

When our club meets our EREY obligation, this allows our club to get matching funds for larger district grants, or grants such as the new Marc Center, or International grants such as Water Sanitation facilities in other countries.

This week is TriCon. We have club members attending, as well as Gary Tree who is presenting about some of the international projects he has worked on.

Interact students will be meeting this Saturday at Neighbors Helping neighbors starting at 9 a.m. Our president encourages us to attend and lend a helping hand.

Happy Bucks: Heidi is happy about going to TriCon.

We all were moved by the excellent performances of the student musicians and Paul chipped in a happy buck.

Save the Date:
Next week Wednesday 4/30 is our Visioning session starting at 5 pm at the Violet Room at Wisconsin Surplus. We need a minimum of 50% of our club members to attend. There will be no noon meeting that day.

May 7th our student Rotarians will be running our meeting.

May 13th at 7:00 pm the Green Team will be having an organizational meeting at the Mount Horeb Public Library.

May 14th we will be looking at our budget for club approval and voting for open positions on our board.

Raffle tickets for Summer Frolic are available. Our group needs to sell 100 tickets at $20 each. Prizes are $10k for first prize with 20 other winners. And speaking of Frolic, sign up genius will be out soon for the hamburger stand.

Paul is using the frolic as a launch for our general release of our 10K Raffle ticket after the reserved tickets have been sold.

Dana has 2 host familes lined up. Still need a host family for December-Spring break. If you or anyone is interested or know someone who may be a candidate as host family please let Sarah or Dana know.

The high school choir student performances started with Anna Trannel's solo, a duet, a show tune solo, and a trio with this month's student rotarian Allie Felcyn.