The Coulee Report Rotary Club of La Crosse Fri Jul 19, 2013 Home Editor Lyn Sheffer If you have any comments or questions, please contact the editor. Speakers Jul 25, 2013 Hal Keitel Tomah and La Crosse Rotary Uganda Project Update Aug 15, 2013 NO MEETING TODAY ATTEND THE AVENUES OF SERVICE DINNER ON August 13th Aug 29, 2013 Emily Arnold My Year in Croatia as a Youth Exchange Student View entire list... Club Events Come For Supper Our Savior's Lutheran Church Jul 30, 2013 04:30 PM Avenues of Service Dinner Lunda Center Aug 13, 2013 05:30 PM - 09:00 PM Rotary Board Meeting Radisson Hotel Aug 19, 2013 11:30 AM Rotary Club of La Crosse CLUB INFO Next Meeting July 25, 2013 Meeting at Noon Radisson Center Buffet Starts at 11:30 Duty Roster Active Members 163 - Honorary Members 22 Attendance 62% - July 18th THIS WEEK AT ROTARY District 6250 Club 2690 THIS WEEK AT ROTARY... Hal Keitel, chair of our World Service Committee will be presenting YOUR Club's World Service Project. Our club will be working with the Tomah Rotary Club on a project in Busolo, Uganda and surrounding communities. There are many components to this project - water, education, healthcare. Hal and his committee are excited to "Engage Rotary Change Lives." This project will open many doors and relationships. Come to our meeting this Thursday and learn how YOU can get involved and support our World Service Committee. LAST WEEK AT ROTARY Website Sponsors Please visit our Sponsors. Click here to place your ad LAST WEEK AT ROTARY...President Jeff Odom's presentation was about his expectations for the 2013-14 Rotary year...the RI theme this year is "ENGAGE ROTARY CHANGE LIVES"...how is our club going to ENGAGE ROTARY...how are YOU going to ENGAGE ROTARY this year! We need to recruit and ENGAGE new members, we need to retain and ENGAGE current members...we need ACTIVE members and ACTIVE committees. We need YOU to help CHANGE LIVES. Attendance at our meetings is the first step for you to become ENGAGED. This week we had 62% of our members attend... we will note the percentage each week in our newsletter...let's see it move upward this year as we all ENGAGE ROTARY CHANGE LIVES. Jeff's PowerPoint presentation. Jeff also recognized his 2013-14 Board of Directors...click here to view members and their contact info...they are representing you on the board. If
Website Sponsors you have any questions or concerns they are here to answer your questions or bring your concerns to our board meetings. Past President Cheryl Hancock, presented the 2012-13 Rotarian of the Year to Bill Pritchard. Bill has been outstanding in his service to the club and to the district. He has been highly engaged in the Youth Exchange program making it work for both the club and our inbound students. He has been involved with the Rotary Foundation Annual Support Committee, Co-Chair of our STAR Committee, Group Study Exchange Committee and Rotary Friendship Committee. At the district level he has assumed several very important responsibilities, including the District Ethics Committee and the Chair of the District Membership Committee. There is no one more deserving of receiving Rotarian of the Year from the La Crosse Downtown Club than Bill Pritchard. Photos from meeting. WELCOME NEW MEMBER
Kathy Van Kirk Przywojski Owner - Creative Director Vendi Advertising, LLC Proposer: Chuck Hanson Remember to meet and greet new members who can be identified by their temporary red badge. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS...This year we had 8 OUTSTANDING nominations from the area Rotary Clubs for the Lifetime Achievement Award - three were from our club...the committee has chosen two this year for this honor. We are happy to say BOTH recipients are from our club! Congratulations to Elmer Grassman and Pat Smith on being the recipients this year. We will be honoring them at the Avenues of Service Dinner on Tuesday, August 13th at the Lunda Center...let's show our support by attending this event. PAT SMITH ELMER GRASSMAN CONGRATULATIONS PAT AND ELMER! AVENUES OF SERVICE DINNER 2013
OUR ANNUAL AVENUES OF SERVICE DINNER 2013 will be Tuesday, August 13th at the Lunda Center...we are looking for nominations for Lifetime Achievement and Rotary Avenue of Service Awards...click here for more information and nomination forms. DEADLINE to submit forms is JULY 12TH!!! Save the DATE, Tuesday, August 13th! Click on flyer below for more information. Click here to register for the event. KIDS COULEE Kids Coulee - Community Working Together...Sharon Imes' program on June 27th gave the history of Kids Coulee and why this is one of our club's annual service project every year. Sharon's PowerPoint Presentation. Click here. Kids Coulee - A community-built playscape for children of all abilities. Kids Coulee was completely funded by donations of more than $190,000 and built by over 3,700 volunteers in 1994 Kids Coulee is a special multi-leveled playscape with a number of play structures that challenges children of all abilities and an amphitheater that is unique in the county. Each spring area Rotarians have a Rotary Work Day at Kids Coulee and volunteer to spruce up Kids Coulee. The La Crosse Rotary Downtown Annual Service Committee headed by Kurt Schroeder obtained funding last year to purchase and install an Ocean Seesaw that accommodates all children including those with disabilities. They received funding from the La Crosse Community-Foundation-Mary Grace Sieber Fund, Rotary Works Foundation (includes all area Rotary Clubs) and the City of La Crosse. We thank all three organizations for working together with the area Rotary Clubs to continue to keep Kids Coulee a safe play area for our children and grandchildren. Photos Kids Coulee
ROTARY CLUB RAFFLE An amazing, beautifully framed 36" x 16" Rotary Lights print will be raffled off at our Avenues of Service Dinner on Tuesday, August 13th. Photo taken from Pettibone Park with our Rotary Lights reflected in the Mississippi River. Tickets are $5.00 or 3 for $10.00. Jeanne Meyer will be selling tickets at our upcoming meetings. All proceeds will benefit OUR Rotary Works Foundation. Special thanks to Mary Stanek who donated the print, Steve Ketterhagen (DIGICOPY) for printing the raffle tickets and Jeanne Meyer for chairing this project. MILWAUKEE BREWERS - ROTARY NIGHT MILWAUKEE BREWERS...Rotary Club Night Friday 8/16 vs. CIN 7:10pm The Milwaukee Brewers invite all Rotary Club members to Miller Park to watch the Brewers take on the Cincinnati Reds on Friday, August 16th @ 7:10pm. Rotarians can enjoy 50% off on their seats by purchasing through this special offer. Simply click on the "Buy Now" button, choose the August 16 game and enter the coupon code "rotary" to receive your special ticket savings! Field Outfield Box Seats $21 and Terrace Box and Terrace Box Family Section $12.00.
Buy Now To purchase groups of 25 or more, please contact the Brewers at 414-902- GAME (4263). Offer valid until Aug. 15th, 2013 or while supplies last. Click here for flyer. NOON TUNES NOON TUNES Enjoy your Wednesday lunches with FREE entertainment from 11:30 to 1:30 at Riverside Park. Noon Tunes is brought to you by Valley View Rotary, City of La Crosse, Downtown Mainstreet and other great sponsors. Click to learn more! CELEBRATIONS
Happy Birthday Jerry Arndt - July 29th Sean Henneman - July 30th Jeanne Meyer - July 31st Joyce Wichelt - July 31st Happy Wedding Anniversary Cheryl (Victor) Hancock - July 27th Kyle (Jodie) Visker - July 28th Bill (Karen) Hoel - July 29th CELEBRATIONS July 25th through July 31st Happy Club Anniversary Pat Smith (honorary) - July 27th - 18 years Fred Ross - July 30th - 49 years RAFFLES Weekly Raffle: Buy a ticket for $1.00 and you are entered in two drawings. We will draw two tickets. 1st = $10, 2nd = Marble Drawing. We have a bag of: 1 blue marble, 1 red marble and a number of white marbles. If you pick the "blue" marble you win the "$" in the marble pot that day and if you pick the "red" you win "$20" (if that amount is in the pot) and if you pick a "white" you win nothing. July 25h Raffle $10 Drawing & Marble Drawing - $150 Raffle Tickets 1 for $1.00, 3 for $2.00 or 10 for $5.00 PLEASE NOTE: Raffle, Fines, Birthday and Anniversaries and Scooters are all donations that will go to the Club. If you are making a donation and would like it to designate it to the Rotary Works Foundation or Rotary International Foundation, we ask that you write a check to the Foundation of your choice. Please note on the check Rotary Works Foundation or RI Foundation. July 18th: Raffle $74.00; Fines $45.00; Scooters $12.00 ROTARY LINKS La Crosse Rotary Club Facebook
The La Crosse Rotary Brain Game, Inc. Facebook District 6250 Web Site Link...District Newsletter Link Zone 28 & 29 Web Site Link...Zone 28 Newsletter Link Make-up Opportunity Local Clubs Rotary International Club Locator CONTACT INFO Rotary Club of La Crosse, P.O. Box 1914, La Crosse, WI 54602-1914 608-526-4491 (Phone and Fax) Lyn Sheffer, Administrator rotarylax@charter.net Earlamae Dahlby, Secretary Attendance and Make-up Coordinator earlamae@centurytel.net The La Crosse Brain Game, P.O. Box 384, La Crosse, WI 54602-0384 608-799-7974 Mary Evers, Administrator info@rotarybraingame.org Rotary Works Foundation, P.O. Box 1571, La Crosse, WI 54602-1571 608-796-1201 Kelli Mundinger, Administrator kelli.mundinger@gmail.com Rotary Club of La Crosse-After Hours, P.O. Box 1622, La Crosse WI 54602-1622 LaCrosse@Rotaryafterhours.org 2002 2013 Doxess. All rights reserved. Privacy Statement Online Help System Requirements