Last week Kathryn Schubert served as President for Nick Jasa. Eli McNichols, Jeremy Nichols, and Amanda Fink served as greeters and Kelly Adams gave our invocation. Terry Ferguson and Duane Gross hosted our new member mingle tables. We had several announcements and a new member introduction. Curt Peters also introduced the new exchange students. Steve Thornburg introduced Keely Byars who talked about the changing newspaper business and the history of the Omaha World-Herald.
The RISK bag was at $115 and Tracy Rowland won a free lunch for the second week in a row.
L to R: Outbound exchange student Clara Amador who is going to Japan, Chisa Matsuo – Japanese student, Curt Peters,
Elena Garcia Romany – Spanish student and Jason Lin – Taiwanese student
Last week Lou Smetana introduced us to new member Barbara "Barb" Rebrovich.
Barb was a member of Omaha North Rotary for 17+ years, having served in several chapter officer positions, including twice as President. She is a Paul Harris fellow and a graduate of the Rotary Leadership Institute.
Barb has worked in development and fundraising in the higher education world for most of her professional career, including Metro Community College and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and worked the past 8 years as Director of Development for two Omaha non-profits.
Barb is a lifetime member of the Council for Resource Development, having served most recently as national vice-president of communication and marketing. She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Barb has a Master’s Degree in Education Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from UNK.
Barb has two married daughters, one living here in Omaha and one living in the Denver area. She enjoys spending time with four wonderful grandkids and two beagle grandpups. She also loves Husker football and UNO Mavericks hockey. Welcome, Barb!
Thank you to all those who helped at the Baxter-Kenworthy volleyball tournament last week and to our players! A special thanks to Penny McWilliams for organizing this event.
We are pleased to announce the formation of two new Suburban Rotary Committees:
The Environmental Committee will be Chaired by David Kutler and we are separating Buy the Big Wheel from the PR Committee and are looking for a Chair. If you are interested in serving on either of these (or Chairing the Buy the Big Wheel event), please let Jennifer know.
The next book club will be Tuesday, August 14, at 5:30 p.m., at Wheatfields on 103rd and Pacific.
The title of the book is "Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate. This is a Blockbuster Bestseller with New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly! New members are welcome- join us!
Highway Clean-Up is THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 18TH at 7:30 in Elkhorn. Please sign up online.
Prospect Hill Cemetery, the oldest pioneer cemetery in Omaha, 3202 Parker Street, has an agreement with Suburban Rotary to Adopt-A-Plot of grounds to keep tidy all during the growing season. Please consider coming for one of the following future Saturday's, from 10 a.m.-noon, and help weed whack, rake yard waste, sweep the curbs, pick up sticks and pick up litter. Attendance credit guaranteed for your two hour effort. The following Saturdays include: August 25 and September 22nd. Please contact Ward Peters and have some fun on the beautiful grounds.
ATTENDANCE at Suburban Rotary needs to be at 50% of the meetings. Make-ups also count.
ONLINE MAKE-UPS Have you checked this out? If you sometimes find it hard to attend a make-up meeting locally or while out of town, check out the option and opportunity of making up a Rotary meeting 24/7 via the internet. You will find this information at http://www.rotaryeclubone.org for more information. Check your attendance status anytime on our website.
Omaha Southwest , Tues., 5:15 p.m : DJ's Dugout at 17666 Welch Plaza, on the northeast corner of 180th & Q streets. The meeting room is located down the hallway at the southeast corner of the building
WEDNESDAYS Council Bluffs Centennial Wednesday morning at 7 a.m. HyVee in the Mall of the Bluffs
Downtown -Wednesday Noon, Field Club
Western Douglas County 7 a.m., Elkhorn Common Ground Community Center, 1701 Veterans Drive (l block north of Elkhorn H. S.)
Council Bluffs Thursday Noon, Council Bluffs Senior Center
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