Suburban Scuttlebutt 2/8/18 (Feb 05, 2018)

Coming up on 2/8/18

Jason and Michelle Hurt

Chariots 4 Hope

Chair of the Day: Paul Adams

Invocator: Kelly Adams

1115 Greeter: Nick Eastland

1145 Greeter: Tom Kerfoot

Meeting re-cap 2/1/18

Last week Mark Anson and Roxy Orr served as Greeters. Ralph Williams gave the invocation. We had several announcements and presentations as well as a new member introduction. Christopher Pfanstiel introduced Julie Shrader who talked to us about the organization Rejuvenating Women which helps survivors of human trafficking. The RISK bag was at $669 and Roxy Orr won a free lunch.

Welcome Josh Hammerling!

Last week Holly Hollenbeck introduced us to new member Josh Hammerling. Josh is the owner of 402 Sales an ecommerce sales and consulting business with specialization in video marketing strategies utilizing Facebook and other social media platforms. Josh is originally from California where he started working in web design and marketing at age 17.

Josh has served in the U.S. Air Force for twenty years and will honorably retired as a Master Sergeant this March. He has served in the intelligence sector and has received numerous awards including being named as the Intelligence Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year in 2013. He received the Military Intelligence Thomas Knowlton Award in 2012 and was nominated for the Bronze Star. Josh has been deployed to Kuwait, South Korea, Qatar, the Phillippines, and Afghanistan.

Josh is married to Alyssa who is a Nebraska native and they have blended family of three daughters and are expecting a son. His hobbies include thrift store shopping, cooking, and watching sports. Josh's father has been a Rotarian for over 30 years in California. Welcome, Josh!

100%ers

Congratulations to Roger Groff- 9 years, Lee Myers- 4, John Hoich- 39, and Tom Kerfoot-7 who were recognized for perfect attendance by Josh Berry last week.

Permanent badge

Congratulations to David Richards earned and received his permanent badge last week from Yearlings Chair Dan Lupardus.

Check in wait times

Please note that we are upgrading our credit card machine to run transactions "live". This will put us in compliance with our processor but increase the amount of time to run a transaction. Consider skipping the weekly line for the machine by purchasing a lunch or meeting only punch-card. You can get a 10 lunch card for $160 or a 13 meeting only card for $104. We will have them available at the check-in desk.

After Hours THIS THURSDAY!

Join us for a fun After Hours at Big John's Billiards this Thursday from 5:30- 8. 9819 M. Street.

We will have a pool tournament also. Please let Jennifer or Rich Craig know if you want to play.

We need your help to package 27,000 meals!

Our annual meal packaging project has gotten even bigger this year. 4 clubs will be participating including Millard, Southwest, and West along with us. 160 volunteers are needed to package meals for hungry families in Omaha on Saturday, February 17th. Several shifts are available. All ages are welcome to help with this. Step stools can be provided for young volunteers and seating for those who cannot stand for a long time. Please invite your friends and family to help with this great project. Click here to sign up.

Thanks to all our volunteers (and Magan Smith for organizing!) our Souper Bowl Food Drive last weekend. We collected $562 in cash which will go to package more meals and the food will go to Together, Inc.

Rotary Book Club

"Unsaid" by Neil Abramson will be our next book.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 13, at 5:30 p.m. at Wheatfields. All our welcome!

Buy the Big Wheel- Reserve your booth now!

About Us

Some future Rotarians here: Jim Leslie's granddaughters. If you have some photos of family in 50th anniversary shirts, please send them to Jennifer.

Activities of Other Clubs

Monthly Lunch Sponsor

Thank you to Mark Taylor/Nebraska Realty for your sponsorship of student and speaker lunches for the month of February.

50th Anniversary Book and Party

Rotarians will be taking pre-orders for the 50th anniversary hardcover book at the back table. Cost is $35 and gets you a discount to the March anniversary party.

Mark your calendar for Saturday, March 24th, 6 pm — 50th Anniversary Party (adults only) Dinner, Dancing and Suburban FUN! Party like its 1999…oops that’s gone but so is the last 50 years! Field Club Country Club (details coming later)

50th Anniversary Sponsors

Thank you to all those who have signed up as sponsors to help support the events and history book for our 50th Anniversary year!

Need a Make-up?

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.

MONDAYS
Bellevue , Monday Noon, DJ's Dugout, 23rd & Cornhusker-West of Kennedy Frwy,Bellevue

Millard Monday Noon, German American Society located at 3717 South 120th Street

North, Monday Noon at Eppley

TUESDAYS
Omaha Morning Tues., 7 a.m.,

Happy Hollow will be closed for remodeling January through March.

Omaha Morning Rotary will be meeting at the Garden Cafe in Rockbrook for those three months.
11040 Oak Street, Omaha, NE 68144

The meeting will cost will be $11 per person. Sorry, we will not have a "no breakfast" option during this relocation.

Omaha Northwest , Tues. Noon,

( Effective August 15th Northwest Rotary will meet Tuesday's at noon at Jerico's, 11732 W Dodge Rd, Omaha, NE 68154.)

TUESDAY NIGHT

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

FRIDAYS

Omaha West Friday Noon, Champions Club,