Last week Roxy Orr and Kathryn Schubert served as greeters and Ken Jansen gave our invocation. Rich Rowland hosted our new member mingle table. We had several announcements and presentations. Rose Mary Hefley introduced Dr. Stephanie Koraleski who talked to us about the Time to Heal Program which helps cancer survivors recover. The RISK bag was at $72 and Nate Schwalb won a free lunch.
Last week Mary Bernier introduced new member Alice Schumaker. Alice is originally from a farm north of McCook, NE. She moved to Omaha and earned a Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology from UNMC and held numerous positions in the field of laboratory science in Omaha, Denver, and San Francisco. She holds a Master of Science degree in Pathology from UNMC and Master of Public Administration from UNO and PhD in Education from UNL. She taught in the UNO School of Public Administration, specializing in Health Policy. She later moved to the UNMC College of Public of Health where she recently retired as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.
Alice transferred from Omaha North Rotary where she was a member for over 25 years and served as President. She enjoys gardening, hiking, reading, friends, and grandchildren. Spectator sport favorites are UNO hockey and UNL football. Alice currently serves on the Board of Nebraska StoryArts. Welcome, Alice!
The Suburban Rotary Engagement Award is a new award for the 2018-2019 Rotary year that recognizes club members who meet a set of criteria across a spectrum of club activities which denotes their excellent engagement in the club. They fulfill the "rule of two" in the following five categories: 1) Community Service, Committee Meetings, Donations, Guests, and Miscellaneous. Learn more by accessing the about and club member status pages with the links below.
Suburban Rotary prides itself as one of the most engaged clubs. Please direct general questions regarding this program to the Participation Committee and any questions about Club Member Status to our Executive Director.
We have several Rotary projects coming up including staffing a foot clinic for the homeless on 9/22, cemetery clean-up on 9/22, hotel/motel training on 9/25, highway clean-up on 10/6 and Monster Mash volunteering on 10/13. Please sign up for these online by going to suburbanrotary.org and then clicking on the calendar link and clicking on the event.
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: September 22nd. Please contact Frank McGree and have some fun on the beautiful grounds
Suburban Rotary is leading a multi-club District Grant to fight sex trafficking in District 5650 by training hotel/motel workers how to spot signs of trafficking and report to law enforcement. The District is partnering with the Coalition on Human Trafficking to do this.
We are looking for Rotarians who are willing to attend a 4 hour training session in the next couple of months and then commit to training 3 hotels/motels (45 minutes each) over the next six months. You can make a difference in eliminating this scourge from our community.
CLICK HERE to select a session. For questions contact Jennifer at the office.
The 18-19 Membership Contest will consist of special activities and speakers the first Thursday of each month to encourage Rotarians to bring prospective members to check us out.
When you bring a prospective member to attend a meeting, you will receive a ticket for a drawing to be held in June. When your guest becomes a member, you will receive 10 tickets. At the end of the Rotary year, all tickets will go into a drawing and one member will win free dues for 19-20 and another member will win 1/2 price dues.
Who can you invite that would love Rotary? The service, the friends, the fun! So many reasons to be a part of Suburban Rotary!
Suburban Rotary will be hosting the all-city metro Rotary luncheon at Anthony's on Thursday, October 4th. This will be a plated luncheon featuring Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos as our speaker.
You can make reservations at the meeting this week or online by CLICKING HERE. Who do you know who'd like to hear Bill speaker? This is NOT a walk-in event. Reservations are required. Other Rotary clubs will be taking reservations at their meetings as well.
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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