Last week Kevin Story and Deanna Fuller served as Greeters. Tom Adams gave the invocation. We had several announcements and presentations. Jeff Moran, Curt Peters, Lyle Sapp, and Holly Hollenbeck all presented on the Suburban Rotary Charitable Foundation both about purpose and goals. The RISK bag was at $349 and Amanda Fink won a free lunch.
We are conducting our annual Suburban Rotary Charitable Foundation fundraiser for the next several weeks. Our goal is 40K. We ask every Rotarian to make a donation of any size to support all of our great projects. Donors of $300 or more (pledge or cash) will be recognized as members of the President's Scholarship Circle. Examples are our global grants to Afghanistan and Togo. The homeless foot clinic, meal packaging, donations to veterans, Crestridge school. Your support makes all this possible. CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE
Thank you to those who have already donated or pledged support this year! (Scholarship Circle members are in bold)
Last week Angeline Larson presented Tom Vann with the Suburban Rotary Engagement Award. This is new for this Rotary year and recognizes Rotarians for being involved at a higher level. Congratulations Tom! To see your engagement tracking, CLICK HERE.
Requirements include:
Community Service - participate in two community service activities.
Committee Meetings - attend two committee meetings.
Donation - make a $100 donation to the two foundations we support: the Suburban Rotary Charitable Foundation and The Rotary Foundation.
Guests - bring two potential member guests to a club meeting.
Miscellaneous - attend two activities of any combination of the following type:
Attend a Suburban Rotary Yearlings meeting
Attend a Suburban Rotary after hours event
Attend a District 5650 meeting or event
Serve as greeter
Give an invocation
This list may be added to or subtracted to at the discretion of the membership committee or at the direction of the president
Youth Career fair, hosted by Suburban Rotary of Omaha.
On June 1st, 2019 from 10am to 2pm we will be hosting a youth career fair for kids in foster care and at-risk kids. Age groups will be 14-20-year-old. We will be inviting employers and organizations in the community to promote jobs for the age group available now and career ideas for the future in various fields of interest. Food will be provided to the attendees. There is no fee to any employer, etc. who wants to attend. Contact Kelly Adams for information on how to be involved.
Minnesota Rotarian to Share Work on Climate Advocacy
Bruce Morlan, Rotary Club member of Northfield, MN, will share his experiences working with Rotarians on climate change.
Thursday, March 28, 6:00 pm until 7:30, cash bar.
La Mesa, 1405 Fort Crook Rd. South, Between Cornhusker and Hwy 370
Morlan is a member of the Rotary Club's Climate Action Team in Northfield, and the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group, ESRAG. "We formed ESRAG to empower members of the Rotary Family worldwide to take actions to sustain our environment, particularly to stabilize our climate. " ESRAG
The next book is: The Tatooist of Auschwitz, which is a novel based on real interviews that were conducted with Holocaust Survivor and Auschwitz Tatooist, Ludwig Sokolov
We will be meeting on April 8th at 5:30 p.m. at Wheatfields on 103rd and Pacific.
If you are looking to make an impact on the scourge of Human Trafficking in our area, consider being a hotel/motel trainer. You will teach employees how to spot and report signs of human trafficking. To learn how to do this, you must attend a training session by the Coalition on Human Trafficking. The final session was rescheduled from this weekend due to weather to March 30th from 9am-1pm in Lincoln. To sign up, go to our website and see the tab on the upper left side. Contact Jennifer at the office with questions.
The next selection is "Bones Don't Lie," by Melinda Leigh. It looks like a suspense thriller, and is an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Our next meeting to discuss this book is Tuesday, March 12, at 5:30 p.m. at Wheatfields on 103rd and Pacific. Please remember that attendance at the Book Club counts as a Rotary Attendance Credit....new members welcome!
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.
They meet the first, third, and fifth Tuesdays of the month at 5:30 pm.
We are now known as the Omaha Rotary Night Club! Our meeting time has also changed, we now meet the first, third, and fifth Tuesdays of the month at 5:30 pm at DJ's Dugout at 176th & Q.
Starting April 2, 2019, we will be changing all future meetings to Vincenzo's, 15701 Pacific St.
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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