Last week Roxy Orr gave the invocation. Alan Stanek and Jordan walker served as greeters. Dick Caulk introduced the 4 Way Test Award for Omahans of the Year. Lyle Sapp introduced the winners Bill and Evonne Williams for their work in honoring veterans and their families. The RISK bag was up to $108 and Nick Jasa won a free lunch.
Thank you all for your generous support of our annual Suburban Rotary Club Charitable Foundation.
Last week was our last week for recognizing members of the President's Scholarship Circle. We recognized Scholarship Circle members Jim Nelson, Mark Baratta, Ed Fleming, and Roger Carrell. Not pictured are Matt Darling, Jill Hruska, David Jacobs, and Will Prout. Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's fundraiser a success!
Congratulations to 100%ers Rich Craig-6 years, Nick Eastland-31 years, Jack Heidel-3, Joe Sequenzia-4, Gregg Bailey-2, Frank McGree-17, David Gerard-35, Frank Goldberg-36 years all presented by Judy Sealer of the attendance committee two weeks ago.
The 5th Annual Baxter-Kenworthy volleyball tournament will be held on July 23rd. We are looking to form a committee of people to help with this event as it has grown substantially over the past few years.
We are very fortunate to have all of the proceeds from this event go to our scholarship program. Please let Jennifer know if you are willing to help.
Also, if your company wants to sponsor a team please let Penny McWilliams know.
Connect your business with Suburban Rotary members!
ADVERTISE in the Rotary Roster and you will be in the
Categorical Index of Advertisers in the ROSTER
Suburban Rotary Roster Advertisers HANDOUT!
AND your LOGO will be on the Website and Scuttlebutt.
Just imagine, when a member needs a certain good or service, how easy it will be for members to find you or any other member business category. These listings will be the place to go!
The Annual Metro Luncheon will be early this year so that we can take advantage of a fantastic set of speakers traveling to Omaha to talk about an important issue. Please save Tuesday, July 19th at Champions Run on your calendar. Cost and more information coming soon.
Human Trafficking:
Modern Day Slavery
Summary of the Presentation
Every five seconds, another person enters slavery somewhere in the world. It is estimated that there are over 35 million people in slavery today – more than any other time in history. One minute it might be a fifteen year old girl forced into prostitution, or a young boy forced onto a fishing boat to work 18 hours a day for years without coming to port. To make sense of this crime against humanity, Matt and Sylvia Friedman will offer a compressive update on the State-of-the-Art of human slavery. Matt and Sylvia’s talk will explore the changing human trafficking paradigm; the relationship between human trafficking and slavery; global trends and patterns; new, emerging responses; evolving funding trends; what is working/not working; the role of the private sector; and what is really needed to win the fight. The presentation will offer a glimpse behind the curtain of this terrible human rights abuse – one that is much closer to home than we might expect.
Presenters
Matt Friedman
Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 25 years of experience as a manager, program designer, evaluator, and front-line responder. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of The Mekong Club, an organization made up of Hong Kong-based private sector business leaders who have joined forces to help fight human trafficking in Asia. Matt was the Regional Project Manager of the U.N.
Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in Thailand from 2006-2012. He has presented to the United Nations, the World Bank, U.S. State Department and the Vatican. He has been featured in news coverage by the NY Times, BBC, National Geographic, and CNN among other publications.
Sylvia Yu Friedman
Sylvia Yu is a Hong Kong-based award-winning Canadian journalist, TV anchor, documentary producer, book author and advisor to philanthropists. She was the winner of the prestigious 2013 International Human Rights Press Award (TV Special Merit) for her series on human trafficking and slavery in China, Hong Kong and Thailand. Sylvia has managed and directed more than US$9 million to humanitarian projects since 2005 that have impacted at the very least more than one million people.
We have been approached to help provide volunteers for a run/walk on 25th. Since we did not have a planned service project, we have offered to help find volunteers for this event. Please read the below and then click on the link at the bottom to sign up for a duty. Be sure to get a ROTARIAN AT WORK t-shirt from Jennifer if you don't have one. This event counts for attendance credit as well as a Yearlings service credit.
"We are in need of volunteers for our upcoming Take Steps Walk, scheduled for Saturday, June 25 at Chalco Hills Recreation Area/ The Omaha Take Steps walk is expected to exceed 800 attendees this year. We will have a kids' zone, raffle and other activities. Proceeds from the walk will support multiple local programs as well as nationwide CCFA initiatives. Locally, proceeds will help support area children who attend Camp Oasis for children with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, our educational events for families & caregivers, and research initiatives. The fastest growing population of patients are children under age 18; these diseases were previously thought to most commonly strike young adults.
Go to the home page of the Rotary District 5650 website to see the story about the last session or click here.
Rotary Leadership Institute provides an opportunity for Rotary Club Members to discover Rotary. This is not "position-specific training". It is a facilitated, activity-based program that allows all participants to share experiences and solve problems. We all work together:
Participants are:
- Long-term members and New Members
- Young and Old
- Some Members have Club Positions, some do not
- District Leaders will be at the sessions
The Participants will:
- Spend some time learning about Rotary
- Use and enhance your leadership skills
- Make new friends and build partnerships
- Get more out of Rotary
Recent testimonial: I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at RLI. I have met many interesting people and, with each session, leave with a new enthusiasm for Rotary. I believe that everyone should attend RLI.
Please contact Jennifer if you are interested in this opportunity. Our club will pay for you to attend.
Registration for the 2016 Rotary District 5650 Conference this August is now open! Join Rotarians from throughout our District to celebrate the accomplishments of Rotary in our region and the world during the past year.
Please make your plans early and access our early bird rate of $75. Registration is available online at www.rotarydistrict5650.org. The conference hotel is The Cornhusker Marriott, 333 S 13th St. A block of rooms has been reserved at a rate of $99 per night. Call 402.474.7474 and ask for the "Rotary District" block of rooms.
SW Rotary is planning their 8th Annual Wine Tasting event which will be held in October and will once again benefit the Boys Town National Hotline. This year, we are moving the event to A View on State, 13467 State St. On Tuesday, 6/21/2016, we are holding our regular 5:15 pm club meeting at the new venue. We’d like to invite local area Rotarians to come check out our new venue and earn a make-up by helping us taste-test Hors d’ Oeuvres from our new supplier, Pleasure Your Palette, and of course, WINE from Sterling Distributors. We hope you can join us as well!
Traveling this summer? Think about visiting a Rotary club at your destination. Jennifer can provide you with a Suburban Rotary flag to present to the club when you visit. Send in photos of Rotary projects or meetings to Jennifer for the newsletter.
Here's a photo from John Hoich in Italy (he visited a club there as well).
Tom Kerfoot in Norfolk
Jennifer and Ashley Baker presenting a flag to incoming Rotary International Director Gerard Allonneau and his wife Evelyn.
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.
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 CC
Omaha Northwest , Tues. Noon, Champions Run
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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