Suburban Scuttlebutt 2/16/17 (Feb 14, 2017)

Coming Up 2/16

PDG Jim Griesen & Dan Blankenau

District Zambia Project

Chair of the Day: Bob Perrin

Posted by Jennifer Jirak-Brungardt

Last week Roger Utman served as our greeter. Cindy Kinsler gave our invocation. Secretary Dave Laferla introduce our guests. John Hoich introduced Governor Pete Ricketts who talked abou the upcoming budget issues for the state. The RISK bag was at $842 and Nick Eastland won a free lunch.

Rotary Foundation

Congratulations and thank you to those who were recognized by Rotary Foundation Committee member Ward Peters last week for their generosity to the Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Foundation is the charity of Rotary. Through Rotary grants, people around the world are served with educational opportunities, health services, clean water, vaccinations, and nutrition. You become a Paul Harris Fellow with your cumulative donations of $1000 and then a PH+ Fellow for every $1000 beyond.

Congratulations to Dan Hosford for becoming a Paul Harris for his donation of $1000. Congratulations to Wei Rowe for becoming a PH+1 Fellow for her donations of $2000.

100%ers

Congratulations to Tom Kerfoot- 6 years and John Hoich-38 years who were recognized for perfect attendance last week!

About Us

We were saddened this week to learn of the passing of Dr. Kirk Lewis, long-time Rotary member. Please keep his wife Barbara and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Her address is 9730 Spring St., Omaha, NE 68124

(If you have information for About Us, please let Jennifer know)

Meal Packaging Project

We need lots of Rotarians, friends, and family to sign up for the meal-packaging project on Saturday, February 25th. Please go to the calendar and click on the event to sign up. We are doing this in conjunction with Southwest and West Rotary and the food will go to Heartland Hope which supplies pantries and shelters around the metro. This project is suitable for all ages!

Buy the Big Wheel-1 booth left!

Is your New Year's Resolution to grow your business? If so, here's a great and inexpensive place to start. Last year we had over 200 Rotarians and guests from all over the metro area attend. Reserve your booth now! Please note the venue to change to Champions club.

Rotary Youth Leadership Award Applications Sought

As you may be aware every April our district coordinates Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) camp. RYLA camp (April 7-9, 2017) is an intensive 3-day training program for High School Juniors that helps participants think critically about important issues and share ideas with talented peers, learn how to coordinate and lead community service projects, discuss the importance of good governance and civil society to the world, and finally, learn to think globally and explore issues that transcend national and cultural boundaries.

To make the camp a success we seek students from diverse backgrounds throughout the district. Diversity in this context refers to any student who is interested in local and global issues and whose participation in this program would help expand and add to their current experiences and perspectives. We seek your help to spread the word about this amazing opportunity and to encourage students you believe would benefit from this experience to apply.

For more information about the program please visit: http://rotarydistrict5650.org/SitePage/ryla

In addition you can visit our Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/hsduvmq

If you have a student that would like to apply or questions, please contact Dick Miller or Jennifer