Last week Michael Linder and Max Burbach served as Greeters. Kevin Welsh gave the invocation. We had several announcements and presentations. Dave Laferla introduced Erik Bird who talked about Saving Grace Food Rescue and how they take food at risk of being thrown away to provide meals to the homeless. The RISK bag was at $419 and Alan Stanek won a free lunch.
Last week Jeff Bakewell recognized Nick Jasa, Cindy Kinsler, and Ryan Keiser as Friends of Suburban Rotary for their donations of $2500 to our local Suburban Rotary Foundation. Our local Foundation supports a variety of projects including matching our District and Global Grants as well as the $50,000 annually in scholarships for students with disabilities. Congratulations and thank you!
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 that your donations support are our global grants to Afghanistan and Togo, the homeless foot clinic, meal packaging, donations to veterans, and support for Crestridge school. YOU make 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 we recognized many of our Presidents' Scholarship Circle Donors. We will continue to recognize them throughout the fundraiser. Thank you!
Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 10th. Instead of our regular Rotary luncheon we will be having a special meeting at Crestridge school, our Adopt-A-School partner. Cost is $10 for a boxed lunch and we will have a program for the students. We will take reservations at the April 25th and May 3rd meetings.
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.
Mark your calendars for service opportunities coming up in April and May (so. much. attendance. credit :) Sign ups coming soon.
Saturday, April 20th 930-1200 Prospect Hill Cemetery Clean- Up (contact Ward Peters to volunteer)
Come rake, sweep, pick up sticks and litter, weed whack and have some outdoor fellowship with our commitment to Prospect Hill Cemetery to keep tidy our Adopt A Plot at 3202 Parker Street. Our first clean up after ol' man winter is Saturday, April 20th, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Bring a friend, spouse, grandchild or your next door neighbor....yard skills are not judged so all are welcome. Bring your favorite yard tool and work gloves if you can otherwise they will be provided. There is an indoor bathroom on the premises. Sometimes there are homemade cookies. We always see the improvements of the section of land we cleaned up. We return every three weeks and get after it during the spring and summer growing season. Please let Ward Peters know you would like to get a blister and help out. (Future Saturdays after 4/20, include 5/18, 6/8, 6/29, 7/27, 8/7, and 9/14.)
Saturday, April 27th DEA Rx drug take-back- go to the calendar on the website and click on the date to sign up.
Saturday, April 27th Tree planting with the City of Omaha (this project is full!)
Saturday, May 11th Polio Plus Car Show (variety of jobs-sign ups coming later)
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