Join us Wednesday morning at 7:30am in the Great Hall - Kitchi Gammi Club (831 E Superior St., Duluth, MN 55802) for our morning program hosted by Fred Rouse.
Harbortown Rotary is calling all do-gooders for our last year volunteering at the Bike Duluth Festival (now the Duluth Trails Fest). We are in need of volunteers on Friday, August 7th, and we will be focused on filling the Registration tent.
Registration volunteers will - register all racers, collect payments, ensure mandatory waivers are signed by all participants, distribute bib/race number items, and pass out maps and festival schedules.
Volunteers are needed for two shifts (or the time frame you can accommodate):
9:30am - 3:00pm
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Please let Chloe Strand (ChloeStrand90@gmail.com | 218.340.2531) know if you are interested in participating, or sign up for a shift at our Wednesday morning meeting!
The Harbortown Rotary Board of Directors has approved the corporate membership application of Dan McGaffey for Brightwater Health. McGaffey works as the Chief Human Resources Officer at Brightwater Health (formerly the Human Development Center or HDC). If you have any concerns regarding this proposal, please reach out to Harbortown President Dan Holm. This is the second posting of two.
Thank you to everyone's for your help and participation in the 2026 Cash Raffle. Below are this year's winners! We sold 370/500 tickets for total Revenue of $37,900. With prize money paid out, we raised over $17,000 for our club. Please return any remaining tickets you have in your possession (sold or unsold) asap. We need to have all the tickets on hand for audit purposes.
Congratulations to our 2026 Winners!
$10,000
Jim King
$2,500
Deb Laskowski
$1 ,000
Jeff Olson
$500
Jeff Freier
Jessica Leonzal
David Fulda
Ryan Erspamer
Marty Schubitzke
Scott Miller
Bill Punyko
Craig Carlson
Chris Trapp
Greg Goldman
Rick Oase
Steph Jago
Nichole Carter
Thanks again for your generous support of Harbortown Rotary!
On behalf of the Harbortown Rotary Charitable Foundation board, I want to take this opportunity to thank each of you that took the opportunity to join us July 6th at Ridgeview Country Club for our annual Golf fundraiser to benefit the Robert Hermans Scholarship Fund and the Donald Holm Founders Fund.
And to those that were not able to be join us, we thank you as well for your support of your Foundation!
Your continuing support of those funds and the Foundation is so greatly appreciated. Thanks, again!
Vulnerable and unsure of where to go, women released from jails and prisons across the U.S. face many dangers, sometimes starting right outside with sex traffickers lying in wait in the parking lot. A Rotary club in Topeka, Kansas, has made it its mission to help these women get to safety and rebuild their lives. To do it, they turned to former inmates.
August is Rotary's Membership and New Club Development Month. To mark the occasion, we're highlighting a unique aspect of Rotary membership — support and care for members experiencing major personal challenges. Hear members' stories in our "Lifequakes" feature.
This month, we also turned to our members for stories and tips on how they boost club productivity by tapping into artificial intelligence tools. Then, find even more tips in the Handbook on how to revitalize clubs and create vibrant new ones. Both strategies are essential for reaching Rotary's goal to grow to 1.25 million members by 2030 (more about that in our Goodwill column).
If you have the upcoming program duty (check the duty roster here), please be sure to secure a speaker and provide notice to Chloe Strand (chloestrand90@gmail.com) as soon as your speaker is confirmed. If you are unable to confirm a speaker, please contact Lauren Farden (lauren.farden@edwardjones.com) for help. If you have a different assigned program duty and cannot make it to the meeting, please find a replacement.
Harbortown Rotary has a Windows 11 laptop. Presenters may bring a USB drive with the PowerPoint presentation (or whatever is wanted to be shown on the projector while speaking). Please share this information with your program's presenter.
Upcoming Program Speakers:
Sept. 9th - Dr. Jose Velasquez, Executive Director, Mano a Mano Bolivia
There will be some changes to the Club Service role starting 7/1/26. There will now be a Club Service Committee: Chloe Strand, Brad Jenson, & Steph Jago.
JULY 1 - SEPT. 30, 2026 - Scuttlebutt
For news, announcements, event promotion, social media, media releases, please contact Chloe Strand | cstrand@allete.com | 218.340.2541
OCT. 1 - JUNE 30, 2027 - Scuttlebutt
For news, announcements, event promotion, social media, media releases, please contact Stephanie Jago | sjago@charter.net | 218.343.1833
For Scuttlebutt: If you are hosting the program speaker, please copy Chloe on the speaker's name, organization, and email. If you are the chair of a Harbortown Committee, please update Chloe on relevant information regarding grants and awards, meetings or news. Your information will be used to create more dynamic and engaging content to share with potential club members and on social media!
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