Show your Rotary pride loud and proud with new official Harbortown logo wear!

 

Thanks to Heather Salfer, who collaborated with John Cron to create the official Harbortown Rotary Apparel website.

 

Click on the link below, select your favorite apparel brand, use the newly branded Harbortown logo and place your order!  Prices vary depending on the brand you select.

 

NEW! Light colored embroidery options are now available for dark apparel. See photograph below for example of thread color.

 

 

 

This month Rotary magazine focuses on the shared vision of Rotary President-Elect Shekhar Mehta, Serve to Change Lives.

 

Hear about one Rotarian's story of service during COVID in Richmond, TX as a medical-surgical nurse, become a member of Rotary's group of geneaologists, and hear from someone who dreams big - our international Rotary President-Elect, Shekhar Mehta in a heart-felt interview.

 

Catherine Coleman Flowers writes a revealing book entitled: Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. The month her book was released (November 2020), senior editor Geoffrey Johnson talked to Flowers about America’s dirty secret, bridging partisan divides, the ways those two topics intersect — and how Rotarians can be part of the solution.

 

All these stories and more online!

 

Madison Nareski helps to operate a licensed family daycare called LPCFC Child Care, offering part-time, full-time and drop-in care 12 hours a day, five days a week. The organization strives to provide affordable, high-quality childcare for infants, preschool age and school-age children, especially those living below the poverty line. In July of 2020 the organization received the Parent Aware 3-star rating.

 

The $250 Harbortown Rotary grant was used to purchase games and STEM-based activities to benefit the students and maintain the quality of the program. "We believe children begin their lives by playing and from their play activities, they learn about the world around them and learn valuable skills to grow," says Madison Nareski, LPCFC AmeriCorps VISTA.

 

"We are grateful for the opportunity from Harbortown Rotary to be able to purchase STEM toys for our children! STEM toys encourage thought, independent thinking and improve cognitive learning." 

 

With the toys purchased Madison says that they will be able to provide their children with many more opportunities to play based on their interests and enjoyment.

 

Photo Credit: Madison Nareski

During these challenging times during COVID, it has become an even greater challenge securing weekly program presenters. But this time also affords the opportunity of the ease of a Zoom presentation versus which can be a bonus for a busy presenter.

 

If you have an upcoming program duty (or if you are unsure, please check the upcoming duty roster) please be sure to secure a speaker and provide notice to Don O'Connor (Don@duluthbx.com) as soon as that speaker is confirmed. If you are unable to confirm a speaker who can present virtually, you could look at options for a Ted Talk, consider presenting yourself on a relevant topic or your business, or create some excitement for a community youth organization you are passionate about. It is your program, so think about what is interesting and engaging to you and share it with others!

 

Even during our virtual meetings, we want to present engaging content and make the meetings meaningful for those that are attending the weekly sessions. We've hosted several prospective members and we want to keep them coming back with great content.

 

If for some reason you are unable to switch duties with another member or you have simply exhausted all efforts to find a speaker, please notify Don no later than 3 business days before the meeting (the Friday before the meeting your program is scheduled) whenever possible.

 

Thank you for your help with this and thank you to all who are working hard to find engaging content for our upcoming sessions!

 

Upcoming Program Duties:

 

June 16: Fred Rouse

June 23: President's Dinner: Ridgeview Country Club

June 30: TBD

July 7: Stephanie Irwin

July 14: Dave Kohlhaas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There have been a number of questions during this time regarding leave of absence and the procedure for submitting a leave.  If you would like to submit a leave of absence, please visit the Harbortown Rotary home page under the Home Page Download Files section or contact admin@harbortownrotary.com to obtain the LOA form.

 

Below are guidelines regarding the Leave Of Absence process:

 

For news, announcements, event promotion social media, media releases and more, please contact Charity Johnson (csjohnson@starbasemn.org or 218-788-7288). 

 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 1.5.2021

 

Chloe Strand joined the Marketing/PR committee last fall and is taking on many duties related to Facebook posts, Member Spotlights and more. When communicating PR details, please copy both Charity (csjohnson@starbasemn.org) and Chloe (Chloe.Strand@hdchrc.org) on relevant information.

 

For Scuttlebutt: If you are hosting the program speaker, please copy Charity on the speaker's name, organization and email. If you are the chair of a Harbortown Committee, please update Charity and Chloe on relevant information regarding grants and awards, meetings or news.   Charity will use this information to create more dynamic and engaging content to share with potential club members and on social media.

 

It is our goal to continue to share the good work that Harbortown Rotary is doing in our community, so your help and support is greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you!