This Week's Rotary Scuttlebutt 5-26-2021 (May 25, 2021)

This Week: Gary New Duluth Rec Center Clean-Up Service Project

Tomorrow there will be no morning meeting.

We will continue our hands-on service project at the Gary New Duluth Recreation Center and Veterans' Memorial.

4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

801 101st Ave W, Duluth, MN 55808

We will be working on the following:

- Cleaning out the ditch by the culvert.

- Trimming around soccer field fence, dog park fence and the orange construction fence.

- Tying up the orange construction fence with zip ties

- Trash pickup

- Checking on the Veterans Memorial for any clean up.

Be sure to bring or wear rubber boots, work gloves, wear long sleeves and be prepared for mosquitos!

Consider bringing gardening equipment such as weed whackers, spades, trimmers, clippers, etc. If someone could bring a leaf blower or two we will need those after all the grass trimming by the sidewalks and sport courts. Thank you!

You can still join by emailing Jinell at jinellabernethy@gmail.com.

The service project may be followed by an informal gathering or happy hour.

Read about GND's Commonwealth Clean-up on Facebook

Robert Hermans Scholarship Winners

The Robert Hermans Harbortown Rotary Club Scholarship Committee is very pleased to inform you that the following students have been awarded a non-renewable scholarship in the amount of $2,000.00 for the 2021-2022 school year. This scholarship may be used for admission to any fully accredited degree-granting college or university. Congratulations to the recipients! We will be recognizing these outstanding students at one of our upcoming June meetings. And watch Facebook and Scuttlebutt for student features!

Claire Barlass – Duluth Denfeld

Tawny Plentyhorse – Duluth Denfeld

Martha Carlson - Duluth East

Denali Kovach - Duluth East

Matthew Scribner - Marshall School

Derek Thompson - William Kelley (Silver Bay)

Harbortown Rotary awarded its first scholarship in 1995. Including the recipients this year Harbortown has awarded $230,000 to area students pursing secondary education!

Raffle Update June 8th: Ticket Turn-In

Only two weeks left before the big cash extravaganza! We have 130 tickets left to collect, so please keep those tickets coming in! All cash raffle tickets need to be turned in, regardless of whether they have been sold or not, by absolutely no later then June 22nd as they need to be present for the June 23rd raffle date.

Please give me a call, or shoot me an email if you would like me to pick up stubs and cash to turn in on your behalf. Here is a quick update on our Cash Raffle fundraiser so far:

370 Sold Tickets have been turned in to date.
130 Tickets need to be turned in.
All tickets are distributed out to members

Turn in unsold tickets to Greg Goldman and Tony Hansen as soon as possible so they can redistribute to member looking for more tickets.

Thank you everyone for the continued support!

Tony Hansen
Email: Tmh0823@gmail.com
Cell: (218) 343-6499

Please Update ClubRunner Profiles

As part of a new Presidential and PR initiative, Heather Salfer and Charity Johnson are asking each active member to please update your profile in ClubRunner as soon as possible. Please be sure to upload/include a recent photograph as well.

If you have any questions about logging into ClubRunner or where you update your information, please contact Charity at csjohnson@starbasemn.org.

Thank you for your prompt response on this!

Rotary International 2021 Virtual Conference: June 12-16

The 2021 Virtual Convention will be better than ever, opening more innovative opportunities to learn and to engage with the family of Rotary, near and far. You’ll be able to network in virtual lounges, meet new partners in service, and join fun activities with Rotary members from around the world.

This event is open to all Rotary members and participants from 12-16 June 2021. Registration fees are as follows:

Promotional rate: $49* through midnight on May 7
Regular rate: $65 - May 8 through June 16

*Registration must be paid in full between 16 April and 7 May to receive the $49 rate.

Registration is also now open for the Rotaract, Youth Exchange Officer and Inter-Country Committee pre-conventions, which will be held June 10-11, 2021. The cost of each preconvention event is $20.

Both the convention and preconvention events include access to the virtual House of Friendship.

New Embroidery Options! Harbortown Logo Wear Available Now!

Show your Rotary pride with new official Harbortown logo wear!

Thank you to Heather Salfer and John Cron for creating the official Harbortown Rotary Apparel website. Click 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 below for example of thread color.

http://www.asbaces.com/newaces/default.aspx?UID=HARBORTOWN

Upcoming Program Duties

If you have an upcoming program duty (please check the upcoming duty roster), please be sure to secure a speaker and provide notice to Rick Oase (rickoase@yahoo.com) or Stephanie Judd (sljudd@gmail.com) as soon as that speaker is confirmed. If you are unable to confirm a speaker, consider other program ideas like a Ted Talk, presenting yourself on a relevant topic or your business, or creating some excitement for a community organization you are passionate about. It is your program, so think about what is interesting and engaging to you and share it with others!

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 Rick or Stephanie no later than 3 business days before the meeting (the Friday before the meeting your program is scheduled).

The Holiday Inn has dedicated a laptop for weekly Harbortown use. All presenters need to bring is 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.

Because Harbortown is asked by the Holiday Inn for RSVPs each week, Rob will RSVP each weekly presenter to ensure the presenter gets breakfast. If the presenter is bringing a guest, please let Rob know so he can RSVP the guest, as well. Questions? Please contact Rob Haglin (rhanglin@awkuettl.com).

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

Upcoming Program Duties:

October 27: Andres Gonzalez: Dave Uric, Twin Metals

November 3: Keith Kylmala, Rotary Foundation Day

November 10: Evening Fellowship Gathering

November 17: Tony Hansen

November 24: Bob Lindquist

Harbortown News

For news, announcements, event promotion, social media, media releases, and more, please contact Charity Johnson (csjohnson@starbasemn.org / 218-788-7288) and Chloe Strand (chloe.strand@hdchrc.org / 218.340.2531).

For Scuttlebutt: If you are hosting the program speaker, please copy Charity and Chloe 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 and Chloe 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!

Harbortown Rotary 2021