Join us Wednesday morning at 7:30am in the Great Hall - Kitchi Gammi Club (831 E Superior St., Duluth, MN 55802) as we hear from Tom Meyer (skyline rotary) on their recent trip to Belize.
Tom Meyer has been a Rotarian since 2000. He and his wife Susan participated in a mission trip to Belize City, Belize organized by Carol Cry through St. Benedict's Church of Duluth along with 13 others. This is part of an on going effort to help the poorest of that city by building transitional and permanent housing for individuals identified by the priest of the local parish. Carol Cry has been organizing this effort for 8 years.
If you are feeling called to help with disaster response following Hurricane Helene and are looking for a way to contribute, please consider donating to the Rotary Foundation Disaster Response Fund. Your gift helps Rotary clubs provide disaster recovery and support rebuilding efforts. Contributions are made available through Rotary Disaster Response Grants.
The structure set up by The Rotary Foundation to allow for Rotarians to give toward disaster response is the Disaster Response Fund. When giving to this fund, donors cannot give toward a specific disaster but instead helps to ensure there are funds available for affected Districts to apply for a Disaster Response Grant to help their communities recover.
There are also opportunities to donate outside of The Rotary Foundation.
The Rotary Zones of 33/34 have a Foundation with a fund to specifically address disaster relief in their area. A link can be found here: https://www.rizones33-34.org/disaster-relief/.
The return of the Final Final Golf Outing, almost! Instead of playing 36 holes as was done in past years, the return event will be an 18 hole Final outing. The event will be held at Northland Country Club on October 16th. Harbortown member Greg Wegler has 10 golf guest passes available ($125 value) to Harbortown Rotarians on a first come first serve basis. The cost of your cart, food and beverages are on your own. There are two, five-some tee times reserved starting at 11:30 and 11:40. The weather forecast looks great. Please contact Greg and let him know that you’re interested to reserve your spot.
As a leader in Rotary, your dedication to service helps make our work possible. This World Polio Day, we’re relying on people like you to lead the way as we keep working to provide critical funding for vaccination campaigns, public awareness initiatives, and health care infrastructure.
With our supporters, partners, and leaders, we’ve helped immunize more than 3 billion children against polio in 122 countries, and we won’t stop until we end the disease for good.
In preparation for World Polio Day on 24 October, please get involved and encourage your members to do so as well. You can:
By raising awareness and funds on World Polio Day, we can protect children in communities around the world so that they never again suffer the paralyzing effects of this disease. We must remain vigilant and continue our work to immunize up to 400 million children each year. Until polio is eradicated from the world, it remains a threat to children everywhere.
Thank you for your leadership as together, we end polio.
If you have the upcoming program duty (check the duty roster here), please be sure to secure a speaker and provide notice to Casey Nies (Nies.casey@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 Duties:
02.19 - Fireside
02.26 - Brandon Torgenson - MN Adult & Teen Challenge
For news, announcements, event promotion, social media, media releases, and more, please contact Casey Nies (nies.casey@gmail.com | 701.351.7270)
For Scuttlebutt: If you are hosting the program speaker, please copy Casey on the speaker's name, organization, and email. If you are the chair of a Harbortown Committee, please update Casey on relevant information regarding grants and awards, meetings or news. Casey will use this information to create more dynamic and engaging content to share with potential club members and on social media!
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