Our club's May Community Service Opportunity is volunteering for the Life House Celebration of Success graduation event for youth on May 14th. The event is at the depot and Life House needs help with set up and decorating from 3pm-4:30pm. They need5-8 Harbortown Rotarians to volunteer.
Tasks will include setting up tables and chairs, decorating tables and stage, etc. This is an annual event where Life House celebrates the hard work of our youth--it could be a high school graduation or GED earned, a year of sobriety, a year of working hard on their mental health and trauma, etc.
If you have not signed up and would like to, please contact Brad Jenson or Amber Sadowski.
On April 25th, 2026, four local Rotary clubs participated in the Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup, and Unite for Water project to clean up at Park Point in Duluth: Harbortown, Eco, Skyline, and Superior Club 40. Thank you all for helping clean up the environment! This was the 6th annual GLWC event which covered a huge area, a number of Rotary Districts and 1000s of Rotarians. Photo credit to Karl Everett
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!
Our JUNE 6, 9AM-3PM work day at the YMCA Camp Miller is fast approaching and we have a good number already signed up, however, there's always room for more. So if you want to join the group, please notify either Jim Wheeler or Pat Finney. (The camp will have coffee, soft drinks and prepare lunch for us.)
Following is a list of potential projects, so dress accordingly and bring a pair of work gloves - all other tools and supplies will be provided:
stain decks
paint wood shed
power wash some buildings
split and stack wood
work on tack shed
build maintenance fence and gate
brush out campsite
trail work
roadside pickup
inventory beds and furniture
other small misc jobs inside and out
Don't worry if you arrive late or need to leave early, just come and enjoy a great day of Rotary fellowship and support the Camp!
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.
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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