The Westward Ho! (Oct 07, 2016)

West 'Draw for Foundation Programs'

$310.00 FRIDAY, October 7, 2016

Career Day at Skinner Magnet Center

Skinner Magnet Center Elementary School

Oct 26, 2016
12:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Salvation Army Bell Ringing

Hy Vee

Nov 26, 2016
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Oct 14, 2016

Bill Randby

KETV Chief Meteorologist

Oct 21, 2016

Don Bacon

Republican Candidate for Congress

Oct 28, 2016

Mark & Joni Adler

Message of Hope after Son's Suicide

Nov 04, 2016

Chad Wetzel, MPH, Epidemiologist

Douglas County Health Department - Zika Virus

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OMAHA WEST ROTARY OFFICE

Posted by Vickie Backman

Rotary Club of Omaha West
4205 North 101st Street
Omaha, NE 68134
402.937.8654
info@omahawestrotary.org

Weekly Meetings: Friday at noon at Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive, Omaha, Nebraska.

Office Hours - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY

October 7, 2016

Clete Blakeman

Omaha Attorney & NFL Referee

CLUB SERVICE SCHEDULE

October 7, 2016

Greeters - Russ Iwan & Don Otis

Invocation - Tim Neal

Cashier - Carl Philo

Sgt. at Arms - Michelle Sandbothe

NEXT WEEK AT ROTARY

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October 14, 2016

Bill Randby

KETV Chief Meteorologist

MEMBERSHIP PROPOSALS

The following Membership Proposal has been approved for publication by the Omaha West Rotary Board Members. Any comments, in writing, must be sent to the Rotary office within 7 days.

DOUG SUTKO - Vice President Arbor Bank; Classification is Banking,Commercial Lending; Sponsored by Bruce Cramer

Victory Over Violence - Joint District 5650 Grant

A launch party is planned to celebrate the 'Victory Over Violence' and to unveil eight new landing pages for the WCA on October 6th from 6-8 p.m. at All Makes, 2558 Farnam Street. Members should plan to attend this event. The pages will impact thousands of individuals searching for information about physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Click here for information about the launch party event.

Omaha West Rotary and Omaha Downtown Rotary are working together on a Joint District Grant - 'Victory Over Violence'. The grant funds were used to create an information center (website and landing pages) for people who need to know more about sexual and domestic abuse in the greater Omaha area. Last year the WCA delivered over 22,000 services related to domestic abuse.

CAREER DAY AT SKINNER MAGNET CENTER

The Community Service Committee has scheduled a Career Day at Skinner Magnet Center Elementary School on Wednesday, October 26th. The committee is seeking volunteers from all professions. Volunteers will be asked to attend a brief informational meeting at Rotary and will visit with small groups of 5th grade students for short sessions from 12:30 - 3:00 p.m. on October 26th. Sign-up sheets will be available at noon Rotary meetings.

VOLUNTEERS

Rich Cartney - Nursing Home Administrator
John V. Morey - Financial Planning, Investment Management
Rod Anderson - Law
Elizabeth Kreher - Lamp Rynearson, Engineer
Kent Templien - Information Technology
Brent Pyle - Prairie LIfe personal trainer
Mark Ellsworth - Coaching & Consulting

Rotary Readers - Volunteer Opportunity

Posted on Sep 22, 2016

The Rotary Readers program is in progress. Members volunteer to help develop reading skills with grade school students one-on-one. You are invited to become a Rotary Reader. Why? Three quick reasons: you will enjoy meeting and working with a couple of kids who need your help; studies show children who can’t read well in second grade will almost certainly drop out of school and cost you a lot of tax dollars, and Skinner Magnet Center is our adopt-a-school partner and they are looking for help and support from our club.

Interested? Contact Don Otis (Donaldotis@mac.com) to get started with this project. Typically, readers spend an hour and work with two students each visit. The visits can be weekly or bi-weekly (or whatever your schedule allows), typically on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays during school hours.

Reading with the 2nd and 3rd students is a great volunteer opportunity. Join Don Otis, Susan Thomas and others who are already reading at the school.

Don Otis and students in the Rotary Reader's program.

Are You Interested in Working With Youth? - Volunteer for RYLA

Tom Cardwell, who has been organizing the RYLA camps is seeking additional volunteers. Please see his request below and contact information if you would like to volunteer for RYLA.

We have now conducted a RYLA Leadership camp for 5 years. It in many respects has gone quite well. Our particular camp focus is on high school sophomores and juniors who aspire to leadership positions/responsibilities. We are holding a discussion and planning session on Sunday Nov. 6th from 4:30 till 6:00. It is a plea for some volunteers who enjoy working with high school young people.

Our camp has traditionally been held in April and it will be similar this year. It is held at Camp Kitaki (south of interstate 80 near Louisville state recreation area). I am writing because we need to expand the leadership of the camp. What I mean to say is that we need a few good people willing to serve a term (3 years) and be willing to take on one of several responsibilities.

The camp to be successful requires several things.

1) Developing a camp itinerary (organizing the day and finding plenary speakers)

2) Recruiting high school students

3) Clubs selecting high school students to sponsor ($200 per student)

4) Receiving and forwarding money from clubs to the District treasurer

5) A registrar to organize student files, make sure appropriate forms are received, check in students

6) A person to manage the actual camp (a long weekend starting Friday afternoon and ending Sunday at 1:00.

7) A person to conduct an evaluation

8) a person to print name tags and graduation certificates.

The camp is a lot of fun but we have only been able to manage to recruit approximately 40-45 students each year. We would like to grow the camp. It has potential to serve many more young people. I would like to see 200 students but would be happy with 80-100 in the current format.

If you are interested let me know via email.

Chris Klingenberg (Lincoln East Rotary Past President and District Youth Services Chair) and I are working together to try and expand the pool of volunteers and leaders willing to grow this program. If you were to Google other Rotary Districts RYLA programs some are quite spectacular serving 300 students over the course of a week.

Contact Tom Cardwell thomasrcardwell@yahoo.com or Chris Klingenberg Cklingenberg@ymcalincoln.org .

OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS

Posted by Vickie Backman

Happy Birthday!

10/3 Steve Levinger, 10/11 Keith Powell, 10/13 Mike Morey, 10/18 Bob Ames, 10/20 John T. Morey, 10/24 Steve Redler, 10/28 Evan Olson

POLIO ERADICATION – We are asking you to donate $32 during the month your birthday is recognized. The District has set $32 per person as a giving goal for PolioPlus. Your donation will be given to The Rotary Foundation in your name for PolioPlus. Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of polio for over 30 years. The PolioPlus program helps Rotary fund operational costs, such as transportation, vaccine delivery, social mobilization, and training of health workers, and support surveillance activities. Your donation can help "End Polio Now."

Schedule A Vocational Talk

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Gretchen Radler, Vocational Service Committee Chair, will be contacting members to schedule a vocational talk. We would like to schedule two vocational talks each month. Your talk should be 2-3 minutes in length and will give you an opportunity to share information about your profession, yourself and your family. Please say yes when asked to schedule your vocational talk. We look forward to learning more about our fellow Rotarians.

November 4, 2016 - Luke McNeese

Corporate & Family Membership Program

The West Rotary Board approved a Corporate & Family Membership program. An Active Primary club member can propose a qualified family member or a qualified business co-worker for membership. The membership proposal has information in regard to membership qualifications on the form. The new corporate or family member joining will pay dues of $125 with no admission fee. If the primary member resigns one of the corporate or family members will become the primary member and pay the appropriate primary membership fee. The reduced dues rate of $125.00 will be effective the first three years of membership. Click here to see the membership proposal form and flyer for the new program. The information can also be found on the left side of the club website homepage under Site Pages/Joining Rotary. Members, if you have a qualified family member or co-worker please invite them to Rotary for lunch so they can consider joining West Rotary.

AMONG OURSELVES

Chuck Schmaderer's 12 year old son continues to battle cancer. Please keep Chuck and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Please notify the office if you have news to share with club members.

DISTRICT WEBSITE & OTHER CLUB EVENTS

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To see what's happening in the District and what other clubs are doing click here for the District website.

MAKE-UPS RECEIVED

NORTHWEST 10/4 Dennis Hein

NEED A MAKE-UP?

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Metro Area Rotary Club weekly programs available are listed here.

MONDAY
BELLEVUE (DJ's Dugout, 10308 S. 23rd St.)
NORTH (Omaha Eppley Airport Conference Room)
MILLARD (German American Society, 3717 South 120th Street) 10/10 No Meeting, Columbus Day; 10/17 Jeff McArthur - Al Capone's long lost brother

TUESDAY
MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.) 10/11 Roger Kuhn, Asst. Dir. Nebraska Game & Parks Commission “Nebraska’s Outdoor Venture Park” project; 10/18 Cam Sholly - Regional Director National Park Service - 100th Anniversary of the Park Service

NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 10/11 Ryne Bessmer, "How LinkedIn Can Work for You"

SOUTHWEST NIGHT (DJ's Dugout at 17666 Welch Plaza, northeast corner of 180th & Q streets)

WEDNESDAY
COUNCIL BLUFFS CENTENNIAL (Hy-Vee in Mall of the Bluffs, I-80 Exit 5)
DOWNTOWN (Field Club, 3615 Woolworth Ave.) 10/12 Brad Ashford, 2nd District Congressional Candidate; 10/19 Dr. Brian Davidson, Unraveling the Skills Needed for Leadership Success; 10/26 Business Networking Day, reservations needed; Universal Information Services hosted by Todd Murphy, Scottish Rite hosted by John Maxell, Douglas County Treasurer's Office hosted by John Ewing

THURSDAY
COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) 10/6 David Hazelwood, IWCC Construction Technology Program Partnership with NeighborWorks and City of Council Bluffs

SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 10/6 David Brown, CEO Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce; 10/13 Brian Kruse, Election Commissioner; 10/20 Brad Ashford, US Congressman

WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY (Elkhorn Common Ground Community Center, 1701 Veteran's Drive)

FRIDAY
WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 10/7 Clete Blakeman, Attorney & NFL Referee; 10/14 Bill Randby, KETV Chief Meteorologist

Programs available have been listed