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.
KARIN LOMBARD - Growth Coach with Verde Martin; Classification is Business Growth Consulting Sponsored by Jill Slupe
Thank you Luke McNeese for organizing an Omaha West Rotary Beer Fellowship at the Infusion Brewery on November 10th. If you aren't in the group photo above you missed a fun event. Those attending enjoyed the tour and beer tasting. For more information about the Rotary International Beer Fellowship program visit - http://rotarybrew.org/ .
Future Dates for Omaha West Rotary Beer Fellowship are:
The West Omaha Rotary Foundation provided $300.00 to the Skinner Magnet Center Elementary School for the purchase of books for the school library. Each of the books purchased has a bookplate noting that the books were donated by the Rotary Club of Omaha West and also includes speaker names from the previous Rotary year as a thank you and recognition. The following is a list of the books purchased:
Red The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
Upside Down Magic by Sarah Mlynowski
Beetle Boy by M.G. Leonard
We Came to America by Faith Ringgold
Don’t Wake Up the Tiger by Britta Teckentrup
Douglas, You Need Glasses by Ged Adamson
Rules Of The House by Mac Barnett
Pink is for Blobfish by Jess Keating
Hillary Rodham Clinton Some Girls Are Born to Lead by Michelle Markel
The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah Ohora
Pip Bartletts Guide to Magical Creatures by Jackson Pearce
Nocturnals The Mysterious Abductions by Tracy Hecht
Rise of the Wolf by Jennifer A Nielsen
Cat Who Came In Off The Roof by Annie M.G. Schmidt
Outlaws of Time by N.D. Wilson
Lizard From the Park by Mark Pett
Apples and Robins by Lucie Felix
Zoomers Handbook by Ana & Thiago de Moraes
Nobody Likes a Goblin by Ben Hatke,
Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry
Barnacle Is Bored by Jonathan Fenske
West Rotary has pledged to raise $9,900 for the Annual Fund, $3,168 for the PolioPlus Fund and 100% of our members giving some amount to the Rotary Foundation. Your donation puts us closer to those goals. Carol Gendler has again generously pledged $5,000. Fifty members who donate $100 or more will have an additional $100 credited towards their Paul Harris Fellow. Send your donations in soon to be among those 50 members.
Your Rotary Foundation donations in conjunction with your West Omaha Rotary Foundation donations at work - Projects the past three years funded jointly from your donations to The Rotary Foundation and the West Omaha Rotary Foundation are noted below.
Purchased iPads for our literacy program at the Skinner Magnet Elementary School ($1,385 from West Omaha Rotary Foundation and $1,800 from Rotary District Grant)
Facilitated printing of "Parent Guides" for parents of a child who has reported experiencing abuse ($1,510 from West Omaha Rotary Foundation and $1,500 from Rotary District Grant)
In conjunction with Omaha Downtown Rotary funded the creation of website pages to provide a resource for people needing information and help for sexual and domestic abuse issues. ($1,500 from West Omaha Rotary Foundation, $1,500 Omaha Downtown Rotary Foundation and $3,000 from Rotary District Grant.)
Participated in a multi-club "Outreach" District Grant to provide food to local non-profit organizations. West Rotary directed their donations to the Siena/Francis House Homeless Shelter (West Omaha Rotary Foundation provided $1,000, Suburban Rotary Foundation $1,500, Southwest Omaha Night Rotary Club $500 and District Grant funds $3,000)
West Rotary will participate in the "Outreach" District Grant again this Rotary year. ($1,000 from the West Omaha Rotary Foundation, $1,500 from Suburban Rotary and $500 from the Southwest Omaha Night Rotary Club and $3,000 District Grant funds.)
The Rotary Foundation makes good use of your donations. When you donate to The Rotary Foundation the funds are invested for three years to cover operating expenses. Three years after funds are donated the District receives one half of the funds to be used for grants that fund local and international humanitarian projects, scholarships, and activities through grants applied for from clubs in District 5650. The other half of the funds donated provides funding for the highest priorities around the globe to support peace efforts, provide clean water and sanitation, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children, and fight disease. A great example is the Rotary effort to eradicate Polio.
Rod Bates, Immediate Past District Governor, is seeking nominations for District Governor 5650. Tom Cardwell will serve as District Governor in 2017-2018, followed by Madeline Madden who will serve for the 2018-2019 term. The District will be interviewing and selecting the District Governor for the 2019-2020 Rotary year. Nominees must be a Rotarian in Good Standing, a Past Club President for a full term, Rotarians's Ability to Fulfill Duties of Governor and Rotarians, Certification of Qualifications. If you are a Past Club President and would be interested in being considered as a nominee from the Omaha West Rotary Club please contact the Rotary office with your interest to serve or for more information.
11/1 Trudy Bredthauer; 11/4 Dean Jenkins, 11/9 Matt McKeever; 11/13 Stan Lierz, Stan Truhlsen; 11/14 Rana Scarlett-Johnson; 11/20 Jim Bachman; 11/21 Mark Ellsworth; 11/25 Carl Philo
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."
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.
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) 11/21 Amanda Temoshek - Global Partners in Hope; 11/28 Life Journey at a Crossroads - Mystery Speaker
TUESDAY MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.) 11/22 RI Giving - How your dollars
NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 11/22 TBA
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.) 11/23 No Meeting, Happy Thanksgiving; 11/30 Mike Moylan, Shamrock Development; 12/7 Pearl Harbor Survivor; 12/14 Disruptive Changes in Broadband Communications
THURSDAY COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) 11/17 Frank Goldberg - The Rotary Foundation; 11/24 HAPPY THANKSGIVING! - No meeting
SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 11/24 HAPPY THANKSGIVING! - No meeting; 12/8 Mayor Jean Stothert; 12/22 Holiday Luncheon; 12/29 Fun Day
WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY (Elkhorn Common Ground Community Center, 1701 Veteran's Drive)
FRIDAY WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 11/25 No Meeting. Happy Thanksgiving!'
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