Our thanks to the West Rotary Bell Ringing volunteers - Bob Lovgren, Bonnie Gill, Mike Shrier, Russ Iwan, Gretchen Radler, Kim Kuhle and Michelle Sandbothe's family. Club members and family rang bells at the Hy-Vee located at 156th & Maple on Saturday, November 14th.
Congratulations to Martie Cordaro and Dwayne Brown. Both were recognized as new Paul Harris Fellows at the November 13th meeting. Thank you for your contributions to the Rotary Foundation.
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.
The Club’s award-winning Rotary Readers program is in action again. That’s the program where members give an hour a week 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 Bob Fell (robertfell68@gmail.com) or Vickie Backman (vbackman@cox.net) and we will set up contact with the school. 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. Don Otis is reading at the school twice a week and would be happy to introduce a new volunteer to the project and the teachers at the school.
Don Otis and students in the Rotary Reader's program.
11/1 TRUDY BREDTHAUER, 11/9 MATT MCKEEVER, 11/13 STAN LIERZ & STAN TRUHLSEN, 11/19 JOHN MENICUCCI, 11/20 JIM BACHMAN, 11/25 CARL PHILO & DYLAN DRIVER
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."
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) 11/23 Omaha Opera presents a New Series; 11/30 Major Randy Summit – Salvation Army North Corps MILLARD (German American Society, 3717 South 120th Street) 11/23 Randy Atkins- Political Science Professor at UNO; 11/30 Gregg Mitchell - Omaha Real Estate Update
TUESDAY MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.) NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 11/24 Rebecca Losh, Local Director of World Vision Child Ambassadors 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.) 11/4 No Meeting attend Metro Area Rotary Luncheon on 11/5; 11/11 Jim Grotrian, Executive VP for Metropolitan Community College, Providing Quality Learning for Lifelong Learners
THURSDAY COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 11/19 Julia Hebenstreit from the Kim Foundation; 11/26 No Meeting, Thanksgiving holiday
WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY (Elkhorn Common Ground Community Center, 1701 Veteran's Drive)
FRIDAY WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 11/20 Ramazan Kilinc, PhD. Asst. Professor UNO Iran Nuclear Deal; 11/27 No Meeting, Thanksgiving Holiday
Rotary Club of Omaha West
