Please consider sharing some of your time with our Youth Exchange student, Yumi Yamakawa. Activities can be as singificant as a weekend event or trip or as simple as inviting her to lunch or a movie.
Other ideas: A Creighton or UNO sporting event; museum tour; a play or event at the Holland or Orpheum; include her in a hobby event or activity; or include her in a family event.
Contact Jeff Ziemba jziemba@smithhayes.com or Kendall Scheer kscheer@fnni.com if you would like to invite Yumi to share some time with you and your family.
Sign up at the Friday Rotary meetings. Plan to attend this fellowship event Thursday evening, April 9th, from 5-7 p.m. at the home of Carol Gendler, 910 South 111th Plaza. Guests are welcome and this is an excellent event to bring prospective members.
3/1 HANNAH MIRMIRAN; 3/9 BILL JETTER; 3/11 EDSON BRIDGES; 3/12 DENNY DUER; 3/13 ERIN STRUNK; 3/28 JOHN PHILO; 3/31 DAN FERRIS
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."
Thank you to the following members that have donated to PolioPlus for their birthday. Contact the office if you have given to PolioPlus and do not see your name.
Steve Levinger, Vocational Service Committee Chair, would like you to schedule a 2-3 minute vocational talk. Share with members information about your profession, yourself and your family. Remember, we want to hear from our new members and our new members would like to learn more about the professions of their fellow Rotarians so please schedule a vocational talk. Contact Vickie Backman to schedule a date for your talk or sign-up at a noon Rotary meeting.
Bob Fell would like to remind club members a few years ago, Robert Runyon introduced the concept of Rotary Readers as a way we can help our Adopt-A-School Partner excel. Bob’s goal has been to foster an appreciation of the fun of reading at an early age. Personal self-esteem and a sense of accomplishment in the children are two reasons to help these young people, but there is a “bottom line” reason, too: there is a very high correlation between reading well in second or third grade and finishing high school. Put another way, most drop outs have had trouble reading throughout their schooling. Drop outs cost society at every level.
This is an invitation to become a Rotary Reader. Several of our members have been doing it for years and return again and again because it DOES make a difference. How can you become involved? The best way is to select a day Tuesday through Thursday when you can get away for an hour or two on a regular basis. You can read every week or every-other week, and the teachers and students certainly understand that personal and work commitments can cause you to miss an occasional session. If you can spend an hour, you’ll probably work with two students, either at the same time or in two 30-minute sessions. This doesn’t require any skills, except to listen to the student, read, and care. Send Bob Fell the day and hour you would like to read, and he will work with the librarian, Bobbie Martinie, to link you up with a teacher. The two of you can work it out from there. Email Bob Fell at robertfell68@gmail.com.
Thank you again to members that volunteered to read Dr. Seuss books to the students during the week of March 2nd-6th: Gretchen Radler, Bob Fell, Bonnie Gill, Janet Wallace, Steve Levinger, Susan Thomas, Gail Veitzer, and Bob Runyon.
NORTHWEST ROTARY BRAN REGISTRATION OPEN (Please share this information with friends and family.)
Registration for BRAN 35 - Search for Adventure Tour is open online. Click here for registration information and to complete your registration online. If the link does not work for you please paste this web address in your internet browser, http://bran-inc.org/wp/?page_id=99 . The Search for Adventure Tour will be held June 7 - 13, 2015. The ride will start in Wauneta, Nebraska and end at the Conestoga Jr./Sr. High School west of Murray on Highway. The other overnight towns are Cambridge, Eustis, Axtell, Clay Center, Wilber, and Syracuse. For those of you that opt to ride the bus they will load at the Conestoga Jr./Sr. High School, 8404 42nd Street, Murray, Nebraska on Saturday, June 6, 2015. Buses will load at 7:00 a.m. and depart promptly at 8:00 a.m. Participant check-in will be held at the Wauneta-Palisade High School, 214 West Wichita, Wauneta, Nebraska on Saturday, June 6, 2015.
SUBURBAN ROTARY
'Omaha Metro Business Networking Event' will be held Thursday, March 26, 2015 at Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive from 4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Attendance is free and open to Rotarians and guests. There will be complimentary appetizers and cash bar. Rotarians may reserve an Exhibition Table for your company for $75. A limited number of tables are available. Contact Leah Wurth at leah_wurth@ajg.com or call 402-829-1061 to reserve your table.
MORNING ROTARY
BLUE JEANS, BBQ, & BINGO
April 25, 2015
German American Society
3717 South 120th Street
5:30 Cocktails
6:30 Dinner
Order forms for polo and long sleeve button shirts are available at the club meetings. Both shirts will have the Rotary wheel logo and the club name embroidered on the shirt. The polo shirt cost is $50 and the long sleeve button shirt cost is $72. You may select the shirt color and size on the order forms. Payment needs to be received when placing your order.
Rotary District 5650 publishes a monthly newsletter. To see what's happening in the District and what other clubs are doing click here for the current District Newsletter and the District website.
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) 3/23Milton Mendel Kleinberg, a holocaust survivor, " BREAD OR DEATH"; 3/30 Joel Williamsen," BARRELHOUSE BOYS" MILLARD (German American Society, 3717 South 120th Street) 3/23 Agne Dizona - Joslyn Art Museum
TUESDAY MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.) 3/24 Dave Poole, Fixed Base Operator at Millard Airport NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 3/24 Karim Khayati, "Tri-Faith Initiative" 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.) 3/25 Deb Hermann, Dr. Mike McGinnis, or Karen Anderson, "Strategic Air & Space Museum
THURSDAY COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) 3/26 Vocational Talks; 4/1 Council Bluffs Fairmount Park Project
SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 3/26 Bi-annual Membership Assembly; 4/2 Ed Walsh, Boys Town National Research Hospital
WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY (Elkhorn Common Ground Community Center, 1701 Veteran's Drive)
FRIDAY WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 3/20 Dan Owens, Epply Airport Update; 3/27 Mark Langan, 'Busting Bad Guys'
Rotary Club of Omaha West
