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Mar 11, 2015
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
 
Omaha Metro Rotary Business Networking Event
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Mar 26, 2015
4:30 PM – 7:00 PM
 
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Carol Gendler Residence
Apr 09, 2015
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
 
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ImageRotary 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.

March 6, 2015
Dr. Mike McGinnis
Strategic Air & Space Museum

Club Service
Greeters - Jon Rohlfs
Cashier - Don Otis
Sgt. at Arms - Evan Olson
Invocation -

March 13, 2015
Mike Nieham
SBA Nebraska Dist. Banking

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.

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Happy Birthday!


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."

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.

Schedule:
John V. Morey   3/13/15
Gail Veitzer   3/27/15
Erin Strunk   4/10/15

 

National Education Association "Read Across America Day" is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually on March 2—Dr. Seuss’s birthday.  West Rotarians have the opportunity to join in that celebration by reading Dr. Seuss books to students at the Skinner Magnet Center the week of March 2nd through 6th.  Thank you to members that have volunteered to read to the students - Gretchen Radler, Bob Fell, Bonnie Gill, Janet Wallace, Steve Levinger, Susan Thomas, Gail Veitzer, and Bob Runyon.

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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.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Bob Selander family and friends.  Bob, a club member since August 1970, passed away earlier this week.  Details about a memorial service will be published when available.

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

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.

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Ashland Rotary is inviting Rotarians and guests to there first ever Charity Texas Hold'em poker tournament.  See details below.

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Rotary Wingding Fellowships - Next Event

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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.

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.

NORTHWEST 3/3 Jim Hedgpeth;  PORT ISABEL, TX 2/27 Carl Philo;  MILLARD 3/2 Jim Hedgpeth, Jim Bachman, Matt McKeever

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) 3/9
Barbara Eymann Mohrman, "FOUR BLUE STARS IN THE WINDOW"; 3/16 Warren Francke, "THE OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE STORY"; 3/23 Milton Mendel Kleinberg, a holocaust survivor, " BREAD OR DEATH"; 3/30 Joel Williamsen, " BARRELHOUSE BOYS"
MILLARD (German American Society, 3717 South 120th Street) 3/9 Millard Rotary's Grant program- Buddy Bench at Cody Elementary;

TUESDAY
MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.)  3/10 Rusty Johnson, Omaha Real Estate Group - Downtown Omaha Condo Market
NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive)  3/10 Brandon Breiby, "Omaha Home for Boys"; 3/17 Laura Classen, "Nebraska Angels"
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.)  3/11 Diane
Battiato, Combining the Assessor’s and Register of Deeds offices; 3/18
Omaha Playhouse's Hillary Adams,  The Show Must Go On!

THURSDAY
COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) 3/12
Kathy Salsbury & Dr. Cary Jackson, Iowa Mission of Mercy
Dental Clinic; 3/19 Emiliano Lerda & Staff, El Centro Latino; 3/26 Vocational Talks

SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.)  3/12 Dean Jacobs, Connecting People to Cultures; 3/19 Brook Bench, Director of Omaha Parks

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

FRIDAY

WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 3/6 Dr. McGinnis, Strategic Air & Space Museum; 3/13 Mike Nieham, SBA Nebraska Dist. Banking 

Programs available have been listed