The Westward Ho! (Jan 15, 2016)

Meal Packaging - Rotary District 5650 Grant

Heavy Duty Specialist, Inc.

Feb 20, 2016
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

$344.00 Friday, January 15, 2016.

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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.

WINTER WEATHER MEETING CANCELLATION POLICY

Omaha West Rotary will cancel the Rotary meeting when the Omaha Public School District cancels school due to weather conditions. This policy has been implemented for your safety and early notification.

WEEKLY PROGRAMS

Posted by Vickie Backman

January 15, 2015

Ms. Mary Fraser Meints, Executive Director

Youth Emergency Services

CLUB SERVICE

Invocation: Dan Ferris

Greeters: Dana Henricksen & John Philo

Cashier: Mike Jones

Sgt. at Arms: Russ Iwan

January 22, 2015

Club Assembly

Warren

JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

Posted by Vickie Backman

Happy Birthday!

1/2 DENNIS HEIN; 1/8 KIM KUHLE; 1/9 PAT KNOWLES; 1/13 HENRY KAMMANDEL, JR.; 1/14 MARSHA KUBICA; 1/17 NUZHAT MAHMOOD, ROD ANDERSON; 1/20 GRETCHEN RADLER; 1/21 GREG KEY; 1/25 BILL SUTTON; 1/27 JILL SLUPE; 1/30 DICK STURGEON

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."

MITTEN TREE PROJECT - COLLECTING IN JANUARY

Posted on Dec 16, 2015

Please note that the Community Service Committee will collect funds and donated items in January for the "MITTEN TREE PROJECT" to provide warm clothing and needed health and hygiene supplies for the children at our Adopt-a-School Partner, Skinner Magnet Center. We appreciate your support. Your donations will make a difference in the life of a child!!

Rotary Grant Packaging Meals - Volunteers Needed

Rotarians from West, Suburban and Southwest Night will be packaging 30-40 thousand meals for local food pantries using a matching grant from District 5650. Approximately 80 volunteers are needed from 8:00-9:00 a.m. and 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. People of all ages are welcome. If you sign up kids please note their ages (kids under 12 will work with their parents). Also, if a volunteer needs seating please note that as a comment. Volunteers of all ages and abilities can be accommodated. Meals will be picked up at the end of the 2nd shift by local food pantries. Several volunteers (8-10 people) will be needed to help set up for the event on Friday, February 19th. Sign-up is available on the club website or at the noon Rotary meetings.

The meal packaging will take place at Heavy Duty Specialist, Inc, 11357 South 146th Street, Omaha, NE 68138.

West Rotary Wingding - Thank you to Hannah Mirmiran!

Thank you very much to Hannah and her husband, Ali, who hosted a great West Rotary Wingding on Thursday, January 7th. The food was wonderful as well as the warm hospitality and fellowship enjoyed by all who attended. Our next Wingding will be held July 7th.

ROTARY FOUNDATION DONATIONS - THANK YOU MEMBERS!

West Rotary has met both of our goals for giving to the Rotary Foundation Annual Fund and the PolioPlus Fund. The Annual Fund goal is $10,300 and giving for that fund is currently at $13,361 and PolioPlus giving is at $7,256. We still ask members to please give a minimum of $32 during the month of their birthday if they have not already donated to the PolioPlus Fund. We thank the members that have donated to the Rotary Foundation this year. Those members are listed below.

Rod Anderson	Mike Jones	Carl Philo
Jim Bachman	Randy Kathol	Randy Porter
Bruce Bisson	Greg Key	Keith Rall
Edson Bridges	Gene Klein	Dean Rasmussen
Dwayne Brown	Don Klein	Steve Redler
Jim Coe	Pat Knowles	Tim Riewer
Martie Cordaro	Marsha Kubica	Suzan Rohrig
Bruce Cramer	Rex Latta	Kendall Scheer
Denny Duer	Stan Lierz	Rich Secor
Butch Ethington	Bob Lovgren	Mike Shrier
Bob Fell	Nizar Mamdani	Jill Slupe
Dan Ferris	Matt McKeever	Jim Summerfelt
John Fettig	Hannah Mirmiran	Kent Templien
Anne Fuhrman	John T. Morey	Susan Thomas
Carol Gendler	John V. Morey	Del Toebben
Bonnie Gill	Tim Neal	Stan Truhlsen
Dennis Hein	Ron Niederhaus	Gail Veitzer
Dana Henricksen	Evan Olson	Bob Walker
Laura Iliff	Don Otis	Janet Wallace
Russ Iwan	Jim Otis	Brad Willadsen
Brad Johansen	Manny Paz

Schedule A Vocational Talk

Posted by Vickie Backman

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.

Rotary Readers - Volunteer Opportunity

Posted on Oct 21, 2015

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.

AMONG OURSELVES

Posted by Vickie Backman

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

DISTRICT WEBSITE

Posted by Vickie Backman

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

MAKE-UPS RECEIVED

Posted by Vickie Backman

MILLARD 1/11 Jim Hedgpeth, Denny Duer; NORTHWEST 1/12 Dennis Hein; PORT ISABEL - 1/8 Carl Philo

NEED A MAKE-UP?

Posted by Vickie Backman

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) 1/18 No Meeting, Martin Luther King Holiday; 1/25 Madonna Hospital Foundation

TUESDAY
MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.) 1/19 Club Assembly
NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive)
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.) 1/20 Insider's look at Henry Doorly Zoo, reservations needed, cost $15; 1/27 Business Networking, various locations, reservations needed

THURSDAY
COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.)
SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 1/21 Club Assembly; 1/28 Debbie Blank- Pres. Living World Ministry
Will there be Peace in the Middle East?

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

FRIDAY
WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 1/15 Ms. Mary Fraser Meints, Executive Director; 1/22 Club Assembly; 1/29 Keith Zimmer, Sr. Associate Athletic Director
Life Skills Department, UNL
Youth Emergency Services

Programs available have been listed