This anniversary luncheon was held Wednesday, November 9th, at Anthony’s Steakhouse, 72nd and F Streets
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:
Mary Beth Growney Selene
The Rotary Foundation Trustee, 2016-2019
Rotary International Director, 2013-2015
Hosted by Omaha Downtown, Omaha Suburban, and Omaha West Rotary Clubs
Members please note that the meeting on Wednesday, November 9th, at Anthony's will be the meeting for the week. West Rotary will not hold the regular meeting on November 11th.
Mary Beth Growney Selene speaking to Metro Area Rotarians.
Your President, Kent Templien on the left and speaker Mary Beth Growney Selene standing on the right. Kent shared information about Metro Area projects that clubs have completed using Rotary District Grant funds.
Club member Luke McNeese is organizing an Omaha West Rotary Beer Fellowship. For more information about the Rotary International Beer Fellowship program visit - http://rotarybrew.org/ .
Location: Infusion Brewery, 6271 S. 118th St.
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Cost: $10 pay at the door (includes a tour and Souvenir Glass)
Rotarians, guests and prospective members are welcome to attend. Come take a private tour at the Infusion Brewing Company! An experienced guide will take you through the brewery and talk about their history with a detailed description of what they do on a day to day basis. You will receive a souvenir glass upon arrival and get to try several different samples during and after the tour!
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.
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.
Please keep Rich Hurley in your thoughts and prayers as he deals with cancer. Greg Key is recovering from hip surgery. Our best wishes and thoughts to both Rich and Greg!
Please notify the office if you have news to share with club members.
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) 11/14 Club Assembly;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
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.) 11/16 Douglas County Corrections Story; 11/23 No Meeting, Happy Thanksgiving
THURSDAY COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) 11/10 Dr. Chuck Erickson - Zambia Project Update; 11/17 Frank Goldberg - The Rotary Foundation; 11/24 HAPPY THANKSGIVING! - No meeting
SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 11/17 TBA; 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) 11/4 Chad Wetzel, MPH, Epidemiologist, Douglas County Health Department - Zika Virus; 11/11 No Meeting attend 11/9 100th Anniversary Rotary Foundation Luncheon at Anthony's
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