April 14, 2014

Posted by Joan Loew 
on Apr 14, 2014
 
 

Rotary 4-way test: Is it the truth?  Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build good will and better friendships?  Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

April 14, 2014

President Dean Schlitter opened the meeting at Luigis.

We welcomed Student Rotarians, Danielle Kanour and Mason Shannon

Guests today included:  Cara from Veridian, Sally Falb from OCAD, and Lauren Kiphart, Dean’s daughter.

Dean read a thank you note from the Oelwein Celebration Committee for the Rotary donation.

Dean’s Honda held groundbreaking this morning at 10:00 a.m.

Board meeting will be held immediately after the regular meeting.

Rotary will sponsor the Wednesday, April 16th, Business After 5 at the Oelwein Middle School.  We will honor 3 educators of the year and also have a fundraiser for the Husky dog statue that will be incorporated with the new landscape project at the high school entrance.

District Rotary Conference will be held April 24-26 in Cedar Rapids. 

The Rotary Bicycle Poker Run will be held June 19th, 6-8 p.m. Volunteers will be needed to help with this fundraiser.

Birthdays:       none

Membership anniversaries:  Matt Vogel 10 years on April 19th               

Our speakers today were Deb Howard and Jamie Letzring speaking about the Hometown Awards in conjunction with Alliant Energy.

Upcoming meetings:

April 16th                      Rotary sponsored, Business After 5 at MS

April 21                         Steve Westerberg, Teacher Leadership Grant

                                    April 28                        Teresa Wiemerslage, ISU extension and Emily Turk, Food & Fitness

 

Happy bucks: Tim Gearhart announced the birth of his son, Deb Howard gave two happy bucks, one for Dean’s Honda groundbreaking and one for being the guest speaker at the National Honor Society yesterday, Kent Nelson spent a great weekend taking Florian our foreign exchange student to Chicago, Steve Sanders will be grandpa again, Gene Fuelling will soon be done with tax day and will be leaving on vacation, Al Sanderson will be a great grandfather 4 more times before Christmas, Dean Schlitter was happy with the groundbreaking.

Tim Gearhart’s name was drawn for the $9.50 jackpot, he was not present so there will be a carryover.

Meetings will be held at Luigis through June 2014.

April committee: Todd Granberg, Laura Sires, Steve Westerberg