Our meeting next week is our Gleorge Klein Service Above Self Award event, with invited past recipients. Please be there by 7:15 AM.
Peter Ivy will be celebrating his retirement from the Carver County Attorney’s Office after 37 years of serving this community. On March 14, a 3:00 PM gathering will occur at the Emergency Operations Room in the Justice Center (604 E. Fourth St.) Then, we are invited to a private reception at the Schram Haus Brewery at 4:30 PM.
Bob Chinnock and the STRIVE students will meet this morning and learn from Erin Kerber’s Finance Management presentation.
A badge presentation to new member Susana DeLeon was happily made by Erin Kerber. Susana is an Assistant Principal at Chaska High School. She has made Chaska part of her life for the past 16 years.
HAPPY DOLLARS
Donors: Gretchen Oppriecht, Wayne Ward and Nate Manaen.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Ken Hiller recalled the flag exchange with the Rotary members in the club in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting was held using English because of the international and embassy backgrounds of the members. Link
EXCHANGE STUDENT - Marcos Alonso
Marcos has become an official Sybnski and moved in with Matt and his family. Not quite ready for a Mayflower moving van, Marcos is amazed at how much his belongings have increased since he crossed the Atlantic. Recently, Marcos spent the night in White Bear Lake with other Exchange students as they provided wisdom to the American group that will be abroad in the next school year.
PRESENTATION: USA Bike Trip, Katy Holub + Scott Freitag
Mike Wentzell introduced former Chaska Rotarian Katy Bloomquist Holub and her husband Scott Freitag. They are both members of the Park Rapids, MN Rotary. A video segment produced by ESPN provided a visual sense of Scott’s bicycle journey through all 33 perimeter states. Throughout the route he and Katy spoke to many organizations to publicize the need for men to have blood tests to determine their level of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). They also promoted more understanding of mental illness and schizophrenia, which had led to Scott’s son committing suicide. Eleven thousand miles of cycling was interspersed with trips back to Minnesota for cancer treatments and hormone therapy. Katy commanded the truck and RV as well as the logistics for the journey. Facebook posts and blogging kept thousands of people informed about the challenges and successes the courageous pair faced.
Scott shared his experiences with unrelenting and unforgiving weather, dead-end roads, sharing the highway with inattentive drivers, and continually confronting his own mental and emotional attitude. “Living in the moment” allowed Scott to progress about 300 miles each week. Katy’s steadfast determination and organized mind permitted her to move her law practice into an RV, and her fearless character became the glue that kept them in line with their goals.
Contact information: phone Katy 912-810-1030, Scott 763-245-0754 . Website www.milesformoney.org Email: milesformoneyusa@gmail.com. Donations to further awareness of prostate cancer and schizophrenia are still being accepted through their website.
Note from John Roebke: Invocations can be a faith traditional prayer, or a meditation, or inspirational verse or quote. Brief 20 – 30 seconds. Light-hearted is okay. Option: focus on our Mission of Service Above Self. Need an idea – Google Rotary Invocations. Not a personal talent? Don't wait, tell me NOW, 612-790-7067, john.roebke@live.com. I will be glad to name another. If I forgot that you told me not a talent, please forgive me. Remind me. If not a good DATE, trade with a mate.
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