Waterloo Rotary Reporter (Jul 14, 2017)

Program for July 17

Cybersecurity and fraud prevention starts with YOU! This program will provide you with basic information on how to protect your personal as well as business information and devices online and on-the-go. It will also walk you through the importance of working with your financial institution when taking a “byte” out of crime.

Renee Smith-LaBarge is a treasury management sales director and producer for the state of Iowa at MidWestOne Bank. She continuously evaluates new concepts and technologies ensuring that treasury management products and services are firmly grounded to meet a business customer’s needs.

We'll also honor these Rotarians with birthdays in July:

Rick Morris    Jul 02
Craig Shirey    Jul 05
Jerry Maifield   Jul 07
Curtis G. Hollis Jul 08
Jay Ginther   Jul 10
James Madison   Jul 10
Lauren Finke   Jul 17
Milton Dakovich   Jul 20
Herb Williams    Jul 22
Mike Broshar   Jul 26
Bob Manning   Jul 30

Family Picnic Details

This year's annual family picnic will be on a fancy NEW DAY: TUESDAY July 25th. Here's a rundown of the action:

5:30 games and social (kid's inflatables bouncy houses, tattoos, bubbles, etc.)

6:15 welcome remarks

6:30 dinner (chicken, beans, sweet corn, watermelon & ice cream)

Come and go as you want

Bring your own beverage and tableware

Cost:

$20/family –bring kids, neighbors, etc.

Skydivers raise thousands for polio eradication

Posted by Arnold R. Grahl

The first time Noel Jackson jumped out of a plane, it had nothing to do with raising money for polio eradication.

The Michigan dentist had received a gift certificate from members of his staff to go skydiving because they knew he was into adventure.

“It is definitely a defining moment,” says Jackson, a member of the Rotary Club of Trenton, Mich., of that first jump at 14,000 feet, done in tandem strapped to a professional skydiver. “The rush of the free fall is beyond anything I have ever experienced before. Just the speed and acceleration is unbelievable. You don’t even have time to figure out if you are enjoying it or not; it’s just a sensation that happens.”

Jackson did enjoy the sensation, so much so that he agreed to do another jump, with Shiva Koushik, a Rotarian friend in nearby Windsor, Ont.

The two men were waiting for this second jump when their wives came up with the idea of enlisting other jumpers and raising pledges for polio eradication.

In August 2014, a jump in the skies of northeastern Michigan raised $15,000 for Rotary’s polio eradication campaign. Matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the effort contributed $45,000 to the cause.

Read the rest of the story and see the video on the Rotary International webpage.