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Sept 17 Program - Mark Nook

Join us Monday, back at the 5 Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, to welcome UNI President Mark Nook.

He began serving as the 11^th president of the University of Northern Iowa on February 1, 2017. Prior to this appointment, he served as chancellor of Montana State University Billings (MSUB). Originally from Holstein, Iowa, Nook has committed his Midwest education and values to higher education for many years and on many levels. He is dedicated to ensuring every member of the university community reaches their individual educational, professional and personal life goals. President Nook and his wife, Cheryl, reside in the UNI President's House. They have three adult children, two granddaughters and two grandsons.

Help Operation Warm Get $50K!

It’s National Child Awareness Month, and Operation Warm is celebrating with this video submitted to the 2018 NCAM Challenge. The top ten most watched videos have the opportunity to win up to $50,000 in grants.

You can help Operation Warm keep more children warm this winter!

Please view the video here and challenge three friends to do the same. Together, we can make this happen—we can win up to $50,000 to help children in our communities get brand new coats.

Warmly,

Lee Fulton
Director, Strategy

Part 2: Buenos Dias, Anahi Rojas

Anahi dearly loves and misses her family and friends, but has always wanted to be an exchange student from the time she started meeting them and learning about the process. She told how beautiful our country is, how like Paraguay Iowa is in many ways, and told of the differences between the cultural landscapes. For instance, she added how the students in Paraguay are not allowed cellphones and headphones at school, much less in class. She will be getting used to indoor heating in buildings. None is needed in Paraguay, although air-conditioning sure is needed.

OFF SITE MEETING SEPT 10

We will NOT meet at the Sullivan Brothers Convention Center Monday - our talents will be called to the old Food Bank location to help tie a ribbon on this year's shoebox project. Steve Thorpe reports volunteers have done amazing work the last several days and the project is on track to ship on time. A big final push from our club is scheduled for Monday beginning at 10am. Jimmy Johns will be delivered about noon (for those that RSVP'd with Mark earlier this week) and Rotarians are encouraged to come see the final stages of the packing process.

20 Under 40

We are proud that two of our own Rotarians have been named to the 20 under 40 this year!
Congrats, Heather Labonte and Megan Kugler!

MISSING SHOEBOXES

This is an ALL-POINTS-BULLETIN: our shoebox commander is searching for shoeboxes that were checked out by Rotarians in our club but HAVE NOT BEEN RETURNED. Every shoebox is paired with an individual student in Nicaragua so if you are holding onto a shoebox, that child will be empty-handed when our team arrives to distribute in November. It is IMPERATIVE that you return the shoeboxes you checked out - preferably filled with all the age and gender-appropriate items on the list. Bring your shoeboxes to Monday's meeting as the trucks will be loaded and depart next week!

Part 1: Buenos Dias, Anahi Rojas

Posted by Bonnie Smith-Davis

Part 1:

With a heart as courageous as her love of life, Anahi is our new Downtown Rotary Club’s Exchange student from Paraguay.

She sat quietly beside me with her host mom Mary Donegan-Ritter and their family dog Sawyer on their beautiful outside porch. The rest of the family wasn’t home yet including host sister Alayna, a junior, out for cross country at West. Her host dad Curt wasn’t home yet either.

With a beautiful smile, Anahi focused right on me and answered questions clearly and completely as much as possible. Her caring host mom watched her carefully, listening and helping her only as needed as Anahi constructed her phrases and searched for ways to express deep feelings important to her.

August 27th Program

Congressman Rod Blum joined us for an update from Capitol Hill as well as discussion from the upcoming campaign. You can see his comments on our Facebook Live stream recorded at our meeting.

Operation Warm Heats Up

Please continue supporting this excellent program that provides coats to children in the Waterloo Community School District. Last year we were able to provide 1,200 coats and this year our goal is 1,500 coats. To help in this goal and if you are a Cyclone fan, contact Steve about purchasing his 2 lower deck, 30 yard line tickets for the Akron game on Sept. 22^nd , the Baylor game November 10^th, or the Kansas State game on Nov. 24^th. These tickets are great seats and the proceeds will go straight to Operation Warm. Each pair is offered for $200, but any additional donation would help us beat our goal of providing 1,500 coats this year!

You can help by sharing the post on our Facebook page with your friends who are Cyclone Football fans.

This week's Rotarian, Mark Durbahn!

This week's Rotarian, President-Elect, Mark Durbahn!

Years in Rotary: 10

Favorite Thing about Rotary: Youth Sponsored Activities

Hometown: Stewartville, Minnesota

College: Iowa State University and UNI

Occupation: Project Manager for AECOM (Brice Petrides)

Favorite Foods: Something Different, Something Healthy

Favorite Movie: It's a Wonderful Life

Random Fact About You: I have an I-State wrestling season ticket.

Favorite Quote: "This Above All: To thine own self be true,"

Another $96.5 million to end polio

EVANSTON, Ill. (August 15, 2018) — Rotary International announced nearly $100 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children each year.

The announcement comes as Nigeria marks two years without any reported cases of wild poliovirus, following four reported cases in 2016.

“The fact that no new cases of wild poliovirus have been detected in Nigeria points to the improved surveillance and rapid response protocols Rotary and its Global Polio Eradication Initiativepartners have established, particularly in insecure and inaccessible areas,” said Michael K. McGovern, chair of Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee. “While this progress is promising, it’s time to redouble our efforts so we can continue to maintain the political and financial support necessary to end polio for good.”

Upcoming Programs

Use this list to encourage potential members to join us for a topic that interests them - maybe they'll be so impressed they will become a Rotarian!

September 17^th: UNI President, Mark Nook

August 20 Program

Rick Coleman
KWWL Sports Director

Rick will join us to speak about the upcoming college football season.

Rick Coleman was born in Waterloo and grew up watching KWWL-TV. He's always been a sports "junkie," and some of Rick's early idols were Dan Rather, Bryant Gumbel, Brent Musberger, Max Robinson and KWWL's Ron Steele.

August 13th Program

August 13^th: Tim Hurley – National Security Seminar, Army War College

August 6th Program - Hartman Reserve

We enjoyed a great program at the newly refurbished Hartman Reserve Nature Center located at Hartman Reserve, a 340 acre wooded isle located in Waterloo / Cedar Falls. We also enjoyed Blue Barn BBQ as Connie Svoboda shared how the new Nature Center came to be and some of the new programming that is available. Connie has been with the Nature Center for 6 years and previously worked at the UNI Museums and Iowa State Extension. Connie’s responsibilities as Development Coordinator include marketing and fundraising. After her presentation, we toured the new facilities.

The short overview video and location maps of Hartman Reserve Nature Center can be found in the links below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KemHTzMZZzU&feature=youtu.be

http://www.hartmanreserve.or g

Rotarian of the Week - Mason Fromm

Years in Rotary - 18

Hometown - Indianola, Iowa

College - UNI

Job – After 20 years of selling signs in the Cedar Valley, I started selling signs throughout the Midwest in a new position with Nagle Signs August 6th.

Fave Food - PastaTacosBarbequePizzaSushi

Fave Movie – The Big Lebowski

Fave quote – The time is always right to do what is right. MLK

Fave thing about Rotary – Bill Robert

Photo is from 2009, when Mason was president and Bill Robert became an Honorary Rotarian.

August Birthdays

We'll celebrate Rotarians with birthdays in August and enjoy dessert at the August 20th meeting.

Harrison Cass	Aug 9
Michael Larson	Aug 9
Shelia Baird	Aug 10
Marilyn Moore	Aug 15
Katelyn Tungland	Aug 15
Kathleen Braun '99	Aug 16
Norman Ussery	Aug 16
Gil Irey	Aug 17
David Lee	Aug 18
Jack Dusenberry	Aug 21
Michelle Weidner '03	Aug 23
Beth McCrindle	Aug 24
Chuck Rowe	Aug 26
Mindy Hendricksen	Aug 28
Jim Seeley	Aug 30

Calling All Future Leaders!

The Future Leaders training will be held in conjunction with the Celebration Zone Institute in Erie, PA on September 27‐30, 2018. We have an outstanding lineup of guest speakers, zone directors and even the Rotary International President Elect ready to connect, engage and inspire you! More information is available at the link Future Leaders 2018

District 5970 is offering 4 scholarships to attend the Future Leaders Program. If you meet any of the following criteria, please apply!

Program July 30

Fellow Rotarian Jim Madison shared details about the Winnebago Council in general, the areas they serve and the camp property, Ingawanis Adventure Base. He also highlighted the recent programmatic changes within the Boy Scouts of America.

Joining him was Whitney Jensen, one of Jim's staff members that covers the Cedar Valley. She is also an Assistant District Governor for Rotary District 5970.

This week's Rotarian...Art Cox

This week's Rotarian of the Week...Art Cox!
Years in Rotary - about 22

Favorite thing about Rotary - The people!

Hometown - Bettendorf, Iowa

College - University of Iowa

Occupation - Director of the Center for Real Estate Education and Professor of Finance, UNI

Fave Food - shore lunch of walleye

Fave movie - not much of a movie fan, but favorite author is C. S. Lewis

Random fact about yourself - I was a District Governor of Lions Clubs International prior to joining Rotary

Favorite quote -

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Family Picnic July 26th

One of our club's oldest traditions is the annual family picnic at the Rotary Reserve. The weather was amazing and over 100 people attended! If you have photos to share, please email them to Mason@theSignPeople.net

This week's Rotarian...Steve Sinnott

Years in Rotary: 22, as I recall

Hometown: Waterloo!

College: UI Go Hawks!!

Job:
Insurance (best service and lowest rates around)

Fave Food:
Brown Bottle House Special pizza or anything at Morg’s

Fave Movie:
Wizard of Oz or Taxi Driver (similar plot lines)

Interesting Fact:
Was once, arguably, the best pool player in Iowa City!

Favorite Quote:
“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity”

July 16 Program

Executive Director and fellow Rotarian Barb Prather was joined by Volunteer Services Manager Jessica Haring (pictured) who shared volunteer opportunities to serve the needs of hungry Iowans. The Northeast Iowa Food Bank provides nutritious food to 5,800 different people weekly through a far-reaching network of over 200 food pantries, soup kitchens, schools, churches and nonprofit groups. In 2015 they distributed 7 million pounds of food to those who are hungry in northeast Iowa.

Grease is the HOT Ticket!

The Waterloo Community Playhouse will present "Grease" for two weekends in July, and we got a sneak peek at our meeting Monday! From "Summer Nights" to "Greased Lightning", the Pink Ladies and T-Birds will transport you back to the 50's for 7 big shows. Click this link for tickets!

(shows July 13 - 15 are SOLD OUT - seats remain for July 19 - 22 if you act fast!)

Call the Business office at 319-235-0367

or Ticket Office 319-291-4491

or go online at www.WlooPlayhouse.org

Rotary recognizes Prime Minister Trudeau

TORONTO (June 27, 2018) — In acknowledgment of his government’s efforts to achieve a polio-free world, Rotary today presented Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with its Polio Eradication Champion Award at its 109th annual international convention.