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October 15 Program - Iowa House Candidates

Join us as these two neighbors square off in the second of their four debates planned during the election season. Please come early as we plan to start promptly at 12:00 to insure we have sufficient time to ask questions and allow candidate remarks. There is still time to submit questions to Mark and Katelyn to the below email addresses:

mark.durbahn@aecom.com

ktungland@jaeasterniowa.org

District 60 covers parts of SW Waterloo, south Cedar Falls, and the city of Hudson.

October 8 Program - Chuck Long

Chuck Long is coming so look forward to a great program with Chuck discussing the resurgence of Iowa Hawkeye Football. He will share some stories about his time as a player and coach in college and the NFL, finishing runner-up for the Heisman, taking snaps in a record five bowl games and being selected the No. 12 overall pick in the ’86 NFL Draft. He will have books for sale for those who would like one signed and autographed; he’ll also be pleased to join in for photos.

District Governor Message

Dear District 5970 Rotarians:

As District Governor, it is my duty, along with District Volunteers, to support clubs and help them grow. Growth may be increasing community support, recruiting new members, increasing donations to the Foundation or End Polio Now. Any time we become more engaged in Rotary and deepen our commitment, we grow. District Executive Secretary Suellen Kolbet is available to your club anytime you need information or have questions about Rotary. She can be reached at des@district5970.org. Another great resource is our district website www.District5970.org. On the site you will find contact information for your Assistant District Governor and Team Leaders. All of us are here to support you, so do not hesitate to reach out to any member of the team.

Upcoming Events:

One Rotary Summit-October 9th Mason City, Iowa

One Rotary Summit-October 24th-Marion, Iowa

North Central President Elect Training (NCPETS)-March 14th-March 16th-Ames, Iowa.

District Conference-a guaranteed good time-Friday April 26 to April 27, 2019, Clear Lake, Iowa.

Rotary International Conference-Hamburg Germany. June 5-9, 2019

Neil W. Fell

District Governor

October 1 Program: SCORE

For over 50 years SCORE has provided free, confidential, face-to-face mentoring to help entrepreneurs start, grow and fix their small business. Every year, SCORE East Central Iowa volunteers help thousands of entrepreneurs start small businesses and achieve new levels of success in their existing businesses. Volunteering at SCORE ECI is a way for you to give back to your community, connect with fellow business owners, and pass on your knowledge and expertise to the next generation of entrepreneurs in your community.

October Birthdays

These 15 Rotarians will be celebrating this month:

Lind, Mike - Oct 04

Heaton, Bob - Oct 07

Hurley, Chris - Oct 08

Carignan, Steve - Oct 10

Paulsen, Chuck - Oct 10

Bovenmyer, Samuel D. - Oct 12

Durbahn, Mark - Oct 13

Englin, Kaye - Oct 15

Stanford, Doug - Oct 15

Gallagher III, E. J. - Oct 16

Nash, Philip - Oct 16

Schmitt, Steven - Oct 16

Kuiper, Mark - Oct 19

Ericson, Marcella - Oct 25

Beecher, John - Oct 27

Operation Warm Order Deadline

As the temperature drops and we quickly embrace this Fall weather please be thinking of our community and those kids who may need a warm coat this season.

Operation Warm coats need to be purchased by Friday, October 5 so if you could get in your donation this week it would be much appreciated. We can only order as many coats as dollars we have so please be generous.

Checks can be made out and sent to:

Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa

Memo: Operation Warm

3117 Greenhill Circle Cedar Falls, IA 50613

You may also bring the check or cash to the Rotary meeting on Monday. Steve will be there to collect the money so he can order the coats on Friday.

Thank you for your continued support in Operation Warm and your service to the Rotary Club of Waterloo!

Enjoy the weekend!

Your President,

Katelyn Tungland

Steve Thorpe Surgery Update

Steve had open heart surgery on Friday, September 21 at Mayo. His surgery went well and he is recovering nicely at home - Liz is surely taking good care of him!

This is the plant that was bought for Steve by our Rotary Club. We hope it will comfort Steve and remind him how much our club is grateful for his service to our community and beyond.

If you'd like to send your well wishes to Steve you may send it to his home directly at the address below:

Steve Thorpe

1943 260th St

Denver, IA 50622

Anahi Experienced Chicago

Posted by Bonnie Smith-Davis

Rotary exchange student Anahi Rojas and her host family travelled to Chicago over Labor Day Weekend. The trip for the Ritter family included seeing son James, visiting Brookfield Zoo, Navy Pier, Millennial Park and other downtown sights in Chicago. Plans are to return at end of October. Lots of fun had by all.

Pictured are Anahi, Alayna Ritter- her host sister, her host dad Curt, host mom Mary Donegan-Ritter, and brother James Ritter

Sept 24 Program - Grout Museum

We had a great program on Monday with a presentation on Collections and Exhibits by Nicholas Erickson, Erin Dawson and Catreva Manning. One of the new exhibits includes Sulkies to Speedways: The Need for Speed in the Cedar Valley. The exhibit explores some of the most popular racing styles and venues in the Cedar Valley from the past 125 years.

This week's Rotarian, Norman Ussery

Years in Rotary: 3 in Arlington TX and 3 here

Hometown: Christiansted, St. Croix US Virgin Islands

College: Duke University

Job: Executive Director - Waterloo Community Playhouse

Fave Food: Anything Italian!

Fave Movie: Chicago

Fave quote: Insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.

Fave thing about Rotary: The fellowship that allows us to have a greater effect by working together in our community.

Another Future Rotarian

Congratulations to Past President Lauren and the Finke Family of 6!!

Gemma Anne Finke
September 14 at 5:53pm
8lbs 1.8oz, 20.5in

September Birthdays

Itzen, Wade - Sep 02

Weidner, Steven A. - Sep 06

Sonnenberg, Kevin - Sep 07

Bunge, John - Sep 09

Lederman, Dave - Sep 12

Vander Werff, Annie - Sep 13

Leonhart, Gene - Sep 14

Richter, Bari - Sep 16

Steffens, Larry - Sep 23

Hildebrandt, Nick - Sep 24

Schaefer, Adam - Sep 24

Halverson, Jeff - Sep 28

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!

October 22^nd: District Governor Neil Fell from Charles City will address our club and discuss District activities.

October 29^th: Kyle Durant and Codie Leseman from INRCOG will be presenting highlights from the 2045 Long Range Plan which includes major roadway and bridge projects in the next 5 years in the Cedar Valley. Also included is discussion on the new 2045 Bicycle Plan that shows future trails and bicycle accommodations on roadways.

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.