Waterloo Rotary Reporter (Apr 04, 2022)

Dementia Friendly Iowa Speaking Monday

Megan Zimmerman is presenting on behalf of Dementia Friendly Iowa.

Dementia Friendly Iowa is an initiative of the Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging. Dementia Friendly Iowa is a newly launched initiative seeking to help make our state a more informed, safe, and respectful place for people with dementia and their caregivers. The local initiative of Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley is driven by volunteers, including people living with dementia, and its focus is to educate community members and organizations on how to be more dementia friendly. Megan will present about dementia, Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley progress so far, and ways to get involved.

April Birthdays

Join us today to celebrate Rotarians born in April - including a tribute to Bill Robert who passed in January of 2021. Bill would have celebrated his 91st birthday today, and his 69th year of service to our club. If you have stories to share with the group, please feel free to do so at our meeting today.

Rich Frevert	April 2
Barbara Prather	April 2
Bette Wubbena	April 4
Billie Bailey	April 14
"Lindy" Lindberg	April 16
Jack Locke	April 24
Jane Lindaman	April 25
Jeremy Kauten	April 30

Liz Porter has passed

Last week, fellow Rotarian Bonnie Smith Davis reported our former piano player Liz Porter passed away early in the morning of March 30th. She had just celebrated her 95th birthday in February, and several members of her family were able to travel to Cedar Falls to be with her. A visitation is set for later today, Monday April 4th, and funeral services will be Tuesday, April 5th.

Liz and Hovey were photographed in 2016 working out a song before a Rotary meeting.

Click here to read her obituary

Rotary International Update

Lia Puggioni, a physician, gynecologist, and obstetrician, recounts her experience traveling to share information with clinicians at the Momè Katihoe clinic in Togo, Africa.

It was Saturday, 30 March 2019. I was awaiting the arrival of my fellow travelers at Fiumicino International Airport in Italy and reflecting on this new Rotary adventure on which I was about to leave to reach the Momè Katihoe clinic run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Compassion in Togo. There were so many doubts in my mind. Would I be able to teach the midwives how to use the ultrasound scanner and convey the basics to be able to interpret the ultrasound images? Would I be able to help the women that came to the clinic? What problems would I have to deal with?

Click here to read Dr. Puggioni's story.

Volunteers Needed for Scholars Luncheon

As we prepare to welcome students and families to our in-person Academic Scholars Luncheon, we need some friendly Rotarians to arrive a bit early April 11th. Beth McCrindle is coordinating volunteers for our meeting, and needs a handful of Rotarians to greet/check-in guests, collect money, etc. If you can arrive at 11:30, please send Beth an email. You'll help our club honor these brilliant students for their academic achievements despite the challenges they faced the last two years.

Annual Duck Pluck

To purchase a duck online, click here. A printable form to send checks for ducks is available here.

Upcoming Programs

Our list of upcoming programs offer a wide variety of topics that you can offer to guests - maybe you could reach out and re-connect with your network and invite them to join us for lunch?

April 11.......Academic Honors

April 18.......Hawkeye Community College, Dr. Todd Holcomb

April 25....Dolly Parton Imagination Library (Waterloo Public Library)

May 2...Tom Euchas (Black Hawk-Grundy Mental Health)

May 9...Randy Van Gent (Retired FBI Agent)

May 16...Habitat for Humanity