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Presidents' Day
Today we will hear from several of our club's past presidents as they share memories and reflect on their year leading the Waterloo Rotary Club.
 
We will meet on the second floor of the beautifully refurbished Waterloo Convention Center.  Ballroom A is our previous regular meeting room, but the escalators have been removed so if you want to avoid the stairs, the elevator is on the Commercial St side of the building. The skywalk connector to the parking garage may not yet be open for pedestrian traffic, so continue using on-street parking along Park, Commerical, 4th St, or Jefferson.
 
 
 
Toasting Across the "Pond"
On February 12, our club received this message through our website:
 
Dear Mr. President, Greetings from the Rotary Club of Chippenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom District 1200 It is our custom each week at our lunchtime meeting to greet and toast a Rotary Club selected from around the World. On Monday 7th February 2022 at our lunchtime meeting we selected your Club the Rotary Club of Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America and we toasted you all. The Rotary Club of Chippenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom District 1200 was chartered on the 10th March 1949 and we have 49 members. We meet each Monday at 1230pm in The Rotary Hall, Station Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. From the Rotarians of Chippenham we send you our warmest greetings and wish you well in your Rotary endeavours. President Richard Terrell - Rotary Club of Chippenham.
 
 
At our February 14th meeting, we snapped a panoramic photo and replied with this message: 
 
Roger / Richard – thank you for reaching out across the pond and connect with our club!  We read your email at our noon meeting today and an official motion was made and seconded to return a toast to your club.  I attached a photo of all our present members lifting our drinks in honor of your club’s service and the hope that Rotarians worldwide will continue finding ways to connect and work together.  Cheers!
 
EJ Gallagher, III, Waterloo Rotary Club President 2021-2022
Mason Fromm, Waterloo Rotary Club Past President 2008-2009
 
 
 
 
Rural Urban Day - February 28th
Rural Urban Day is a program where our Downtown Waterloo Club thanks agricultural producers for their part in the food that we all enjoy.   Rotarians are asked to sponsor one or more guests for one of our largest meetings of the year.  The cost $15 per guest, which is the cost of your guest's meal.  If you would like to sponsor a guest, our committee will be happy to provide a guest for you.  The Rural Urban Day committee will be at the registration table recruiting club members to sponsor guests, but you can email Larry Steffens right now if you want to sign up! 
 
The committee consists of Larry Steffens, Rick Morris, Deb Pullin-VanAuken,  Bob Regenwether and Chuck Paulsen.  Our program speaker will be Kayla Lyon who is the Director of the Iowa DNR. Her program will center around current DNR programs involving agriculture producers.  
 
 
 
 
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? 
 
February 21...Rotary Presidents Day
February 28...Rural Urban Day
March 7...Volunteer Center, Lauren Finke
March 14...Junior Achievement, Katelyn Tungland
March 21...US House Representative Ashley Hinson
 
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