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Annual Student Honors Luncheon Monday
Beth McCrindle is our amazing coordinator of the special luncheon and has the following words...
 
This honors program will be different this year-obviously without the “lure” of lunch and getting out of the building for part of the day we tried to make the formatting more appealing. The program will be a fabulous video of all of the honor students from Columbus, East, Expo, Valley, Waterloo Christian and West put together for us by the Superintendent’s office. Surrounding the video will be words of advice and congratulations offered by those our club as honored in the past who are all graduates from Waterloo.
 
 
Katie McCrindle Kroeger. Honor student who went to Spain as a Rotary Exchange Student between West and Wartburg. Now an outdoor enthusiast living in Colorado.

J’ Kalein Madison. He was honored by our club as the first recipient of our Service Above Self award. He is now an extremely active member of the Cedar  Valley. Look for him in his kilt at Irish Fest!

Katrina Ginther Thompson. Honor Student who went on to be a Rotary Exchange Student to Belgium between West and Boston University. Now enjoying life in sunny California.

 

Ai-Lihn Hong Miller came to Waterloo as an eighth grader from Saigon. She spoke no English upon her arrival and now is a teacher at East Waterloo.

 

Katie Morgart. Honor Student who went on to teach overseas with the Department of Defense. Katie went to Wartburg and came back to student teach at West and Expo. She was a favorite!!
 

Mayor Quentin Hart speaks not only on behalf of himself and East High but also our entire community. 

 Dr Lindaman will also say a few words as will any principal choosing to participate.

Meeting ID: 985 7618 4918
Password: 061645
 
 
 

 

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Rotary District Duck Pluck 2021

This year’s “Duck Pluck” will take place on May 1, 2021, virtually.  The winning ducks will be plucked out of Michelle Bell’s hot tub during the District Conference!

  1. Each club and individuals from that club will be represented by a single duck in the race.
  2. The first three ducks to be plucked will be the winners.  Once the winning three clubs have been determined a computer pick at random will occur to choose one winner of a Paul Harris Fellow designation for each of the three winning clubs.
  3. Each club participating in the race will receive Foundation Paul Harris Fellow points for the full    amount of dollars contributed by the club through the purchase of ducks.

Ducks are $5 each and checks can be made payable to The Rotary Foundation and mailed to (must be mailed to arrive by April 20, 2021):

John Wasta 

221 Kent Court NE

Cedar Rapids, IA  52402

Phone:  319-361-8527        Email:  john.wasta@gmail.com

They can be purchased online at district5970.org

(https://district5970.org/event/2021-duck-pluck/)

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Save the Date: Rotary Virtual Convention
June 12-16 in the 2021 Virtual Convention!!
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The Rotary International Convention, scheduled for 12-16 June 2021, in Taipei, Taiwan, will now be a virtual event in response to the ongoing threat of COVID-19.

We are sorry that we will not see you in Taipei this year, but this decision, made by the Rotary Board of Directors, is necessary to protect the health of everyone involved. We will share more details about the 2021 Rotary International Virtual Convention soon. Here’s what you need to know now:

 

Virtual Convention Registration

The Virtual Convention will be open to all Rotary members and participants. Event registration will open in mid-April and will include a promotional fee of $49 for 21 days, with an increase afterward to $65. The cost of each preconvention event is $20. Both the convention and preconvention events include access to the House of Friendship. Please continue to check back for more details and updates.

Convention, pre-convention, and ticket refunds

RI is currently in the process of automatically cancelling and refunding all existing registrations. This includes purchases made for Rotaract, Youth Exchange, and Intercountry Committees preconvention events, and ticketed meal events.

We kindly ask that you NOT contact RI Registration to inquire about registration, ticket, or housing cancellations as they work diligently on finalizing the process of those cancellations and refunds. Those who had already canceled prior to today will receive a refund of the $50 processing fee. 

Host Organization Committee (HOC) ticketed event registrations

The HOC event ticket fees will be refunded by the Taipei HOC. For more information, please visit rotarytaipei2021.org.

Hotel rooms

No action is required from those attendees who made accommodations secured within Rotary’s official housing block. Maritz, formerly Experient and Rotary’s official housing partner, has already cancelled all individual and group room block reservations and refunded the groups who made partial payments. 

We will post more details as they become available.

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