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July 10, 2024
2024-25 Rotary Theme
 
Breakfast meetings are on Wednesday mornings at 7:30-8:30 at Shortstop Bar & Grill, 1298 E Moore Lake Dr, Fridley. Drop in! Guests Welcome!
 
Find us online at:https://www.fridleychrotary.org/ AND fridleychrotary@gmail.com
 
Joining the FCH Rotary breakfast meetings on Zoom (request by the previous Monday at stephen.keeler@fridley.k12.mn.us.):  open the link below, click on Open Zoom Meetings, and follow the prompts.
 
 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS: July 17- no meeting due to the Golf Classic. July 24: College admissions consultant Cozy Wittman provides an informational talk. July 31: member and former Minnesota State Legislator and lobbyist Gordon Backlund speaks on the legislative and lobbyist processes.
 
 
PROGRAM
 
17 members and guest Fabricio Orellana, intern this month with Columbia Heights Mayor Amáda Márquez Simula, hears incoming President Mike Oakley thank outgoing President Stephen Keeler for his accomplishments during his presidential year and preview his goals for 2024-25, including an emphasis on re-connecting the club with its traditional partners in the business communities in our service areas.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
The Golf Classic auction site is up! Create an account or log in to your current account at https://32auctions.com/FCHRotary2024 and submit bids!
 
Be aware! The usual route on Hwy 65 from our area to The Refuge Golf Course has a closure. Choose an alternative route!
 
Senior member Gordon Backlund presented incoming President-Elect Paul Nealy and incoming President Mike Oakley with the Rotary pins for their new positions.
 
Secretary Bob Tholkes noted that the practice of rotating responsibility for providing meeting programs, acting as the greeter and opening meetings, and providing an invocation will continue in 2024-25. The initial 2024-25 meeting duties schedule (it changes frequently) will be emailed to all active members.
 
Thanks to Nealy for taking on coordination of the longtime fall literacy project, which for years has provided dictionary/almanac books to 3rd graders in our service area.
 
REMINDERS
 
The 11th annual Golf Classic, the primary club fundraiser, is set for Monday, July 15, at the Refuge Golf Course in Oak Grove. Volunteers are needed to participate. Contact Greg Schraufnagel at 612-242-4748 to sign up.
 
Heights Next Community Group offers its annual Garden Party Potluck at its Blooming Sunshine Garden at Lomianki Park,39th Ave. & California St. in Columbia Heights, at 5:30 on Thursday, July 25. A weeding and planting opportunity is provided for those so inclined.
 
The next Operation Pollination virtual meeting is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 6. Use Zoom reference https://colheights-k12-mn-us.zoom.us/j/89549675071.
 
The next club board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 7. All members are welcome.
 
The Operation Pollination committee plans to participate in the Columbia Heights Monarch Festival on Thursday, August 8. Due to the transition in the club treasurer position from Greg Schraufnagel (thanks for your service, Greg!) To Stephen Keeler and Greg’s duties as coordinator of the upcoming Golf Classic, invoices for the billing quarter ending June 30 were not issued…to catch up, two invoices will be forthcoming during the new quarter which ends September 30.
 
The annual Charter Dinner will take place on Wednesday evening, November 6, at Banquets of Minnesota, 6310 Hwy 65, Fridley. Doors open at 5:30. District 5960 District Governor Ed Boeve will be on hand.
 
Rotary International announced that the 2029 RI convention will be held in Minneapolis. It will be organized cooperatively by Districts 5580/5950,5960, and 6250.
 
Additional mentors for Fridley STRIVE students are sought. Contact Steve Klaers at 612-599-8103.