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Paul Nealy Rick Heidick
 
Breakfast meetings are on Wednesday mornings at 7:30-8:30 at Central Mix, 4030 Central Avenue, Columbia Heights. Drop in! Guests Welcome!
 
Find us online at:https://www.fridleychrotary.org/ or on Facebook at Fridley-C H Rotary and connect with us at fridleychrotary@gmail.com.
 
 
Joining the FCH Rotary breakfast meetings on Zoom (request by the previous Monday at fridleychrotary@gmail.com):  open the link below, click on Open Zoom Meetings, and follow the prompts.
 
 
 
 
April 1, 2026
 
 
 
PROGRAM
 
15 members heard Rick Heidick provide a description and update on the long-running District 5960 LIFT program, which provides bottom-up sustainable assistance to local communities in extreme poverty in Nicaragua.
 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS: April 8- Paul Bolin, Fridley Community Development update. April 15- Classification Talk, Cassie Nault. April 22- Joe Rolstad, TPC Twin Cities
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
Service- Southern Anoka Community Assistance (SACA) offers a service activity today, from 4-6 pm at its new quarters, 3905 California St., Columbia Heights. Please email fridleychrotary@gmail com if you expect to attend and did not have a chance to sign up personally.
 
The Operation Pollination group’s next virtual meeting is rescheduled for 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 14. Use Zoom reference https://colheights-k12-mn-us.zoom.us/j/89549675071
 
Social- the club approved Social Committee Scott Lund’s idea of taking the St. Paul Gangster Tour on Wednesday evening April 29 in St. Paul. Cost is $40 per person and can be billed to members’ Rotary accounts. The bus tour leaves from the Wabasha Street caves, 215 Wabasha Avenue, at 6 p.m. A signup sheet is provided. Please email fridleychrotary@gmail com if you expect to attend and will not have a chance to sign up personally. Guests welcome!
 
Rich Coleman noted that 26 STRIVE students attended the field trip to Minneapolis College and RAO Mfg. last week.
 
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES: help staff an informational table or assist at club functions:
 
Saturday May 2nd – Environmental Fun Fair @ Springbrook Nature Center 11-2.
Thursday evening May 7- Columbia Heights High School Auditorium: Scholarship Nite,
                                           7 p.m.
Wednesday evening May 13- Fridley High School Auditorium: Scholarship nite, 6 pm
Wednesday, June 17- Columbia Heights Arts and Info Fair, 4-7 pm, Huset Park.
Thursday-Saturday, July 16-18 – Fridley 49er Days.
Thursday, July 23 - The Columbia Heights Monarch Festival, Kordiak Park, 1845 49th Ave NE, Columbia Heights.
 
REMINDERS
 
The last STRIVE field trip for the year, to Hennepin Tech, is upcoming. Contact Steve Klaers at 612-599-8103 about participating. Additional mentors for Fridley STRIVE students are sought.
 
The next Rotary District 5960 Area 9 club get-together is at Ballpark in Blaine, 10650 Baltimore St NE, @ 5pm on Monday April 13th. Open to all members.
 
The club board meets next on Tuesday, April 14 at noon, on Zoom. Use Zoom reference https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5539809296 to attend.
 
The District 5960 2026 Conference of Clubs will be held April 17-18, 2026 at the Hilton Doubletree hotel, St Paul (East). Register at https://www.ismyrotaryclub.org/Register/Index.cfm?EventID=77878439
 
The annual Golf Classic fundraiser is scheduled for Thursday, July 30, at The Refuge, 21250 Yellow Pine St NW, Oak Grove. The club’s website for the golf fundraiser is up and running. Check it out at  www.fchgolfclassic.org
 
The Rotary billing invoices for the quarter ending March 31 was issued last week. Treasurer Rottler is available by phone for online dues payments. Contact him at 763-670-4259. Payments can be turned in at meetings or mailed to FCH Rotary, 3966 Reservoir Blvd., Columbia Heights 55421.
 
Rotary International announced that the May 27-28, 2028 (changed from 2029) RI convention will be held in Minneapolis. It will be organized cooperatively by Districts 5580, 5950, 5960, and 6250.