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WEEKLY BULLETIN December 30, 2022

Happy New Year
BULLETIN EDITOR Mary Dunn
Deadline for submissions is noon Monday. 
Please check the assignments.
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS
DATE
TREASURER
ASSISTANT
GREETER 
1
GREETER 
2
RAFFLE
TICKETS 1
RAFFLE
TICKETS 2
SERGEANT
AT ARMS
December
30, 2022
NO MEETING
January
6, 2023
Dan Fose Kevin Moran Bill Mowbray Dick Murray Jim Olmsted, Sr. Jack Ferreri
January
13, 2023

Dean Ryerson

Svein Morner Peter Overton Barry Pace Paul Patenaude Jack Ferreri
 
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No need to let the Secretary know of the switch.


 
 
 

December 30, 2022 Issue  •  No Meeting

LAST WEEK'S PROGRAM:

December 23 - No Meeting - Christmas Weekend • Kwanzaa December 26 • Hanukkah Week 

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:

December 30 - No Meeting - New Years Eve Weekend

UPCOMING PROGRAMS:

January 6 - Getting to Know You Program Continued. This time Rick Schaller, Mike Wenkman, and Greg Armstrong will discuss their employment, their hobbies, their likes, their dislikes, their best and worst vacations and whatever they want to talk about. All in 10 minutes. We encourage you to join this program so that we may get to know each other better. YOU MAY BE NEXT.
 
January 13 - Dean Ryerson has a refugee from Afghanistan staying with him. His name is Zabihullah Sahibzada. Zabi will tell us of his living experiences in Afghanistan and the odyssey of his exodus to America. He has been approved by the United States Government for asylum. His topic is titled 'REFLECTIONS ON AFGHANISTAN'. Don't miss this first hand live report on this very troubled country. BRING A GUEST.
 
January 20 - Dr. David Fields, Associate Director of the center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison will talk of "Preventing another Pearl Harbor" An overview of the tensions between the US and Japan that led to WWII and comparing todays tensions between the US and China. Program by Ed Fink
 
January 27 - Kathy Roberg will help generate committees
 
February 3 - "GETTING TO KNOW YOU" program continued.  This time it's Deb Dieter, Jeannine Desautels and Denny Zitnak who will share their lives with us for 10 minutes each.
 
February 10 -  Kathy Roberg will have committee team leaders describe the implementation of the goals created in the January 27 meeting.  
 
Birthdays:
January 4: Nate Hidden
January 17: Mary Van Hout
 
Anniversaries:
December 20: Jim Emerick
January 1: Mary Beth Growney Selene
January 6: Terry Siebert
 
Join Date:
December 22: Mary Van Hout, 33 years
January 1: Lenart Backstrom, 38
January 1: Robert Forbess, 55
January 1: Kevin Moran, 17
January 1: Richard Schaller, 57
January 1: James Zirbel, 24
 
 
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The GIVE Project

The holiday upon with a weathery vengeance. I hope you all can spend some genial holiday time with those you love.
 
Let me remind you about the GIVE project ... perhaps the largest and most important project this Club has taken on in its history. Recall that we're earmarking $50,000-80,000 from our Foundation's holdings to be distributed to causes that YOU, the membership, want to support. I presented the program for the Committee several weeks ago and sent out supporting paperwork the next day. I've attached it again to this email. GIVE is meant to mark our Fiftieth Anniversary as a Club and to represent a special outreach on our part to a community that still recovering from the effects of COVID and the economy.
 
Your first step is simple. Fill out a one-page form outlining why you think some of those funds should go to a cause that means something to you. Look at the form and you'll see you don't need a lot of detail at this stage.
 
The GIVE Committee will review those initial submissions along with the Board, and those causes selected will go on to a next step, where we'll require a bit more detail. The handouts give you all the information you need. We've already received a number of submissions. You have until January 6 to send them to me at jack46ferreri@gmail.com. Please include GIVE in all caps in the subject line.
 
The members of the GIVE Committee are Ferreri, Fink, Feldt, Gerold, Overton, and Hayden. You can call/email any of us with questions.  
 
Can't think of a cause? Then talk to Rotary buddies for ideas. Or take a look at this list and see what raises your pulse.
 
  • Winter clothing
  • Interview clothing
  • Food needs (pantries?)
  • Hot meals
  • Housing needs
  • Healthcare needs
  • Vision needs
  • Elderly needs
  • School needs
  • EMS needs
  • Immigrant needs
  • Language needs
  • Literacy network
  • Library needs 
  • Daycare centers
  • Greatnonprofits.org madison
  • www.nonprofitlist.org/WI/Madison.html
  • Environmental … water, nature trails
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Disability rights
  • Blindness and other impairments
  • Veterans 
  • Autism
  • Rape/pregnancy crisis
  • Runaways
  • Domestic abuse 
  • Urban League
  • Goodman Community Center
  • Centro Hispanics and other ethnic organizations
  • Habitat for humanity
  • Adoption help
Doubtless I've left many important causes off this list. Feel free to expand your thinking.
 
Enjoy the holidays. And think GIVE!
 

2023 Golf Outing

 

 
REGISTRATION - will open soon!
Register as an INDIVIDUAL or a FOURSOME 
 
For everything you need to know contact 
Mary Beth Growney Selene
(608) 271-7979
mbgrowneyselene@ryansigns.net

SPONSORSHIP
For information about sponsorship opportunities
please contact
Roxanne Brazeau
(608)-212-0007
roxanne.brazeau@bmo.com

SILENT AUCTION June 19, 2023
For more information contact
Deb Dieter
(608) 235-4030
debragdieter@gmail.com

Monthly Board Meetings

Our normal Board meeting is on the third Wednesday of the month at noon.
 
All members are welcome to attend to see how the Club operates. If you let the Secretary (jack46ferreri@gmail.com) know ahead of time, he can send you an agenda. These days, we’re meeting at Kathy Roberg’s Presidential Cabana at (Harbor House Condominium) 802 Harbor House Drive (which is right off Watts Road).
 

Live Club Meetings are Here

The meeting place is Serendipity Labs, a co-working facility on the 6th floor of the Johnson Bank Building at 525 Junction Road Madison, WI 53717 (right next to Panera Bread). We’re in the SOUTH TOWER. Parking is easy and undercover. We’re doing this on a month-to-month basis right now, but it may lead to a long-term arrangement. 
 
For parking, follow the blue arrow on the map to underground parking. Go left once you enter the ramp. Parking is free; park in any unassigned spot. Go to the covered walkway to enter the building and grab the elevator to the sixth floor.

 

Meeting Information

Rotary Club of Madison West Middleton, PO Box 620312, Middleton WI 53562
 
We’re currently holding Hybrid/Zoom meetings during this COVID time. The Zoom link is above in this Bulletin. The in-person meeting site is the Johnson Bank building at 525 Junction Road. Park in the ramp to the east of the building, then go to the 6th floor to Serendipity Labs.
You can’t miss us.

Fridays at 12:12 PM

The meetings combine a live, in-person element with the capability to join via Zoom.

We are the self-anointed ‘Coolest Rotary Club in the World.’

Our website is madisonwestmidrotary.org

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President  KATHY ROBERG
President-Elect  KEVIN HAYDEN
Secretary 
JACK FERRERI
Treasurer MATT LOCH
Club Service ROD NILLES
Community Service  JOHN GEROLD
                    International Service  PAUL PATENAUDE
Vocational Service  JIM EMERICK
Member-at-Large PETER OVERTON
 
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We meet
FRIDAYS at 12:12 pm
at
Serendipity Labs,  Suite 6500  Johnson Bank Building              525 Junction Road          Madison, Wisconsin 53717
 
 
 Rotary Club of
        Madison West Middleton           
P.O. BOX 620312
Middleton • WI 53562 • USA
We are self-anointed
'Coolest Rotary Club in the World'
 
MADISON WEST MIDDLETON   ROTARY FOUNDATION INC  
 
 
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