Are volunteering with youth (one-on-one)? Mentoring, Youth Exchange, RYLA, Academic Decathlon, High School Business Plans, Etc...
If YES, you need to have an annual background check completed. CLICK HERE for more details about how to get your background check completed. This only applies if you are working with youth one-on-one. If you are in a group more than 2 people, you don't need a background check.
Mick Faulhaber is our Youth Protection Officer for our Club. Contact him if you have any questions or concerns.
Dan Loichinger, founder and president of Loichinger Advantage LLC, spoke about his organization which helps community leaders, organizations, and nonprofits grow through executive coaching and roundtables. Dan enlightened Rotarians about The Middleton Endowment, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in the Middleton area by growing a permanent endowment and actively supporting charitable activities.
As a member of the COOLEST ROTARY CLUB in the world, you have the opportunity to cheer on some really young hip athletes. We all want to serve more in our community and we all want to socialize together more, so why not to benefit a great organization.
Tri4Schools is a non-profit that puts on triathlons for kids around the community. They are hosting one at Middleton High School on Aug 20th and NEED OUR HELP!!!
We are going to be course marshals, telling runners and cyclists where to turn and keeping them out of harms way from traffic. It is really easy and fun and you get to CHEER them on all the way.
Our shift is Saturday, August 20th, from 7:30-11:30 am.
Let's get 20 Rotarians in Rotary gear out there to support our youth and get involved in our own communities!!!
You are invited to bring spouses/friends/kids. Please email me at saune@amfam.com and I will add you. We need to submit our number by next Friday.
If you cannot volunteer for this shift on Saturday but want to help out, please sign up here to get involved. You WON'T regret it.
August 27 at 10 am we plan to have a canoeing/paddling excursion for our members, families and friends down the Wisconsin River. We will start from the Blackhawk River Run canoe rental and public boat launch site on Highway Y a few miles southwest of Sauk City.
You can bring your own canoe or rent one from the canoe rental site.
Please bring your own food and drinks (NO GLASS) and we will have a picnic on a sandbank around noon. You can return from Arena at either 3 or 5 pm.
We need everybody to sign up and pay by August 19. You can either sign up at our meetings or e-mail Svein Morner at smorner@sustaineng.com.
The cost for the canoeing will be as follows:
Rental Canoe: $35 per canoe
You can also arrange with the canoe rental to pick up your canoe ($20 per canoe) or to drive your car down ($20 per car) if you so wish.
The MWT-M Board is seeking candidates for the 2017-18 fiscal year. The Board of Directors has selected the Nominating Committee consisting of Derek, Tony Burns, Dean Ryerson, Ruth Domack and Matt Loch.
Please let the Nominating Committee know if you are interested in serving on the Board, or if you know of someone who would make a great Board Member.
The World Health Organization has confirmed two cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Nigeria, the first cases in the country since July 2014. After passing a year without a case of the wild poliovirus, Nigeria was removed from the list of polio-endemic countries in September 2015. These cases – from two local government areas of Borno state – occurred in July 2016.
The Government of Nigeria – in partnership with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – will take immediate steps to respond quickly to the outbreak to prevent further spread of the disease. This response will include...
Each month, eBay, the world’s largest auction website, selects a set of upcoming Live Auction events and donates a portion of all sales proceeds to Rotary. Only U.S. auction sales are eligible. See the schedule of August auctions.
From the August 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Four hundred years ago, the invention of the microscope gave us a glimpse into an aspect of the world too tiny to be seen by the human eye. The microscope works by capturing light shone on or through an object observed through lenses, which magnify the resulting image so we can see it. But a microscope has its limits. In 1873, German physicist Ernst Abbe discovered that the ability of a microscope to see past a certain size was limited not by the quality of its lens, but by the wavelength of light shining into it. And since the wavelength of visible...
Dan Loichinger, founder and president of Loichinger Advantage LLC, spoke about his organization which helps community leaders, organizations, and nonprofits grow through executive coaching and roundtables. Dan enlightened Rotarians about The Middleton Endowment, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in the Middleton area by growing a permanent endowment and actively supporting charitable activities.
