Peggy Halloran, The Road Home of Dane County. Their mantra is Every Child Deserves a Home. The Road Home (TRH) works to provide housing for families who are facing hard times. They work with many partners in our community to make this happen. They worked last year with 170 families with 400 children. Their goal is to avoid “shelters” and get these folks into HOMES. But the problem is large … the School District estimates 1,200 homeless students last year. Eighty percent of families have a female head of household. TRH helps with programs for Rapid Rehousing and Permanent Support Housing. A good cause working on a problem that suffers from a lack of visibility.
Next Week’s Speaker: Susan Lampert Smith on Cancer Research
Basketball Cards have arrived. Your Board of Directors would like 100%
participation. One packet is $100.00. A suggested buyout is $75.00.
Here is how it works: $10.00, buys a person one "membership card”. If they buy two, they can get a third card free on the www.basketballsweeps.com/FREE site.
Each card contains 4 NCAA Basketball teams below the scratch-off area. If you have a team that does not make the event, there will be a replacement team announced prior to the tournament. These teams are your teams for the duration of the tournament. You total all of the scores of your 4 teams to find your total for the event. The highest score wins $200.00, 2nd place $100, 3rd place $75.00, 4th place $50.00 and the lowest score wins $75.00.
Checks for winners will be distributed following the final game. There are 700 tickets available for sale. Ticket stubs must be retained and turned in with your money to Deb Dieter by March 22, 2019.
Deb Dieter runs this project. Questions, kudos, or gripes, email Deb at debragdieter@gmail.com
The Red Badge program was developed many years ago to ensure that new members were made aware of our club’s leadership, operations, fundraising, projects, and charitable giving. We have modified the Red Badge program over the years and added a mentor program that we find more effective. At our January board meeting, we voted to end the Red Badge program and instead rely on the mentor program to onboard and support new members. As a result, all new members will immediately be given a blue badge. For those still slapping on a red badge on Fridays, you’ll be receiving a blue badge soon. On a side note, I personally set the record for the longest-tenured red badge and I didn’t want to lose that dubious distinction.
You know the feeling. It’s 7 am on the third Tuesday of the month. You’re just hanging around in your robe and slippers, thinking about the tedious day ahead. But wait! You could be going to an MWTM Rotary Board meeting at Capitol Bank on High Point Road at 7 am on the third Tuesday of the month. The meeting typically runs until 8:30 or 9:00. You’ll get a chance to see all the behind-the-scenes effort and commitment that go into helping our Club do all its good work. If you see your Rotary membership as a long-term commitment, you’ll learn a lot in a couple of hours. Give it a try.
Nancy Comello has been the heart and soul of a project to provide midwife and birthing education to local Guatemalans. The goal is to reduce mortality and improve the lives of both mothers and children. She has been on a solo crusade with a lofty goal of raising over $80,000 through various sources. It is time to form a committee to support Nancy’s vision and make this effort a high-profile project for the Rotary Club of Madison West Towne-Middleton. We can use help in grant writing, finance, project management, and promotion. Please contact me if interested.
Hmmm … what do we have in common? We both have Middleton in our name. This event has been going for 50 years plus and the proceeds go to Middleton area service clubs and other NPOs. In effort to better promote Rotary in Middleton, Jack and I attended the Middleton GNF board of trustees meeting on Monday. We have participated in this event in the past and believe it’s time to jump back in. I am looking for volunteers to join Jack and me on a Rotary club committee for this interesting fundraising and promotional activity. Please contact one of us soon. The Fest will be Aug 23-25, 2019.
Bill Pritchard, of the Rotary Club of La Crosse - After Hours, has been selected as District Governor Nominee - Designate, to serve as Governor in Rotary Year 2021-2022. Bill has served District 6250 as Membership Chair and is currently Inbound Coordinator for the District Youth Exchange. Bill has also served as Assistant Zone Coordinator, and Inbound Coordinator for Central States Youth Exchange, which covers 17 districts. His nomination will be confirmed by vote at our Annual Meeting at the District Conference in La Crosse June 7 & 8.
Folks please pay a visit to ClubRunner and check that your anniversary and partner are listed in your entry. If you don’t know how to access ClubRunner, drop me an email.
If you have something you think should go into our weekly Bulletin, please send it to me at the email address on top of this Bulletin. Please include the phrase ‘FOR THE BULLETIN’ in your subject line.
If anyone has current emails for Jerry Smith and Dick Meister, please pass them along to me. My Bulletin emails to them are not getting through.
Our April 26th meeting will be a luncheon at Jefferson Middle School. Many of our members have supported Club activities on behalf of JMS. Now we get to enjoy lunch there and see the facility.
A collection of past Paul Harris Fellows met on December 14 to select the next Paul Harris Fellows, which will be announced at the Club Social on Feb 23
Feb 7, 2019. Club Socializing Gather-Round at Cowboy Jack’s starting at 430.
Feb. 16. 6-9 pm at the Jefferson Area Business Center/Woolen Mills. The Jefferson Rotary Club is having its Annual Beer & Wine Tasting Fundraiser, Craft Beers, Area Wineries, Heavy Appetizers, DJ, Photo Booth and LOTS of GREAT Silent Auction items for you to bid on (including signed Green Bay Packer 2017 Football, autographed Bears photo, tickets to area sports and more to come!) Tickets are $40 in advance and $45 at the door. Tix: Deb McCoolCloute at dmccool-cloute@badgerbank.bank.
February 23. Club Social, Details to come.
March 7. Academic Decathlon, Wisconsin Dells. Details to come.
May 17-19 2019. RYLA at Upham Woods, Wisconsin Dells.
Halloran, The Road Home of Dane County. Their mantra is Every Child Deserves a Home. The Road Home (TRH) works to provide housing for families who are facing hard times. They work with many partners in our community to make this happen. They worked last year with 170 families with 400 children. Their goal is to avoid “shelters” and get these folks into HOMES. But the problem is large … the School District estimates 1,200 homeless students last year. Eighty percent of families have a female head of household. TRH helps with programs for Rapid Rehousing and Permanent Support Housing. A good cause working on a problem that suffers from a lack of visibility. 
