Tim Bolhuis from Pellitteri Waste Systems on latest in waste management & recycling
Last Week’s Speaker: Joe Ruskey (our District Governor 2017-2018) on the importance of the Rotary International Foundation. Joe gave us an inspiration dose of how the RI Foundation (not to mention the District) can supercharge our efforts to support good causes. Rotary is the oldest and largest service club in the world, with 1,200,000 members in 200 countries. And that size gives us the ability to support many projects.
Rotary helped with the Marshall Plan after WW2 and has established peace centers in six universities to help reduce violence between nations and peoples. PolioPlus started in 1979 in the Philippines, and it’s become the effort for which Rotary is best known. We’ve raised billions in our fight to eliminate polio, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and countries around the globe have contributed tens of billions more. We’re THIS close to ending polio on our planet.
We have two vacancies in leadership positions for our Club. Please consider putting yourself forward for one of them. Contact either Dawn Frank or Steve Aune if you’re willing to pitch in.
Sundar Baladhandapani has had to leave the Board because of work pressures.
Ruth Domack was scheduled to be the incoming President-Elect starting July 1, 2020, but her health issues have forced her to step down from that position.
If you want to serve on a Nominating Committee, talk to Steve Aune.
Paul Patenaude and new member Kathy Roberg received a $2,000 District Matching Grant in support of their effort behind the purchase of equipment to help Haitians convert local plant seeds into oil for domestic use, a project also supported by our Club.
The Middleton High School Interact Club, which we co-sponsor with Madison West, has grown significantly with new members who are looking for a joint volunteering service project with our Club.
