Hampton Rotary Club - 2202

We will be having our annual Rotary Extravaganza formal evening at Hampton Country Club on Feb. 9, 2008. Tickets are $100 a couple

Monticello Rotary Club - 2210

Club members gathering items for Molly Pisarik, GSE team member, to take with her to India
Club donations YTD to RI Foundation is $4300 or $122/member

Cedar Falls Rotary Club - 2184

Cedar Falls: President Steve Boeke received word from The Rotary Foundation (TRF) that the Cedar Falls Major Matching Grant application to drill five water wells for rural communities in Morogoro, Tanzania was approved. Each $1.00 that was contributed by District 5970 Clubs has grown to $2.50. The grand total for the grant including Club, District, and TRF funds is $40,000.

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Clarion Rotary Club Holds Texas Holdem Fundraiser

2nd Annual Texas Holdem Fundraiser Hosted by the Clarion Rotary Club
at the Enclosed Wright County Conservation Shelter
North of Lake Cornelia
Saturday, January 19th 2008
Registration 1:30PM Start 2:00PM
Estimated run time—5 to 6 hours
$75 buy in - Limited to 100 players
(50% of Buy-in goes into the Pot)
Payout to the top 10% places
Food, Snacks & Pop Available BYOB
Funds raised are being donated to the Clarion Public Library Expansion Fund.

Sumner Rotary Club - 2221

We gave $500 to the local food pantry and Caring and Sharing project (a Christmas gift giving for needy).

Humboldt Rotary Club - 2203

The Humboldt Rotary Club sponsored a Child ID Program on December 17 and 18. The club did Finger Printing and DNA collection for over 360 students in the Preschool through 3rd Grades in the Humboldt School System with the help of the Sheriff's Department and the Humboldt Fire Department.

This will be and ongoing project in an attempt to ID all children in the county for their protection against child preditors. All records will be stored at the Law Enforcement Center in Humboldt, Ia. and available should an Amber Alert ever be issued.

Ackley Rotary Club - 2178

The Ackley Rotary Club matched donations from their members to go towards the local Food Bank. The contribution amounted to $338. This money will go towards the filling and delivering of Christmas boxes for needy families for the Holidays done by the Ackley Food Bank volunteers.

Oelwein Rotary Club - 2214

Donations: Oelwein Chamber of Commerce $500, Oelwein Police Dept. $300, Community Kitchen Cupboard $100, Oelwein High School Vocal Music Dept. $100

Mason City River City Sunrise Rotary - 27354

Sponsored a DSG in the amount of $3200.00 to assist Newman Elementary School purchase various Reading and Math classroom materials and equipment

Lynn Ptacek & President Vicki Hornbuckle

 

Monticello Rotary Club - 2210

Club sponsored applicant Molly Pisarik was selected as member of the GSE team to India in 2008.

Belle Plaine Rotary Club - 2181

November 8th Belle Plaine Rotary sponsored Spaghetti Supper. Proceeds of approximately $900.

Sumner Rotary Club -2221

We donated $500 to the Friends of Community Memorial Hospital of Sumner for their fundraiser to help remodel rooms.

Rockwell City Rotary Club - 2218

We inducted 5 new Paul Harris Awards and one person got his 6th Paul Harris, in the month of November. We also held our Hunger Meal with the proceeds going to the Outreach Center also gave the Outreach Center can goods for the need. Gave gift cards to the Foster parents of the 16 foster children that we have in the County; to be used for items that the children might need.

Held our Annual Pancake breakfast with the proceeds going to the new Community Sign project.

Bellevue Rotary Club - 2182

Bellelvue Rotary club sponsored a "Little Mr. & Mrs. Christmas" contest for children ages 4-6. Adults put money in cans for votes. All the children rode in the Chamber Christmas parade with the top vote getters winning a $50.00 savings bond. The total money raised was $1,139.00 which went to Jackson Co. Hospice.

Decorah Rotary Club celebrates the 70 year anniversary of their charter.
Pictured above are past Presidents of Decorah Rotary Club
Click Here to see other photos of the event

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Ackley Rotary Club - 2178

The Ackley Rotary went shopping with club funds to furnish needed items from the AGWSR school nurse wish list from both the Ackley and Wellsburg centers. Items donated included mittens, boots, t-shirts, jeans and socks.

During November, collections have been taken up from the Ackley Rotary membership earmarked to go to the local food bank. The club will match any funds donated by the members and will forward to the food bank in preparation for their Christmas boxes that go out to needy families each year at this time.

Hampton Rotary Club - 2202

Our memebers met last week, Nov 21 at the normal time for our meal, we then adjourned and went shopping at the local PAMIDA store to help out for our club sponsored Operation Santa. In a little over 30 minutes we bought enough gifts for 50 children. In total we usually as a club help out 200 families and 300 children.

Monticello Rotary Club - 2210

75 Rotarians & spouses attended the 73rd annual Tri-City meeting and the program highlighted International projects including PDG Ken Kolek's discussion of International water projects & club foot treatment.
Club submitted a candidate for the India GSE team.

Cedar Falls Rotary Club - 2184

On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 during the regular Cedar Falls Rotary meeting, Gale Bonsall provided some information relating to the Tanzania Water Well Project. With the leadership of Jim Coloff, the Cedar Falls Rotarians pledged and contributed $11,680.00 in a time period of 19 seconds. In addition, nine District 5970 Clubs have contributed $12,635.00 in recent weeks. Yes, we are excited!!! Learn More...

Decorah Rotary Club - 2190

Ward Budweg an his wife Jacky are continuing their bike trip around the world and have visited and stayed with many Rotarians on the journey. They are currently en route to Rwanda to help build libraries and schools for about three weeks. More info can be read at
www. decorahnewspapers.com or Ward's personal web site www.fromthebenchesoftheworld.com.

The Bancroft Rotary Club in partnership with several other organizations, businesses, and private citizens dedicated a beautifully landscaped courtyard adjacent to the newly constructed Bancroft Medical/EMT Clinic.

A District Simplified Grant (DSG), in the amount of $2000.00 contributed to the success of the project. The plantings were done by members of the Bancroft Rotary Club.

 

 

L-R -- Teresa Kennedy, Rotarian and Committee Member - Jan Deitering, Bancroft Rotary Club President

Oelwein Rotary Club - 2214

Gave Linda Masey $350 for her missionary work in Kenya.
Gave the Oelwein High School Band $500 for their Orange Bowl trip.
We provided $250 for the Oelwein Children's Hoot Halloween party.

Bellevue Rotary Club - 2182

Oct. 28th-Sponsored the Halloween Parade and costume judging contest for the city. One hundred and sixty five kids took part.

Anamosa Rotary Club - 2180

Club hosted a picnic type reception for a Missionary couple who run a school in Rwanda. The young lady is an Anamosa High graduate. There is much local interest in their project.

Sumner Rotary Club - 2221

We donated $500 to the Sumner Volunteer Fire Department

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The Estherville, Spencer, and Iowa Great Lakes Rotary Clubs
got together for a social last week.

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District Governor Dick Moeller and four new members of the Ackley Rotary Club since August 1st: Brigete Meyer; Jeff Frazier; Dan Rasmussen; and Bill Riley. Dick presented sponsorship pins to each of the new members' sponsors.

 

The Algona Rotary Club Board of Directors is pictured here with the park benches they placed in one of their parks as part of their commitment to $30,000 worth of playground equipment. The club put plaques on each of the 4 benches commemorating Vicki Mallory's year as DG for District 5970.

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Estherville Rotary Club Finds New Fund Raiser

The Estherville Rotary club recently sponsored a charity fund-raising auction which garnered more than $5000 for our club. We were searching for a way to replenish our treasury and decided to give this a try.

We collected items from businesses and made a general request to our community for donations-and boy, did we get donations. Our goal was to cover our expenses and hopefully clear $1500-$2000. We were so surprised and pleased to pass that amount before we were halfway through all the auction items.

We plan to repeat this fund-raiser next year with hopefully even better results. We've already ear-marked much of the cash to several different needy groups in our community and surrounding communities. And we hope to contribute to the 'Clean Water' campaign Rotary is involved with now.

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The Cedar Falls Rotary members who accepted President Steve Boeke's invitation to sing the Star Spangled Banner in the McCleod Center at the opening of the women's volley ball match between UNI and Iowa State University on Wednesday evening, September 5, 2007. Dick Lynch did a wonderful job in organizing and leading the 16-member Rotary choir. Thanks to one and all for your participation!!!

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CENTRAL GARDENS’ LATEST SCULPTURE

The latest sculpture addition to Central Gardens of North Iowa is a beautifully unique sundial created in honor of Bill Killpack, known as “Mr. Rotary”. The butterfly designed sundial was appropriately placed in the Butterfly Garden named by Roger and Gail Harringa.

Sundials served as ancient timepieces. This particular sundial pattern was created by H. Milton Duesenberg from a design he and Bruce Vrchota had made for a large metal and rock sculpture located in northeast Clear Lake. Duesenberg explained that what is important to a sundial is the sloping edge on top called a gnomon. “The edge has to be straight and the base has to be level and horizontal,” he said. “The angle is based on the latitude of Clear Lake, 43 degrees 9 minutes, which makes the gnomon parallel to the pole of the earth and the time is based on Central Standard Time,” Duesenberg described.
Laurence Fredriksen of Fredriksen Welding and Mike Connor did the execution of the butterfly design in wrought iron with J.B. Barnhouse of Country Stone Masons, carving the Iowa limestone base. Julie and Bruce Steinberg of North Iowa Collision donated the refinish painting.

The sundial was made possible by major donations from Mason City Sunrise Rotary Club, Mason City Noon Rotary Club and from individual Rotary members, former employers and friends of Bill Killpack. Killpack was a past President of the Mason City Noon Rotary and District Governor of Rotary District 5970 (1989-90). He had over thirty years of perfect attendance at Rotary. He loved Central Gardens of North Iowa so much that he served on the fundraising committee up until the time of his death. Area Rotary Clubs have helped in creating many of the unique features in Central Gardens, which will be enjoyed for generations to come.

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Members of the Cedar Rapids Sunrise Rotary presented a $15,000 check on Aug 9 to the Iowa Make-A-Wish Chapter.

Attending are (from left) Todd Manternach, Kirk Ulveling of Sunrise Rotary and Carol TeBockhorst with Make-A-Wish, from East Central District.

The Cedar Rapids Sunrise Rotary focuses on helping children and aims to grant a wish for a child each year through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. To date, the club has given more than $105,000 to the foundation.

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BELLEVUE ROTARY CLUB is sponsoring a nine-hole, four person, best shot golf tournament on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2007 at the beautiful Bellevue Golf course overlooking the Mississippi River. Shotgun start at 2 p.m.. Tournament is limited to 72 participants. Cost is $40 per person and includes 9 holes of golf, cart, and THE WORLD'S BEST CHICKEN DINNER.

The tournament prize money will be modest. The proceeds will be used for scholarships and other Rotary projects. Side bets will include two $10,000 hole-in-one contests and a marshmallow-putting game.

Send your money, names of golfers in your foursome and a phone number for a contact person to:
Frank Wetzstein, 35135 335th St., Bellevue, Iowa 52031. Entry deadline is Tues., Sept. 25. For more information call Larry at (563)8782-4132, or Frank at (563)872-9940

Bellevue Rotary club sponsored the Red Cross Blood bank in August.
81 people participated.

 

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Monticello - 2210

Members completed the construction of one piece of new play ground equipment funded by District Simplified Grant and the clubs matching funds.
Seventeen members attended the funeral of 60 yr PHF Rotarian,and 1958-59 Club President Louis Morf

Rockwell City - 2218

Club resurfaced basketball courts at the park at the cost of $13,000+ with the help of other organizations in Rockwell City and a District Grant. The club will be working with another organization to help fund a new Community sign.

Sumner Rotary Club - 2221

We donated $500 to "Memories Are Forever" which is a museum in our old high school building. Our Rotary club has a room with Rotary memorabilia in it in this museum. The building is also on the state historical registration.

Clear Lake Rotary Club - 2189

The Clear Lake Rotary Club did 60 shoeboxes for the Childred of the Dump project and they were delivered to Waterloo on August 30th. We now taking applications for our Clear Lake Citizen of the Year project. This is our eighteenth year of honoring someone from the community. A dinner will be held in November to honor this year's recipient

Cedar Falls Rotary Club 2184

Sixteen members of the Cedar Falls Rotary Club sang the National Anthem prior to the Women's Volley Ball match between the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University on Wednesday, September 5, 2007. An e-mail will be sent with a photograph of the "Singing Rotarians."

Humboldt Rotary Club - 2203

Humboldt Rotary Club had a very successful Fly-In/Drive-In Breakfast on August 12, 2007 at the Humboldt Airport in which they raised approximately $6,000.00 for club projects. The club made a donation to the Wildcat Drill Team of $2,500.00 from the proceeds.

Hampton Rotary Club - 2202

The club raised almost $700 from a dunk tank operated during the Ragbrai overnight stay in Hampton. Money will be used for our Operation Santa project as well as funding an international project.

Ackley Rotary Club - 2178

The Ackley Rotary Club is currently busy filling up shoeboxes for the Children of the Dump in Nicaraugua. The club has taken on the project of 25 shoeboxes toward this tremendous undertaking.

Ackley Rotary Club - 2178
Ackley Rotary Club sponsored Blood Drive through The Blood Center on Thursday, July 5th at the AGWSR High School Commons.

Ackley Rotary Club donated $1,000 to the local Veteran's Memorial Committee who are working to build a memorial in downtown Ackley to honor area Veterans.

Anamosa Rotary Club - 2180
Financial sponsor for Community FireWorks July 4th

Bellevue Rotary Club - 2182
Donated $1,000 to the city of Bellevue for the Walk Ways for Life(scenic trail along Mill Creek)
Fund raisers in the Month of July included: Heritage Days food stand, Bender's Grocery brat stand, and Ragbrai information booth and bicycle traffic control.

Independence Rotary Club - 2204
Our club served breakfast to hundreds of RABBRAI riders from 3 different locations last Friday and helped in many other areas of our community for the event.

Clarion Rotary Club - 2188
Rotary had a food stand July 24th selling Buffalo Burgers to riders on Ragbrai. This added to the fund for college scholarships given to seniors.

Monticello Rotary Club - 2210
Members provided over 500 hrs of labor parking cars at Great Jones Co Fair
Club sponsored Blood drive collecting 79 units

Oelwein Rotary Club - 2214
Club sponsored an Oelwein Night with the Cedar Rapids Kernels on 7-27-07.

Sumner Rotary Club - 2221
We donated $500 to Sumner Emergency Medical Serices and $500 to the Sumner
Volunteer Fire Department. We had our scholarship recipients ride in a convertible for the Sumner Days Parade on 7-21-07.

Oelwein Rotary - 2214]

We gave the Cedar Falls Rotary Club $250 for the Tanzania water well project.

Ackley Rotary - 2178

Ackley Rotary dontaed $1,000 to local Veteran's Memorial Fund. We have contacted the AGWSR school nurse to obtain a needed items list and will go shopping to fill these needs. Shipped off 25 shoeboxes - our contribution to the annual Rotary shoebox project.
New Hampton Rotary - 2212

Club donated $1,000 to area Crop Walk.

Monticello Rotary - 2210

Club voted to Co-sponsor with Dubuque Rotary Club a new club in Dyersville, IA. Formation meeting be conducted at this time. Club voted to commit $5000 over 2 year to support the Mon-Maq restoration project

Bellevue - 2182

Bellevue Rotary Club sponsors the city wide Halloween parade and costume judging the last Sunday in October just before the trick or treat afternoon. Each parade participant gets a sack and candy.

Iowa Great Lakes Rotary Club - 2199

Distributed dictionaries to all 3rd graders in Dickinson County. Sent layettes and food to Nigeria.

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Three Clubs join together for a
" Tri City Meeting"

The Anamosa, Mt Vernon & Monticello Rotary Clubs were privileged to have District Gov Ken and wife Ginni in attendance as well as a Monticello Rotarian Tom Yeoman, who had just returned from China and had done his 2nd or 3rd Rotary meeting make-up at the Beijing Rotary Club.

All the members of that club are either US citizens or are from European countries. Also in attendance at the Tri-City meeting was Neena the Monticello AFS teacher, who's school was the recipient of over $300 worth of English/ Thai dictionaries. The Anamosa, Monticello, Mt Vernon, Manchester & Maquoketa clubs each donated $60 for the project.

G Retzlaff, ADG

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Members of the Cedar Rapids Sunrise Rotary presented a $10,000 check May 18 to the Iowa Make-A-Wish Chapter.

Attending are (from left) Kirk Ulveling of Cedar Rapids, Todd Anderson of Marion, Todd Manternach of Cedar Rapids, Rotary President Jim Bell of Cedar Rapids and Jamie Rasko with Make-A-Wish, from Des Moines.

The Cedar Rapids Sunrise Rotary focuses on helping children and aims to grant a wish for a child each year through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. To date, the club has given more than $80,000 to the foundation.

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Past District Governor, Pat Reed of Rotary International’s District 5970, joins officers of the Clear Lake Rotary Club, River City Sunrise Rotary Club and the Mason City Noon Rotary Club to cut the ribbon dedicating the three bridges and connecting pathways.

(L-R) Paula Zimmerman, President, River City Sunrise Rotary Club (Mason City)
Pat Reed, Past District Governor, Rotary District 5970
Paula Petersburg, President Elect of Clear Lake Rotary Club
Margo Underwood, President, Mason City Noon Rotary Club

Area Rotary Clubs Combine Dedicate Bridges at Central Gardens

A unique project at Central Gardens of North Iowa in Clear Lake brought together Rotarians from three local clubs and the Rotary District 5970. Members from the Clear Lake Rotary Club, Mason City Noon Rotary Club, and the River City Sunrise Rotary Club combined efforts to secure a district rotary grant to provide for the garden’s bridges, connecting pathways and Ornamental Grass Garden.

During the recent dedication ceremony held at Central Gardens, Pat Reed (Past District Governor and District Rotary Grant Committee Chair) shared his delight with public garden, saying the committee was impressed with the planning, documentation and execution demonstrated by the Central Gardens’ project. Reed went on to say, “By working together, the three Rotary Clubs were able to capture the attention of the District Rotary Grant Committee.”

Designed by Bob Broshar (a retired architect, Rotarian and Central Gardens Board Member), each of the three bridge’s railings is unique—depicting reeds, natural grasses and waves. Member of the three clubs also planted the Ornamental Grass Gardens which includes native grasses. The grant provided for the brick walkways between the three bridges. The bridges and walkway represent regional cooperation in creating beauty and educational opportunities for North Iowa.

Over 150 were in attendance as the Rotary celebrated the dedication and ribbon cutting with a chicken barbeque picnic in Central Gardens.

Central Gardens of North Iowa is a 2.75 acre public garden with free admission and open daily from dawn to dusk. Central Gardens is located at 800 Second Avenue North in Clear Lake.

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Last Thursday the Webster City Rotary club held a workday. It is the second of 5 committed years to Kids Against Hunger for financial and work support. Mainly kids and grandkids of Rotarians help fill bags full of food for hungry families in Africa. 7 Rotarians and 9 kids chipped in. The kids really enjoy the hands on during the work and the great sense of accomplishment after the work is finished. We treat the kids to “dilly bars” after the work is done as small token of appreciation. www.KidsAgainstHunger.org has lots of information about the program.

We filled 21 boxes each with 36 bags for food. Each bag contains 6 meals. So we packaged up over 4500 meals to be shipped to Tanzania, Africa. Each meal cost about $0.23 to make, but the most expensive part of the project is the shipping of boxes. The Rotarians pictured in the attachment are: (L to R) Tim Anderson and Gregg Olsen.

Have a good weekend everybody!

- Kerry; Webster City Rotary Club president.

 

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