We are looking for a President-Elect for July 2024 - June 2025. The election will be in December. The president-elect training, PETS, will be in Itaska Illinois on March 1 - 3. (Club president duties are listed elsewhere in this issue)
The vibrant Club Workshop will be in Tomah on November 4th. All members are encouraged to attend.
Tri-Con (our Multi-District Conference) - will be April 19-20, 2024 in Green Bay.
Rotary's International Convention will be May 25 - 29, 2024 in Singapore.
We have new hosts for Happy Hour. Petra led the September event. We had a fun scavenger hunt for normal objects in our home.
Karen will lead our next social, to be held October 19th at 5:30 p.m. Look for another article explaining the October social and suggested advance reading/listening.
Dwight gave a short presentation regarding Rotary's efforts to eradicate Polio. Two bonuses to donating now - all donations are matched 2:1 by the Bill Gates Foundation, and any Changemaker that donates by October 31 will receive 100 Foundation Recognition Points. Go to www.endpol.io/give to make a donation.
We had a new twist with our 50/50 raffle. It was divided up 33% to the club, 33% to the Polio foundation, and 34% to the winner. Sharon was the lucky winner, and donated her winnings to the Polio foundation.
All of the funds collected for the La Clinica project are en-route to them, or already there. Dwight will check in with them after the first of the year on how it is being put to use.
Sharon gave an excellent presentation regarding the Rotary International Friendship Exchange between Wisconsin District 6250 and four southern Budapest Hungary Rotary clubs April 9th - 19th.
