By Administrator Account on Wednesday, February 25, 2009

President Elect Mike Swartz welcomed everyone and led us in the pledge.

Student Rotarians  February Student Rotarians are: Taylor Linse and Travis McDermott each spoke about their college plans. They both enjoyed the presentations at Rotary and the great food. 

Visiting Rotarian: Bob Cheek-Fort Rotary Club and Doug Dewey–District Exec. for Southern Lakes District Boy Scouts of America.

 

HAPPY BUCKS:

Del Chmielewski for the Jefferson girls basketball team which won against Lake Mills last night by 12 points and Jefferson will play at Columbus, the number one team in the state on Thursday.

Pastor Nancy Carmichael who was the UW-Madison and saw Catlin Gibson play in her last game as a senior on Sunday.  Also for the Caribbean cruise she will be taking with her Mother and daughter.

Jim van Liehoust for a Platteville comment to Travis, thanks to Bon Ton for the great meal and FCCU for the use of the room.

Steve Lehmann is glad his neighbor is back home and he didn’t have to shovel snow for him.

Dr. Volk for his Wyoming snowmobile trip in the mountains.

Shirley Dempsey for Mike and Sandy taking her to the fundraiser at the hospital on Saturday night.

 

Fines:

David Olsen for being 15 minutes late.

 

 

Program:  Sue Johnson presented the scholarship guidelines the committee had set up and asked for input.  Lots of input, some like limits, others didn’t.  Include board has to approve the dollar amount to be given in the proposed budget by the Pres. Elect.  Clubs ability to what the club can give each year.  Technical college not listed here but Sue stated it was included.  Application states one applicant for a technical college will receive a scholarship, this maybe needs to be changed that it doesn’t say “one”.  Recommended the committee meet again to tweak the comments and bring back to the membership.

We will be meeting at the Puerner Room through the end of March.

Mike Swartz reminded everyone about the raffle tickets the CPA is selling for a two week stay in Hawaii.

 

March 4^th         Sharon Weber-Jefferson Library

March 11^th       Paul Harris Fellows recognized

March 18^th       Ed Smith-Space Station

March 25^th       Bus. Meeting/go through Rotary stuff now at the Puerner Room

 

 

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By Administrator Account on Wednesday, February 18, 2009

President Sandee Macht welcomed everyone.

Student Rotarians  February Student Rotarians are: Taylor Linse, Cassandra McDermott and Travis McDermott. 

 

HAPPY BUCKS:

Colleen Locke really into quilting and will be donating a quilt for the Brat & Burger.

Ray Krek $20 for a successful Democratic dinner this past weekend with 170 in attendance.

Janet Werner glad to be back.

Steve Stumbras for things not working out as planned but thankful for the great relationships he’s made over the past 10 years.

Del Chmielewski for Assistant Governors training this weekend.

Steve Lewis who was able to vote twice for the same person.

Sandee Macht who will be seeing her husband today who has been out of the country for seven weeks.

 

President Macht announced to the group that this is our last meeting at Meadow Springs, they will be closing today.  Also that Mary enjoyed working with all of us.  Tom Monogue suggested giving Mary the basket money as a thank you.  This was done.

 

THE ROTARY CLUB WILL BE MEETING THRU MARCH 25^TH AT THE PUERNER ROOM (FORT COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION) WITH BON TON CATERING OUR LUNCHES.  It will be discussed where we will meet on a regular basis at our next board meeting in March.  All Rotary items will be removed to the Puerner Building, we will go through those items at our March 25^th meeting and discard or take to Tom Monogues office as he is archiving some of old records/Spokes etc.  Steve Stumbras offered to move all the Rotary items over to the FCCU for the club.

 

Rotary Brunch:  The brunch has been CANCELLED this year due to Meadow Springs closing.  Didn’t feel there was enough time to arrange another place and get tickets/posters redone etc.

 

Matt Tubbin will be chairing new fundraiser/wine/beer tasting event. More info to follow.

 

Sue Johnson will present the guidelines from the scholarship committee on February 25^th.

Top 10 banquets will have to be moved to another facility.  It was stated Dr. Meyers was arranging speakers for these.

 

Feb 25^th                       Business Meeting

March 4^th         Sharon Weber-Jefferson Library

March 11^th       Paul Harris Fellows recognized

March 18^th       Ed Smith-Space Station

 

 

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By Administrator Account on Wednesday, February 11, 2009

President Sandee Macht welcomed everyone.

Student Rotarians  February Student Rotarians are: Taylor Linse, Cassandra McDermott and Travis McDermott.  They were introduced to the group.

Guests: Shirley Dempsey’s cousin Fred

 

HAPPY BUCKS:

Shirley Dempsey: happy to have her cousin in town

Jeff Johnson: has a new addition to the family

Sandee Macht: Guys on Ice Performance and the great parties before and after

David Olsen: the Guys on Ice Performance and happy to hear that Janet is on the mend

Sue Johnson: Guys on Ice

 

FINES:

No fines 

 

President Macht noted that Janet is now out of the hospital.  She thanks the Rotary Club for the plant.

 

Brunch:  Brunch is coming up.  Posters will be handed out next week as will tickets.  It was decided to shorten the time to 12:30 instead of 1:00.  The new brunch hours will be 8:30-12:30.  Prices will be $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.  The brunch will be held April 5^th.

Program:

Matt Tubbin spoke about our Rotary Club’s website,.  He showed what is on each page.  The meeting schedule, fund raisers and links to Rotary International are out there.  There is also a members only section.  In order to get there, the user name is Rotary09 and the password is jeff6250.  There you will find all of the info that was in the last updated handbook that we sent out.  Matt will be happy to put other items up on the website.  Some members noted that  perhaps we could have 2 portions to the members section.  One would be the private area that would house names, addresses and phone numbers.  The other would have all of the not so private info about members-the by laws, names of Paul Harris Fellows, award winners, scholarship recipients, etc.  Also thought we might want to add a  “contact us” area and list the current BOD.

 

 

Feb. 18^th          Colleen Locke/Renew Energies

Feb 25^th                       Business Meeting

March 4^th         Open

March 11^th      

March 18^th       Ed Smith-Space Station

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By Administrator Account on Sunday, February 08, 2009

President Mike Swartz led us in the pledge

 

Guests: Pastor Carmichael’s daughter Suzanne is here for two weeks.  Eric Felth and Barb Mayhew was our program today.

 

Happy Bucks:

Pastor Nancy for her trip to the Black Hills with her grandchildren.

Ray Krek for their 23^rd wedding anniversary which they spent in Philadelphia.

Gary Thompson thanked those that had turned in their brat & burger stubs and money for selling so quickly.

Mike Swartz for their trip to New York for Character Ed conference which was very good and for their vacation next week.

 

Fines:

Del was late and Dr. Uhl was late, Tom had the minutes down to the second I believe.

 

President Swartz talked about doing a Jefferson Food Pantry drive, he asked for thoughts on it, you can email him.

President Swartz presented Pastor Carmichael with her Paul Harris plaque, she was very honored to receive it.

 

Program:  Jefferson Community Foundation

Barb Mayhew did a power point presentation on the foundation when it was started, how to donate, etc.  She encouraged persons to give to the general fund.  The Rotary Club is one of the founding organizations who donated $5,000 to get it started.

 

July 15^th -Lance Leipold

Jul 22- Steve Landfried-Brewer Fantasy Camp

July 29-Board meeting

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By Administrator Account on Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Student Rotarians: January’s Student Rotarians were Lauren Gruennert, Lindsay Knoebel and Brianna Kutz.  They joined us one last time and spoke of their plans for the future.  February Student Rotarians are: Taylor Linse, Cassandra McDermott and Travis McDermott.  They were introduced to the group.

Guests: Pam Chickering-Wilson, the lovely wives of Del Chmielewski (Patty)and David Olsen (Linda)

Visiting Rotarian: Joel Wynn

 

HAPPY BUCKS:

Shirley Dempsey: dine and dance with fellow Rotarians and spouses-had a great time!

Steve Lewis had 2 happy bucks for his trip.  He said traveling thru the Panama Canal was worth a dollar itself!

 

FINES:

Tom fined everyone who had traveled or was traveling to a warm place +/- 4 months.  He was jealous of all who were doing that. 

 

President Macht noted that Janet Werner was in the hospital.  Anyone interested in contacting Janet at thhe hospital could get the number from her.

 

Program:

The Chmielewskis and Olsens spoke about their Rotary Friendship Exchange to Turkey in November.  It sounded like a fascinating trip.  They watched belly dancing, went sailing on the Aegean Sea, toured the original Mausoleum, looked at the hypothetical Noah’s Ark, watched carpet weavers at work, went to a glass blowing factory, toured Hierapolis, Ephesus, and Cappadocia.  A number of Turkish articles were brought with them and passed around.  Numerous pictures were shown.  It was truly a fascinating program!

 

Jan. 28^th           Business Meeting, BOD meeting

Feb. 4^th                        Del Chmielewski/Dave Olsen review their Rotary Friendship exchange to Turkey

Feb. 11^th          Matt Tubbin discusses our Jefferson Rotary website. http://www.jeffersonwirotary.com

Feb. 18^th          Colleen Locke/Renew Energies

 

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