Meetings are Thursdays starting at Noon with room opening at 11:45 am at Comfort Inn in Plymouth.
Here is our Speaker Calendar for the immediate future.
3/24/2022
Nirav Sheth
Positive Intelligence
3/31/2022
NO MEETING-Fifth Thursday
Board
4/7/2022
GAN gone
4/14/2022
4/21/2022
4/28/2022
Magnus Lundvall
U S Government
Board
5/5/2022
5/12/2022
5/19/2022
5/26/2022
Board
6/2/2022
6/9/2022
6/16/2022
6/23/2022
6/30/2022
NO MEETING-Fifth Thursday
New Administration Begins
WE NEED MORE SPEAKERS NOW.
Please let us know if you know of a good speaker for our club. We have the letter prepared to send to you in word format so all you need to do is address it and sign and send it to the speaker confirming the date. We also have thank you gifts in the form of our Rotary Luggage tags.
Rotary Members:
The Ring of Kerry, an Irish music group was great and seemed quite Irish to me. Interesting songs about the indignities the Irish immigrants suffered in the 1800's and early 1900's in the USA such as employment and wage discrimination. Also a song about the Protestant/Catholic conflict in Ireland and of course pub drinking songs that you hear. Of course the dancers in the Anoka Irish Dance group were amazing including Duane’s granddaughter. Handsome Bob P. would have been so thrilled. I’m sure he was beaming about it all on Sunday as we were gathered there as a club. He must have learned to dance a jig as a youth, and if you recall, he still could dance a jig and click his heels in the air as a senior citizen. He proved it at the start of some of our meetings in the past.
We had a great presentation to the Plymouth City Counsel where our Heart Safe Committee gave the City the Automatic Electronic Defibrillators. They will be used in the new City Center.
Pictured below in center is Russ Carlson, leader of the Rotary Club of Plymouth’s Heart Safe Program. On his left is Kari Hemp, Recreation Manager for the City of Plymouth.
On his right is the Mayor of Plymouth, Jeff Wosje. Surrounding the group are participating Rotarians. Heart Safe Plymouth has trained over 6,700 people in both CPR and AED utilization.
We now know we made the Sun Sailor with this event! Good promotional work by Peter. Thanks Peter!
CPR Training
On Monday night, Russ, Norm, Steve M. and Steve B. trained 35 boy scouts and parents at St. Phillips the Deacon Church in Plymouth. They received a donation to Heart Safe Foundation as well. This is a rocking Team!!! There are various trainings coming up in our Heart Safe Program. Russ indicated that there will probably be room for our new members to attend and gain the training along side the members of the public and assist the fellow Rotarians who are putting on the training as well. The next Saturday trainings are March 19. The next week day trainings are March 17. If you are interested you can join them.
Be aHEARTSAFESUPERHEROtoo(likeRuss, Norm,Steve M, Steve B, Don, and afew others in ourclub!)
On March 10, 2022 we were grateful to hear from Paul Mendoza about how he became a dealer for AEDs for Medtronics and then more vendors as well as the growth of the industry and his career generally. It was a great presentation. We may have more in our next Bulletin when I am back from vacation.
On March 3, 2022 we were grateful to hear from Postmaster Johnson.
Postmaster Johnson near our Rotary Banner after his presentation.
DELIVERING FOR AMERICA…
THE NEW PONY EXPRESS!
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds;” and Minneapolis Postmaster Kenneth Johnson II eloquently articulated the challenging present and balanced approach to a revitalizing future for the delivery of mail and packages to the residents and businesses of Plymouth and beyond at the February 24th Rotary Club of Plymouth weekly meeting.
Postmaster Miller has been a member of the USPS for twenty-two years, and has witnessed a multitude of challenges over the last two decades: a dire financial status, a shift in demand from mail to packages, an underperforming air and surface transportation network, prolonged underinvestment in retail and delivery networks, a high turnover rate within the non-career workforce, unattainable first-class mail service standards, onerous legislative and administrative mandates, and the adverse impact of COVID-19.
The good news: help is on the way. New legislation, which passed the House of Representatives overwhelmingly, and is expected to clear the Senate by next week, will greatly enhance the USPS’s ability to achieve financial sustainability and service excellence. Components of the new legislation include elimination of the requirement that the USPS prefund retiree health benefits, the ability to negotiate contracts with local governments to provide capabilities like licenses for hunting, fishing and driving, and investment in package-sorting equipment, delivery vehicles, technology, and retail locations and facility buildings. The projected financial impact of the ten-year plan is immense: $91 billion in operating expense reductions and $68 billion dollars in revenue improvement.
Postmaster Miller is optimistic about the future of the USPS: “The Pandemic showed how valuable the Postal Service is: free Covid test kits delivered in a timely manner, essential package delivery maintained, and the mail continued to be conveyed.”
The Postal Service is being reconfigured as first-class mail amounts decline and package volumes increase as a result of e-commerce and social distancing. Out with the old, as the “new” Pony Express rides again.
Peter R. Bartling
Sources: Kenneth A. Johnson II, Postmaster A-Minneapolis, MN
“The Wall Street Journal,” Friday, March 4, 2022
“The Wall Street Journal,” Friday, January 14, 2022
TALKING POINTS:
What is Rotary and WHY WOULD ANYONE CARE?
Rotary is a philanthropic organization that has a core group of committed volunteers in nearly every developed city in the world, who work to make their community a better place.
Here are 3 reasons for your friends to care:
If you have moved here from somewhere else, and you join a local club, you can plan and do projects involving friends locally with those from anywhere you came from.
Or for another example, when your local food shelf needs something, or someone, who can they ask and where do volunteers come from? Rotary Clubs supply money and volunteers for all sorts of our community charities.
Rotary tries to measure everything with its four-way test. 1) Is it the truth? 2) Is it fair to all concerned? 3) Will it build good will and better friendships? 4) Will it be beneficial to all concerned? If something fails in any of those dimensions, it does not meet Rotary’s high-quality standards. We have been honored and welcomed to join.
Boards to dispose of:
Speaking of boards, Peter has our boards that have been stored at his garage up north that we are going to get rid of. They were from our old duck race platform. If you might want them say something. I do not have any photos yet.
THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
The Object of Rotary is to encourage
and foster the ideal of service as a
basis of worthy enterprise and, in
particular, to encourage and foster:
First The development of
acquaintance as an opportunity for
service;
Second High ethical standards
in business and professions, the
recognition of the worthiness
of all useful occupations, and
the dignifying of each Rotarian's
occupation as an opportunity to
serve society;
Third The application of the ideal of
service in each Rotarian's personal,
business, and community life;
Fourth The advancement of
international understanding,
goodwill, and peace through a
world fellowship of business and
professional persons united in the
ideal of service.
Our application and materials are in for Javier! We will know about our latest hurdle soon and that is when it is all funded! This is a fantastic opportunity for us to interact with the British Rotary Club, Javier as he goes through his latest level of higher education, and the district committee as they finalize the funding of the grant. Carol has led us through a difficult process to a great result. Many thanks to Carol.
If you are receiving this Bulletin and you are no longer a member, or never were a member, the reason it is coming to you is that we want you to consider becoming a member now. We want you in our club. If no one has personally said it recently, consider this your invitation to come as soon as you can. You are important to us.
Carol would like to build a schedule to deliver donated flowers to assisted living and nursing homes. Flowers are available Thursdays at 8:30 am at Trader Joe's, 11220 Wayzata Blvd. (Hopkins Crossroads and 394). Email Carol Parrish cjparrish1029@msn.com
LUNCH:
To order lunch from Lucky's 13, click on this link, order, pay and pick up at restaurant upon arrival. Beverages are not available when ordering online. Our room will have water available. We can not bring food from another establishment into the weekly meetings.
Meetings are held in-person at Comfort Inn in Plymouth. Comfort Inn requests those who are not fully vaccinated to wear a mask when not eating.
Thank you for being a part of Plymouth Rotary Club!
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