Plymouth MN Rotary Bulletin Template (May 18, 2023)

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Here are our upcoming speakers: Please get your friends interested and involved. Notice it is our State Demographer coming to speak to us today. It has been fascinating in the past. Bring a guest.

	5/18/23	Megan Dayton	Changing demographics of Minnesota	Senior Demographer, State of Minnesota
	5/25/23	Kim Carlsen/Wendy Lundsgaard	Decoding Dyslexia	Board members of Decoding Dyslexia MN
Board	6/1/23	Jess Riley	Facility Tour of Plymouth Comm Center	Manager of the PCC
	6/8/23	Sikai Yang	Acupuncture & Chinese Herb Treatments	Minnekyda Acuherb Center
	6/15/23	Plymouth Mayor Jeff Wosje	State of the City
	6/22/23	Steve Marti	Tour of the 27K sq ft NEW Fire Station 2	Tour of facility & demo of how EMT's provide CPR/AED assistance
	6/29/23	5th Thursday No Meeting	Possible end of year celebration
	7/6/23	No Meeting 4th of July holiday
Board	7/13/23	Professor Laura Niedernhofer	Biology of Aging	University of Minnesota
	7/20/23	Andrea Mirenda	Heart of Dance school program	Sue Klaseus
	7/27/23	Matt Goldman	Local Author	"Plymouth Reads" Author of Carolina Moonset
Board	8/3/23	Wm Kent Krueger	Local Author	Author of Cork O'Connor Series, Tamarack County MN
	8/10/23	Todd Svanoe	Canyon Scholars	Educational institute in Mexico's Copper Canyon
	8/17/23	Sergey Chinikaylo	Golgotha Slavic (Ukrainian) Church
	8/24/23	Abby Ludvigson Schumacher	Author of "Sex By Design"	Educator and former Plymouth Rotary scholarship recipient
	8/31/23	5th Thursday. No meeting.
Board	9/7/23	Dr. Terry Wu	Neoroscientist & Speaker	"Shift from Us vs Them to Belonging"
	9/14/23	Annette Brechon Kuyper	Wright Hennepin Community Relations	Presentation on EV's/Ride and Drive information
	9/21/23
	9/28/23

Please remember that it is each club member's duty to bring a speaker or two each year. We are now dividing into quarterly teams for this purpose. More information will be distributed soon. We also will be requiring a volunteer for Club Secretary to manage the bulletins and the speakers when our new administration begins.

This should be a good event for networking and planning how we can grow the clubs. I just heard a heath speaker saying that since the Pandemic more people suffer from disengagement and loneliness than ever. Rotary can help! Lets all go and have some fun too! Click Here to go to the sign up.

Do you, or someone you know, ever find yourself thinking: "Gee I wish I could give a scholarship to deserving High School students, but I want to make the gift out of funds or in such a way that I need a 501 (c) 3 type foundation to do it and sustain it?"

If that is you, please think of the Rotary Club of Plymouth MN in that moment!

This week the Rotary Club of Plymouth gave out 4 Scholarships of $1,500 and one of $1,000. This happened after interviewing the candidates, considering the need and making the availability know at the schools in advance so we had good and deserving recipients selected. We do this process annually and if you want to endow such a scholarship we can name it as you wish and select deserving candidates as you would direct (within obvious fairness limits.) Consider making it a part of your estate plan, and talk to us if you are interested.

Congratulations to:

Nathan Wu, for winning the Plymouth Rotary Sshakthi Global Foundation Scholarship.
Sophia Johnson, for winning a Plymouth Rotary Club Scholarship.
Anya Kachru, for winning a Plymouth Rotary Club Scholarship.
Leon Luo, for winning a Plymouth Rotary Club Scholarship.
Kylie Raschke, for winning a Plymouth Rotary Club Scholarship.

This is a great way to assure high quality students get the education to make the world a better place into the future. You can fund it once or you could set up an annuity in your estate plan to fund it for an extended period of time, even indefinitely, if that is what you plan to give. Talk to one of our attorneys and one of our investment advisors, or your own professionals, if you need more information. You will not regret it and the world will be better for it.

We now have invitation cards for our members to invite friends and colleagues to come and hear our great speakers. Please grab a couple, fill them out and give them to your friends, relatives and colleagues. This will be a lot less work, a lot more fun and a lot better for Plymouth if we have a lot more members. We must all do our part now in recruiting.

WHAT IS ROTARY ABOUT?

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.

ROTARIAN CODE Of CONDUCT

The following code of conduct has been adopted for the use of Rotarians:

As a Rotarian,

1. I will act with integrity and high ethical standards in my personal and professional life.

2. Deal fairly with others and treat them and their occupations with respect.

3. Use my professional skills through Rotary to: mentor young people, help those with special needs, and improve people's quality of life in my community and in the world.

4. Avoid behavior that reflects adversely on Rotary or other Rotarians.

5. Help maintain a harassment-free environment in Rotary meetings, events, and activities, report any suspected harassment, and help ensure non-retaliation to those individuals that report harassment.

THE FOUR-WAY TEST

Of the things we think, say, or do:

1. Is it the truth?

2. Is it fair to all concerned?

3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

There is a Rotary Club in nearly every city in the world. We are united for philanthropy. Ask someone to join us.