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This Week's Program:  

Jeff Shrock,

CEO and Partner, VAA Engineering (Plymouth Business)

 

You can find future speakers later in the bulletin (and on the Club website).  Please use this list to invite prospective members.

 

Fall Party - October 25, 2019:

 
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!  A Fall Party is being planned at the Bartling Home for Friday evening, October 25, 2019.  Party Committee Members currently are Carol, James and Peter.   For additional information please contact contact Peter. 
 
A quote from a member...
"Lots of the guys won't write down what they are bringing because they don't know as their wives will take care of it.  Just remind them in the weekly email, remind them at the meeting next week & they will get a reminder from Evite."  
 
My interpretation - sign up as soon as possible and let someone know what you are bringing.  

 

Membership Mentoring:

New Relationship Building Effort!
 
At the Sept. 5 meeting Steve Beachler presented a new idea to strengthen the club by building deeper relationships among members.  The club agreed to pilot an effort encouraging each member to connect with one other randomly assigned member every two months starting in September.  We have paired newer members with longer standing members.  The idea is to meet for coffee (or lunch, happy hour…whatever!) to get to know each other better.  There is no script or predetermined talking points, though we hope that Rotary will be a part of your conversation.  Pairings for the year can be found on the Members Only part of the Plymouth Rotary website.  Please contact your first person by phone/email or at the next Rotary meeting to find a time to get together.  A complete members list with contact information can also be found on the website.  The spreadsheet can be found in the member section of the under View Member Documents titled "One-on-One Member Meetings."  If you need assistance or more information please contact Steve Beachler.

Thanks for your active participation in this new effort.  Our club will be stronger because of you!

 

 

Membership Drive - 40 Years as a Club:
Please consider inviting guests to visit our weekly lunch meeting.  We tried a breakfast meeting for a number of years and have decided to go back to a lunch meeting on Thursdays in hopes of attracting additional business members.   Please spread the word.
 
 
Board Activity:
 
Board Minutes can be found on the Club Website in the members area (upper right corner of the website).  If you can't remember your member login and password please reach out to Dwain or Steve J. 
 
 
Heart Safe Plymouth:

We have trained 6,089 people and counting!

Russ, Norm, Don and team continue to train and impact the local community. 
 
Linked to this is a story about Hands Only CPR performed by a daughter to her mom recently in MPLS.  Also note, dispatch assisted w telephone cpr...very cool!  
 
 
Upcoming Speakers:
 
Nov 7 - Rob Powell, General Manager Cornerstone Auto (Plymouth Business)
Nov 14 - Rick Kline (Former Plymouth Fire Chief) - Free - Dapive Divers Organization
December 7 - Jim Nelson - Honduras Water Project
 
The Board continues to seek speakers.  Please contact James and/or Peter if you have a recommendation.
 
 
 
From the District: 
 
 
 
Rotary Club for Veterans in the World:
Our District has formed the first Rotary Club for Veterans in the World.  The Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans had its Charter Night recently and is now officially a part of our Rotary family.
 
We thought you would enjoy this news / video-clip that we received this morning - here is the YouTube link to the story:  https://youtu.be/qR4fFnwGtGk.  Please share this news and video with your club members and let them know that their district is growing Rotary.
 
 
Orono Sew-A-Thon Service Project:
 
Orono Rotary is planning to host a sew-a-thon for Days For Girls on Sunday Afternoon, February 9, 2020.
 
If any clubs in the area would like to participate in that event, you are welcome to join us. Let me know and I'll connect with you on event details.
 
Please let Peter or James know if you are interested in this service project.
 
 
 
From Karen L. Walkowski, Chair, Rotary Initiative to End Human Trafficking:
Greetings to all of you,
 
I hope you have all had a chance to check out the website and are able to use it as a new resource to you and your clubs. I also hope you are telling your club members, friends and colleagues to also take a look at it so we can increase the social media presence of the site.  In case you have not had a chance to check it out, the URL is:
 
 
Now that we have launched the website, we are now working on our next year's initiatives.  The major goals for the next year are:
  1.  Encourage and Support the creation of community based Rotary Club Projects (we want EVERY Rotary Club to launch a partnership project with organizations in your community!)
  2. Host additional Club Champions Training (We are working on scheduling one next March/April and one next November)
  3. Support District 5580 as they launch their district activities including champions trainings, presentations at clubs and a presentation at their annual meeting in April
  4.  Establish a stronger partnership with the State of Minnesota Safe Harbor Program.  We are in discussions with their leadership on how we can support their great work
  5. Engage partnerships with Tribal communities.  We have started discussions with a couple of organizations and are excited about the possibilities that are already emerging
  6. Begin to better understand the issue of labor trafficking and how it impacts our communities.  We have really focused on sex trafficking for our first 2 years but have begun to understand that labor trafficking is occurring in our communities as well.  We are becoming educated and look forward to passing our knowledge to all of you in the coming months
  7.  Support the Rotary International "Rotary Action Group Against Slavery (RAGAS)" group.  The group has become aware of our initiative and is looking to us to partner with them as they support global efforts to end Human Slavery.  We are beginning to share our experience with them and look forward to a more formal relationship with the group.
We know this is an ambitious set of goals but with the assistance of all of you, we know we can accomplish them!
 
HOW YOU, AS YOUR CLUB PRESIDENT CAN HELP:
  1. We have several clubs that do not have a club champion.  PLEASE encourage members of your club to offer to serve as your club's champion  Champions are the club liaison for the overall initiative and coordinate with other clubs and community organizations to find out what is needed in your community. 
  2.  If you have not had a presentation on the Rotary Initiative to End Human Trafficking, please schedule one.  Contact Meg Low (the District 5950 lead) to schedule a presentation.  Her contact information is:
                   Meg Low
                   mlow.rotary@gmail.com
  1. If you are looking for the next project for your club, January has been designated as the Human Trafficking (Slavery) Prevention Month.    January 11 has been designated as the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
 
We encourage you all to do something in your club and/or your community to raise awareness of this evil.  Join other clubs for a community event! 
 
If you want assistance or ideas, please contact your District Lead:
 
District 5950
Meg Low
 
 
 
Message from Past District Governor Jim Nelson On Honduras:
 
Subject: Honduras project

Hi James!  I hope your year as co-president of Plymouth is going well.  We've talked about my coming to your club to talk about the Honduras project.  It would be a good time to come  when your schedule permits since I now have a tentative date set for our next trip, which I hope you will feel well enough to attend with us.  So let me know if and when you'd like me to come to the club to give a big "thank you," and talk about the project.  I can be the program for the day, or if you prefer I can take a few minutes (10 maybe) as an announcement before the program.  Whatever works best for you.  
 
      AND --
 
Mark your calendar.  The tentative date for our next visit to Honduras is March 22-27, 2020.   We haven't yet set a firm agenda, but obviously we'd want to concentrate on the current water project, but with possible additional visits to the previous project sites which were the subject of the original project sponsored by Steve Solbrack's St. Louis Park club, which you, Steve and I scouted out back in 2013, and possibly taking a look at a micro-finance project, which would give participants a feel for other opportunities for service in that area.    
 
Hope to see you soon !
 
Best wishes,
 
Jim
 
 
 
Rotary Leader:
 
Clicking on this will bring yo to the link - Five Ways our Fight Against Polio Fights Other Diseases
 
 
 
Foundation Giving:  
 

Did you know that in November Rotarians around the world celebrate the great work of The Rotary Foundation? Foundation Month is a great time to highlight projects that your club is doing with The Rotary Foundation, or, to educate members on how the Foundation works.

I hope you use the resources below to celebrate and showcase the different ways you and your clubs are doing good in the world this November. As always, thank you for all that you do for Rotary and for your support of our Foundation.​​​​​​​

 

Please give to Rotary International (Annual Fund) and/or Polio Plus (Polio Fund)!

Our goal this year is $200 per member to Rotary International and $100 per member to the Club.  The hope is to continue to give to international projects and to also help with our Club general fund.
 
Please contact Bruce Behm with any questions on how to give and where to give at 763-550-9000.
 
Rotarians have the ability to contribute to Rotary International in a four ways - Annual Fund, Polio Fund, World Fund and Disaster Response Fund.  The fund contributed to most is the Annual Fund and the second Fund members have given to is the Polio Fund.  Below is a message from Michael K. McGovern, International PolioPlus Chair:
 
My fellow Rotarians:

I’m pleased to share the important news that as of today, 21 August 2019, it has been three years since a child in Nigeria was paralyzed by the wild poliovirus. This means that the entire World Health Organization (WHO) African region could be certified as wild poliovirus-free as soon as mid-2020.

Along with our Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners and the Nigerian government, we’ve strengthened immunization and disease detection systems, and we are now reaching more children than ever in some of the hardest-to-reach places in Nigeria.

We can take pride in this progress, but it is not time to celebrate quite yet. We still have work to do and we must continue making it a priority to reach every child in Nigeria—and other polio-threatened countries—with the polio vaccine, and build strong levels of immunity to fully protect the entire population against polio.

In part because of the hard work and dedication of Rotarians in Nigeria and around the world, we will soon be able to check another country off of the polio-endemic list. Rotary members in Nigeria have been hard at work raising awareness for polio eradication, advocating with the government and addressing other basic health needs to complement polio eradication efforts, like providing clean water to vulnerable communities.

After the African region is certified wild poliovirus-free later next year, 5 out of the 6 WHO regions in the world will be considered polio-free. As the first organization to dream of – and promise to deliver – a polio-free world, Rotary is committed to fulfilling our promise. Our progress in Nigeria is a big step toward that goal, but we need to maintain momentum so that Pakistan and Afghanistan see the same level of progress.

It’s crucial that Rotarians continue to support polio eradication as we overcome the final hurdles in the fight to end the disease forever. You can support PolioPlus by making a donation, or raise awareness by holding an event or fundraiser on World Polio Day on 24 October.

I look forward to joining with Rotarians as soon as mid-2020 to celebrate a wild poliovirus-free Africa.
 
 
General Information:  

Quarterly Invoices:  Please pay quarterly invoices promptly.  The Board continues to work with members that have outstanding balances.

Amazon Purchases:  Please remember to select RCOP Foundation when you make  on-line purchases at Amazon.Smile.   The Rotary Club of Plymouth Foundation is registered with Amazon and may be chosen when you make purchases through Amazon.Smile. Amazon will donate .05% of your total purchase to RCOP Foundation.  The AmazonSmile web site provides all the same products as the regular site, but in addition allows you to designate a charity which Amazon will support. Please tell your friends and associates who shop through Amazon Smile!  The contribution comes out of Amazon's pocket - not yours!  Click here to get started:http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-3054927  You Shop/ Amazon Gives!

 

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Rotary Core Values:  Fellowship, Integrity, Diversity, Service, Leadership

 

The 4-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.

 

Thank you to everyone that participates in the meetings. 

 

 

 

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