Posted by Jeff Benson on Sep 19, 2017

Jason Miller opened the meeting with the Pledge and offered an invocation. 

 

Our Guests today were prospective member, Dennis Connolly, Dick Einan from the Roseville club and Jackie Gilbertson, from the Outreach Department at Children’s Hospital Minnesota.

 

President Gerry announced the successful birth of our new breakfast meeting.  With 19 in attendance, and 3 applications for membership, the inaugural meeting was an unqualified success.  Unfortunately Gerry forgot the celebratory cigars.  Gerry proposed that we add an additional board member to the represent the breakfast meeting.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

President Gerry also announced that Mary Stewart and Cindy Carlson will be researching ways for us to efficiently participate in Rotary’s effort to record all the good things that Rotary clubs do and the person-hours involved in those efforts.

 

Cor Wilson announced that The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has just nominated CTV15's Animation @ The Station's "I'm Happy" as one of only 5 nominees for the NATAS National Student Awards in the category of Animation/Graphics/Special Effects.

 

Dana will be heading to a Quilting Retreat this week.  There is apparently no wine allowed, perhaps so as to prevent needle-pricked fingers from bloodying the quilts?

 

Dave Hoel sang the praises of Cindy’s husband Kevin’s golf skills.  Kevin, a couple of lesser known ringers, and non-ringer Dave managed nine under par and third place at the best-ball charity event for pancreatic cancer.  They might have finished higher had they applied the Three-Way Test instead of the Four-Way test when all four golfers were simultaneously out-of-bounds.

 

Mary Ann Bawden thanked Jim Kadechka for completing some urgently needed printing when her print shop was temporarily out of power last week.

 

Jason Miller introduced our speaker, Brad Feltis M.D., a pediatric surgeon specializing in treatment of fetal medical conditions while the child is still in the womb.  Dr. Feltis is the surgical director at the Midwest Fetal Care Center.  As one of only six fetal care centers in North America, Midwest Fetal Care Center is collaboration between Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Children’s Hospital to provide comprehensive care for high risk mothers and their unborn babies.  The Center’s interdisciplinary team of sub-specialists and support staff offer a wide range of pre-natal interventions that can actually prevent or limit the need for surgeries after birth.  A good example is prenatal intervention for Spina Bifida.  While prenatal surgeries may have positive effects on the developing fetus, Dr. Feltis also acknowledged that there are ethical considerations surrounding these kinds of interventions, and the Center has staff to help parents navigate these ethical considerations.  Individual tours of the facility may be arranged by contacting Jackie Gilbertson at the Center’s Outreach Department (952-992-5282).  Learn more about this fascinating surgical team at MidwestFetalCareCenter.org.  Jackie, Brad and Jason are shown below.