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Meeting Recap - September 5, 2017
Jason Miller opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and the Invocation.
 
Our guests today were former NBMV Rotarian Matt Fulton, Gerry Tietz’s guests, Nicole and Tyson, from the New Brighton Lions club, and Past District 5960 Governor Craig Leiser.
 
Nicole outlined some of the Lions club’s service projects and noted that she is, among many other responsibilities, the Lions club “tail twister”.  She said that the tail twister is the person who keeps the club meetings on track.  President Gerry Tietz suggested that the Rotary and Lions clubs could work together on a future service project.
 
PDG Craig Leiser remarked that one of his roles as District governor was similar to Nicole’s tail twister role.  However, he described his role as “Ass Kicker”.  Whatever works!
 
PDG Craig was here to congratulate us on our successful District Matching Grant for E.C.H.O.  He presented our Grant Guru’s, Geoff Hollimon and Cindy Carlson, with a check for $3,245.  Nice work Geoff and Cindy!  PDG Craig, Geoff and Cindy are pictured below.
 
While he was up, PDG Craig reported that there are only nine reported new cases of Polio in the world this year.  It looks like support for Polio Plus has gotten us extremely close to eradicating the scourge of polio.
 
John Ordway reported that the weather looks good for the Rotary Party as his home on Saturday the 9th.  If you have not already RSVP’d (yes or no), please do so today.
 
President Gerry announced the district’s “One Rotary Summit” designed to help club leaders with membership, public image and humanitarian service initiatives.  The summit will be held in Roseville on September 28th, 5:30PM-8:45PM.  President Gerry recommended it for all our club leaders.
 
Don’t forget the inaugural meeting of the NBMV Breakfast Meeting on Thursday, 7AM-8AM at the Exchange.  Come and check it out, and bring a prospective member.
 
Happy fines were plentiful today:
-Cindy and Kevin just returned from a golf weekend at Izaty’s.
-John R’s daughter, Lilly, is 23 years old.
-MaryAnn’s husband Gary is a year older.
-Dave H’s daughter Lauren is 35 and granddaughter Annika started Kindergarten today.
-Gerry T’s son, Nicholas, is working on an app to help police identify special needs individuals before engaging them on the street.
-Jason M. just returned from his daughter’s freshman orientation at the University of Redlands.
-Garry J’s mom finally has both leg braces off and is doing well.
 
Jason Miller introduced our speaker, West St. Paul Rotarian William McNally, founder of “Harvest Pack”.  William became interested in feeding the hungry while volunteering at local food shelves.  This interest led him to work for Feed My Starving Children and, finally, to start his own non-profit.  In its fifth year, Harvest Pack provided over one million meals to food shelves, backpack programs and international hunger programs.  Harvest Pack’s mission is “Healthy Food on Every Table” Internationally, they partner with International Care Ministries (ICM) providing nutrition to complement ICM’s economic sustainability work in the Philippines.  Local initiatives focus on getting the food to undernourished children via backpack programs and food shelves.  Countless studies have shown a direct, positive relationship between good nutrition and student performance and behavior.  Meal packs for local distribution are a scientifically designed mixture of oatmeal, vitamins and cinnamon and sugar to hide the taste of the vitamins.  Meal packs for international distribution are rice and soy based.
 
William played a video which revealed that 800 million people worldwide die of hunger related diseases each year.  Of those 10 million are children, or one child every 6 seconds!
 
Harvest Pack is looking for partners to donate and volunteer to pack food.  Packing events can be large or small (minimum of 50 packers) and can be held anywhere there is adequate floor space.  For more information, click here.  William and Jason are shown below.
Speakers
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Update on the Classroom for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon project
Sep 19, 2017
Surgeon with the Midwest Fetal Care Center
Sep 26, 2017
Trainer for Marnita’s Table on IZI
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