The St. Michael-Albertville Rotary Club is pleased to announce that St. Michael- Albertville High School juniors Kyle Swenson and Samantha Duerr were recognized as the Rotary Students of the month for March.
Welcome to our Club!
Service Above Self
We meet Tuesdays at 7:30 am, except first week of the month. We meet for happy hour on Thursday at 4:30 instead.
Crow River Senior Center
Crow River Senior Center
11800 Town Center Drive NE
St. Michael, MN 55376
United States of America
St. Michael, MN 55376
United States of America
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Tracy Larson
Dear Rotarians-
Next Meeting
On Tuesday, we will have a Club Day meeting, where we will be planning for our next Membership Event. We are 1 person away from meeting our member goal this year. Let's make this a success and push beyond our goal!
Annual Fish Fry Fundraiser
Our annual fish fry is at the Liberty Restaurant (American Legion) in St. Michael, this Friday, March 22. Sign up sheet is linked, so check what you signed up for. I encourage all of you to invite your family and friends, and join them before or after volunteering. If you can't volunteer, you're welcome to come eat with friends or family too. Looking forward to another fun night of slinging fish and raising money!
Volunteers, please wear your Rotary shirt.
Meet Up Alert: Sandy, Tracy H., Mike, Christine, and Rob will be wrapping potatoes on Thursday from 4:00 until they're done. Sandy tells me that tradition is having drinks and playing pull tabs afterwards at the Legion. Join in on the the pre-fish fry fun!
Rotary Golf Scramble
Monday, May 20th, Monticello Rotary Club and our club will be hosting a golf scramble to raise money for our community projects.
Each member is responsible for brining in one sponsorship and/or team to play. Golf flyer is now available to download and was sent to you in a separate email. Deadline is April 1st to get your sponsorship or team.
Foundation Goal
Our Foundation Goal this year is $4175.
As of this week, our club members have donated $3208! We have less than $1000 to go by the end of June. You can make a one time donation, have automatic withdrawls each month, or give a few times throughout the year. Or better yet, become a Paul Harris Fellow by donating $1000 in a calendar year.
Guatemala Water Project Update
Bob Halagan, Past District Governor from the Buffalo club sent an update on the project our club supported.
"Many of you and your clubs supported the recent Rotary trip to Guatemala to do a water project in Patulul Guatemala. While most of you could not make it click on the link below to see a video of what you missed. It was a great trip!
I want to tell you a quick story. This water project was intended to redo the water distribution system in Patulul. A small portion of it was to create community wash stations where the women (sorry, but it's always women) could wash clothes. While I could see that this would be a nice benefit of cleaning up some of the grey water in the local stream and giving the women a place where they could gather while they worked, I didn’t know the whole story.
I’ve been to this community dozens of times but I had never seen where many of the women were washing clothes. Because of the lack of sufficient water and poor plumbing many women were washing their clothes in the river. When we went to see where, we were told that the women were extremely excited about the community wash stations because the river was so dangerous. The riverbank where they washed was surrounded by tall grasses and was an area filled with poisonous snakes!! And perhaps worse, because the river was surrounded by tall grass, men would stalk women there if they went alone.
So our little water project not only will bring adequate clean water to this community, but it will make the women of this community happier, safer and prouder of where they live. Thanks to all of you for supporting this wonderful project!"
Grant Management Seminar
We are looking for someone to get trained in Grant Management so we can continue to apply for District and International Grants through Rotary. We need someone to step up soon cause the trainings are happening this month and next month. If you have already been trained, you will only need the "Refresher "course. If this is new to you, then you will need to complete the "Complete" course. Dates and details are below.
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Location + Addresses Listed Below
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3/23/2019
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Saturday
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Complete
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church - Edina
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8:00-12:30
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Registration limit 20
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3/28/2019
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Thursday
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Refresher
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church - Edina
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4:30-7:00
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Registration limit 20
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4/4/2019
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Thursday
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Refresher
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church - Edina
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4:30-7:00
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Registration limit 20
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4/27/2019
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Saturday
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Complete
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church - Edina
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8:00-12:30
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Registration limit 20
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5/4/2019
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Saturday
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Complete
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New Ulm Country Club - New Ulm
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8:00-12:30
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Registration limit 20
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5/9/2019
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Thursday
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Complete
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Courtyard by Marriott - St. Cloud
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4:30-9:00
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Registration limit 25
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Looking for a board member to go to the Final Area meeting April 16th 5:01 pm, at the Best Western in Monticello. Scott and I will be unavailable to attend and we need someone to go.
Yours in fellowship,
Tracy Larson
Members of the St. Michael-Albertville and Monticello Rotary Clubs along with the Crisis Nursery and Family Youth Community Connections (FYCC) have teamed up to provide beds for kids who otherwise would not have a bed to sleep in.
There are hundreds of children in our area who sleep on a floor rather than in a bed. We are providing these beds to the kids at no cost, but to the kids who get the beds they are priceless. The children apply via Family Youth Community Connections (FYCC) who coordinates with Crisis Nursery, Rivers of Hope, Wright County Human Services, and the School Districts of Wright County for this program.
The local Rotary Clubs have been successful in securing additional donations of bed frames, mattresses, bedding sets, plush animal toys and books to help us stretch the dollars that our clubs can contribute to this very exciting project.
However, there is still a need and we would be happy to accept the donations of cash, bedding, pillows, full size sheet sets, full size blankets, and full size comforters provided the items are NEW. Anyone that would like more information about this project is welcome to contact any Rotarian from St. Michael-Albertville or Monticello or Call Sandy from FYCC at (763) 416-7912.
Donation drop off sites are Courage Kenny of Albertville, Tree of Life, Financial Security Bank, and Community Development Bank.
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The St. Michael-Albertville Rotary Club is pleased to announce that St. Michael- Albertville High School juniors Paige McAloon, Jillian Testa, and Antoria Glass were recognized as the Rotary Students of the Month for January.
STMA Rotary strives to improve the quality of life for our community members and to meet it's needs through targeted projects.
Projects include Beds for Kids, Student of the Month, Cork & Keg 5K fundraiser, Annual Holiday Tree Lighting, Fish Fry fundraiser to support WEB, Library project in Cambodia, Wakami Village project in Guatemala, Little Libraries and water fountains in our parks, Read Across America, Adopt-a-highway, and many more.
We support local programs and organizations, such as STMA Robotics Team, Crisis Nursery, FYCC, St. Michael Royalty, Albertville Royalty, Super Mileage Club, Open Streets, Shelter Box, student scholarships, and ending human trafficking.
Fluid approach to water
How Rotary has changed to help people get clean water for longer than just a few years
Profile Rotary member forms Roots of Peace to remove land mines
Profile: A vine ideaHeidi KühnRotary Club of San FranciscoHeidi Kühn arrived in Utsunomiya, Japan, in 1975, a few months after the end of the Vietnam War. She was a Rotary Youth Exchange
Putting power in hands of women
Stephanie Woollard went from Down Under to the top of the world to find out if one person can make a difference.
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