Join us Wednesday morning at 7:30am in the Great Hall - Kitchi Gammi Club (831 E. Superior St., Duluth, MN 55805) for the Denfeld Junior Rotarians take over!
The Denfeld Junior Rotarians will host Lindsay Kern. Kern will speak to the club about the Duluth Airshow - "Building a Large Scale Community Event."
Minnesota’s largest airshow returned to the Duluth International Airport on May 18-19, 2024! The 2024 Duluth Airshow featured the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the U.S. Navy F-18 Rhino Demonstration, Randy Ball and his MiG-17, Skip Stewart in a Pitts biplane, the P-38 Lightning presented by the Bong Veterans Historical Center, Britt Lincoln, and many more! In addition to the performances in the sky, the Airshow featured the most expansive displays of military aircraft in the Midwest.
Celebrate the Grand Opening of our new Adventure Center, May 24-26th, 2024!
The Adventure Center will serve as our Duluth ski and bike rental center, filled to the brim with the equipment to outfit YOUR next adventure – whether you’re hittin’ the trails or the slopes.
Friday, May 24 4:00pm | Ribbon Cutting with Chamber of Commerce 5:00pm – 7:00pm | Happy Hour & Social
Saturday, May 25 10:00am | Event Kickoff 10:00am – 4:30pm | E-MTB Guided Demos & E-Bike Demos 11:00am – 12:30pm | Family Group Ride on the Munger 2:00pm – 3:30pm | FTW Group Ride 4:30 – 6:00pm | All-levels MTB Ride 6:00pm | Event close, “afterparty” at Ursa Minor ALL DAY – Kid’s Strider Area, Food and beverage, and Community “Vendor Village”
Sunday, May 26 10:00am | Event Kickoff 10:00am – 2:00pm | E-Bike and E-MTB Demos & Kid’s Strider Area 10:30am – 12:00pm | Family Group Ride on the Munger 12:30pm – 2:00pm | All-Levels MTB Ride 2:00pm | Event close – Thanks for celebrating with us! ALL DAY – Food & Beverage, Vendor Village
Beyond the fires and floods, the heat and failed crops, climate change exacts another, less visible toll — on our mental health. From the trauma of experiencing a catastrophic storm to anxiety over an uncertain future, the psychological impact is measurable. The good news is that taking collective action can ease eco-anxiety. In this issue of Rotary magazine, we examine the ways Rotary members and others are doing just that.
Click here to read your digital copy of the May 2024 issue.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S., and we are devoting much of this issue to the topic. Read about Rotary clubs in Colorado that stepped up when a hospital system declared an emergency on youth mental health. Learn how young people, on social media and on campus, are offering one another peer-to-peer support. And join us as we try forest bathing to see for ourselves how the practice taps into the therapeutic power of nature.
It's also Rotary Youth Service Month, and in our "Where are they now?" column, we introduce you to an immigration lawyer who says it was a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp that shaped her social conscience.
Mark your calendars as the 2024 Duluth Harbortown Rotary Charitable Foundation's Golf Fundraiser to benefit the Robert Hermans Scholarship Fund and the Donald Holm Founders Fund is scheduled for JULY 8, 2024 at Ridgeview Country Club.
Don't want to golf? Join us for dinner only, the Holm Family Putting Contest, and/or sponsor a hole.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the Bike Duluth Festival this past weekend. The festival was a huge success and could not have happened without all of the hard work put in by Harbortown and many other volunteers.
We had a great turnout for volunteers this year. Despite having to stop the races early on Saturday due to lightening, the energy was still positive throughout the entire day!
With the success of the festival, we can continue to give back to the community and the local bike trails.
Harbortown Rotarians! Lauren is working on the Duty Roster for the coming quarter. If you know someone who would like to present to our club in the next quarter (April – June), please reach out to Lauren to get them on the schedule. Best way to reach her is at lauren.farden@edwardjones.com.
Use the Google Photos link below to share them with us, so we can spread the word about how awesome our members are and the impact we're making on our community!
If you have the upcoming program duty (check the duty roster here), please be sure to secure a speaker and provide notice to Casey Nies (Nies.casey@gmail.com) as soon as your speaker is confirmed. If you are unable to confirm a speaker, please contact Lauren Farden (lauren.farden@edwardjones.com) for help. If you have a different assigned program duty and cannot make it to the meeting, please find a replacement.
Harbortown Rotary has a Windows 11 laptop. Presenters may bring a USB drive with the PowerPoint presentation (or whatever is wanted to be shown on the projector while speaking). Please share this information with your program's presenter.
For news, announcements, event promotion, social media, media releases, and more, please contact Casey Nies (nies.casey@gmail.com | 701.351.7270)
For Scuttlebutt: If you are hosting the program speaker, please copy Casey on the speaker's name, organization, and email. If you are the chair of a Harbortown Committee, please update Casey on relevant information regarding grants and awards, meetings or news. Casey will use this information to create more dynamic and engaging content to share with potential club members and on social media!
Do you have Harbortown Rotary pictures to share!? Share your photos HERE with Google Photosso we can spread the word about how awesome our members are and the impact we're making on our community!
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