Evening Fireside

(No Morning Meeting)

Join us Wednesday evening from 5:00pm - 7:30pm for our Evening Fireside Meeting. We will hear updates on what our committees have been up to and what lies ahead for our club!

Dubh Linn's Pub - Private Room

109 W. Superior St.

Duluth, MN 55802

Social: 5:00pm
Dinner and Program: 5:30pm (heavy apps, cash bar)

Learn more about the program here!

Cross Currents

MARCH IS WATER AND SANITATION MONTH

PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

R. Gordon R. McInally
President 2023-24

(Presidential message retrieved from: https://my.rotary.org/en/news-media/office-president/presidential-message)

ROTARY AWARENESS DAY AT THE CAPITAL

Video Link:

On February 19, 2024 DG Dave Long and Rotarains from District 5580, 5950, and 5960 attended Rotary Awareness Day at the MN State Capital to speak up in favor of Rotary and our service projects. They introduced a Rotary license plate bill to create proceeds directed to our foundations.

ECO CHALLENGE

Looking for easy and simple ways to make high-impact, achievable steps to reduce your carbon footprint? The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are partnering with others on their Count Us In campaign which aims to inspire 1 billion people to take practical steps. If 1 billion people globally take an action step, carbon emissions can be reduced by 20%! Check out unep.org for more about UNEP’s ACTNOW campaign.

WATER AND SANITATION

We recently traveled to Bolivia to visit our Rotary District projects that included medical clinics and water well projects. I’m happy to report that all projects have been successfully completed and functioning. The Rotary 5580 Laguna Sulti Water Well Projects in Chirusi Rosario & Tajamar are in operation and serving these Communities. The Chirusi Rosario water tank was completed on October 26, 2022, and they claim that this water tank with its ROTARY logo is the tallest in the whole wide world.

THE MOMENT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN

FOR THE 2024 ROTARY DISTRICT 5580 CONFERENCE!!

REGISTER TODAY

Speaking of Golf

"SPEAKING OF GOLF!" - Scott Fisher

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.

Please check out our new registration site here:

https://birdease.com/harbortownrotaryfoundation

Rotarian Birthdays

Happy birthday to our Harbortown Rotarians celebrating this June!

Fred Rouse – June 4

Bob MacLean – June 12

MJ Kroska – June 29

Happy Rotary Anniversary!

Happy Rotary June Anniversaries to our following members!

We so greatly appreciate your commitment to service.

Kevin Anderson (39 Years)

Fred Rouse (38 Years)

Greg Wegler (36 Years)

Chip Jacobs (30 Years)

MJ Kroska (23 Years)

Share Your Rotary Pics!

Do you have Harbortown Rotary pictures to share!?

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!

Share your photos HERE with Google Photos!

Upcoming Program Duties

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.

Upcoming Program Duties:

07.03 - Joel Kilgour, Stepping On Up

07.10 - Service Project

07.17 - Brandon Torgerson, MN Teen Challenge

07.24 - Lindsey Whitlinger, Lester River Rendezvous

07.31 - Michaela Houg, Alzheimer's Foundation

08.07 - Lisa Mitchell-Krocak

08.14 - Service Project

08.21 - Tony Dierckins, Twin Ports Trains: The Historic Railroads of Duluth & Superior

08.28 - Potter Neustel

09.04 - Service Project

09.11 - District Governor, Kay Parries

Harbortown News

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 Photos so we can spread the word about how awesome our members are and the impact we're making on our community!

Harbortown Rotary 2023