Don Weber

Paula Simms Case

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will and peace in the world.

"Doing good in the World is more than a motto.  It is our goal, our mission, and our reminder.  It expresses in the clearest terms why we have a Foundation, and it challenges us to reach as far as we can to do the most good possible with everything we have.  Our Foundation exisits to support the good that we can do through Rotary.  It expands our reach, increases our strength, and makes our service more powerful and more effective.  Because of our Foundation we can, very simple, do more of our Rotary work."

2004-2005

President Glenn Estess Sr. 

President, Maura Donnelly, opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance and followed in prayer by David Peter.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Please keep Len and Alice Daiber in your prayers as Alice was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer and underwent major surgery on Monday.
• The Fish Race has been scheduled for March 25th at the Korte Rec Center.  Tickets will be available on the 21st of Feb. for everyone to begin selling.  We have also recruited three organizations that will sell tickets and receive $2 of every ticket they sell.
• Our club will be hosting the GSE team from Sweden on April 27th-April 29th.  We will take them to a Cardinal game one evening and have a dinner one evening.  We are still looking for Rotarians to host a member of the team.  Please see Maura if you are interested.  More details to follow.
• PDG Rod Buffington has organized the annual Cards/Cubs fundraiser, Cardinals Care, to raise money for Literacy Grants in our district.  He has reserved 1,500 tickets for Saturday, April 14th @12:05pm and 1,000 tickets for Saturday July 21 @3:05pm.  This is open to all individuals (Rotarians and non-rotarians alike) so get a group together, fill out a group from, and get your order in before tickets are sold out!
• Holli has fantastic Rotary shirts and jackets available for sale to help promote Rotary to the community.  See her for details.

Welcome Ray Hereford as our newest member. 

Going forward the membership chair will contact the approved members by phone to welcome them and they are working on an orientation process as well.

In a few weeks we will have a program to welcome all our new members. 

Guests: None 

Make-ups: None 

Birthdays: None

Anniversaries: None

Club Anniversaries: Terry Lammers on the 17th - 3 years

58.2% Attendance

Please let these people know that they were missed: Terry Bell, Cliff Couch, David Daiber, Len Daiber, Bob Englemann, Angie Fears, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Jon Greve, Brett Gruender, Phil Hardas, Roland Harris, Will Holzinger, Lisa Hunsche, Linda Jakel, Don Johannes, George Jones, Angela Kim, Terry Lammers, Terry Leitschuh, Bob Luitjohan, Glenn Meffert, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Bob Nagel, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Bill Schaefer, Steve Schmitt, Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Schutz, and Gordon Smith. 

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours, to date there are 1543 hours recorded. 

Opportunities to Serve:

1. WELCH PROJECT: Been rescheduled for this Saturday February 18th.  We have an older lady who is has had a bought of hard times over the last couple of years and needs a little help to get a few neccessities done that she is unable to do herself.  We need 6-10 people and will meet at Mark Frey's workshop at 4164 State Rte 160 at 9am.  Please bring gloves, rakes, hedgers, and chainsaws if you have them. Let Mark know if you are able to help ASAP!  Currently we have Mark Frey, Bob Luitjohan, Kevin DeWaele, Terry Lammers, and Carrie Adolph (CRABBY youth).
2. Mississippi Valley Blood Center is having a blood drive on February 15th from 2-6pm at St. Joseph's Hospital.

Members can go to the website and log your hours or email them to him directly: swconstruct@agtelco.com

There was $1325 in the 50/50 with 16 cards left in the deck and the Ace remained elusive with the jack of clubs drawn.

Tom fined everyone who had not turned in service hours this year.

Peggy shared that she was happy because the Cancer Center started to see patients last week.

PROGRAM: MOCK TOUR OF ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL

Peggy Sebastian and Amy Stephan welcomed Rotarians to their mock rooms located in the WalMart Plaza Center.  These rooms were designed to allow the staff and community to have full imput into the function and design of the room and allows for multiple vendors to bring in their equipment for review.

The staff at St. Joseph's Hospital has been in numerous times suggesting changes to allow for the functionality and comfortability for the staff and the families. They are considering everything from location of outlets, to technology, to nursing areas, family areas, rails to the restrooms, etc.  Some of the most exciting improvements are to the technology as each room will be equipped with its own technology, reducing the need to transport equipment for the nursing staff.  In the OR there is new communication technology to allow for family members to be continuously updated on progress of surgeries and to keep the medical charts up to date moment by moment.  Amy has brochures available with further detailed information, but from first view we have a hospital to be very proud of and one that will continue to be the front runner in medical services and patient care.

Below are some photos from the mock tour.

Patient Room

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Waiting Room

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten