President's Weekly Message

Hi All,

 

It was a pleasure to attend Rotary this week to honor Paulette Rislund as our W. Adair Muralt Award winner this year. She emulates the Rotary motto of "Service Above Self", and it has been a joy to say that I have had the opportunity to work with her over the past few years for the Shakopee career fair.  Thanks Paulette!

 

Congratulations also to Gary Timm for receiving a Paul Harris award.  It's heartwarming to have a non-Rotarian receive this award.  Barb Danielson accepted the award on Gary's behalf.

 

Thanks to Harold Armstrong, Michele Dahl and Art Quinn for organizing the event, and thanks to Bill Wermerskirchen for sharing Doc. Muralt's background and Jon McBroom for being our master of ceremonies.  I am truly grateful to be surrounded by such caring and giving members of our community.

 

Next week Mary Hernandez offers us a double-treat; sharing a bit of her background as an icebreaker, and giving us a presentation on Esperanza.  This would be a wonderful meeting to bring a guest!  Just back from the south - Art Quinn will try to keep us in tune as song master this week, and The one-and-only Gary Martini will bring his wit to the podium to coax dollars from our wallets as fine master.

We will also be awarding the Paul Harris awards to those that were not able to attend last week. 

 

Remember:

May 16 - that's tomorrow folks: is the Rotary District Conference at the Mall of America, Radisson Blu - hope to see you there!

 

Keep on smiling and Lighting Up Rotary!

 

Cheers,

Kathleen Klehr

President 2014/15