Weekly Meetings 12:00 Noon Mondays Hilton, France Ave & 494 Mission

The Bloomington Noon Rotary Club

unites leaders to improve our commu-

nity and the world through service and

philanthropy.

2018-2019 Officers:

President:

Terry Low

Phone: 612-204-4921

tlow@byte-technology.com

Board Meetings:

Third Monday - 10:30 AM at the Hilton

President Elect:

Stephen Bariteau

Vice President:

Jamie Verbrugge

Treasurer:

Bob Erickson

Sergeant at Arms:

Paul Niederberger

Program Chair:

Pete Smyth and Diann Kirby

Past President:

Deb Newman

District Governor:

Irene Kelly

Executive Secretary:

Kathy Koehler

952-250-0476

kkoehler53@frontiernet.net

Directors: James Lucas, Andrea

Specht, Pete Smyth, Angela Wandera,

Brett Mortenson, Paul Niederberger,

and Carolyn Pratt

Mailing Address: P.O.Box 20300

Bloomington, MN USA 55420

Rotary in Bloomington

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July 1 Preview: “No Meeting” Enjoy the 4th of July Holiday

July 8 Preview: “The Twins in the Dome”

Guest: Bob Showers

June 24 Preview: “Annual Awards Day”

Host: Past President Deb Newman

This is a repeat performance here at Bloom-ington Noon for Bob Showers. He will be join-ing us to share highlights from his newest book, “The Twins in the Dome”. The Metro-dome was the home of the Minnesota Twins from 1982 to 2009. During that time there were World Championships, Hall of Fame per-formances, crazy bounces, and balls lost in the roof. It was a different kind of ballgame and the Dome had many critics, but you always knew

the game would be played.

Bob Showers has been a Twins fan since attending his first game at Metropolitan Stadium in 1971. Originally from Wa-terloo, Iowa, Showers is a long time resident of Blooming-ton, Minnesota. His previous books are Minnesota North Stars: History and Memories with Lou Nanne and The

Twins at the Met.

This is our day to celebrate all that we have accom-plished throughout the past year. We will honor several special achievements and award our annual Rotarian of the Year and New Rotarian of the Year nominees. It has been an exciting and rewarding year under President Terry Low’s leadership. Join us to honor all the hard

work that has made our many activities successful.

Past President Deb Newman will host this meeting. Deb has recently retired and started on new challenges. She keeps just as busy in retirement as she was building Newman Long Term Care to become a preeminent leader in long term care insurance.

You don't want to miss this program. It is always special.

June 10 Review: “Max Tuerpe, Year in Review”

Youth Exchange Student Max Tuerpe

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June Birthdays

01 Angie Deegan

07 John Houle

11 Mahendra Nath

19 Don Stiles

25 Sandhya Gupta

June Anniversaries

01 Doodee Backstrom 18 yrs

01 Joyce Ester 4 yrs

01 Keir Johnson 25 yrs

03 Mark Bosch 16 yrs

08 Kurt Hagen 10 yrs

13 Brian Emerson 13 yrs

19 Steve Wirth 35 yrs

22 Chuck Goldberg 4 yrs

28 Bonnie Carlson 31 yrs

30 Karyn Arazi 19 yrs

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Greeter Schedule

June 24: open

July 1: No Meeting

July 8: open

July 15: open

July 22: open

July 29: open

Invocator Schedule

June 24: Sandhya Gupta

July 1: No Meeting

July 8: open

July 15: open

July 22: open

July 29: open

June 17 Review: “Nari Gunjan & Aavishkaar Update”

Rotarian Sandhya Gupta

Our Youth Exchange student, Max Tuerpe had a fabulous year in Bloomington. In his program, Max shared highlights of every-thing that he was able to experience during his time here. And, because he will be joining other Youth Exchange students for a whirlwind bus tour including Chicago, New York, Washington,

and Florida, he is bound to experience much more!

The first thing Max did was thank his host families and our club for making all of this possible. His arrival at the airport was overwhelming with the most people greet-ing him of any of the students arriving here. Max’s host families shared much of the Twin Cities with

him, like a Vikings game; the State Fair; a great birthday party; and Thanksgiv-ing and Christmas holidays. Max also participated with his families by cooking German meatballs and making ice cream, playing frisbee and spending hours

working jigsaw puzzles.

In school, Max joked that Jefferson was a larger school than his high school in Germany, but at least “his school has windows!” Max tried out for each Jeffer-son Theater production and earned an important role in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, as Mr. Tumnus. Jefferson Theater just won an award for their production of Max continued Page 4 RIB

Contributed by: Brett Mortenson

Sandhya Gupta informed us that this is the 10th year of her coming back to Minnesota to tell the story of her ever-expanding programs in her home country of India. Sandhya’s story of moving her family back to India after her education and career here in the Unit-ed States is very familiar to most members of the club. Her devotion to providing quality education to a region that historically has a 1% literacy rate and to a population once known as the “untouchables” is leg-

endary.

Sandhya weaved in several things she has learned about the education system in India and how she is striving to overcome some of the widespread barriers to quality education such as: the misconcep-

tion that memorizing is learning, a fear of math that sets in at an early age, and ill-equipped teachers.

Sandhya founded Aavishkaar in 2014 to nurture “curious, creative, and critical thinking”. She saw first hand the importance of showing these students that someone believes in them and fostered ways to

develop a “joyful” relationship with math and science.

Over the last 5 years, Aavishkaar and its spinoff programs have impacted the lives of over 16,000 students. She detailed how this last year has been one of explosive growth of her programs with an ever-increasing number of Aavishkaar Partner Communities throughout the region. She concluded her program with details on the Aavishkaar Fellowship Program where alumni of her programs have gone

on to carry on its mission throughout India.

Max’s Family in Germany

Mr. Tumnus

A learning team at an Aavishkaar Camp.

Vocational Talks:

Distinguished Guests, we are glad you joined us!

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Membership Announcements... Approved for membership...

Lori Rebers – Director of Admin, Bloomington Convention and Visitors Bureau, lives in Prior Lake

Welcome to our newest Rotarians: Renée Wilson, Mark Adkins, Leah Hughes, and Angie Deegan Make sure you take time to get to know them. Introduce yourself and invite them to your table at lunch.

Leah Hughes… Leah is the Sr. Director of Operations & Community Partnerships at Artistry. She

grew up in Wayzata, the middle of three. She received a sports voucher to attend MN State University, Mankato, where she completed her degree in graphic design. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts at the UW-Madison. She has been a K-12 arts educator, an assistant professor at MNSU-Mankato, and worked at numerous non-profit arts organizations over the past two decades. Leah has worked collabo-ratively with school districts, non-profits, for-profits, public libraries, and community representatives to design and implement creative programs and inform individuals on the importance of the arts in educa-tion and our everyday lives. . Leah’s specialty is cultivating community partnerships and creating arts-

related programs that benefit targeted audiences and the greater community.

Leah’s parents were volunteers, so it was natural for Leah to continue that tradition throughout college and now with Rotary. Leah is married with a 6 year old daughter and volunteers at her daughter’s elementary school regularly. She likes reading, running, garden-

ing, and spending time with her family, friends, and neighbors.

Angie Deegan… Angie grew up in a family of doers. They always helped folks in their neighborhood any way that they could.

Her introduction to Rotary was as a Host Parent for a Rotary Youth Exchange student with the Le Sueur Rotary which she then joined. She grew up in Mankato and was educated in Architectural Drafting. She spent the next 20 years as a CAD technician. She volunteered in many leadership areas throughout these years. She then chose to go back to school for a degree in organizational management. The next

20 years were spent with the Girl Scouts as a marketing and development manager.

In 2013, she joined the March of Dimes working in fund development. She is now the Executive Director for MN, ND, and SD. She is passionate about providing women and babies the opportunity to have a healthy birth. An interesting correlation between March of Dimes and Rotary is that the March of Dimes, 81 years ago, provided the funding for the polio vaccine discovered by Dr. Jonas Salk. The name March of Dimes comes from the plea of President FDR to the American people to send their dimes to the White

House to help find a cure to the virus that was devastating the US.

Mike and Michelle Arulfo, Host family for Max

Tim and Lori Sjoquist with their daughter and son, Jillian and JT, Host family for Max

Joy Drummond, Spouse of Dave Drummond, First family host for our next Youth Exchange Student

Rotarian Tom Tamura, District 5950 Youth Exchange Officer for Japan

Madeline Thompson and her mother Laura Stokes, Youth Exchange Outbound student to Thailand

Lee Mosher, Guest of Josie Hardy, former Golden Valley Rotarian

Kari Thompson, VEAP, is replacing Patty Schulz at VEAP, potential new member

Lori Rebers, approved for membership, Bloomington Convention and Visitors Bureau

Anjali Kapoor and Ruby Kapoor, Education Foundation Scholar from Kennedy High School and her mother

Jody Skenderian, Guest of Joyce Ester, Normandale Community College Foundation Development Director

Paige Wheeler and Melinda Xiong, Reading To Children Guests; Kit Lowen was unable to attend.

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Highlighting Youth Exchange...

Josie Hardy is our Youth Exchange Officer this year. Youth Exchange is a core program of Rotary International, promoting world peace and understanding. All the while, introducing Rotary to youth and host fami-

lies from our communities and around the world.

What are the benefits of participating with Youth Exchange? Our students develop lifelong leadership skills; learn a new language and

culture; build lasting friend-ships with young people from around the world while living with another family for one year; and becoming global citizens. The benefits for a host family are much the same as above. Host families also take on the challenge of adding another person to their family and the responsibility of caring for that person. Our Youth Exchange program is successful because of the caring

families who volunteer to invite a student into their home.

This year, Bloomington Noon rotary is sponsoring an outbound Youth Exchange student and we were privileged to meet her and her mother today at our meeting. Madeline

Thompson, outbound student, is heading to Thailand for the coming year. She was presented her very own Rotary Button at our

meeting. Madeline and her mother, Laura Stokes, are on the left in the photo along with Max and all his host family members.

We also are hosting an inbound student this year from Japan. Mr. Tom Tamura, the District 5950 Youth Exchange Office for Ja-pan, was a guest today as well. Joy and Dave Drummond are going to be the first host family for this young person. Thank you to Joy and Dave for volunteering. If you would like to be a host family or to participate with our Youth Exchange program as a mentor to our student, please let Josie know. We do need two more families to volunteer to host this year.

“CHICAGO”. Max felt like he was on Broadway as the quality of the production was so good. And, he was proud of the letter he earned in theater. Max also joined the JV and Varsity Volley Ball teams and Show Choir. Show Choir had the greatest influence

on Max this year because he made great friends and the choir won Grand Champions in their division.

As a Youth Exchange student, Max met many times with the other exchange students from District 5950 and 5960. They had a great Halloween weekend where he joined other friends calling themselves “The Safari Group”. And, now Max is enjoying his bus tour with these friends. Max’s parents will soon be traveling here for a visit before he heads back to Germany. We hope that he

has many opportunities in the future to return for a visit. Enjoy some of the many photos of Max’s year below.

Photos Left to Right...Max at Homecoming; Max and his Show Choir Friends; Max and friend as cast members in the

Jefferson Theater production of CHICAGO; Max and the Show Choir Awards; Max with JT and their Prom dates.

District 5950 and 5960 Youth Exchange Students for the 2018-19 school year.

Max continued from page 2...

Laura Stokes and Madeline Thompson

along with Max and his host families

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Bloomington Rotary Club Foundation

Scholarships and Grants Distributions

2018-2019

Scholarships:

STRIVE

Kennedy HS

Post First Year Scholarships 4,000

Harold Larson Most Improved GPA 2,500

Second Most Improved GPA 2,000

Third Most Improved GPA 1,500

Fourth Most Improved GPA 1,000

Lee Helms Best Attendance (14 students)* 2,450

Kennedy HS STRIVE Total 13,450

Jefferson HS

Most Improved GPA 2,500

Second Most Improved GPA 1,500

Third Most Improved GPA 1,000

Attendance (14 students @ 250) 3,500

Jefferson HS STRIVE Total 8,500

STRIVE Scholarship Total 21,950

Education Foundation of Bloomington 2,000

Scholarships Total 23,950

Local/Regional Partners

Charitable Partners:

Artistry 2,000

Cornerstone 2,500

Courage Kenny Fdn 3,000

Education Fdn of Blm 2,000

Good in the Hood 500

Kennedy Comm Alliance 1,000

Normandale Comm. Coll 4,500

Oasis for Youth 3,000

VEAP 5,000

Local/Regional Total 23,500

Local/Regional % 74.6%

International Partners

English School 5,000

Palampur Blood Bank Soc 3,000

Natl/International Total 8,000

Natl/International % 25.4%

Grants Totals 31,500

Club Projects funded by Foundation:

Club Projects Donations 6,000

STRIVE Annual Banquet Expenses 2,100

Club Expenses Paid by Foundation 8,100

Total of Scholarships and Grants 63,550

*$250 for 7 students with perfect attendance and $100 for 7 students missing one meeting

How Much Does Bloomington Rotary Club Foundation Give?

The table to the left summarizes your club’s scholarships and

grants for the 2018-2019 Rotary year.

A few highlights:

The $63,550 total is equal to $900 per member. This does not include club giving to The Rotary Foundation which

was an additional $520 per member.

One quarter of the $31,500 in grants goes to international projects; three quarters is for Bloomington and the

region.

Nearly $24,000 was for STRIVE scholarships and a schol-arship selected by the Education Foundation of Bloom-ington. The Kennedy STRIVE program is larger (40 students at start and 24 students at completion of this year) than the Jefferson program (28 students at start and 19 students at completion of this year). That’s why the Kennedy students received 60% of the scholar-

ships.

Rotary’s STRIVE scholarships are matched by Normandale College, Hennepin Tech and Dunwoody College of Technology when STRIVE students enroll there. Other two-year colleges and technical schools in the area

may also match our scholarships.

The STRIVE scholarships do not have a dedicated funding

source. Funding relies on members’ designated gifts.

We met the Education Foundation Scholarship winner to-day at our meeting. Ms. Anjali Kapoor visited our meeting along with her mother. Anjali graduated in the top 10% of her class with AP honors. She volunteered with Feed My Starving Children; was active with Bloomington Youth Soccer Club; and was a member of the National Honor Society. She was the Captain of her Soccer team; her Senior Class President; and

helped make Diversity Day a success at school.

Thank you to Larry Lee, Doodee Backstrom, Kurt Ha-gen, Dick Young, Deb Newman, John Swaney, and

Mary Kurth for your service this year on the Board.

(March Minutes of the Foundation Board of Directors, are

attached to this week’s RIB.)

Contributors: Mary Kurth and Larry Lee

Highlighting the

Bloomington Rotary Club Foundation

Upcoming Meetings

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The Four-Way Test

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all

concerned?

3. Will it build

GOODWILL and

BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be

BENEFICIAL to

all concerned?

RIB Editor:

Karyn Arazi

Contributors:

Laura Schultz, Brett Mortenson, Karen Nordstrom; Becky Amble and Terry Low (photos)

ADDRESS

Bloomington Noon

Rotary

P.O. Box 20300

Bloomington, MN 55420

June 24: “Annual Awards Day” Host: Past President Deb Newman

July 1: “No Meeting” Enjoy the 4th of July week

July 8: “The Twins in the Dome” Speaker: Bob Showers

July 15: “District Governor Russ Michaletz”

July 22: “Climate Change” Guest: Rod Fisher

July 29: “Abraham Lincoln’s Watch” Guest: Doug Stiles

Calendar of Events - SAVE the following DATES on your calendar!

Bloomington Television - BTV 14/859 HD or live streamed at blm.MN/BTV (click on “Watch Live”) International Village Clinic Update Max Tuerpe Year in Review 6/21 at 10:30 PM 7/8 at 11:00 PM 6/22 at 4:30 AM; 10:30 AM; 4:30 PM 7/9 at 5:00 AM; 11:00 AM; 5:00 PM 6/28 at 10:30 PM 7/13 at 7:00 PM 6/29 at 4:30 AM; 10:30 AM; 4:30 PM 7/14 at 1:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM Opioids and Mental Health University of Minnesota Athletics 6/22 at 7:00 PM 7/8 at 7:00 PM 6/23 at 1:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM 7/9 at 1:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM Genetic Engineering and Improving Your Health 6/24 at 11:00 PM 6/25 at 5:00 AM; 11:00 AM; 5:00 PM Will Steger - Life as an Explorer 6/29 at 7:00 PM 7/8 at 8:00 PM 6/30 at 1:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM 7/9 at 2:00 AM, 8:00 AM, 2:00 PM A Virtual Tour of Nine Mile Creek 7/10 at 7:00 PM 6/25 at 9:00 PM 7/11 at 1:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM 6/26 at 3:00 AM; 9:00 AM; 3:00 PM American Refugee Committee 6/27 at 11:00 PM 7/8 at 10:00 PM 6/28 at 5:00 AM; 11:00 AM; 5:00 PM 7/9 at 4:00 AM; 10:00 AM; 4:00 PM STRIVE Banquet 2019 7/10 at 9:00 PM 7/1 at 11:00 PM 7/11 at 3:00 AM; 9:00 AM; 3:00 PM 7/2 at 5:00 AM; 11:00 AM; 5:00 PM 7/6 at 7:00 PM 7/7 at 1:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 1:00 PM

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www.rotary5950.org

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June 25: Tuesday “Cornerstone Breakfast Fundraiser” Metropolitan Ballroom 7:30—8:30 AM

June 25: Tuesday “Artistry Open House for Andrea Specht” 3:00—4:30 Inez Greenberg Gallery

June 26: Wednesday “Retirement Party for Tim Sasse” 2:30 –4:00 Civic Plaza Rehearsal Hall

June 27: Thursday “2019-20 District 5950 Kickoff” American Swedish Institute 5:30 PM $40

June 29: Saturday “Cheers For Charity Craft Beer Festival” North Parking MOA 4-8 PM

July 1: NO MEETING, Enjoy Independence Week

July 8: Monday “Membership Committee Meeting” 11:00 AM at the Hilton

July 16: Tuesday “Nari Gunjan Annual Fundraiser” Bay Leaf Indian Cuisine 6:00 PM

July 22: Monday “Board of Directors Meeting” Hilton Hotel 11:00 AM

July 24: Wednesday “Chip in For Schools Golf Classic” Dwan Golf Club Register

Aug 12: Monday “Membership Committee Meeting” 11:00 AM at the Hilton

Aug 19: Monday “Board of Directors Meeting” Hilton Hotel 11:00 AM

Aug 26: Monday “Pack to School” Community Service Project

Aug 30: Friday “Rotary Blitz at the Minnesota State Fair” Wear your Rotary gear and attend!

Our personal news section is Happy Bucks this year. It is shared verbally as the Happy Bucks Hat is

passed around the room at each meeting. Here are a few items shared these past two weeks.

Paul Niederberger was thankful for the doctors and nurses who helped him through his recent surgery. Becky Amble loved her trip with a wonderful traveling companion, Josie Hardy. The capstone was the Rotary International Convention in Germany. Bon-nie Paulsen’s son was married June 1st and honeymooned in Ireland. Jamie Verbrugge and his wife volunteered at the Sympho-

ny Ball along with Joyce Ester. They had a fabulous time.

John Swaney is participating in the Cigars & Baseball 2019 benefitting the Miracle League, building playing fields for kids with disa-bilities. Terry Stirewalt noted he wants to keep our Youth Exchange program going. Sandhya Gupta is happy to be back and to have met with several educators at Stanford University last week on changing how math is taught. Dave Drummond announced that his son is getting married July 3rd to an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Jim Mortenson was happy to have his adult grandkids join him this past Father’s Day. Deb Newman will be moving into her new home mid July. Watch for invites to her annual Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser. Mark Adkins and a friend from Boise, Idaho, had great fun attending a concert by Paul McCart-ney and going walleye fishing. Meg Schnabel’s adopted daughter is joining her on a trip. Angie Deegan reported that 10,000 folks have visited the Japanese Garden at NCC in the past two months. Nick Basil will be a marshal at the Women’s PGA Tournament. Eldon Spencer gathered with 69% of his 1969 Carlton Graduating Class recently. Jim Lucas’s adult children spent 4 days with him for Father’s Day. Jim Casserly joined several friends for their 48th trip to Shenandoah Nation-al Park on Father’s Day. Stephen Bariteau shared that Courage Kenny just hired a STRIVE grad-

uate in one or their programs. He attributed his success to his STRIVE experience.

Notable: Andrea Specht was awarded the Diane Darr Award for Artistry Excellence recently at a recognition luncheon in her honor at City Hall. See photo-right. Andrea said, “To receive an award named for a woman I love as a role model in work and life is incredibly meaningful. My heart is

full.”

Happy Bucks

Saturday, June 29 Cheers For Charity

Last reminder before our Cheers For Charity event. Like our Facebook page! Please share the Rotary posts with your networks through Facebook, Twitter, and any of the other networks that you might post in like your neighborhood groups!

Our club goal is to have about 1000 guests attend. Please get the word out!

How can you help?

• Attend & volunteer to help. There are STILL many volunteer slots open. Use the link shared by Kathy to sign up.

• Invite your network. Like the club web site, share on Facebook, or just send a friend the poster and invite them in an email.

• Gift Cards are needed for the Punch Board game. Do you know anyone who would donate a gift card; a bottle of wine; or a free pass to somewhere? Please get them into Deb this Monday. One punch raises $20.00, so the gift item should be in the

neighborhood of $20 or higher. We want the prizes to be well worth it for our guests at the event!

• And, respond when asked. Our Charitable Partners are counting on us. Everyone is needed.

Cheers for Charity Update...

Honoring our Reading to Children Program Volunteers

Melinda Xiong and Paige Wheeler are pictured here with Don Stiles. They are representa-tives from Normandale and Bloomington Schools who partnered with us for the Reading Pro-gram. We want to acknowledge all the Rotarians who worked to make this program a suc-cess: Josie Hardy, Laura Schultz, Ken Ritterspach, Abul Sharah, Keir Johnson, Terry

Stirewalt, Stephen Bariteau, Dave Senness, Jim Casserly, and Brian Emerson.

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Cornerstone’s 2019 Breakfast Fundraiser, Tuesday June 25, 7:30 AM On June 25, 2019, at the Metropolitan Ballroom, Golden Valley, join Doodee Backstrom for a one-hour fundraiser in support of Cornerstone. Attendees will hear from participants, pas-sionate volunteers, dedicated board members and staff who advocate for the individuals and families we serve. Join Doodee Backstrom and create a Rotary table. Or, RSVP indi-

vidually to jennas@cornerstonemn.org

Annual Nari Gunjan Fundraiser set for July 16 Please plan to join Sandhya Gupta in support of the education of Dalit girls in Bihar, India through the annual Nari Gunjan fundraiser to be held at the Bay Leaf Indian Cuisine restaurant in Eagan, MN, on Tuesday, July 16, at 6:00 PM. For more information or to register contact Karen Moore at

kjmoore51@gmail.com. If unable to join that evening, donations are also welcome.

Education Foundation “Chip in for Schools Golf Classic” July

24 Dwan Golf Club

Registration for golfers and sponsors is now open for the Annual Chip in for Schools Golf Clas-sic sponsored by the Education Foundation of Bloomington. All proceeds benefit our Blooming-

ton public school students.

Join the foundation on July 24, Noon, at Dwan Golf Club for a fun filled round of best ball golf then on to the Minnesota Valley Country Club for dinner, awards, silent auction, and fabulous

raffle prizes. Register here.

Support our Charitable Partners...

Rotary Blitz at the Fair!! All three Minnesota districts (5950, 5960, 5580) will come to-gether on August 30th to create a sea of Rotary at the State Fair! We will have a space at Dan Patch Avenue. Wear your Rotary gear that day and find your friends at every corner!

Save the date and watch for more info to come.

Join Rotary at the Minnesota State Fair this Summer!

Our Videographer, Tim Sasse, is set to Retire!

Municipal Cable Coordinator Tim Sasse to Retire

Tim Sasse, City of Bloomington Municipal Cable TV Coordinator, will retire June 28.

For the last 36 years, Tim has been responsible for all aspects of production, programming and playback for Bloomington, including recording hundreds of public meetings, candidate forums, special events, community meetings and presentations. He also produced and edited the award-winning weekly city news program “Bloomington Today.” Last week, Tim was named to the Minnesota Association of Community Telecommuni-

cations Administrators (MACTA) Hall of Fame for his many years of service. (See Photo-right)

Check out this tribute video https://youtu.be/lBHP9Tt7gh8 honoring Tim’s longtime service. Tim indi-cated that there are 484 Rotary programs in the database that were videotaped over the course of

his 20-plus years with the City.

Join the Communications Team in wishing Tim Sasse a happy retirement! Wednesday, June 26, 2019 , 2:30 –4:00 PM, Bloomington Civic Plaza Rehearsal Hall.

(See the flyer attached to the RIB.)