Shelby's Playground Renovation

Boji Brew Fest

Park Cleanup

Food Drives

Event Volunteers

Club Socials

Welcome to Iowa Great Lakes Rotary!

We Meet Wednesdays at Noon - Join Us!

Please join us this week (11/23) for Rotary at Maser Monarch Lodge!

Please plan to join us this week for Rotary on Wednesday at noon for lunch at Monarch Lodge. Our program this week will be Rotarian Katy Burke, Director of Population and Public Health, who will be sharing the Health Improvement Plan developed as a result of the Community Health Needs Assessment done through Public Health. She will be sharing initiatives focusing on three areas: Behavioral Health, Dental Health and Affordable Transportation. Please plan to join us to learn more about key resources in our community in these areas.

We look forward to seeing all of you this week at noon at Maser Monarch Lodge!

Local Organizations Recipients of Quarterly Rotary Donations

During the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary quarterly club assembly held in early October, the club voted to donate to the following three organizations this quarter: STEMM (Siouxland Tanzania Educational Medical Ministries), Pearson Lakes Art Center, and Dickinson County Trails. Accepting $500 checks each from Club President John Battern are Rachelle Fratzke for the Arts Center, Kevin Brown for STEMM and Erin Reed for the Trails.

The donations are part of the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary Club's process for distributing member contributions. Each quarter, club members will take an active part in distributing the money via an in person vote and discussion. We look forward to hearing more about how each of these donations has made an impact and will feature photos from each organization in upcoming newsletters.

Rotarians Packed Bags for Farm Outreach

Thank you to the Rotarians, along with family and friends, who showed up Thursday evening, October 6, to pack goodie bags for local farmers. The project, spearheaded by the Dickinson County Behavioral Health Coalition, was a way to not only provide farmers with a snack during harvest, but also to provide valuable resource information as well as it relates to the stresses of farming and the mental health toll it can take on the farmers. This initiative is the first in a series of outreach projects planned by the Coalition to reach various groups in the county through a Let's Talk Dickinson campaign. The campaign will help promote awareness of resources available in our county and hopefully help reduce the stigma of asking for help if someone needs it.

Rotary Committed to Ending Polio

Rotary International President Jennifer Jones appeared on the main stage at the star-studded Global Citizen Festival on 24 September to highlight Rotary’s commitment to eradicating polio and announce an additional US$150 million pledge. Jones, who spoke in front of 60,000 people in New York City and many more viewers online and on TV, mentioned that New York state recently declared a state of emergency to combat a potential resurgence of polio in the region. She noted this as one more reason why it’s critical for Rotary International and its partners to remain committed to ending polio. Thanks to the efforts of Rotary, nearly 3 billion children have been vaccinated against polio and 20 million people are walking who otherwise would have been paralyzed. Only two countries remain with cases of the wild polio virus in the world - Pakistan and Afghanistan. To learn more about Rotary's efforts to eradicate polio, visit endpolio.org.