Shelby's Playground Renovation

Boji Brew Fest

Park Cleanup

Food Drives

Event Volunteers

Club Socials

Welcome to Iowa Great Lakes Rotary!

We're Meeting in Person - Please Join Us!

Please join us this week (11/17) as we meet at Maser Monarch Lodge!

This week, we will welcome Natalie Schwartz from the Good Neighbor Pesticide Program. Good Neighbor Iowa aims to reduce unnecessary urban pesticide use and to transform lawn culture to encourage appreciation of diverse lawns as a way to protect child health, water quality, pets, pollinators, and biodiversity. This statewide public health education initiative is managed through partnership with the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy and Environmental Education.

For those planning to attend, we are continuing a pay-as-you-go lunch option. This week, we will be having box lunches from Jimmy Johns for $10. It will not include a drink though, so please bring your own drink with you to the meeting. To order a lunch, please let Kathy know if you would like a ham, roast beef, turkey, Italian or BLT sandwich by 10 am Wednesday morning or by emailing krfahy@gmail.com. You are also welcome to bring your own lunch if you'd like instead.

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

Meals on Wheels Volunteer Opportunities

Please consider assisting our Iowa Great Lakes Rotary a day or two in December as we help deliver Meals on Wheels in Spirit Lake. Iowa Great Lakes Rotary does the two routes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the one route on Saturday in December - all are Spirit Lake routes. There are only 5 spots left to fill - so please contact Leo Kofoot if you are able to help. The meals are to be picked up at the hospital at 11:00 am. Routes can usually be done in 30-40 minutes. We hope you are able to help provide this valuable service to our area!

Local Organizations Benefit From Iowa Great Lakes Rotary GIving

During our last quarterly club assembly, the club voted to donate to the following organizations: $500 to Hope Rolls, $400 to the Humane Society, $400 to Break the Cycle and $200 to Megan Vierkant/Miss Amazing Iowa. The recipients joined us for our Rotary lunch on Wednesday, November 3 and updated us on their projects. Those joining us were:

Hope Rolls - Dr. Shanna Clabaugh and Maria Mellman

Humane Society - Hailey Huckfelt and Melanie Becker

Break the Cycle - Clint Loveall

Miss Amazing Iowa - Megan Vierkant (wasn't able to attend but accepted later that day)

The donations are part of a new 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.

We have a winner!

Jon Collins of Milford possessed the winning time ticket in the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary annual car drop contest.

The Rotary Car Drop is an annual fundraiser for the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary Club. Tickets are sold for each minute of the day with one ticket including both the a.m. and p.m. time. The winner is determined when the car, which is placed on the ice of Smith’s Bay on West Lake Okoboji, falls through the ice. Once the car is retrieved, the official winning time is confirmed by a clock inside the car and the winner receives $1000 cash prize.

According to the clock mounted in the car, the actual winning time was 4:58 on Friday, March 19. The 4:58 ticket was not sold though, so the winner goes to the next closest time - 4:59. Jon Collins, of Milford possessed the winning ticket sold by Rotarian Brad Jungers.

Bob Kirschbaum from Bob's Towing was on hand to retrieve the car on Sunday, March 21. Kirschbaum annually donates the car his time to assist Iowa Great Lakes Rotary with this endeavor to support community projects. Funds raised by Iowa Great Lakes Rotary are used for community projects, recently including the playground upgrades at Shelby Duis Park and the building of an outdoor Pavilion at Camp Foster YMCA.

Pictured in the photo are Rotarian Leo Kofoot, winner Jon Collins and Rotarian John Battern.