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 (September 22) as we meet in person at the Pearson Lakes Art Center (NOTE LOCATION CHANGE).

This week, we welcome Jeff Hassman, our Rotary District 5970 District Governor from Cedar Falls. Jeff will share more about himself as well as what is happening around our Rotary District - he and his wife have also been very active with the youth exchange program over the years. Please plan to attend so we can give Jeff a warm Iowa Great Lakes welcome.

For those planning to attend, we are continuing a pay-as-you-go lunch option. This week, we will be having box lunches for $10 from Jimmy Johns which will include a sandwich, chips and a cookie. 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 (Vito) or BLT sandwich by 10 am Wednesday by emailing her at 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 Pearson Lakes Art Center!

Upcoming Service Opportunities

Please mark the following service opportunity dates on your calendar and let Erin (ecatc@hotmail.com) know if you are able to help out with any of them:

Shelby's Playground Cleanup - no scheduled date right now, but please feel free to stop at pull a few weeds at your convenience!
Rotary Car Drop Fundraiser - Leo has divided out areas that we need assistance with for the upcoming winter car drop. Please contact Leo (leokofoot3@gmail.com) if you'd like more information on how you can help make this a success again this year.

Our motto in Rotary is "Service above Self" - we hope that each of you will select an event/project to volunteer a little of your time with. If you have any additional service ideas, please let Erin know!

Organizations to Benefit from IGL Rotary Donations

During our last quarterly club assembly, the club voted to donate $500 each to three organizations. The recipients this quarter are the YMCAs of the Okobojis, SWIM (Safe Water International Ministries), and Next Life Foundation. 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.