Earle W. Garber passed away peacefully on October 27, 2023.  Earle served as the president of the Rotary Club, was honored with a Paul Harris Fellowship, was chairman of United Way for two years, and was a member of the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber. He served on the Wood County Economic Development Board and the Wisconsin Rapids Redevelopment Authority during the acquisition of Centralia and Lowell Senior Center building projects.  He served as the first Executive Director of the Community Foundation (now Incourage). 
 

November 29th - Toys for Tots shopping with the Scouts. Meet at 5:00 p.m. at the south doors of Walmart. We will shop for an hour and then go back to Huntington House for a pizza party. If you wish to donate any money to help buy toys, please get ahold of Rotarian Amy Kolo-Elmhorst. We hope to see you there!! 

Our annual meeting will be on Monday, December 4th.  At this meeting we will elect our 2024-25 officers and directors as well as receive our official treasurer’s report.

Rotarians around the world are celebrating the impact of The Rotary Foundation in November. We celebrate by remembering the impact our support is having on eradicating polio, funding humanitarian community projects sponsored by clubs, and the ways in which our work helps create peace by alleviating the need where it exists.

 

Noon Rotary is currently at $1,375 or 34% of our goal of $4,000 for this Rotary year (last year the club gave $5,725 to the International Rotary Foundation).

 

2022-23 End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Recognition

 

Our district is hosting orientation sessions for new members or those who are new at heart.  See above for more information.

With a $6.00 a year increase for the Rotary Magazine, the board of directors as voted to increase dues to $65 per quarter effective January 1, 2024.  We try to limit dues increases but with district and RI increases this year, we have been unable to balance the club budget without an increase.  RI dues will increase again in 2024-25 but it is the hope of the Board to absorb this cost into the budget at that time.

This week we continue with our third rotation of Youth Rotars for the 2023-24 school year.  Please warmly welcome from Assumption:  Bre Sullivan and from Lincoln:  Chase Alexander, Dawn Freeberg, and Emma Schillinger.

 

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