Join us December 2nd and we'll honor Rotarians celebrating their birthdays this month:
| Frank Seng | Dec 02 |
| Jim Schaefer | Dec 6 |
| Elizabeth Locke | Dec 14 |
| Ryan Cose | Dec 21 |
Did you know our club has a "Birthday Machine"? Several years ago, one of our esteemed members Tom Arthur bought the club a plug-in Radon detector to be shared among our members. Tom was moved by one of our presentations about Radon and the prevalence of the radioactive gas in many midwestern homes. Radon increases the risk of lung cancer and is the second leading cause of lung cancer next to smoking. The original Radon detector needed to be re-calibrated after many years of use, so Steve and Liz Thorpe stepped up to purchase a new and easier-to-use battery-powered detector for our club. This month during the birthday table recognition, Mason will encourage members to check out the detector to take home and collect some readings, then use that information to buy a chemical test or seek a professional mitigation company.
Think of it as a machine that helps your family have MORE BIRTHDAYS...it's a birthday machine!
Fellow Rotarian Phil Nash shared this story with the club a few years ago:
Our upcoming programs offer a wide variety of topics that you can offer to guests - maybe you could reach out and re-connect with your network and invite them to join us for lunch?
Dec 2 - Birthdays and a Rotary business meeting
Dec 9 - Pakistan culture OFF SITE meeting
Dec 16 - Holiday Dinner with East High School Group
Dec 23 - NO MEETING Christmas Holiday
Dec 30 - NO MEETING New Year's Holiday
There are opportunities to volunteer or participate in upcoming community events. We'll use this space in our weekly Reporter to promote upcoming events that our fellow Rotarians are involved with:
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Winter WonderLoo - Nov 30th thru Christmas Downtown Waterloo
Winter WonderLoo is Downtown Waterloo's holiday season of celebration! Join us for visits with Santa, Downtown Waterloo's Jingle Bar Hop, Visits with Santa, Merry Movie Magic, and activities for all ages!
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If you have an event coming up that you'd like to share with our members, email Mason
The Waterloo Rotary Club will take a Thanksgiving break and not hold a regular meeting Monday, November 25th. We will reconvene Monday, December 2nd to celebrate birthdays and conduct some club business.
Since 1946 the Waterloo Rotary Club has enjoyed the honor each year to celebrate outstanding performance by high school athletes in the city of Waterloo and surrounding areas. Football coaching staffs at each school in the city nominate a senior MVP from their team. In a secret ballot, area sportswriters make the citywide selection. The winner receives the Glen "Doc" Miller traveling trophy as top player in his sport. The winner is entitled to display the trophy at his school for the next twelve months.
You can see the list of all the 2024 MVPs and photos of the ceremony on our website, www.WaterlooRotary.com
Congratulations to the West High volleyball team and their MVP Jada Smith!
Since 1946 the Waterloo Rotary Club has enjoyed the honor each year to celebrate outstanding performance by high school athletes in the city of Waterloo. For the 32nd year, area volleyball coaches choose their team's MVP, then by ballot of all the coaches, award the trophy for overall Most Valuable volleyball player who is entitled to display the trophy at her school for the next twelve months.
You can see the list of all the 2024 MVPs and photos of the ceremony on our website, www.WaterlooRotary.com
Join us on Monday for our Annual Football Awards Luncheon and hear from UNI Athletics Director, Megan Franklin!
President-Elect Larry Steffens is looking for Programming Committee members. Please e-mail him larrysteffens51@gmail.com if interested!
Reminder...please come early Monday as we will be honoring area high school volleyball seniors and announcing who is selected as the MVP this year! We will start promptly at 12:10!
We'd like to thank our PREMIER SPONSOR of the event, OMJC Signal...
We also would like to thank our Presenting Sponsors...
Friends of Rotary Sponsors
Amy Rousselow, Barb Prather, Beth and Kevin McCrindle, Bonnie Smith-Davis, Brandon Marks, Bryan Burton, Dave Buck, Dave Lee, E.J. Gallagher, Frank Seng, Gene Leonhardt, Jaclyne Heller, Jay Crisp, Jim Schaffer, Jim Seely, Joan Rice, John Beecher, John Bunge, Kathy Braun, Lindy Lindenberg, Phil Nash, Ryan Cose, Tom Arthur
Our Keynote Speaker for the Annual Volleyball Awards Banquet is David Warrington from KWWL!
Born and raised in Eastern Iowa, David is thrilled to continue calling it home and telling its stories.
He was raised in Central City, Iowa, a town of 1,200 people near Cedar Rapids. A graduate of Central City High School, he got his media start in sports broadcasting, announcing sporting events for the Central City Wildcats.
First-grader Tyshon Harris has help from David Buck Nov 21 2011 MATTHEW PUTNEY Courier Photo Editor
Our club is so close to raising all the funds needed to provide warm coats for kids in 6 Waterloo elementary schools - can you help us over the finish line? If you haven’t already donated please consider donating now to our Operation Warm project. Or if you have donated please consider making an additional donation. Donations can be brought to the club meeting today (November 11), or made through the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa’s website.
Thanks,
David Lee Jim Seeley
We have a birthday group this month led by everyone's all-time favorite song leader Hovey Brom! Hovey will celebrate his 99th birthday and we'll gather to send him good vibes in absentia.
| *Hovey Brom '87 | Nov 05 |
| Jay Crisp | Nov 06 |
| David Allbaugh | Nov 08 |
| Luke Jensen | Nov 08 |
| Donna Miller | Nov 12 |
| Shannon Thies | Nov 15 |
| Tavis Hall | Nov 16 |
Next Monday, we are hosting the Annual Rotary Volleyball Banquet that honors local high school athletes. Please arrive early, as we will start promptly at Noon!
We will be hearing updates from Dr. Jared Smith - Superintendent of Waterloo School District - on the new high school plans.
Why World Polio Day is my favorite day
Posted on October 22, 2024
By Jeffrey Walsh, Rotary Club of Bloomington-Normal Sunrise, Illinois, USA
I am a former Army medic and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. I joined Rotary recently, and I am excited to be part of an organization that is working to eradicate polio. I would love nothing more than to help achieve our top priority by entering combat zones and going to distant countries.
Led by Rotary International President Stephanie Urchick, the 2025 Rotary Presidential Peace Conference in Istanbul, Türkiye, 20-22 February 2025, will be an opportunity for the Rotary community and our partners to build on Rotary’s contributions to promoting peace by exploring:
- Peace in a polarized world
- Technology, media, and peacebuilding
- Environmental issues in peacebuilding
- Making peace last
Join us Monday to see Congresswoman Ashley Hinson speak and answer questions.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson proudly represents Iowa’s 2nd district in Congress.
An Iowa native, Ashley is an award-winning journalist and a proud wife and mother of two. Ashley previously served in the Iowa state House and represented Iowa’s 67th House district, serving Hiawatha, Robins, Cedar Rapids, and Marion, where she currently resides. As a state Representative, she worked successfully to balance the budget, cut taxes, and protect the most vulnerable in her community.
In Congress, she continues to be a common-sense leader and pursue pro-growth policies. She has introduced and supported bipartisan legislation to improve child care access for working families in Iowa, root out corruption in Washington through federal lobbying bans, and create opportunities for workers in the community. She is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, where she oversees the government funding process and fights to ensure every taxpayer dollar is accounted for and spent responsibly. As a mother of two, she also has a keen interest in protecting the safety and security of Iowa families.
Prior to serving Iowans in public office, Ashley was a reporter for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids. For more than a decade, she had the opportunity to connect with Iowa’s small business owners and community leaders. Ashley’s extensive reporting on rising healthcare costs, devastating flooding, and other critical issues impacting Eastern Iowa drove her to seek opportunities to better serve her community and take action to solve the problems she had covered for years.
In Congress, she continues to be a common-sense leader and pursue pro-growth policies. She has introduced and supported bipartisan legislation to improve child care access for working families in Iowa, root out corruption in Washington through federal lobbying bans, and create opportunities for workers in the community. She is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, where she oversees the government funding process and fights to ensure every taxpayer dollar is accounted for and spent responsibly. As a mother of two, she also has a keen interest in protecting the safety and security of Iowa families.
Prior to serving Iowans in public office, Ashley was a reporter for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids. For more than a decade, she had the opportunity to connect with Iowa’s small business owners and community leaders. Ashley’s extensive reporting on rising healthcare costs, devastating flooding, and other critical issues impacting Eastern Iowa drove her to seek opportunities to better serve her community and take action to solve the problems she had covered for years.
Iowa State Senate District 38 Candidate Dave Sires will be speaking at our club on Monday!
Dave Sires is a businessman from Cedar Falls. He and his wife own and operate Cedar Village a manufactured housing community and a self storage facility. The manufactured housing business also includes new and used manufactured home sales.
Dave was born at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls in 1960. He attended Lincoln Elementary, Holmes Junior High, and graduated from Cedar Falls High School in 1979. He attended UNI in the early 1980’s studying economics.
Dave Sires has always been a hard worker. When he was 10 years old he started selling sweet corn to make money and then bought his own tractor at the age of 13. He farmed 15 acres to start with and then as a junior and senior in high school farmed 75 acres. After graduation from high school he purchased an excavator and had his own excavating business which included building terraces, ponds and tiling. While operating the excavation business Dave had always worked along side his father in the manufactured housing business. Dave and his wife bought out his parents in 1991 and have been operating the community ever since. In 2003, Dave decided that a self storage facility would be a good complement to his business and he built Added Self Storage.
Dave was born at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls in 1960. He attended Lincoln Elementary, Holmes Junior High, and graduated from Cedar Falls High School in 1979. He attended UNI in the early 1980’s studying economics.
Dave Sires has always been a hard worker. When he was 10 years old he started selling sweet corn to make money and then bought his own tractor at the age of 13. He farmed 15 acres to start with and then as a junior and senior in high school farmed 75 acres. After graduation from high school he purchased an excavator and had his own excavating business which included building terraces, ponds and tiling. While operating the excavation business Dave had always worked along side his father in the manufactured housing business. Dave and his wife bought out his parents in 1991 and have been operating the community ever since. In 2003, Dave decided that a self storage facility would be a good complement to his business and he built Added Self Storage.
We'll celebrate Rotarians born in October at our September 30 meeting - this group has over 300 years in combined service to our club and includes FIVE past presidents.
| Lind, Mike | Oct 04 |
| Carignan, Steve '09 | Oct 10 |
| Paulsen, Chuck | Oct 10 |
| Bovenmyer, Samuel D. | Oct 12 |
| Englin, Kaye | Oct 15 |
| Gallagher III, E. J. '20 | Oct 16 |
| Schmitt, Steven '04 | Oct 16 |
| Nash, Phillip '17 | Oct 16 |
| Kuiper, Mark | Oct 19 |
| Ericson, Marcella | Oct 25 |
| Beecher, John '92 | Oct 27 |
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