Milwaukee North Sunrise Rotary Meeting –January 9, 2020 - Minutes
Attendees:  Dr. Willie Hart,  George Matthews,  Monica Phillip, Buzz Althoen,  Bob Holzrichter, Cynthia Roberson, Greg Williams,  Diane Beckley,  Dave Carter,  Shannon King,  Angie Stinson, Lynda Conyers, Sharon Adams
Guests:  Asst. District Governor, Rob Bassett
The meeting was called to order by Bob Holzrichter, who led us in the Pledge and the Four Way Test.  Invocation was given by Cynthia Roberson.
President Willie welcomed Asst. Gov. Rob Bassett and the members, and wished everyone a Happy New Year.
Treasurer Bob Holzrichter $25 collected . 
Good News/Bad News:
Dave wished everyone a Happy New Year, and reported that he will be traveling back to Florida on Saturday, and will not see us at a meeting until April, when he returns to Wisconsin.
Greg reported having very positive holiday time with his family.  His sister, son, daughter, grandson, and nephew all met together in Dallas, TX.  Greg flew all of them in except his sister who lives in Dallas.
Diane reported that she was in Minnesota for the holidays and saw her granddaughter, who turned one year old.  She also saw her brother who is battling stage 4 cancer, and is terminal.  Prayers were asked for him.
Angie went on her very first cruise with 15 members of her family.  It was her belated birthday celebration with the family.  She loved it!
Rob Bassett contributed for the very beautiful sunrise he saw on his way into the meeting with us this morning.  Our name fit perfectly with it…..Milwaukee North Sunrise.
President Willie said her good news was to see everyone this morning safe and alive, and she hoped the same for those not in attendance.  She did report that she lost two members of her family over the holidays, and aunt and a nephew.  Remember them in prayer.
CLUB BUSINESS:
Bob Holzrichter reported that Fred Langer’s membership will now be Honorary.  He will still be coming to meetings he can make and will participate in our events.  He felt he could no longer be an active member since he and his wife will be traveling quite a bit now that he is retired.
Asst. District Gov. Rob,  passed out invitations for the New Berlin Club’s upcoming  fundraiser on  February 1st, it is a “Roaring 20’s Mystery and Intrigue Night”.
Secretary Monica Phillip presented the Board’s recommendation to contribute $500 to Polio Plus, as part of our participation in the all District events.  Buzz Althoen so moved and it was seconded by Dave Carter.  Motion Carried.
Diane also presented an invitation to St. Ann’s first African Ball on February 1st.  There will be food and entertainment.  This is a fundraiser to support the Indaba Band Shell and summer entertainment.
President Willie announced that Sr. Edna Lonegran, Executive Director of the two St. Ann’s facilities.  She will be speaking on their Youth Leadership program.  President Willie felt that our club may want to get involved with this program, since we meet at St. Ann’s Bucyrus facility.
President Willie reported on all the events and projects the club has completed so far into our fiscal year.  We can be proud of our accomplishments.
Buzz reported that Diane has a Divine Savior high school student interested in becoming an Outbound Student from our club.  Buzz has spoken with her and her parents, and will give further updates at upcoming meetings.
Buzz also said he met Madeline, one of our former Outbound students, whose mother passed away this last year and started the Memorial Fund for Rotary Outbound Students.  The fund is at $5000 presently, and Buzz will be a part of the committee distributing these funds and collecting future donations to this fund.
Sharon asked for the Isaiah Thompson books, so that she could distribute them to the two schools where our club was involved with the “Welcome Back to School” event.
Speakers:  Buzz and Angie – continued with the information on the Water Pitchers and Filters for families in the high lead water deposits.  Buzz gave a little background history on how important it is to have clean water and how many old type diseases were eliminated by cleaning up our water.  He also mentioned that the City of Milwaukee is working on ridding the lead in the water by replacing pipes, and this project will not be completed until 2100.  Angie distributed a packet of information on the Lead problem and the Water Pitcher and Filters program.
The water pitchers and filters, which eliminate 99% of total dissolved solids in the water, is a project presently being offered by Hephatha Lutheran Church and the Interfaith Earth Network.  It is found that zone 53226 has the highest lead deposits in its water.  Their next move is to get the pitchers and filters to the Hopkins & Lloyd School for distribution and education of how to use them to the families.  They will go one school at a time.
Also, Julia Means, and her Blanket of Love program is distributing pitchers and filters, and educating young parents in her programs.  Sharon commented that this is a good “self-help” program, as clean drinking water is a high priority in our city. It was asked if further filters would be provided or is this a one- time only situation.  Filters will be provided ongoing free of charge to the families with pitchers.
Buzz and Angie asked that the Board consider donating $1000 to this project.  The cost for a pitcher and filter is $24.50.
Diane reported that their facility has a lead odometer and people can bring in water for testing its lead levels.
Raffle:  Bob’s number was called, and he pulled out a blue marble.  Next week 4 blue and l while.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 AM
Respectfully submitted,
Monica Phillip, Secretary

UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
January 16 – Sr. Edna Lonegran , Exec. Director, St. Ann’s – Youth Leadership Program
January 23 – Matthew Johnson – Land and Liberty Organization
January 30 – Open
February 6 – Open
February 13 - Open

LIST OF EVENTS FOR 2019-2020 YEAR:
1.	VETS COLLECTION OF WARM CLOTHING – OCTOBER (FLIERS AND COLLECTION DATES)
2.	POLIO PLUS “END POLIO IN THE WORLD” DAY – OCTOBER 24, 2019
3.	COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP
4.	CHRISTMAS WITH DIGNITY – DECEMBER, (DATES) START WORKING ON IN SEPTEMBER, 2019
5.	OUTBOUND YOUTH EXCHANGE – (NEED TIME LINE INFORMATION)
6.	4TH GRADE ESSAY CONTEST – APRIL, 2020 – JUNE, 2020 –CANOE TRIP AND CLUB PRESENTATION
7.	WORLD AFFAIRS SEMINAR – JUNE, 2020 (NEED TO FIND A STUDENT)
8.	VETS COLLECTION OF KITCHEN ITEMS – JUNE/JULY, 2020 (FLIERS AND COLLECTION DATES)

CHRISTMAS PARY – DECEMBER, 2019
ANNIVERSARY/CHANGING OF GUARD DINNER – JUNE, 2020