March 8, 2022 Barker (Mar 08, 2022)

Mar 9, Leadership Series, Maximize Business Effectiveness

Please join The Rotary Club of Edina’s Leadership Series in March as we welcome local business owner and coach Amy Hudson to share an interactive learning experience entitled “Maximize Business Effectiveness… Coaching Employees to Peak Performance.” This session is open to the public so please forward this to your friends, colleagues, and employees so that can benefit as well. Click HERE for more info. VENUE UPDATE: Coldwell Banker Building, 7550 France Ave S, Edina See you there!

Registration for online and in person: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/275800866817

**Mar 9 VEAP Bag Pack TWO Volunteers Needed**

STILL NEED TWO VOLUNTEERS FOR WEDNESDAY - 3 TO 4:30 PM SIGN UP HERE

Help Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People (VEAP) pack food bags for local school children who go hungry over the weekends during the school year. Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Edina are needed for afternoon shifts at VEAP, 9600 Aldrich Ave., Bloomington, once a month through June. Each shift is 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sign up HERE

Rotarians in Area 3 helped establish this food program several years ago and have regularly helped pack backs of food to be discretely distributed at schools to those in need before the weekend.

For more information, contact Past President Jennifer Bennerotte, 612-201-3467 or jbennerotte@EdinaRotary.org.

Mar 10 Speaker: Heather Flies, Challenges Facing Our Youth

Heather Flies has been the Junior High Pastor at Wooddale Church longer than many of her students have been alive. She began her ministry at Wooddale as the Junior High Associate in 1996. In 1998, she joined the pastoral team.

Outside the walls of Wooddale Church, Flies spends a great deal of time and energy as a communicator and has authored "I Want to Talk to My Teen About Girl Stuff" (Standard Publishing) in 2007. In the fall of 2011, her book for teenagers, "That’s What She Said/That’s What He Said," debuted with Summerside Press.

Month of March - VEAP Food Drive

Donate Non-Perishables in March

The Rotary Club of Edina’s Community Service – Projects Committee will collect non-perishable goods for Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People (VEAP) in March.

Rotarians are encouraged to bring donations to any regular club meeting in March. The donations will later be taken to VEAP, 9600 Aldrich Ave. S., Bloomington. For a detailed list of items needed Read More below or click HERE for a flyer.

Mar 24 Black Business and Edina Rotary Mixer

Next Event - Thursday, March 24, 5:30-7pm. In partnership with Tomme Beevas and Pimentos Jamaican Kitchen, the next monthly Black Business Networking event will encourage us to continue to expand the efforts of our club's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee ( formerly known as Race and Equity committee). This networking event will be held monthly on the fourth Thursday of each month from 530-7pm at Pimento Jamaican Kitchen, 2524 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404. Register HERE. For meeting format and details, click "Read More".

Mail Bag - Thank You

Dear Rotary Club of Edina,

We hope you are all doing well as we hit mid-winter and look forward to longer and warmer days to say “thank you” for your grant to Birth with Dignity seems almost inadequate to capture our full gratitude for your support and financial help regarding our work in Uganda.

Click Read More to learn more about Birth With Dignity and how our Guatemala hospital equipment source, MATTER, brought in Shelly Loberg to help Birth with Dignity make a difference. Birth with Dignity blog post HERE.

Apr 6 Avocation/Vocation Happy Hour Speaker, Renee Harberts

Our speaker will be Renee Harberts. Renee is a member of The Rotary Club of Edina, and an independent insurance broker with Associated Professionals. Renee helps individuals understand health insurance and Medicare in simple, plain terms. She believes that if folks have a little more information up front, they will make better decisions about their Medicare plans and make Medicare work better for them or a loved one. She will attempt to Demystify Medicare for you.

Please join us at CW's Bar and Restaurant, 8302 Normandale Blvd., Bloomington, MN 55437 We will meet at 5:30 for happy half hour and our speaker presentation from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. This event is a casually centered around becoming better acquainted with the business and career lives of our fellow Edina Rotary Noon and Edina Morningside Rotary Club members.

District 5950 Support the Afghan Community

District 5950 Rotarians from several clubs support the Afghan Community in Minnesota “Rotary Community Corps" and gathered for its inaugural meeting Feb 5^th 2022.This community is expected to double in size as refugee families resettle; more Rotary volunteers and club sponsors are sought. For much more information and details. . .

Coke Product Rewards Project

The Edina Rotary Coke Rewards Community Service project is still on-going and full of life. The ERC community service committee will continue to collect and promote this project as a way to give back to St. Jude's throughout 2022. Please collect and turn in your bottle caps and carton/plastic sleeve product codes to the basket located on the registration table. Keep in mind, carton product codes are found on the inside of the cartons (no visible UPC or Scan Codes accepted) and bottle caps codes are printed on the inside of the cap. Please contact Kris Maser with any questions or comments.

SAVE THE DATE Upcoming Events

March 1 to 31 - VEAP Food Drive

Mar 9 -- Leadership Series, Maximize Business Effectiveness

Mar 9 -- VEAP Volunteer Bag Packing Shift

Mar 10 -- Edina Noon Meeting, Speaker: Heather Flies, Wooddale Church Youth Pastor

Mar 12 -- Rotaract Support, Polar Plunge, Lake Minnetonka

Mar 17 -- Edina Noon Meeting, Speaker: Chris Newhouse, MATTER (International Grant Project)

Mar 24 -- Black Business Networking, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen

Apr 6 -- Avocation & Vocation Happy Hour, Speaker: Renee Harberts

Apr 6 -- VEAP Volunteer Bag Packing Shift

Apr 12 -- Days For Girls Donation Day, Gay Clapp

Apr 28 -- Black Business Networking

May 4 -- VEAP Volunteer Bag Packing Shift

May 26 -- Black Business Networking

Jun 1 -- VEAP Volunteer Bag Packing Shift

Jun 23 -- Black Business Networking

Jun 30 -- Annual Family Picnic

In Review- March 3, 2022 Meeting

March 3, 2022

Speaker: Chad Greenway

Former Minnesota Viking Linebacker and Founder of Lead The Way Foundation

Please Click HERE to view the meeting via You Tube.

View to catch up on your favorite Rotarians through Member Spotlight, Rotary happening through Rotary in the News, inspirational Invocation, who brought guests and more.

Speaker, Chad Greenway, begins at timestamp 31:24.

Speaker: Chad Greenway with members Karlan Padayachee, Toshie Metzger

amd Karlan's guest, Theresa Elhage

This meeting was broadcast on ZOOM and videotaped. It can be found on You Tube at:

Meeting Date: 3/3/2022

Meeting You Tube Videos

Click the "You Tube" links below. In the "Description" are bookmarks/time stamps for jumping to your area of interest.

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We will post the link to the last meeting video taped (see above) and photos from the meeting.

RECENT PAST MEETING VIDEOS

March 3, 2022 -- Speaker, Chad Greenway, Former Minnesota Vikings Linebacker and Founder of Lead the Way Foundation

February 24, 2022 -- Speaker, Mike Rakun, Restauranteur, Executive Chef and Owner, Mill Valley Kitchen, Benedict's, Longtrees, Mill Valley Market

February 17, 2022 -- Speaker: John Magnuson, Executive Director, MARRCH

February 10, 2022 -- Speaker: Katie Simpson, Bank of America Market Executive

February 3, 2022 -- Speaker, Frank White, Minnesota Twins RBI Coordinator and Negro League Historian