The Westward Ho! (Sep 30, 2016)

West 'Draw for Foundation Programs'

$295.00 FRIDAY, September 30, 2016

"Victory Over Violence" Launch Party

All Makes

Oct 06, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Career Day at Skinner Magnet Center

Skinner Magnet Center Elementary School

Oct 26, 2016
12:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Salvation Army Bell Ringing

Hy Vee

Nov 26, 2016
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Oct 07, 2016

Clete Blakeman

Omaha Attorney & NFL Referee

Oct 14, 2016

Bill Randby

KETV Chief Meteorologist

Oct 21, 2016

Don Bacon

Republican Candidate for Congress

Oct 28, 2016

Mark & Joni Adler

Message of Hope after Son's Suicide

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OMAHA WEST ROTARY OFFICE

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Rotary Club of Omaha West
4205 North 101st Street
Omaha, NE 68134
402.937.8654
info@omahawestrotary.org

Weekly Meetings: Friday at noon at Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive, Omaha, Nebraska.

Office Hours - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

THIS WEEK AT ROTARY

September 30, 2016

Rita Rocker

"Crucial Connections: Techniques for the Polished, Professional Communicator"

CLUB SERVICE SCHEDULE

September 30, 2016

Greeters - Jeff Ziemba & Mark Ellsworth

Invocation - Brad Rohrig

Cashier - Anne Fuhrman

Sgt. at Arms - Russ Iwan

NEXT WEEK AT ROTARY

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October 7, 2016

Clete Blakeman

Omaha Attorney & NFL Referee

MEMBERSHIP PROPOSALS

The following Membership Proposal has been approved for publication by the Omaha West Rotary Board Members. Any comments, in writing, must be sent to the Rotary office within 7 days.

RICH CARTNEY - Administrator for Old Mill Rehabilitation; Classification is Rehabilitation Services, Administration; Sponsored by Brett Wawers

CAREER DAY AT SKINNER MAGNET CENTER

The Community Service Committee has scheduled a Career Day at Skinner Magnet Center Elementary School on Wednesday, October 26th. The committee is seeking volunteers from all professions. Volunteers will be asked to attend a brief informational meeting at Rotary and will visit with small groups of 5th grade students for short sessions from 12:30 - 3:00 p.m. on October 26th. Sign-up sheets will be available at noon Rotary meetings.

VOLUNTEERS

Rich Cartney - Nursing Home Administrator
John V. Morey - Financial Planning, Investment Management
Rod Anderson - Law

Rotary Readers - Volunteer Opportunity

Posted on Sep 22, 2016

The Rotary Readers program is in progress. Members volunteer to help develop reading skills with grade school students one-on-one. You are invited to become a Rotary Reader. Why? Three quick reasons: you will enjoy meeting and working with a couple of kids who need your help; studies show children who can’t read well in second grade will almost certainly drop out of school and cost you a lot of tax dollars, and Skinner Magnet Center is our adopt-a-school partner and they are looking for help and support from our club.

Interested? Contact Don Otis (Donaldotis@mac.com) to get started with this project. Typically, readers spend an hour and work with two students each visit. The visits can be weekly or bi-weekly (or whatever your schedule allows), typically on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays during school hours.

Reading with the 2nd and 3rd students is a great volunteer opportunity. Join Don Otis, Susan Thomas and others who are already reading at the school.

Don Otis and students in the Rotary Reader's program.

Victory Over Violence - Joint District 5650 Grant

Omaha West Rotary and Omaha Downtown Rotary are working together on a Joint District Grant - 'Victory Over Violence'. The grant funds will be used to create an information center (website and landing pages) for people who need to know more about sexual and domestic abuse in the greater Omaha area. Last year the WCA delivered over 22,000 services related to domestic abuse.

A launch party is planned to celebrate the 'Victory Over Violence' and to unveil eight new landing pages for the WCA on October 6th from 6-8 p.m. at All Makes, 2558 Farnam Street. Members should plan to attend this event. The pages will impact thousands of individuals searching for information about physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Click here for information about the launch party event.

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

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Happy Birthday!

9/1 BILL CUTLER. 9/5 RICH HURLEY, 9/12 MARK MANHART, 9/15 DWAYNE BROWN, 9/16 TIM NEAL, 9/20 SUSAN THOMAS, 9/25 KEITH RALL, 9/28 JEFF ZIEMBA

POLIO ERADICATION – We are asking you to donate $32 during the month your birthday is recognized. The District has set $32 per person as a giving goal for PolioPlus. Your donation will be given to The Rotary Foundation in your name for PolioPlus. Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of polio for over 30 years. The PolioPlus program helps Rotary fund operational costs, such as transportation, vaccine delivery, social mobilization, and training of health workers, and support surveillance activities. Your donation can help "End Polio Now."

Omaha West Rotary Club 2021 - Visioning

A group of West Rotary Club members met with trained District Team to work through a Visioning process for the club in 2021. Below is a summary of the outcome of 2021 Visioning for the Omaha West Rotary Club.

We are a club offering Fellowship and Fun for 150 “Actively Involve” members. We are a welcoming club providing thorough and on-going new member orientation. We are known for our outstanding programs and service projects that are creating positive media coverage several times a year. The club members have opportunities to network with fellow members with high impact meetings even social events at our member’s businesses. Our club provides timely communications to our members utilizing many forms of communications, no matter if you want email, social networks or smoke signals…you are included.

We recognize we must spread the message of Rotary and create long term relationships by supporting the international exchange of students and embracing RYLA.

Our club fully leverages the opportunity for funding from District and International grants by having 1-2 large impact annual projects involving partners when appropriate. We realize we need funding for this good work that we do and we have inclusive fundraising events such as a mega tasting event with beer, wine, and whiskey. Our club has a priority to our community by supporting local issues. We also assure we can have a worthwhile impact with the donations to the Rotary International Foundation and are proud that every member donates every year with an understanding that 50% of that comes back to our district through grants. We fully communicate the good work we are doing with meetings focused on our projects with full disclosure of our funds and activities.

Schedule A Vocational Talk

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Gretchen Radler, Vocational Service Committee Chair, will be contacting members to schedule a vocational talk. We would like to schedule two vocational talks each month. Your talk should be 2-3 minutes in length and will give you an opportunity to share information about your profession, yourself and your family. Please say yes when asked to schedule your vocational talk. We look forward to learning more about our fellow Rotarians.

Corporate & Family Membership Program

The West Rotary Board approved a Corporate & Family Membership program. An Active Primary club member can propose a qualified family member or a qualified business co-worker for membership. The membership proposal has information in regard to membership qualifications on the form. The new corporate or family member joining will pay dues of $125 with no admission fee. If the primary member resigns one of the corporate or family members will become the primary member and pay the appropriate primary membership fee. The reduced dues rate of $125.00 will be effective the first three years of membership. Click here to see the membership proposal form and flyer for the new program. The information can also be found on the left side of the club website homepage under Site Pages/Joining Rotary. Members, if you have a qualified family member or co-worker please invite them to Rotary for lunch so they can consider joining West Rotary.

AMONG OURSELVES

Please notify the office if you have news to share with club members.

DISTRICT WEBSITE & OTHER CLUB EVENTS

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To see what's happening in the District and what other clubs are doing click here for the District website.

Develop.Serve.Connect. Young Professionals Event

Thompson Center At UNO - 6705 Dodge Street - Omaha, NE 68182

Thursday, September 29th

11:30 AM - 5:30 PM

$30 - Lunch, 3 Speakers, Service Project, and Happy Hour with Appetizers

Use coupon code DowntownRotary to get $5 off

http://downtownrotarydsc.com/

Chair: skheffernan@gmail.com

The Young Professional's Committee through the Downtown Rotary of Omaha will be hosting a Young Professional's event titled Develop.Serve.Connect. It will combine a session of learning from top professionals in the Omaha community with a service project and networking event. We hope to connect and expose attendees to top business men and women and also show the importance of community service.

MAKE-UPS RECEIVED

MILLARD 9/26 Dennis Hein; MORNING 9/27 Bob Fell; DOWNTOWN 9/21 Mike Shrier

NEED A MAKE-UP?

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Metro Area Rotary Club weekly programs available are listed here.

MONDAY
BELLEVUE (DJ's Dugout, 10308 S. 23rd St.)
NORTH (Omaha Eppley Airport Conference Room)
MILLARD (German American Society, 3717 South 120th Street) 10/3 Bruce Froendt - All Play; 10/10 No Meeting, Columbus Day

TUESDAY
MORNING (Happy Hollow Country Club, 1701 S. 105th St.) 10/4 Coach Renee Saunders, Skutt Catholic High School, Varsity Volleyball

NORTHWEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive)

SOUTHWEST NIGHT (DJ's Dugout at 17666 Welch Plaza, northeast corner of 180th & Q streets)

WEDNESDAY
COUNCIL BLUFFS CENTENNIAL (Hy-Vee in Mall of the Bluffs, I-80 Exit 5)
DOWNTOWN (Field Club, 3615 Woolworth Ave.) 9/28 Don Bacon, 2nd District Congressional Candidate; 10/5 Jim Cavanaugh, Douglas County Commissioner; 10/12 Brad Ashford, 2nd District Congressional Candidate

THURSDAY
COUNCIL BLUFFS NOON (The Center, 714 S. Main St.) 9/29 Vocational Talks

SUBURBAN (Anthony's, 7220 F St.) 9/29 Clete Blakeman, Head of Super Bowl 50 Officiating Crew

WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY (Elkhorn Common Ground Community Center, 1701 Veteran's Drive)

FRIDAY
WEST (Champions Run, 13800 Eagle Run Drive) 9/30 Rita Rocker "Crucial Connections: Techniques for the Polished, Professional Communicator"

Programs available have been listed