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Mar. 17, 2020 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Service Above Self Awards - What you need to know!
Apr. 14, 2020 8:00 a.m.
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Meet the 2019 - 2020 District 6250 Governor
Apr. 28, 2020 8:00 a.m.
https://zoom.us/j/964291657Meet 2019 - 2020 District 6250 Governor - Edwin BosEdwin Bos has been a proud member of the Fort Atkinson Rotary club since 2003. He has served on the Board of Directors, as Youth Exchange Officer, as the chair of several club construction projects, as Club President in 2012-13 and as Assistant Governor from 2014-2017. Edwin is a graduate of Fort Atkinson High School, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BSc Civil Engineering) and the Rotterdam School of Management (MBA). After graduation he spent ten years working for a large Dutch construction company primarily in Amsterdam, Istanbul and the Caribbean.
Edwin strongly supports Rotary’s many exchange programs in part because exchange programs have defined his own life. His Dutch immigrant parents came to Fort Atkinson under the auspices of a Farm Bureau exchange. After studying in Madison Edwin took part in an IAESTE work exchange to Gothenburg, Sweden and, after studying in Rotterdam, he participated in an AIESEC work exchange to Poznan, Poland where he met his wife Joanna. Since returning to Fort Atkinson they have hosted two inbound exchange students. Edwin has participated in several District 6250 Friendship Exchanges. He traveled to India with an RFE team led by PDG Dean Ryerson. While in India he met Dr. Anouke Arakal of the Pondicherry Beach Town Rotary Club and that connection led to a Rotary Global Grant, sponsored by the Fort Atkinson Rotary Club, which funded four dialysis machines in Pondicherry. He’s traveled to the Philippines with an RFE team led by Ms. Darla Leick of Marshfield Sunrise. That RFE led to a friendship with Rotarian Roger de Guzman of the Kalibo Rotary Club and a Rotary Global Grant, sponsored by the five clubs in Assistant Governor group #8, for a pipeline that brought potable water to two spirited villages. He’s traveled to Nepal with an RFE team led by current District Friendship Exchange chair Dr. Dave Clemens and, most recently, he led an RFE team from his Assistant Governor group back to the Philippines to help dedicate their water pipeline project and to establish new Rotary friendships and contacts. Edwin and Joanna live in Fort Atkinson. Their oldest son, Harry, is attending the University of Alabama and is a member of the Rotaract Club there. There youngest son, Ernest, is co-president of the High School Interact Club and is planning to attend Arizona State. Edwin is a past member of the Fort Atkinson School Board, a Paul Harris plus member, a sustaining member, and a Paul Harris society member. He, his brother and their wives own and operate Bos Design Builders LLC in Fort Atkinson. In his spare time, he enjoys activities that involve spending time with friends, family and anyone who enjoys a little gezelligheid. Something that he feels Rotary and Rotarians already have in spades! |
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Boys & Girls Club of Sun Prairie
May 12, 2020 8:00 a.m.
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Chamber Updates & Business Re-opening Updates
May 26, 2020 8:00 a.m.
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All About Joachim & Poland (Rotary Youth Exchange)
Jun. 16, 2020
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Sunshine Place Update
Jun. 23, 2020
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Jun. 25, 2020 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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Update on Sun Prairie Police Department
Jun. 30, 2020 7:15 a.m.
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Sun Prairie Communications & Diversity
Jul. 07, 2020 7:15 a.m.
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Sun Prairie's Parks, Recreation and Forestry
Jul. 14, 2020 7:15 a.m.
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Let Your Inner Employee Work for You
Jul. 21, 2020 7:15 a.m.
Are you stumped with a problem? Have you run it around in your mind over and over and the solution keeps evading you? Maybe it’s time for something different. Join me in the magical world of creation and give this technique a try. (I promise it will be worth it.) What would this entail? It’s relatively simple.
Think of the solution and not the problem. After all, what you focus on is what you get. What will the solution feel like? What will you feel like when you have the solution and it is implemented? This will allow you to get a clear idea of what you’d like. Yes, the idea will not be the solution. Instead it will be what you are hoping to attain by having the solution. Next, treat you inner mind as an employee. Give it clear directions. Kindly say something like, ““You are fabulous and you can do anything. Bring me a clear solution to this problem that will benefit everyone involved. I know that this will work out.” Steps one, two and three are done. The next step is vital. Don’t micromanage the employee. Let your inner employee do his/her work. After all, you know that he’s a great employee and you can trust that the job will be done. Think of it this way, the solution is in the “library” of the greater imagination. You are asking your employee to go to the library and find the books or information that will help you. If you are insisting on going to the library, why should the employee? If you can’t trust your employee, which is your inner self tapping into all the available knowledge and solutions that even you don’t know about, then gaining a stronger sense of trust may be the first thing to ask for. Steps five and six can be done together. Relax and be grateful. Know that the solution is coming, and you don’t have to stress over it. This is the time to meditate, sleep, take a shower, exercise, or in some other way unplug from the problem. While you are doing so, be pre-grateful. This means that you are grateful for what will happen as if it already did. Imagine thanking the employee for a job well done. Imagine everyone involved thanking you for the brilliant solution. Quickly, you will move from the thoughts to the feeling, and this is where you are supercharging your employee. He can already feel the gratitude and feels all warm and fuzzy from your praise. (To supercharge the process, be grateful before you even do step one.) At the beginning of step seven, the solution will “pop in” to your awareness. It may be as fast as when you are done meditating, or it may take a bit of time. It may be fully formed and actionable, or it may be only the next step that will lead you to the solution. Either way, this is the time when you take the inspired action. Do something. You know the direction you are going (after all, your employee is leading you), take inspired actions toward accomplishing the solution. Do what is presented to you as the next step you need to do. This is where you do something even if it doesn’t seem to make sense. It will have a feeling that matches the feelings you have been imagining around the solution. Your employee works with the library of greater imagination to help you. She/he is ready, willing, and able to do so. Are you willing to let it happen? |
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COVID-19 and the Economy
Jul. 28, 2020 7:15 a.m.
Steven Deller is Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW-Madison and anCommunity Economic Development Specialist with the UW-Extension. Professor Deller's long-term research interest includes modeling community and smallregional economies in order to better understand the changing dynamics of the economy, assessing the impact of those changes, and identifying local economic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. His most recent book explores how social capital helps us understand why some communities prosper economically and others struggle. Speaker Profile and Photo: https://speakers.wisc.edu/speaker/steven-deller/ |
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Meet the 2020-2021 District Governor
Aug. 04, 2020 7:15 a.m.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware… joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware
Henry Miller
For Bill Pritchard, his awareness of Rotary did not truly begin until after he had already been a Rotarian for several years. A district governor-elect asked for a cup of coffee meeting. During the meeting Bill was asked how many District Conferences he had been to? Bill’s answer was none, which prompted this follow-up question: Why would you join an organization that you obviously care enough about to attend meetings with your busy schedule, but not care enough to give even one days-worth of investigation into the ways they serve and give back to their local communities?
Bill did not have a good answer. So, he attended his first District Conference in 2010. And he became AWARE… 😊
That awareness quickly grew to involvement. Since 2010, Bill has held numerous club and district posts and responsibilities – starting with becoming a Youth Exchange Counselor in his club in 2010 (still active) and the first Ethics Committee chair for District 6250 in 2011. He has served as the District 6250 Membership Chair, the District 6250 Youth Exchange Inbound Coordinator, and was President of the Rotary Club of La Crosse in 2014-2015. His worth at the district level expanded to the Zone and Multi-Zone levels – serving as Curriculum Director for the 19 districts of Central States Rotary Youth Exchange as well as the Assistant Rotary Zone Coordinator for Zone 28.
It is well known that Rotarians do not get involved for accolades (or the pay 😊), but Bill has been honored as Rotarian of the Year by both his Rotary Club (2012-2013) and District 6250 (2011-2012). He has been recognized for his efforts in the area of Membership (2016) and in assisting with the local area Interact Clubs (2016), and most recently was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Rotary Works Foundation (2015-2016).
When not involved in a Rotary project, Bill is the Branch and Portfolio Manager for Stifel Financial. When he can, he enjoys finding moments to chase small white golf balls around a golf club near his home in Holmen, Wisconsin when not on his boat on the Mississippi River. Bill is blessed with two wonderful daughters, hundreds of Youth Exchange Sons and Daughters around the world, and a wife who he adores. |
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UW-Madison Campus Bombing, 50 years ago
Aug. 11, 2020 7:15 a.m.
Dan Woll, a former School Administrator and author of Death on Cache Lake. ..a literary thriller that includes the famous bombing on the UW-Madison campus in 1970. He is relaunching his book this summer to tie in with the 50th anniversary of this historic time. ABOUT THE BOOK August 2020 marks the tragic 50th anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The book Death on Cache Lake re-imagines that fateful night. Today, the campus bomber Leo Burt is still a fugitive and wanted by the FBI. The book gives readers a fictionalized idea of what happened to him. Anyone who has ever paddled a canoe on a wild river, climbed a mountain, cycled lonely country roads or sat by a roaring campfire while a loon cries on a moonlit lake will find much to love in this book. Set in the tumultuous days of 1970 as the University of Wisconsin campus imploded after a deadly campus bombing, the book takes the reader on a dark odyssey through the lake wilds of Ontario, and the woods and small towns of Wisconsin. A fishing trip in Quetico Provincial Park turns tragic when two friends cross paths with a former acquaintance who is running for his life. This spellbinding tale of political intrigue and conspiracy will also captivate history buffs who share the authors’ fascination with American crimes that seem solvable but remain mysteries. Caleb and John’s adrenaline-filled flight through Ontario to unravel the conspiracy and save their lives takes them on trains, hitch-hiked rides on trucks, cross-country skis, and canoes, all at a breakneck pace. |
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Incredible Journey -- From Boxing Ring to Boardroom
Aug. 18, 2020
Growing up with poverty and racism on Milwaukee’s Southside, faith and perseverance led him to becoming an internationally acclaimed boxer, and President-CEO of Lutheran Social Services (LSS) of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, one of the largest non-profits in the Midwest. There’s an old adage that says a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Sometimes the starting line begins in childhood, during very challenging times. The Hector Colón story, detailed in the author’s memoir, From Boxing Ring to Boardroom-5 Essential Virtues for Life & Leadership (August, 2020), began in a broken home, punctuated with gang violence -the Latin Kings and Spanish Cobras were never far away. As a young Latino in Milwaukee he experienced the ever-present challenges of bullying and prejudice. All of these experiences played a part in igniting his interest in helping others in his work today as a servant leader. “If you want inspiration then you owe it to yourself to read Héctor Colón’s life story. From humble beginnings to a champion boxer to the boardroom. Héctor weaves a wonderful story about life’s challenges and rewards.”—Howard Behar, Retired President of the Starbucks Coffee Company Earlier this year Colón’s leadership was recognized when Gov. Tony Evers appointed him to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents “The Héctor Colón story is one that would capture anyone’s heart. Whether a teacher or preacher, boxer or CEO, Héctor’s story is an inspiration. Despite what would seem insurmountable odds, this is a captivating story of someone who had the grit, determination, and altruism to make a difference despite growing up in poverty, a broken family, and living through the challenges arising from prejudice. —Dr. Mary Meehan, University president emerita and honorary alumna, former healthcare executive, and life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives Colón’s personal and professional path had an unlikely beginning ---in the boxing ring. Héctor’s first book, “From Boxing Ring to Boardroom” is set to release in August 2020. |
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Compelling Story -- She's Changing Up the English Language
Aug. 25, 2020 7:15 a.m.
Vivian Probst, who has a longtime business in the Milwaukee area as a National Consultant to the Affordable Housing industry, is also a linguist and author. Her new book, Tha Womun Who Forgot Who She Was –the first book in a five-book series is written in WEnglish, a groundbreaking, gender-neutral language. Vivian spent over a decade creating the concept, text and Glossary for the book. This distinctive book, inspired by dramatic dreams that mirrored Vivian’s own life, is being launched in August, in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the U.S. She will discuss the concept of WEnglish, and what her novel represents 100 years after the 19th Amendment was signed.
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Sun Prairie's Economy
Sep. 01, 2020 7:15 a.m.
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The Wonder Years are Back
Sep. 08, 2020 7:15 a.m.
David Benjamin’s Highly Praised Memoir, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked, about Growing up Mid-Century in Small-Town Wisconsin, is Getting a New Lease on Life. By Sharyn Alden In October, readers who loved The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked, by Madison author, David Benjamin’s can devour an updated version of the beloved book originally published by Random House in 2002. Regarded as a masterwork of storytelling, the book shadows the life — often in laugh-out-loud detail — of a kid coming of age in mid-20th century Wisconsin. In one of many superlative reviews, Hartford Courant book editor Carole Goldberg, called Benjamin’s book “richly hilarious” and warned, “Don’t read this at bedtime — your laughter might wake up the kids.” Benjamin will be speaking to the Sun Prairie Rotary Club about how he regained the copyright from Random House (not an easy task) to publish the new book under his own Last Kid Books imprint. Benjamin is a prolific novelist and founder of the Madison-based publishing firm, Last Kid Books, named for his popular memoir. He is also a newspaper veteran, award-winning editor of the Mansfield (Mass.) News, Tokyo Journal in Japan, and other periodicals. Fans Relate to Being Chosen Last The “hero” of the Last Kid Picked languishes at the bottom of the pecking order among fellow students at St. Mary’s School in Tomah. He is literally the last kid picked for playground games, and his only friends are fellow outcasts named Koscal and Fat Vinny. He feels the stigma of his mother’s status as a divorcée, his dad’s absence from his life and his family’s nomadic poverty. Despite a steady series of failures and humiliations, “Benjamin” throws himself into every game, learns skills by trial and demoralizing error, discovers talents that no other kid acknowledges — and he grows. “Remarkably,” Benjamin says, “Readers identify emotionally with my protagonist because they tell me, ‘I was the last kid picked’ I hear this from as many women as men, in numbers that defy probability.” Humorously, he wonders, “I mean, what if everyone was the last kid picked?” The good news is the book, which accumulated fans when published by Random House, is updated now. It will be published in October as a Last Kid Book (www.lastkidbooks), an outfit named for the book that started it all. The new book provides a deeper look into Benjamin’s career as an underdog — more like “under years,” he said, “than wonder years” — in a story that mixes memoir with flights of fiction. Midwest Nostalgia The author explains life the way he knew it as a kid. “It was freelance childhood. What we had was just the outside,” he explains. “We dove into our local wilderness to commune with, capture and risk injury from tadpoles, snapping turtles, snakes, bullheads, bloodsuckers, vicious squirrels, wood ticks, green apples and a boogeyman named Ed Gein.” If you grew up in small town Wisconsin as Benjamin did in Tomah, in an era when there were no play dates or peewee leagues or parent-supervised tournaments, you understand the thrill of unstructured play. Benjamin says, “Kids learned the ways of adults by watching them, rarely asked them for help and didn't tell them any more than they absolutely had to. Everyone respected the authority of teachers — especially if it was a Catholic school.” |
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COVID-19 and Financial Planning
Sep. 15, 2020 7:15 a.m.
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