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Service Above Self
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We meet Tuesdays at 7:30 AM
Biaggi's Restaurant
8251 Flying Cloud Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
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| Posted by David Anderson on May 28, 2012
Female finalists were: Madeline Buxton, Lesley Chilton, Mackenzie Dent, Christine Easton, Jacqueline Johnson, Shayne Mullaney, Laura Post, Carlin Schulz, Allison Steen, and Rachel Bootsma.
Male finalists were: Sam Brancale, Kevin Brooke, Andrew Hansen, Maverick Hovey, Andrew Larson, David Mingo, Aleksander Mohn, Lucas Sudman, Andrew Teaver, and Joseph Vergeront.
 Winners were Laura Post and Maverick Hovey. Laura has a perfect 4.0 grade-point average and has been all-state three times as an alpine skier. She will attend St. Olaf College and study pre-medicine, and her goal is to be an orthopedic surgeon.
Maverick has a 3.75 GPA and is a well-decorated swimmer: state champ five times; all-state in various events 14 times; and an All-American or All-American nominee 11 times. He will major in engineering at the University of Iowa.
Congratulations to the students and their families! | | Posted by Jeanne Zetah on May 28, 2012
Our guest speaker was Les Pico, executive director of player development and legal for the Minnesota Vikings. A native of Mesa, Ariz., Pica played football for Arizona State University. He went on to become a coach and a lawyer and eventually worked for the NCAA, prosecuting cases of collegiate cheating and fraud.
Les spoke to our Golden Eagle nominees on the topics of integrity, honesty and sincerity. “Each of you will have your integrity challenged on many occasions,” he said. “Are you prepared?”
He related his own personal integrity challenge: finding a wallet containing hundred-dollar bills – 40 of them – while on a plane trip. In his mind, he rationalized about keeping the money, even mentally spending it, before turning it over to a flight attendant instead. A first step in demonstrating integrity, he explained, is being honest with yourself.
He also told the story of a college football player who had gotten in trouble but promised that he had turned his life around. His rank in the NFL draft ascended, but just a couple of weeks before the draft he was arrested for a crime. A precipitous drop in his standing among NFL draft teams followed. Instead of claiming his place among first-rounders, earning a $7.5 million signing bonus and a contract of around $11 million for five years, he fell to the fourth round, a $440,000 bonus and a $2 million contract.
“Are you living a divided life?” he asked students. One where you conduct yourself one way in front of higher-ups, but quite another around friends? That, he added, is not the high moral standing that employers are seeking. | | Posted by Jeanne Zetah on May 20, 2012
Jared Chester and Craig Blixrud are looking for volunteers to help plan our Rotary Club's second annual Golf Ball Drop fundraising/PR event at the Fourth of July event at Round Lake. They'd like people to help line up prizes for the Golf Ball Drop and to organize the sale of bottles of water.
All members will be asked to sell advance golf ball tickets for $10 each for the Ball Drop event and to help staff the Rotary booth on the 4th of July to sell tickets and bottles of water to promote the Safe Water project in Eastern Africa. | | Posted by Jeanne Zetah on May 14, 2012
Please join us at Schooner Days for Eden Prairie’s Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Kickoff
Saturday, June 2, 10:00 AM, at the Eden Prairie Lions Big Tent in the Community Center Parking lot
Eden Prairie is beginning the process of becoming a Yellow Ribbon City to support the military families in our community.
This is a comprehensive program that creates awareness for the purpose of connecting service members, veterans and their families with community support, training, services and resources.
For more information, click here to see the flyer or contact Peter Heller and Glenn Olson who are our club's reps to the planning team. | | Posted by Jeanne Zetah on May 14, 2012
We are beginning our final push to raise money for the Rotary Foundation this fiscal year.
Honored at Tuesday’s meeting were:
• Dane Boeckermann, new Paul Harris Fellow
• Dick Ward, new Paul Harris Fellow and Rotary Foundation Chair next year.
• Pat Jensen, presented with her second saphire
We have two goals this year:
Every Eden Prairie Rotarian contributes and an aggregate contribution of $26,000…that’s one dollar a day for each of us. So far
• We have pledged or contributed $20,757 or almost 80% of our goal.
• 49 members have pledged or contributed, just 22 more to complete Every Rotarian Every Year
• Contributions have varied from $25 to $1,500 with an average of $403. Bottom line…no amount is too small (or too large). Let’s all get behind our Rotary Foundation!
For more information about the Rotary Foundation, visit www.rotary.org | | May 20, 2012 Our club's "Above and Beyond" Awards Dinner on May 16 honored 8 seniors who went "above and beyond" during their high school experience for such criteria as: overcoming adversity, being an inspiration to others, having a story that needs to be told, and an amazing attitude about life, school and others. THANKS go to the planning committee for organizing this year's event: Greg Albrecht (chair), Jeanne Zetah, Corrine Lewis, Cheryl Schraeder, Pat Jensen, and Irene Kelly. In addition, we thank Principal Conn McCartan who did an awesome job telling the students' stories; Martha Nordmann who handled communication and RSVP's at the high school, all the nominators, and Bob Solohub whose photos will be posted soon. | | Apr 26, 2012  Gene Storms first visited our club during the November membership drive and returned several times before applying for membership in January. Gene is a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual where he recently retired from being a managing partner.The Board approved his membership and waited to induct him until he returned from a winter break. Having been a Rotarian in the St. Cloud Downtown Club for 19 years, we look forward to learning about his ideas and interests. Gene was sponsored by Bob Starr and inducted on April 24. He and his wife have childen and live in Eden Prairie.  Courtney Lynn moved to Minnesota recently and was encouraged by the fellowship opportunity and the goodwill opportunities through Rotary. In her application, she wrote: "Because I was blessed at an early age, I was raised with a deep-rooted need to give back in any way I can. I truly find my joy in helping others." Courtney is a regional sales representative for Oakwood Worldwide, a temporary housing provider for corporate clients. She lives in Eden Prairie and we look forward to getting to know her and the new ideas she will bring.Welcome, Gene and Courtney! | | May 05, 2012  May Birthdays to Celebrate: Dirlam, Dennis May 04
Anderson, David May 06
Lewis, Corrine May 08
Albrecht, Greg May 12
Carpenter, Matt May 12
Boeckermann, Daniel May 23 May Club Anniversaries: Johnson, Gary 26 years May 01
Ringling, Ron 4 years May 01
Anchondo, Gustavo 2 years May 04
McGinty, Jane 5 years May 08
Esbensen, George 5 years May 15
| | May 06, 2012 of the things we think, say and do...
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all Concerned? |
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Speakers
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Jun 05, 2012
Nari Gunjan Girls School
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Jun 12, 2012
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Jun 19, 2012
Muscular Dystrophy
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jul 17, 2012
District Governor
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Jul 24, 2012
Law of Attraction
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