The Crystal -New Hope- Robbinsdale fund raising event  "ELMERS GOLF TOURNAMENT" has moved!

The tournament will be held at RUSH CREEK GOLF COURSE on TUESDAY JUNE 19TH

 Plans are underway to make it bigger and better than ever - save the date and we hope to see you there! 

AND don't forget to start bringing WINE to the meetings for the Mayor!!  

 Everyone is asked to bring 3 bottles of wine (minimum cost $10.00 each) or donate a check for $30.00 so we can start building  our "Wall of Wine" for the Elmer's Auction.   

February 10th- Regular Meeting

    Our program this week will be brought to us by Jay Showalter

             *Greeter is Terri Johnson  *Invocation by Bill Gordon   *What's New with Mike Favor        

   Don't forget your loose change for the Pocketchange for Polio campaign!    

CNHR President Carla Hansen and her husband Chuck participated in the Deep Freeze Dunk sponsored by the Maple Grove Rotary on Saturday January 21st.  Despite the 20 degree weather, they jumped into Fish Lake to raise money toward the construction of a public school in Haiti.  In total almost $19,000 was raised with all proceeds going to Haiti International.  Way to represent the club Carla and Chuck! 

Photo courtesy of CCG Creative Studios 

I was asked the other day what our club does besides meet weekly at the Sunshine Factory, visit, listen to a speaker and have a wonderful breakfast.  So I started going back through the last 6 months to let you know some of what the club does. 

Would it surprise you to find out that we:

Welcomed our newest exchange student Lore Russo from Paraguay to the club.

Awarded two STRIVE Scholarships to Cooper High School students for increasing their GPA through the STRIVE program led by our club's Rotarians.

Purchased school supplies and backpacks for distribution through PRISM for the back to school program

Sponsored a race car and attended the Race For Hunger event in which our own Mayor Hemken drove a car to raise money for the Emergency Food Shelf Network.

Took a group of Tree House students fishing for an evening at Medicine Lake where they enjoyed a cook out of hot dogs, hamburgers and enjoyed the great outdoors.

Collected and distributed 110 Holiday Food Baskets through Prism which also included hats and gloves through the Warm Hands Warm Hearts initiative in each bag.

Sold over 150 bags of coffee with all proceeds going to the Tree House for youth initiatives. 

Raised over $300. through pocket change donations (and it's still growing!) for Rotary's Polio Plus initiative

In addition, we also gave back to the community through monetary donations to the following groups:

Local DARE officers

Armstrong Performing Arts

Tree House

Prism

Robbinsdale Middle School sponsor of the Dallas Brass

and many other activities and donations including Haiti Outreach.

 So to answer the question, what does the CNHR Rotary club DO?  Whatever we can to help make a difference within our community! 

If you would like more information about Rotary or our club, please email Carla Hansen by clicking on her name on the left hand side of the page.  We would LOVE to have you join us and help make a difference in Crystal, New Hope and Robbinsdale!

Looking for a volunteer opportunity?  The Emergency Food shelf Network is working with neighboring churches to ensure young students have enough food to eat each weekend through the assembly of Weekend Kid Pack's.

 Kid Pack is a collaborative effort to fight local weekend hunger for children in our own backyards. Weekend snacks are assembled and delivered to schools on Fridays for children to bring home. Weekend Kid Packs are provided to 1400 local elementary students attending Robbinsdale Area Schools.

• One in five area households with children are food insecure. Children in those households simply do not get enough to eat-- they have to cut the size of their meals, skip meals, or even go whole days without food at some point during the school year.

• Hungry children face unnecessary barriers as they strive to become healthy, productive, and engaged members of society.

• Hunger contributes to poor academic performance and disruptive behavior in the classroom. Missed meals also increase tardiness and visits to the school nurse.

Click on the Download link to the left for more information including dates and times when assemblers are needed..  Thank you for helping us fight hunger in children within our community!