Rotary Foundation Celebration
The Rotary Club of Prior Lake held its annual Rotary Foundation Celebration at Mystic Lake Hotel. Following announcements, we remembered our Veterans in attendance with their service and observed Rotarian Dan Stanley’s birthday.
Newly nominated 2017-2018 District Governor and Prior Lake Rotarian, Kyle Haugen added his welcome and served as program emcee for the evening.
The evening’s program included remarks from District Governor Karel Weigel, Craig Leiser (District Grants), and Newell Krogmann (Foundation). Club Members were also given recognition as major donors, bequest society members and benefactors, Paul Harris Society members and Paul Harris Society fellows.
Karel Weigel, District Governor 2014-1015
Craig Leiser, Past District Governor 2010-2011
Newell Krogmann, Past District Governor 2009-1010
A special portion of the evening program were the personal testimonies of “Why I Give” by Rod Ammerman, Joe Dols, and Laurie Mack-Wagner.
Rod Ammerman
Joe Dols
Laurie Mack-Wagner
Angela Eifert shared a video on our District’s Fast for Hope program and spoke about the progress and needs of the program.
During our program Paul Perez and Joan Fawcett touched upon the End Polio Program Initiative. At the beginning of the year, a club goal of $7500 dollars was set to donate towards Polio Plus of which $5000 to date has been raised. Last year our club donated over $12,000 to PolioPlus.
The district’s goal is to raise $125,000 for Polio Plus this year. As part of the plan, district is asking clubs to step up and commit to raising $10,000 dollars for Polio Plus. So we announced we will accept the challenge to be that $10,000 club.
To help meet this challenge, a initial $2000 check for PolioPlus was presented to District 5960 by Joan Fawcett, Bill Schult, Karel Weigel, Paul Perez, Newell Krogmann.