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St. Croix Falls, WI
June 23, 2010

The St. Croix Falls Rotary Club celebrated the changing of the Guard with new leadership and vision, but with the same focus on service.

The St. Croix Falls Rotary Club celebrated a new Rotary Club year with the rotation in of new leadership from the organization’s top – down. Each year, Rotary Clubs around the world celebrate the inauguration of a new Rotary International President, but at the same time, they celebrate new District Governors and Club Presidents too. The event is called the changing of the Guard.

This year the Changing of the Guard celebration was hosted at the home of Jon and Cheryl Cermin of St. Croix Falls. The Rotary Club of St. Croix Falls wants to acknowledge the hospitality of the Cermin’s, which allowed us to recognize the completed term of, now Past President, Terry Hawkins. And with appreciation for her year of leadership, she was present with a Paul Harris Fellow award.

Also, special recognition was given to an outgoing member of the Rotary Board – Richard Hartung, Club Secretary. For his years of dedicated service to the St. Croix Falls Rotary Club, Richard was also recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow.

This year’s incoming President is Rebecca Berg, who was ceremonially given the Rotary Gavel for the 2010-2011 Rotary Year. Congratulations and special thanks to Rebecca’s attitude of service to our club and community here in St. Croix Falls.

As part of the Changing of the Guard celebration, the St. Croix Falls Rotary Club recognized its newest board members:

• LeeAnn Vitalis, President Elect – who will lead our club during the 2011-12 Rotary Year.
• Steve McCormack, Secretary
• Rich Potvin, Vocational Service
• Tom Klugow, Club Service

Returning members of the board include:

• Brian Adams – Foundation
• Kirk Anderson – Public Relations
• Mike Armbrust – Membership
• Cheryl Johnson – Community Service
• Terry Hawkins – International Service (Past President)
• Kirk Otto – Youth Exchange/Youth Protection Officer
• Tom Engel – Treasurer

This year’s Rotary International Theme is, “Building Communities – Bridging Continents.” Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self.”

As Rotary Club President, Rebecca Berg will encourage Rotarians to use their skills and talents to contribute to the local community and the world. Rotary is a humanitarian service organization with over 33,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Rotary has made the eradication of polio its top priority for the world.

Rotary is dedicated to making a difference in the local community and world through several areas of focus which include: disease prevention and Treatment, water and sanitation, economic and community development, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, and peace and conflict resolution.

For more information about Rotary visit www.Rotary.org or www.SCFRotary.org

District 5960 recently welcomed the newly chartered Rotaract Club of Rochester Minnesota.

The St. Croix Falls Rotary Club wants to send our greetings  to the new Rotaract Club and say “welcome to the district.”  Unfortunately, a representative from our club was unable to attend personally, but we were happy to send a gift to celebrate their Charter event.

The Rotaract Club celebrated their charter event on Wed, May 19, 2010.  The event took place at the Rochester Golf & Country Club in Rochester MN.  A Club Chartering Event is a special time to mark the beginning for a club and we are very excited for the Rochester Rotaract club.

So, what is Rotaract?

Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they’re sponsored by a local Rotary club. This makes them true “partners in service” and key members of the family of Rotary.

As one of Rotary’s most significant and fastest-growing service programs, with more than 7,000 clubs in about 163 countries and geographical areas, Rotaract has become a worldwide phenomenon.

How does it work?

All Rotaract efforts begin at the local, grassroots level, with members addressing their communities’ physical and social needs while promoting international understanding and peace through a framework of friendship and service.

For more information on the Rochester Rotaract Club, visit: www.rochesterrotaract.org

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These videos are just examples of the work necessary to get Shelter Boxes to the Earthquake victims in Haiti.  It is a difficult and expensive process and your help is needed to make it happen.

To donate, visit: www.shelterbox.org

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Elliott Frokjer was announced by Rotarian Warren White as the 2010-2020 outgoing Foreign Exchange Student. Elliot will be traveling and studying in Switzerland, which was his first choice.

After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Your contribution will help Rotary match a $100 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $200 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.