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The Eden Prairie AM Rotary Club is an organization of men and women committed to providing volunteer service to the local community and around the world. Want to make a positive impact? Join us!

Learn more by attending one of our weekly Tuesday 7:30 a.m. meetings at the Bearpath Clubhouse or by contacting our Club Membership Director John Estall. You can also Click Here to learn more about joining our club.

Join Us for Vino Classico with a Craft Beer Chaser on Oct. 6

Posted on Aug 15, 2018

Invite friends and family to attend our annual FUNdraiser!!!

VINO CLASSICO WITH A CRAFT BEER CHASER

Sat. Oct. 6, from 6:30-9 pm at Eden Prairie Community Center

Enjoy your choices from over 100 wine tasting options plus beer and spirits. Food vendors will be announced soon.

Buy your raffle tickets to win 10, 20, or 30 bottles of wine from the Wall of Wine!

TICKETS FOR SALE NOW from MEMBERS, EP LIQUORS, and on EVENTBRITE

DONATE ITEMS FOR THE SILENT AUCTION ... (Click for form and flyer.)

Click HERE to see list of items donated as of Aug. 15, 2018.

BECOME A ROTARY SPONSOR for more than just Vino Classico ... (Click for form.)

August 14th, 2018, Meeting Preview

August 14th, 2018

Irene Kelly 5950 District Governor

Update from 5950 District Governor

Our very own Irene Kelly will be making her 1st visit as newly installed District Governor. Let's all be there to support her as she shares vision and goals for Rotary District 5950 this year.

Duty Roster 8/21/18-9/04/18

Notes from Aug. 7, 2018

Posted by Kelly Salwei

Matt Crane, EPAM President

Topic: 2018-2019 Vision for Our Club

Our fearless leader outlined his vision for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.

Membership, membership, membership – during the fiscal year, each member is asked to invite two prospective members to a Rotary meeting. Holly Link and Suzanne Kutina presented a schedule including at least one fun/social event every month giving everyone additional opportunities to have fun and introduce prospective memories to the club.

Matt is also looking for ideas to diversify fundraising beyond the Vino Classico to provide more dollars to support causes and programs. We would also like to use dollars to match District 5950 funds. The district has $385,000 available for matching grants this year.

Rotary fatigue tends to set in for those who volunteer for leadership positions and Matt would like to mitigate the fatigue factor while keeping involvement high. There was very good discussion among the members in attendance regarding the impact and importance of Rotary in their lives and the desire to share this passion with others. Everyone was asked to visit the "Involvement Tables" in the back of the room and sign up to help out this year.

Notes from July 31, 2018

Posted by Kelly Salwei

TERRANCE MOORE, HELLMUTH & JOHNSON: HOW TO PROFIT & PROFIT IN CRISIS

Let’s say your lawyer calls to say you’re being sued by your business partner – or some such calamity. What’s your next move?

Terrance Moore says he has a system for responding to things like this, a system built after approximately 30 years practicing law and consulting with businesses. Terrance, now an attorney for the Hellmuth & Johnson law firm, maintains that you can not only prevent damage but indeed prosper or profit by using a three-step process to respond.

First, however, you need to know his three key life lessons: Be the pilot (realize that you may have to figure things out on your own); learn what you don’t know (be a lifelong learner); and figure out how to get it done (which is how to turn a crisis into opportunity).

Now, about that process that he calls the Turning the Tables System. To turn crisis into prosperity you need to:
1) clarify with precision (figure out what and who you’re dealing with); 2) control with prediction (know how other people react to conditions and circumstances) and 3) close with power (be confident in pressing for resolution).

Thank you, Terrance, for your suggestions on how to take on and resolve unexpected issues.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Judit, our foreign-exchange student from Spain, arrives at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 10; contact Jane McGinty or Suzanne Kutina if you can take our guest student on various activities that show off Eden Prairie or Minnesota. We heard from several other students who have been part of a short-term summer student exchange – Abby, who is back in Eden Prairie after spending a month in Spain, and Sarah, who is from Spain and is now spending a month with Abby’s family. Please mark your calendar for the Oct. 6 Vino Classico fundraising event, and stay tuned to know which ticket-selling team you’ve been assigned to.

SPOTLIGHT ON PG NARAYANAN

New member PG Narayanan, in his vocational, shared his journey from the family’s rice field in India to the corn fields of Minnesota. The son of a rice farmer, PG came to the United States as a young man, on the heels of his sister’s education at Harvard. Not able to speak English, he entered community college and would go on to earn undergraduate and graduate university degrees. He has called Minnesota home for about 20 years, working in several technology-related roles including at the former ADC headquarters in Eden Prairie. Overall, he’s been in the U.S. for 45 years, is married, and has two grown sons. He’s been active in Eden Prairie, including as current chair of the Eden Prairie Community Foundation’s board of directors. Welcome to the club, PG.

HAPPY FIVES

We’re happy and have the $5 to show it. Brad Aho is happy to announce his candidacy for Eden Prairie mayor on this first day that city candidates are able to file for office. Roger Jorgensen is happy about his son-in-law closing on the purchase of a dental practice in Scottsdale today.

VISITORS

Abby Schroeder - Rotary Youth Exchange

Nate Nyren - Rotary Youth Exchange

Amy Nyren - Rotary Youth Exchange

Jack Kuehn - Burnsville Rotary Club

Dan Bell - Sun City

Sarah - Rotary Youth Exchange

Margie - Rotary Youth Exchange

Noah Stuhr and Patrick Yang - Student Interns

Notes from July 24, 2018

Posted by Kelly Salwei

DR. ABUL SHARAH: INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC (IVC)
Dr. Sharah was introduced by Mark Lewis who has traveled to India and visited the clinic founded in 1999. Dr. Sharah thank EPAM Rotary for supporting IVC over the past 10 years. Located at the east end of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India, the clinic has grown from a mobile clinic in 2002 to acquiring land and building a hospital which gets its power from solar panels.

Dr. Sharah spends half of each year in India and half in Bloomington, MN. The clinic serves 200,000 people with a staff of 60 including four doctors on an annual budget of $150,000. IVC serves the people in the region through curative and preventative programs. The curative treated 37,435 patients in 2017. The preventative
program served 60 villages and 28 schools focusing on four areas:

1. Nutrition which provides nutritional supplements to pregnant women (412 in 2017) and infants to six months and children to age 5 (1,667 in 2017).
2. Vaccination.
3. Health Education.
4. Family planning education.

Notes from July 17, 2018

Posted by Mark Weber

PAUL LARSEN FROM GIANT WORLDWIDE: BECOMING A LEADER WORTH FOLLOWING

Advice on how business leaders can make their employees more productive and happy was provided by our July 17 speaker, consultant Paul Larsen of Giant Worldwide.

To become a leader worth following, executives need to know about two important challenges: the digital age and changing demographics. The former includes such issues as work/life balance, making your employees collaborative, and producing communications that are visual and interactive. The demographic changes suggest that a much smaller number of Gen-X’ers are coming behind the Baby Boomers, meaning companies will need to dip into the next generation, Millennials, for leadership. Knowing how millennials view work, their expectations of frequent job change, and their digital mindset will help companies cope with this trend.

Please support these 2018 Rotary Sponsors

Their generous support helps sponsor the Vino Classico with a Craft Beer Chaser, the Above and Beyond Awards Dinner, the Golden Eagle Awards, the Ethics Lunch and STRIVE scholarships. Click on sponsor logos to go to their websites. Interested in becoming a Rotary Sponsor? Click here

Gold Sponsors ($1500 - 2499)

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