Rotary News
President Rachel Woods gave a nice soft touch to the Rotary Bell signifying that our Wednesday, August 23rd meeting should come to order.
Pastor Bill Heermann offered a prayer for the rain, sunshine, and for our Rotarian friend, Roger Wiltz who is presently hospitalized in Wisconsin.
The only guests present were for the program and without our Song leader or the Assistant Song Leader we vetoed the idea of singing.
Next up was Rotarian Ken Cotton with the days Membership Minute of “No Personal Privileges.”
Should Rotarians expect a special discount or preferential service just because they are dealing with a fellow Rotarian?
The answer is clearly NO. The official policy approved by the RI Board of Directors in 1933 is that in business and professional relations “a Rotarian should not expect, and far less should he ask for, more consideration or advantages from a fellow Rotarian than the latter would give to any other business or professional associate with whom he has business relations.” Over 50 years ago, the concept was expressed that “true friends demand nothing of one another” and any abuse of the confidence of friendship for profit is foreign to the spirt of Rotary.
It is important to remember that the primary purpose of Rotary membership is to provide each member with a unique opportunity to SERVE others.
Sergeant at Arms Jordan Weber was once again taking his office seriously. Fines were: $3 to Ken Cotton for the complimentary article in the Wagner Post. Ken and wife Mary are Parade Marshalls for Labor Day 2022; $3 to Jerry Weber for not giving any empathy to his son Jordan last week when he had COVID; $3 to Bryan for trying to make Jordan come to work when he was sick; $3 to Jerry Henke for working out in the extreme heat last week; $3 to Bill Frei for becoming a new “biker”; $3 to Jamie for talking about starting up his little football team to practice before the legal time period; $3 to Becky Brunsing for trying to bully the SAA; $3 to Craig who said he was only running on 50 % for the day. Happy Fines of $3.90 came from Jerry Weber who has a son turning 39, $5 from Jordan Weber for being back from his illness; $4 from Patty Frei for her kids being back in college; $2 from Amanda Bechen for her first college student; and $4 from Becky Brunsing for DWU Volleyball winning all their games at the recent tournament in Florida and being #15 in the nation.
The Queen of Hearts is slowly ending. Rotarian Bill Heermann drew the lucky ticket number and was given the remaining six cards. He only produced a six of spades. Now the drawing is down to five cards.
Rotarian Herrmann was informed that he had just lost $748.00. The attendance race is following along the same lines as the last quarter. Jamie Soukup’s team had only one absence for a total of nine absences and Jordan Weber’s team had two for a total of thirteen absences.
Football books will be here soon! Contact your usual source from one of the Rotarians to get a chance to win $300, $200, or $100 at the end of the football season.
The club decided to start having Senior students attend Rotary meetings some time after Labor Day.
Program Chairman for the day Bryan Slaba introduced his guests, Peter Smith, and Kaylene Goehring from the ROCS office in Wagner. Peter spoke first and gave an update on the services ROCS offers. Peter last spoke to the club five years ago and things have grown a lot since his last visit. Peter is an outgoing and ambitious individual and his concern and care for those who need help is obvious. He first spoke about their newest entity which is the Community Closet that ROCS purchased about a month ago. Peter is going to attend a program soon to find out how other states run their programs. They already have expanded hours in Wagner, from 9 to 5 most days. They have plans to implement other services at the CC such as a reading program. The details will be coming soon for this beneficial service to the community.
Peter introduced Kaylene Goehring from Armour, SD who oversees the Nutrition Program for Rocs. She shared some numbers of the number of meals prepared and delivered in the Wagner area. There used to be only about 12 or 13 meals at the Wagner Park Villa and now there are 20 a day. They have dedicated employees and volunteers to prepare and deliver the meals. Check with the local ROCS office to see if you qualify for these free meals. They used to have nine employees and now have nineteen. They also service Lake Andes.
Peter spoke about the Transit Program which he instituted in the area. ROCS provides driving services and were just named the Transit Service of the Year in South Dakota.
The time ran out on the two speakers. You are encouraged to visit the ROCS Rural Office of Community Service in Wagner at 106 West Avenue SW to see if you can qualify for programs or offer your personal services in some way to their programs.