Highlights

Families Helping Families - "Scramble for Children" Golf Fundraiser Event saw a BEAUTIFUL day for 25 foursomes on May 24!
- Thank-you golfers and sponsors!
Speaker June 1: Cedar Rapids Community Orchestra: Doug Elam and Doug Steinmetz

Program/Speaker suggestions are always welcome. Contact our Program Chair- Penny Foy or email CRSunriseRotary@gmail.com
Welcome back Sunrise Rotarian Doug Francik from his May 24 "Honor Flight" !
We hold our weekly meetings at 7am Thursdays, at Matthew 25 201 3rd Ave SW. Cedar Rapids. All are welcome!

Scramble Fore Kids Golf Event

Scramble for Kids May 25 was a great event on an ideal-day for golf! 25 foursomes completed their rounds, a great Texas Roadhouse BBQ dinner, and boosted our Silent Auction. The final report will come soon. We enjoyed the company of some FHF families at dinner! Their board worked the even through the day.

The event benefited "Families Helping Families" (FHF) serving in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas AND Sunrise Rotary.

Families Helping Families is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Read more here .

A round of golf included included:

Beat the Pro Drive
Hole in One Contest
Chipping Contest
Putting Contest
Prizes
Silent Auction
Texas Roadhouse BBQ Supper

Sponsorships including on-course business signs.

Watch for Event Photos next week on our Cedar Rapids Sunrise Facebook Page and look for Sunrise Rotary Golf to return in May 2024!

June 8 Metro Wide Social at Shakespeare Garden at Ellis Park

All Metro Rotary members are invited to join our celebration of the Shakespeare all-club project. (possible rendering below)

Come for fun, conversation and learn more about the project details we are supporting.

Join a HAPPY HOUR from 5-6 @ the Rose Garden Pavilion in Ellis Park on Thursday, June 8th!

BYOB, a snack to share, and meet the Shakespeare Team.

See attached invite and map.

Award for Theresa Michelson

We congratulate Theresa Mickelson earning a

"Citation for Meritorious Service" from the The Rotary Foundation.

Presenting are District Foundation Chair John Wasta and District Governor Don Meyer!

Congratulations and THANK YOU Theresa!

Club Meeting Serving Duties

Each week, two Sunrise Rotarians are needed to support our meetings. See table below.

Can't be there? Just swap dates with another Rotarian on the list.

Date	Greeter/Invocation	Pledge/Drawing Prize
June 1, 2023	Todd Anderson	David Murray
June 8, 2023	Clayton Cubbage	Karen Nemecek
June 15, 2023	Penny Foy	Rachel Rigdon
June 23, 2023	Douglas Francik	Mary Schell
June 29, 2023	Eric Harris	Robert Schell
July 6, 2023	John Henecke	David Stoltenberg
July 13, 2023	Phil Hershner	Ben Stutt
July 20, 2023	Michael Kacher	David VerWoert
July 27, 2023	Nate Kass	Anne Wilson

Rotary Pribyl Golf
July 21 - August 3 2023

All Linn County Rotary Clubs organize, fund and volunteer for the annual Pribyl Rotary Golf tournament for youth each August.

Note the last item below: Join the Metro planning committee to help this year, and perhaps step-up and lead it in 2024!

We had a record number of total participants in 2022, and we were only one shy of our record number of female participants.
Live scoring was introduced in 2022, following a complete website redesign in 2020.
Corporate sponsorship for Service Above Self Component continues to be completely subsidized and results in $1,200 being donated to area charities each year.
Because of heat concerns in early August, we also received complimentary bottled water last year from Culligan in Marion for all four days of the tournament.
The cost per golfer comes out to just under $12 – and that includes free golf and range balls at all courses and a Rotary-branded keepsake. It is an incredible value, and it gives us plenty of Rotary and Event visibility through the media, at the golf courses, at area schools and through all the parents and spectators that come out each day to watch the kids.
2023 will be the last year for the committee chairs. Finding new leadership will be essential if the tournament continues beyond this year. Contact Lynette if you are interested!

Flight to End Polio Report

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTS
AND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

CR Gazette front page article April 9: Read or Print PDF

FLY WITH US!
https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

Track their Progress Here: https://flightaware.com/ Enter flight # N732WP

May 24 they are in Germany!

Use this link to Donate and to Track the Flight! Contribute to Rotary Foundation - Polio Fund!

Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels are raising awareness for polio eradication by piloting a single engine aircraft all the way around the globe!

Peter and John departed from Cedar Rapids, Iowa May 5, 2023 in a Cessna T210M (single engine) airplane. Along the way, they will attend events and encourage support of ending polio forever throughout the world.

YOU can promote the flight, start conversations, and raise Polio funds for Rotary with friends and strangers!

Rotarians and friends may order a t-shirt to support the flight around the world to end polio . http://endpolionow.itemorder.com/

Rotarians and friends in D6000 and D5970 are promoting awareness and this fundraising effort. Donations will go toward PolioPlus Fund.

What Will Be Our Sunrise 2023-2024
Community Service Project?

Suggest Community Service Project for Sunrise Rotary.

Half the cost comes from a Rotary Foundation District Grant we apply for in June 2023.
Half the cost comes from our share of the golf fundraising event net proceeds

Funds are requested in early June. The money arrives in late August.

We are fundraising in ONE Event this year - the May 25 Scramble Fore Kids golf event. That will determine our budget and therefore our project and its size.

We need ideas before May to quickly apply when the money raised is known. Email or call Bruce.

Metro Rotary Projects to be Chosen

Sunrise Members will vote with all Linn County Metro members for one of these three.

Click Here to see slides presenting all three projects.

1. Boys and Girls Club toward the capital campaign for their new building. This was our program March 23.

2. Linn County Trails Association for them to continue their path across Cottage Grove near Washington High School (they have matching funds to complete this project). This is our program on June 13.

3. The Shakespeare Garden in Ellis Park toward their capital campaign. They have raised enough for Phase 1 and we would be assisting with Phase 2. This is our Program on April 13.

Alvaro Pepe -
Youth Exchange Update

Alvaro's 2nd Term classes:

US Humanities and Composition
US History
Current World Issues
Performance PE
Spanish III
Geometry
Signed up for Track!

Alvaro is in his second semester. He also finished his remote learning school work for his Argentina term! He is working hard to keep up both programs.

His parents support him to take the 'discover America' youth exchange bus trip, after school is out with other exchange students! West to CA, return through AZ, TX... deep south, Orlando, up the east coast to Philadelphia and then back to Chicago. Then he will return to Argentina.

Alvaro is with Rob and Sara as his new host family, and the family of his best friend Trevor. Spring Break trip was to OK and TX!

The event benefited "Families Helping Families" (FHF) serving in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas AND Sunrise Rotary.

Families Helping Families is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Read more here.

A round of golf included included:

Beat the Pro Drive

Hole in One Contest

Chipping Contest

Putting Contest

Prizes

Silent Auction

Texas Roadhouse BBQ Supper