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  • Programs: 

    > July 20:  Planning meeting for our Rotary Club - Bring any ideas and recommendations! 
    > Our July 13 program was Tawana Grover, the new CR Schools superintendent

     
  • Alvaro Pepe - our Argentina exchange student should be home (last week).  
     
  • Flight to End Polio:
       They are hopping across the South Pacific. July 18 they landed in American Samoa.
       Schedule next shows: Christmas Island> Honolulu> Maui> Kahului> California> Colorado> Cedar Rapids
       
    Welcome Home Pancake Breakfast Sunday July 30 7-11am!   Click to Read 
       Follow and Donate Here or check their Facebook Page.
     
  •  Pribyl Youth Golf - Sign up here for any day and see great golfers: https://form.jotform.com/200726488993065
  • We hold our weekly meeting at 7am Thursdays at Matthew 25 201 3rd Ave SW. Cedar Rapids.   All are welcome!
 
    Alvaro Pepe - Argentina Exchange
    Youth Exchange Update
    Alvaro returned from the "discover America" youth exchange bus trip on July 10 and departed for Argentina July 12. 
     
    Photos Below:
    Sunrise Rotary members with Alvaro:  Bruce, Alvaro, Lynette, Mary. 
     
    Lynette his last host, 1 Germany August outbound, 2 other students returning this week- Su Japan - Wayne Taiwan, Alvaro, Ethan a just-returned CR student - his sister and his mom. 
     
    Globokar host family parents and daughter. 
     
    Scott host family kids
     
    ...all gave him a great send-off July 12! 
     
     
     
         
     
     
     
    Rotary Pribyl Golf
    July 21 - August 3 2023
      
    Volunteers are needed!   July 31- Aug 3 2023  4 courses. 
     
    Sign up here for any day and see great golfers: https://form.jotform.com/200726488993065
     
    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! 
    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. 
     
    DateGreeter/InvocationPledge/Drawing Prize
    July 13, 2023Phil HershnerBen Stutt
    July 20, 2023Michael KacherDavid VerWoert
    July 27, 2023Nate KassAnne Wilson
    August 3, 2023Bruce LindholmTodd Anderson
    August 10, 2023Lynette MarkofskiClayton Cubbage
    August 17, 2023Theresa MickelsonPenny Foy
    August 24, 2023David MurrayDouglas Francik
    August 31, 2023Karen NemecekEric Harris
     
     
    Flight to End Polio Report
        

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

    Welcome Home Pancake Breakfast is set!   Click to Read 
     
    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
     
    Use this link to Donate and to Track their 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 in D6000 and D5970 are promoting awareness and this fundraising effort. Donations will go toward PolioPlus Fund. 
     
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    Flight to End Polio-Pancake Breakfast - website pop.jpg
     
     
    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 benefitted and raised awareness of "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 soon on our Cedar Rapids Sunrise Facebook Page and look for Sunrise Rotary Golf to return in May 2024

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    Matthew 25 Groundswell Cafe
    201 3rd Ave SW
    Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
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