Highlights

April 6 Program: CR Museum of Art - Sean Ulmer, Exec Director
March 30 Program was the Mercy Medical Cancer Center: DNA - Genetic Cancer screening
2023 Golf Fundraiser Planning: Friday April 7 at noon at Red Cedar Advisory. Zoom option is on Member calendars.
Families Helping Families - Sunrise Rotary Golf Event - May 25 Download this flyer to signup golfers and sponsors!
Program/Speaker suggestions are always welcome. Contact our new Program Chair- Penny Foy or email CRSunriseRotary@gmail.com
We hold our weekly meetings at 7am Thursdays, at Matthew 25 201 3rd Ave SW. Cedar Rapids. All are welcome!

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
April 6, 2023	Rachel Rigdon	Jeff Popenhagen
April 13, 2023	Mary Schell	Clayton Cubbage
April 20, 2023	Bob Schell	Rachel Rigdon
April 27, 2023	Dave Stoltenberg	Mary Schell
05/042023	Ben Stutt	Bob Schell
May 11, 2023	Dave VerWoert	Dave Stoltenberg
May 18, 2023	Anne Wilson	Ben Stutt
May 25, 2023	Make-A-Wish Golf Event - No Meeting

District Conference in Waverly

The District Conference is coming up. It will be held in Waverly at Wartburg College. Friday April 21 10AM - Dinner. Saturday April 22 8AM breakfast - 4PM closing.

Come for part or all of the days. It is close enough to commute or car-pool. A limited hotel event block-rate is available too. To register please go to the the District Conference link. The Conference Agenda is here.

Buy a Duck AND donate to The Rotary Foundation in the District Conference Duck Pluck on-line for $5.42 each. You can also buy ducks from Theresa Mickelson with a check for $5 each payable to The Rotary Foundation. REMINDER to those who are PolioPlus Society members, you can fulfill your pledge of contributing $100.00 per Rotary year by buying 20 ducks in the Duck Pluck.

Registration is open, click here to register. The cost is $130, $125 if paying by check. Don't delay! Waverly hotel information is here. Click here for a map of Wartburg. College.

Flight to End Polio
Send Off Party May 3

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

Sent off party at Signature Air, CR Airport, May 3, 5-7 PM.
Heavy appetizers, soft drinks. Just come out!

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

Use the link above 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 will take off from Cedar Rapids, Iowa May 5, 2023 in a Cessna T210M (single engine) airplane. Along the way, they will encourage support of ending polio forever throughout the world.

Promote the flight, start conversations about Rotary and Polio with friends and strangers!

Rotarians and friends may order a t-shirt to support the flight around the world to end polio that John Ockenfels (D6000) and Peter Teahen (D5970) will be completing May - July, 2023. Rotarians and friends in D6000 and D5970 will be promoting awareness and this fundraising event to raise money that will go toward PolioPlus Fund Contributions.

What Will Be Our 2023-2024
Community 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.

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!

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!

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTSAND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

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

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

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