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Here is a recap of yesterday's meeting:
Upcoming Rotary Events:
Saturday, January 26: Midterm District Assembly 8:30 am - 1:30 pm Minnetonka Community Center
[Click on link above to register to attend.]
Thursday, January 31: BEER THURSDAY Join us for our monthly social from 5:00 pm - 7 pm, this month, located at Rancho Grande.
Saturday, February 9: KITE FESTIVAL 11 am - 3 pm on Buffalo Lake. Follow link to signup to volunteer at the event
Signups for Food Shelf Friday's are now available using the following links:
Dave Herzig, coordinator for the Kid's Kite Building Workshop at the Kite Festival (sponsored by Rotary) demonstrated how we will be assisting kids to color and build their kite. Don't worry if you missed it, we will show you again on the day of the Festival. All you need is the ability to stick tape to plastic and a SMILE!!
If you have been assigned to invite a speaker for an upcoming meeting, please do so. If you need ideas, Mark Boyd has some but this is the job of you, the member, not Mark. If you have a great idea for a program and / or speaker, please let me or Mark Boyd know. We would like to develop a list of potential speakers and programs to assist you in finding great programs for our Club.
Our program this week was the Bounce Back Program's new initiative Just Say Hello. Corey Martin shared the following facts:
* 40% of students at BHS are lonely
* That's 720 students at BHS alone
* Just a single smile (even from a stranger) can kill loneliness
* Loneliness has the same impact on our life as smoking 15 cigarettes / day
* Loneliness is your body telling you that you need social interaction
* Today's social media activity makes this issue worse - society is experiencing the highest rates of loneliness ever
Bounce Back's Just Say Hello aims to spread the news that a smile, which is free and can be given to anyone at anytime, can build a relationship, kill loneliness and be a powerful tool in changing the lives of those suffering from loneliness.
Mark Mischke, BHS Principal, shared what BHS students are doing as part of the Just Say Hello program. High school students will be reading books discussing social isolation and inclusivity to students in the BHM elementary schools. Two bracelets that say Just Say Hello will be given to each elementary student. One to keep and one to share at home to open up the discussion about what they learned that day. BHS students will all be receiving the bracelets as well.
Buffalo is lucky to have a community Bounce Back program and educational system that recognizes the positive impact that we can have on each other and the opportunity to build a healthier community.
Thank you Karla Heeter for organizing this week's program!
Enjoy your week, and remember to BE THE INSPIRATION!
Kris Dirks