July 9, 2025 (Jul. 07, 2025)

Buffalo Rotarians... People of Action!

Meeting Wednesdays at 12:00pm

BHM District Board Room, door 2

214 1st Ave NE, Buffalo

July 9th Buffalo Rotary Meeting

Guest speaker, Adam Leiferman, Buffalo Community Center Director, will share the future plans of the Community Center at the old PenRad building.

-July 16: Phil Hannay, Farmers Market/CSA

-July 23: 5950 District Governor, Mark Shockey

-July 30: Ben Harvey, Timber Bay

2025 $10,000 Rotary Raffle - Save the Date

Prize: $10,000
Friday, September 12, 2025
Buffalo Civic Center
6 pm social, 7 pm dinner, 8 pm raffle
$100/raffle ticket
$150/couple: raffle ticket, dinner for 2, 4 drink tickets

Youth Exchange 2025-26 Update

Incoming Rotary Exchange guy from Brazil, JOAO

Yeh! We have our 2nd host family for our .
We are looking for host family #1 and #3
The length of stay with each host family is approximately 3 and half months.
The host family must located in the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose School District; for the school year 2025-26
Joao arrives mid-late August.

REMEMBER: it is EVERYONE'S task to help find host families.
- You may not be able to host but maybe a friend, neighbor or family may.
- Share the news!

Please talk with Rita, ritaraevo@gmail.com or Mike, walshmgw@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Buffalo Rotary - Capable Partners Outing

Buffalo Rotary - Capable Partners - Wednesday August 6th

For nearly 30 years Buffalo Rotary volunteers provide boats, bait, snack/drinks and lunch for those Capable Partners guests who are looking for a chance to fish in Buffalo.

We are in need of volunteers for the following tasks:

First mates for 4 boats. (7:30-11:30 am).
Volunteers to assist wheelchairs on to/off of the boats (7:45-8:15 am. Griffing Park boat landing; 11:15-11:45 am)
Clean fish (need 4-5 people, 11:30-1:00 pm)

Lake Pulaski / Griffing Park

Fishing: 7:30am to 11:30 am

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm - for guests and ALL Rotarians

Co-Coordinators: Suzanne O'Dell, SJO1014@gmail.com & Sue Olmscheid, Sue@BuffaloChamber.org

Whirltronics - Plastic Drive

Please continue to collect plastic for our community!

Here is a picture of our Rotary Bench.

Suzanne O'Dell
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Member Birthdays

Bob Lefebvre

July 2

Dale Olson

July 3

Chris Stone

July 29

Mona Volden

July 31

Join Date

Christine Husom

July 28, 2009

16 years

Leslie Huikko

July 28, 2009

16 years

President

Christine Husom

President Elect

Craig Boysen

Treasurer

Shaun Corbin

Secretary

Chelsie Schmid

Community Service

Maila Glowitz

Immediate Past President

Suzanne O'Dell

Grants/Projects

Paul Downer

Youth Services

Michael Walsh