Welcome New Member - Kathy Strecker
We are happy to announce our new member, Kathy Strecker. Kathy was inducted to our Club on Tuesday, Jan. 14th.
WELCOME KATHY!
Stories
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Youth Rotars Ava and Carlee's speechesOn Tuesday 11/26/24 Youth Rotars Ava Krista from Chi-Hi and Carlee Chittendon from McDonell shared their speeches with us.   |
Rotary's 39th Annual Rose Day was a success!Rotary's 39th Annual Rose Day was a success. Thanks to everyone who helped, sold, and purchased roses.     |
Picking up the Oktoberfest bartending checkWe picked up our check from bartending at Oktoberfest Chippewa Falls.  |
Annual Chili CookoutWe had a wonderful evening at the Chippewa River Distillery for our annual chili cookoff competition. Diane's chili won first place (she also made delightful cupcakes). The funds raised go towards the Polio donation fund.       |
Welcome our newest member Allyson WisniewskiPlease help us welcome our newest Rotary member Allyson Wisniewski. We are so excited she joined our club! Allyson is the President of the Chippewa Falls Area Chamber and we look forward to serving our community with her.   |
United Way Day of CaringUnited Way Day of Caring at Hope Village  |
Helping at Oktoberfest 2024Here is our fellow Rotarians helping at Oktoberfest 2024 at the Chippewa Falls fairgrounds.   |
Welcome our newest member Benny Anderson  Help us welcome Benny Anderson! We are so excited he joined our club. Benny comes from Daredevil Consulting and we look forward to serving our community with him.
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Volunteering at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair   |
Express Game - Fun Evening!!    |
Inner/OuterOn Tuesday we held our inner/outer meeting! This meeting (for anyone not in Rotary) is our annual celebration of saying thank you to our prior years President and welcoming our new President. Thank you Carmi for all of your hard work, you did such a wonderful job over the past 12 months. We are excited to welcome Susan Emerson, Real Estate Professional as our new president. We are looking forward to all you accomplish in the coming year. During this meeting we also welcomed a new member, Brady L. Zwiefelhofer - Thrivent. We also reconized some members for all of their work over the year. Also, thank you to Rusty with the Northern Wisconsin State Fair for letting us use the new safe room! Make sure to take in all the new buildings and updates in a few weeks when you visit the fair!         |
Highway Clean UpThank you Rotarians for taking the time from your busy schedules to help clean up the Highway. The Rotary Club of Chippewa Falls adopted part of Highway 53 and get their hands duty by picking up trash twice a year. Thank you for helping to keep our community clean.     |
Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic
This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year. The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic. |
Rotary at the Start of the United Nations
During World War II, Rotary informed and educated members about the formation of the United Nations and the importance of planning for peace. Materials such as the booklet “From Here On!” and articles in The Rotarian helped members understand the UN before it was formally established and follow its work after its charter. Many countries were fighting the war when the term “United Nations” was first used officially in the 1942 “Declaration by United Nations.” The 26 nations that signed it pledged to uphold the ideals expressed by the United States and the United Kingdom the previous year of the common principles “on which they based their hopes for a better future for the world.”
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History of Women in RotaryWomen are active participants in Rotary, serving their communities in increasing numbers and serving in leadership positions in Rotary. The 1989 Council on Legislation vote to admit women into Rotary clubs worldwide remains a watershed moment in the history of Rotary. “My fellow delegates, I would like to remind you that the world of 1989 is very different to the world of 1905. I sincerely believe that Rotary has to adapt itself to a changing world,” said Frank J. Devlyn, who would go on to become RI president in 2000-01. The vote followed the decades-long efforts of men and women from all over the Rotary world to allow the admission of women into Rotary clubs, and several close votes at previous Council meetings.
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Young Inventor Eco-Friendly Bricks Come Full Circle
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First Club in Philippines Opens Door to Rotary in Asia
The club would be the only one in the country for more than 12 years. Eventually, Manila club members organized Rotary clubs in the Philippine cities of Cebu (1932) and Iloilo (1933). Iloilo club members then started a club in Bacolod (1937), and Rotary continued to expand across the country. |
An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.
Rotary and the United Nations have a shared history of working toward peace and addressing humanitarian issues around the world.
Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”
In early 1919, Rotarian Roger Pinneo of Seattle, Washington, USA, traveled to the Philippines to try to organize a Rotary club in Manila. Leon J. Lambert, a Manila business leader helped Pinneo establish the club. Several months later, on 1 June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila was chartered and became the first Rotary club in Asia.