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Joining the FCH Rotary breakfast meetings on Zoom: open the link below and click on Open Zoom Meetings and follow the prompts.
 
With masks mandated for our in-person breakfast (when not eating or speaking to the group), a supply is available at the meeting, free to attendees.
 
March 10, 2021
 
PROGRAM
 
No club meeting today.
 
Nine members and guests Wesley Nugteren and Jodi Gadient of Columbia Heights Public Schools signed in this morning as member Kristen Stuenkel led a followup discussion on Zoom of Operation Pollination (the subject of the presentation at last week’s club meeting) during the club’s normal meeting time. Nugteren, supervisor of the high school’s “Blooming Heights” gardening program, which as a grant to help it pursue pollinator activites, described its partnership with the nonprofit Pollinate Minnesota. Member Amada Marquez Simula, Columbia Heights’ mayor, reviewed the progress of the city’s Mayors’ Monarchs Program. Other topics included the points of conflict between pollinator activities and restrictions by cities on residents’ plant-growing activities. Stuenkel discussed possible courses of action by the club and a program for another Zoom session on March 24, when the club again does not meet, and club president Kelli Bourgeois indicated the club board will take up pollination activities at its April 7 board meeting.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
In Rotary March is Water Sanitation and Hygiene month. March 22nd is World Water Day which is an Annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of fresh water. For more information, click here to download the World Water Day Toolkit
 
REMINDERS
 
Members may sign up to deliver groceries for SACA on any Saturday in March at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040548a8ab29Ona7f49-saca2. If you will be driving, provide your insurance card and driver’s license for SACA to copy for its records.
 
The club will meet only on the first and third Wednesdays of the months from December through March.
 
The Refuge golf course has been reserved for the next Golf Classic, on July 19, 2021. Save the date and line up your foursome!
 
Speaker on March 17: Rick Olson of Prior Lake Rotary will speak on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement (Uganda) Rotary Global Grant project.