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Club members welcomed visiting Rotarian Ron Hughes from the Excelsior Club and the guest speaker, Linda Wetzel. Club President Kent Peterson announced that the annual Rotary Holiday Party would be held on Tuesday, December 12th at Peggy Strom's home. It was also announced that the club would be exploring potential locations for future Rotary meetings because the cost of holding the meetings at the Best Western was increasing dramatically.
The guest speaker Linda Wetzel has been a resident of Arden Hills for 38 years. She is a volunteer for Life Source, a non-profit organization serving the upper midwest, that is a network promoting organ and tissue donation. Life Source works with community partners and hospitals to support donor families, manager the donation process, and educate communities to create a culture of donation. She noted that there are eight organs that can be donated from the human body. They work closely with the Department of Motor Vehicles to have people indicate on their Driver's Licenses that they are willing to be a donor. She noted that there are more than 120,000 people waiting for a donation, including 3500 in their service area.
Linda then told her own inspiring personal story of receiving a liver donation at a time when she did not think she was going to survive. In 2007, she received a liver from a living donor who she did not know that had seen her story in a church bulletin.