The month of August brought us our annual Taste of Hops & Vines fundraising event and boy did it not disappoint! Each and every one of you should be incredibly proud of your efforts. Even with a lighter slate of vendors and lower than expected ticket sales, your efforts saw us to our most successful monetary event to date. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
We heard from the Sheriff's department and the owner of Dependable Solutions on the topic of fraud and scams this past month. There was lots of great information and ways to best protect ourselves from bad actors trying to access our information and take what they can. Reflecting on the information presented, I can't help but think how great it is organizations like Rotary exist. It's so, so easy to get caught up in all the 'bad' we hear on a daily basis, but it sure is nice to belong to a group of people doing good.
If you know of someone who you think would bring good information to the club, be a dynamic and thought-provoking speaker or have an interesting topic to share, there is room on the speaker list. Please just let me know if you do fill a speaking slot.
Our Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Nil (pronounced Neal) Maltas, reported last week that he feels very lucky to have been placed with the Wynn family. Their son Everett, a senior at Mounds View, plays on the varsity soccer team with Nil, and soccer has become an important community for Nil. He says his teammates help him with his English and are very patient when it comes to explaining new vocabulary words teenagers use nowadays, that most of us would not recognize or find in the dictionary. Nil will share more about his first experiences in MN with us in a few weeks.
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