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Health Effects of Climate Change
Jul 10, 2018
Doctor of Nursing Practice Student, University of Minnesota Rachel Kerr, DNP, BS, RN, OCN is currently pursuing a DNP degree at the University of Minnesota in Health Innovation and Leadership. She is focused on using her nursing expertise to examine and intervene the effects of climate change on the health of vulnerable and underserved populations, both locally and globally. She is an innovative, future-forward, transdisciplinary-minded nurse and DNP student with a career goal of taking action on climate change as a nurse leader. Her nursing practice, formerly centered on oncology and infusion therapy, is currently expanding to include earth-care as a means of addressing the social determinants of health, both locally and globally. She is interested in taking down the physical, cultural, and metaphorical walls that divide and replacing them with supportive structures that facilitate connection, sustainability, optimal health, and well-being for all. She believes that we, as global citizens, owe our deepest allegiance to Future Generations. |
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Future Roots Project
Jul 17, 2018
The Future Roots Project is a collective founded in Minnesota that focuses on sustainable educational, artistic, and health initiatives in Nicaragua. From teachers trainings to designing sustainable classroom materials, Future Roots brings educational and artistic opportunities to impoverished communities that improve literacy rates, creativity, self worth, health & empowerment in children. Jaime Belden is from Robbinsdale, Minnesota but starting at a young age has pursued every opportunity possible to travel internationally. Her passion for understanding other cultures led her to Hamline University where she earned a BA in Global Studies, minoring in Political Science and Spanish. She became highly experienced in teaching the fundamental skills necessary to read in Spanish while working with the underprivileged, malnourished and neglected students in the Twin Cities. Jaime currently dedicates herself to improving the education system in Nicaragua by providing teacher trainings focusing on literacy, creativity, and music. Elizabeth Dahl grew up in Winsted, Minnesota. After graduating high school she attended Hamline University where she studied Cultural Anthropology & Philosophy. She also attended The Art Institute studying Culinary Arts and Management. She worked as an Executive Chef for five years in the restaurant industry before becoming more active organizing food drives, growing gardens, and feeding the less fortunate in her local community. Liz is a co-founder of the international Future Roots Project. She is currently living in Nicaragua where she teaches art while sharing her knowledge of nutrition and sustainable gardening. |
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Jul 19, 2018 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
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Vision for District 5950 in 2018-19
Jul 24, 2018
Irene Kelly is an Eden Prairie AM Rotarian, 5950 District Governor, a coach, a mother, and a grandmother. In her Rotary life, her goal is to encourage members to share their passion to make a positive impact in the world. In her professional life, she has the honor of serving her clients to make their highest contribution to the world. In her personal life, her proudest title is “Gma” of 3 grandchildren ranging from 3-9. Life is great! |
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Jul 26, 2018 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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University of Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Aug 07, 2018
Peggy Nelson, Ph.D. is a professor of audiology in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught and conducted NIH-funded research since 2000. Her research focuses on hearing loss and the problems of understanding speech in noise by a variety of populations, including children in schools, second-language learners, hearing aid users, and cochlear implant listeners. She is currently the founding director of the University of Minnesota’s new Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS). There she oversees interdisciplinary research in vision, hearing, balance, and tinnitus. As Center director, Professor Nelson and colleagues have engaged the community in a discussion of sensory loss and sensory aids. Dr. Nelson served on the EHDI Advisory Board for 10 years and served on the US Access Board committee that developed acoustic guidelines for schools. Over the years, she has testified for the Commission on many different pieces of legislation. Fun fact: she used to be a certified sign language interpreter. |
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Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
Aug 14, 2018
The Executive Director reports to a fifteen-member Board appointed by the Governor. Mr. Gove directs the licensing system for Minnesota's 10,500-plus state, county and municipal peace officers and part-time officers. The licensing system includes components of minimum selection criteria, professional standards, continuing education, complaint investigation, and the rule-making process. He also collaborates with law enforcement agencies, higher education programs, the legislature, and the Office of the Governor on issues germane to POST functions and responsibilities. Nathan Gove took over as the 7th Executive Director of the MN POST Board after retiring from a nearly 29 year police career in Minnesota. Most recently, he was a police officer for the Golden Valley Police Department for over 20 years, spending the last 6 years as a commander. During his career at Golden Valley, he was a member of the West Metro S.W.A.T. Team for 19 years and held the positon of team commander for approximately 14 years. He has a B. A. from Gustavus Adolphus College, law enforcements credits from Mankato State University, a Master’s Degree from the University of St. Thomas, and he’s a graduate of the 245th Session
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TreeHouse Update
Aug 21, 2018
Christa Troup is the Development Coordinator/Grants Manager for TreeHouse. The vision of TreeHouse is to reach every at-risk teen so they are loved, feel hope, and realize life transformation. To accomplish this vision they seek to fulfill their mission to bring living hope to hurting youth and families leading to life transformation. Christa has been with TreeHouse for three years. As Grant Manager, she seeks out possible opportunities of foundations who align with TreeHouse's mission of serving at-risk teens. She works to bring awareness of TreeHouse into the communities, talking with local Rotaries, businesses, and people who share the mission of TreeHouse. |
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Golden Valley Historical Society tour
Aug 28, 2018
6731 Golden Valley Rd, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Lunch at 11:30 a.m., Tour at 12:15 p.m. The mission of the Golden Valley Historical Society is to discover, preserve, and disseminate historical knowledge about Golden Valley, Minnesota. |
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The Bridge For Youth
Sep 04, 2018
Michelle Basham, Executive Director and Christina Heineken Woodlee, Associate Director Michelle brings to The Bridge for Youth more than 20 years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors. She has started and led organizations focused on runaway and homeless youth, child welfare, racial disparities and strengthening families since the early 1990s. In 1993, she started Avenues for Homeless Youth, one of the first programs in Minnesota for homeless youth and an organization still in existence today. Between 2001 and 2008, she worked in progressively higher positions at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, eventually leading department priorities regarding racial disparities in health care, healthcare reform, licensing regulations and child maltreatment. She left the Department in 2008 to serve as the Executive Director for FamilyWise (formerly Genesis II for Families) and between 2008 and 2013, led a dramatic organizational turnaround including the organization more than doubling in size, completely rebranding and merging into it several smaller nonprofits and programs. Michelle also co-founded the Minnesota Runaway and Homeless Youth Coalition in 1998 and the Nonprofit Emerging Leaders Academy in 2009. She also served as a Vice President at CommonBond Communities and as the CEO for the YWCA of Delaware. Michelle holds an undergraduate degree in communications and organizational development, a graduate degree in public administration and a law degree in addition to having previously served as a Fellow at the Humphrey Institute Public Policy Forum where she did her group work on women and people of color in political leadership. Michelle is also a part-time adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She brings to The Bridge her education, experience and more than anything, a deep and unwavering passion for protecting and serving runaway and homeless youth. Christina has more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit administration and development. She has developed nationally recognized donor engagement programs – Women United, Emerging Leaders and Arise Project – for United Way. She spent 4 years as the Director of Leadership Affinity Groups at United Way of Central New Mexico, and 5 years as the Manager of Leadership Giving at Greater Twin Cities United Way. Prior to joining United Way, she worked at Discovery Creek Children’s Museum in Washington, DC, as the Special Events and Board Relations Manager. Most recently, Christina was the Director of Donor Relations at Perspectives Inc. in St. Louis Park. In this capacity she introduced an audience segmentation and donor acquisition strategy focused corporate women and millennials. Christina is a graduate of the University of New Mexico with a Master Degree in Public Administration as well as an undergraduate degree in Sociology and Family Studies. She and her family live in the Twin Cities metro. |
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Rotary Peace Fellowships
Sep 11, 2018
In 2005, Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy spent two weeks in Rwanda. She met a young Rwandan woman, Alice Musabende. Alice was orphaned at age 14 during the Rwandan genocide, losing her grandparents, parents, 12-year-old sister, and 9-year-old and 2-year-old brothers. Alice’s experience affected Dr. Kennedy deeply, particularly because Alice is the same age as her own daughter. Dr. Kennedy shared her experience of visiting post-genocide Rwanda with one of her classes. Upon learning that in 1994 nearly a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, one of Kennedy’s students asked, “What are we going to do about this?” Using the model of the Genocide Intervention Network, founded by Mark Hanis, Kennedy began World Without Genocide with a dedicated and gifted group of students. Over the past eleven years the organization has focused on education through many different opportunities – classes, workshops, films, exhibits, conferences – and have advocated successfully for city and state legislation. They address conflicts in the past, those occurring today, and the challenging problems of child soldiers, human trafficking, gender-based violence, weapons trafficking, and resource scarcity or abundance as causes of conflict. |
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Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions
Sep 18, 2018
Susan Bartlett Foote is professor emerita in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, where she was head of the Division of Health Policy and Management from 1999 to 2005. She is author of Managing the Medical Arms Race: Innovation and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry. She is also author of The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954. The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts Minnesota’s reform movement that broke the stigma surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state’s asylums, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system. Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of the early advocates for compassionate care of the mentally ill who made the crusade a success. |
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Days for Girls sewing hygiene kits
Sep 25, 2018
Days for Girls volunteers and enterprises have reached more than ONE MILLION women and girls around the world who now have more days of opportunity, dignity, and health thanks to Days for Girls menstrual health solutions and education— making sure that every single day of her life counts. When we mobilize girls and women through health and education opportunities, their communities and our world grow stronger. Pads are a simple thing that helps girls go to school and women go to work. Judy Johnson of the Maple Grove Rotary will be speaking about the project which provides a washable/reusable product for use during menstrual cycles, enabling girls and women to attend school/work during menstruation when they otherwise could not. |
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Golden Valley Orchestra
Oct 02, 2018
gvo@gvomusic.org The Golden Valley Orchestra is dedicated to serving the community through beautiful music. The Golden Valley Orchestra's purpose is to enhance, enrich, and expand the musical experiences available to the community and support continuing music education through informative and entertaining performances. The Golden Valley Orchestra (GVO) is a large chamber or classical-sized ensemble of approximately 30 members from around the Twin Cities Metro area with both professional and amateur musicians. The GVO has the distinction of becoming the first Twin Cities orchestra - professional or amateur - to produce a series of dedicated programs for local Twin Cities television. |
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Better Angels
Oct 09, 2018
Launched in 2016, Better Angels is a bipartisan citizen’s movement to unify our divided nation. By bringing red and blue Americans together into a working alliance, we’re building new ways to talk to one another, participate together in public life, and influence the direction of the nation. Bill Doherty, a professor at the University of Minnesota, has developed a model of grass-roots organizing. Doherty co-founded the Better Angels initiative to “counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society.” |
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Can Do Canines
Oct 16, 2018
Alan Peters serves as Executive Director of Can Do Canines and founded the organization in 1987. He is responsible for general management as well as fundraising, publicity, and public relations. Mr. Peters has a B.A. in Psychology and Human Development from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota. He has completed the College of St. Thomas Mini MBA Program for Managers of Non-Profit Organizations, was selected to attend the I.D.S. Excellence in Community Leadership Academy, and completed 11 days of specialized training in The Fundraising School. Mr. Peters has received a Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship and a Pillsbury Fellowship, enabling him to progress on an MBA in Non-Profit Management at the College of St. Thomas. In 1994, he was selected to receive the Minneapolis Award from Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton. Mr. Peters has been a member of the Spring Lake Park Lions Club since 1995 and was selected to receive the Helen Keller Award in 2009. |
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Business of the Year Presentation
Oct 23, 2018
October is Rotary International Vocational month. The Golden Valley Rotary Club celebrates by naming a local Business of the Year to honor. The 2018 selection is Tennant Company of Golden Valley. They will receive their award at our October 23rd meeting. PAST ANNUAL BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS OF THE YEAR |
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Oct 23, 2018 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
October is Rotary International Vocational month. The Golden Valley Rotary Club celebrates by naming a local Business of the Year to honor. The 2018 selection is Tennant Company of Golden Valley. PAST ANNUAL BUSINESS/ORGANIZATIONS OF THE YEAR |
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Oct 25, 2018 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Golden Valley Business Council |
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Oct 25, 2018 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Club Visioning
Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday evening, 5:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m. Dinner provided. We need your help setting the course of our club for the future! Why Golden Valley Rotary? Where do we want to focus the time, talents, and resources of our members? How do we attract future members as well as community supportive partners? Please join us for this important "special session" led by Guy Marzano, our Area Five Governor. |
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Oct 30, 2018 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Club Visioning
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the New Soccer Stadium
Nov 06, 2018
Chris Wright, CEO, will join us. Chris Wright joined Minnesota United as the organization’s first CEO after 26 years with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx, including the last 13 years as President. Growing up in England, his first love was soccer, and it was only after a brief career as a player and then a coach/manager that he came stateside to work in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He eventually made his way to Minnesota to serve as the general manager of the Minnesota Strikers. Allianz Field is a soccer-specific stadium currently under construction in the midway neighborhood in Saint Paul and the future home of Major League Soccer team Minnesota United FC. On October 23, 2015, team owners announced that Minnesota United would build a stadium on the 35-acre Saint Paul bus barn site. Find out everything you want to know about the new soccer stadium when team leadership joins us at Rotary! |
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Sweet Potato Comfort Pie
Nov 13, 2018
In response to racial unrest, Rose McGee of Golden Valley created Sweet Potato Comfort Pies. Since 2014, the idea has developed into a full-blown community project and shows no signs of slowing down. Rose will speak about the program and what is in store for the future. Rose McGee, M.Ed. is founder of McGee Circle Series, a storyteller, educator, entrepreneur, and facilitator who uses the art of story circle when convening. Rose resides in Golden Valley, Minnesota where in 2017 she was named Golden Valley Rotary's Citizen of the Year. |
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 20, 2018
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Nov 27, 2018 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Club Social |
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Design, Technology, and Leadership at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design
Dec 04, 2018
Dean Carol Strohecker studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received her Ph.D. in media arts and sciences and a master of science in visual studies. She has published and presented widely on topics related to learning theory and the development of environments in which people can learn through creative processes. Her portfolio includes creative works in various media, as well as collaborative work in interactive media tools and methods that have resulted in four U.S. patents. Strohecker brings a wealth of experience to The University of Minnesota and has worked to advance interdisciplinary research, education, and creative work in a wide range of settings. Most recently, she was vice provost for academic affairs at the Rhode Island School of Design from 2013 to 2016. She was a member of Rotary Club of Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 2007 to 2013 and became a Paul Harris Fellow in 2013. |
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Skin-lightening and Chemical Exposures in the Refugee and Immigrant Communities
Dec 11, 2018
When Amira Adawe emigrated from Somalia to Minnesota in 2000, she brought a life-long interest in serving her community. Today Amira, who has a bachelor’s degree in family social science and a master’s in public health, is the manager of Governor Mark Dayton’s Children’s Cabinet. That’s just her day job, however – her work on skin-lightening practices and chemical exposure in the immigrant and refugee communities has attracted national attention. Amira has raised awareness of the dangers of skin-lightening creams, both from the harmful ingredients such as mercury and from their negative impact on women’s self esteem. Amira hosts a weekly radio show in Somali that reaches 80,000 people worldwide, and her personal outreach and connections have made her a valuable consultant for cities across the U.S. |
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Songs of the Season
Dec 18, 2018
The arts high school music program is designed for dedicated music students with a broad range of musical interests. Across the musical spectrum - in jazz, folk, popular, rock, and classical genres - students focus on developing fluency in musical language, performance, and compositional artistry and technique. Perpich Arts High School opened its doors in 1989 and graduated its first class in 1991. It is a tuition-free, public, residential high school for students in 11th and 12th grades. The school is part of Perpich Center for Arts Education, a state agency funded by the Minnesota legislature. Students who wish to attend Perpich Arts High School must go through a competitive application and review process. Those accepted have shown artistic promise and a strong commitment to serious study in the arts and academics. The school stresses arts and academics equally and emphasizes creative and analytical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making. |
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Engineers Without Borders
Jan 08, 2019
The mission of Engineers Without Borders – University of Minnesota is to partner with communities around the world and to improve their quality of life through implementation of engineered projects that prove environmentally and economically sustainable. Their goals are achieved through cooperation, fellow institutions, communities, and mentors on the basis of commitment, persistence, and concern for the recipients of their efforts. They strive to uphold and advance principles for international responsibility and look forward to applying the experience in their future careers. |