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Jan 12 - Jeff Coester - 
Jan 19 - Larry Cooper - 
Jan 26 - Erin DeSutter -
 

Fun & Frolic

Jan - Kevin Heller and Mike Sprague
 

News & Notes - Dec 7

Boots and Shoes - $39
 
50 / 50 - $223
 
Sterling Federal Bank will be hosting Business After Hours to celebrate the Holiday Season on Thursday, December 10, from 5 to 7 at their Main location in Sterling.
 
Rotary has designed December as "Family Month." As we approach Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and other December Holidays and Holy Days, we should reflect upon our own families.  Also remember that we have a Rotary Family.
 
We will pass the basket again on Tuesday, if you have not given for the Christmas Thank You Gift to Patrice, our lunch girl.
 
2016 Relay for Life of Whiteside County event will be held on Saturday, June 11, 2016.
 
Tuesday will be our last meeting of the year.  If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution for the Rotary Foundation before the end of 2015, please bring your check on Tuesday.
 
 
Program:
 
Want to live downtown Sterling?
Dan Hawkins, the President of Sterling Today, spoke about the organization which began in 1990 and did the Library Plaza, with County Market, Taco Bell, and the VA Clinic.  They have been sponsoring the Street Scapes program, funding Sterling Main Street, landscaping project in the downtown area and others.
 
Now they are working on the "Lawrence Lofts", the three floors above the court facility.  They are working with the Rock Island Economic Growth organization.  The lofts will be 20 apartments with two of them being for veterans.  The rehab of the building will be about $5.7 million.  Their next project will be the "Mercantile Lofts" on West Fourth Street across from County Market.
 
 
Next Tuesday will be our last meeting of the year and our Christmas Party.  The entertainment will be the Sterling High School Madrigals.  If you would like to bring a guest, please call Russ at 815-625-7973 before noon on Monday, December 14, 2015.
 
 
 
 
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Ongoing Reminders

1.  Please remember the Four-way Test when directing comments and questions to speakers and other members. a) Is it the truth? b) Is it fair to all concerned? c) Will it build good will and better friendships? d) Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
 
2.  Once you have your guest speaker lined up for the meeting program, please email Russ Siefken at russ@essex1.com so that it can be included in the eBulletin.  Also, please ask the speaker to stay as close as possible to the microphone when speaking.
 
3.  Please park at the YWCA or by Grummert's, not in a Sterling Federal Bank lot.
 
4.  Think of who you can invite to a meeting as a potential new member.
 
5.  If you have to leave early from the meeting, please apologize in advance to the speaker so that he/she does not think that you were walking out on him/her.
 
6.  Please sit closer to the front of the room than to the back.  And try to site with the new members whenever you can....get to know them....make them feel welcome.
 
7.  Whenever you host a student guest, as you are chatting with him/her over lunch, please tell them about our club.  Tell them what Rotary is all about.  Tell them what to expect during the meeting;  the opening, fun & frolic, boots & shoes, etc.   Tell him/her about local and international service projects that Rotary is involved with.   Make them feel welcome.
 
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Missed a Meeting?

Twin City Sunrise Club
Day:    Thursday
Time:   7:00 am
Place:  CGH Medical Center, Ryberg Auditorium
 
Rock Falls Club
Day:   Monday
Time:  6:00 pm
Place:  Beelendorf's Deli, 204 W. 10th St. Rock Falls
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Kevin Heller
January 23
 
Join Date
Andy Thornton
January 1, 2003
13 years
 
Carolyn Spencer
January 1, 2015
1 year
 
Gunnar Ortgiesen
January 1, 2015
1 year
 
Russ Siefken
January 1, 1990
26 years
 
Thomas Burns
January 2, 2010
6 years
 
James Haskell
January 4, 1955
61 years
 
Stephan Munson
January 10, 1989
27 years
 
Tim Schwingle
January 11, 1991
25 years
 
Mark Mench
January 29, 1991
25 years
 
Speakers
Jan 05, 2016
 
Jan 12, 2016
 
Jan 19, 2016
 
Jan 26, 2016
 
Feb 02, 2016
 
Feb 09, 2016
 
Feb 16, 2016
 
Feb 23, 2016
 
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