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Happy New Week Valley View Rotary family and friends!!!
Thank you to everyone that assisted with the Rotary Lights decorating, parading and sharing of the right amount of holiday spirit needed to turn on the lights for this season! Where do we sign up for the same weather for our work night on December 22nd?
Please join us at the Onalaska YMCA this Wednesday, November 30th for the Moon Tunes Annual Report. We do have confirmed guests, including visiting Rotarians past and present as well as Mr. Henri Johanga from Kenya.
Holiday Party
Next week, December 7th is our Holiday Party. If you haven't done so, please click this link: Evite: Online Invitations, Greeting Cards & Party Ideas and use the link to the google spreadsheet to enter you and your guest's names and meal choices. We will not have a morning meeting that morning.
5:00pm Social with Cash Bar
6:30pm Dinner with white-elephant gift exchange after, guests welcome to participate!
You may also bring your Foster Child gifts if you volunteered to sponsor!
Annual La Crosse Foster Child Christmas Gift Service Program
Is everyone having as much fun as me with holiday shopping? If my math is correct, we have 10 foster care cards still available (all 10 of these are requesting gift cards). If you have requested cards and did not receive them, please let me know. I am extremely grateful for the generosity of our club members and our friends of Valley View that have requested to participate in this annual service to our community.
Mobile Meals
THANK YOU to all volunteers delivering meals this past week. This is a valuable resource for our community and Valley View is proud to be a long-standing partner!
Committee Club Assembly
The next Club Assembly will occur in two meetings and have a different feel than in the past. As a reminder, we will not be meeting in committees on December 14th. Each committee will have an opportunity to report on their good work thus far and overview what is to come.
Committee leaders, please let me know who will be presenting on the 14th and then preferably, I would love to have a representative on our Board Zoom call on the morning of the 13th.
Please let me know if there is anything your committee needs in preparation of your update.
Rotary Lights
- Thursday, Dec 22nd is our workday at Rotary Lights. If you're looking to help and sign-up is full, please plan on still joining us to add to the fun as well as the good!!!!
Share your favorite memory of Rotary Lights on Wednesday! Did someone say Carriage Rides?
Youth Exchange
- Have photos of time spent with Earth or Gustaf? Please take time to share them to their Google Photo Albums:
Snack Drive for Northside Elementary
Keep those snacks coming! Kids at Northside Elementary are grateful to have some new snacks to munch on and are quickly working through the treats that have already been sent. Feel free to bring your snacks to Rotary for Julie Nelson to pick up or use the Amazon list and have them sent directly to the school at 1611 Kane St. La Crosse, WI. 54603.
The address at school is
Northside Elementary
1611 Kane St.
La Crosse, WI. 54603
Event Feature
Pearl Street Books will be hosting Rob Zaleski and David Couper on Thursday, December 1st at 6:30 - 8:00pm at Pearl Street Books (323 Pearl Street, La Crosse) to discuss Rob's new book. Here's a blurb about it:
In 2020—nearly three decades after David Couper's shocking decision to resign and become an Episcopal priest—the former Marine met with award-winning columnist Rob Zaleski for a series of lively and provocative interviews that lift the veil on his private life and explain for the first time the reasons behind his many controversial decisions. He also talks about his unstable upbringing in the Twin Cities, the personal tragedies he’s endured, and his evolution into one of the most inspiring human rights activists Wisconsin has known.
In the Area This Week:
MONDAY, 11/28
- BBBB Bingo. La Crosse Center, Doors open at 4pm, Calling starts at 6pm. $9,000 progressive jackpot
- Self Defense Training. Three Rivers Martial Arts Academy. 7pm
TUESDAY, 11/29
- Inhabitants Film Screening, Native American Heritage Month. Viterbo University. 1:30pm
- Open Stage Night. Popcorn Tavern. 9pm
WEDNESDAY, 11/30
- Moon Tunes Annual Report, Onalaska YMCA 7:30am
- Holmen Show Choir Fundraiser, Order from Burracho's online from 4pm-8pm.
THURSDAY, 12/01
- Author Talk & Book Signing, Pearl Street Books 6:30pm (see above)
FRIDAY, 12/02
- Ugly Christmas Sweater Party XIII with music from Pat Mccurdy at the Alpine Inn. 7pm
- Friday Night Comedy at The Main 7pm
- Tom Wopat Christmas at Leo & Leona's. Meet & Greet 2-4pm, Photos with General Lee :) Concert at 7:30pm
SATURDAY, 12/03
- Kicking Bear Jingle Bear Run. MGV, 9am
- Jinglefest 2022. Holmen, WI. 10am
- After Hours Rotary Club - Ugly Sweater Run
- Frothbite Beer & Bites Festival. La Crosse Center. 3pm-6pm
- Crowns & Capes, Children's Museum. 6pm to 8pm
** CRAFT FAIR to benefit Ukraine. Franciscan Spirituality Center. SAT & SUN
SUNDAY, 12/04
- Jingle Bell Brunch at The Cargill Room, reservations required, 9am.
- Winter Market. Radisson Center Ballroom. 9am
- Campbell Fire Department Annual Santa Run, 11:30am
Upcoming Save the Date:
- 12/07 Valley View Holiday Party at Country Club
- 12/18 Little Lights Everywhere. The Main.
- 12/22 Valley View Work Night at Rotary Lights
- 01/27 Hairball ROCKS La Crosse Center
Canada Pacific Holiday Train Schedule
- coming back after 2-year absence
- La Crescent, MN - 215 Chestnut St. December 7th at 8:15pm
- La Crosse, WI - 601 St. Andrew St. December 10th at 8:25pm
- Sparta, WI - Corner of South Water Street and Milwaukee. December 10th at 6:45pm
- Tomah, WI - 205 North Superior Avenue. December 10th at 5:25pm
- Winona, MN - 65 East Mark St. December 11th at 3:30pm
Other Event Resources:
Thank you, Rotarian friends, for all you do for our community and our world!
Cheers-
Rolan
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