This week, we are plunging ahead with a great line-up of speakers for the next few months. Confession: for a brief second, I thought, "Oh boy, someone from NASA is coming to talk to our club!"
Well, yes, but not that NASA, but rather the other one, the North American Squirrel Association.
Do you suppose they intended to create that connection in our minds when they named their organization? Hmmm...
Tony Christnovich, this week's Speaker
The North American Squirrel Association works to provide outdoor sporting opportunities for people with disabilities, such as these gentlemen fishing from the N.A.S.A. pontoon boat.
Tony Christnovich will tell us how he and a friend started the N.A.S.A. and its programs today.
The City of La Crosse and the Climate Alliance for the Common Good are offering a free workshop to help small businesses and organizations in La Crosse develop affordable sustainability plans that may save companies money and are ready to implement.
The workshop takes place on Thursday, January 18, 2024, from Noon to 3:00 pm and will be held in South Ballroom A at the La Crosse Center. Local experts in the fields of energy, building infrastructure, landscaping, transportation, and waste/food waste will be the presenters.
In addition, an entire segment of the workshop will be devoted to the variety of incentives and rebates available to help companies pay for the transition to sustainable practices and equipment. A light lunch will be provided.
New members: the next STAR meeting is this Tuesday, January 9, at noon.
The STAR meeting is held from 12-1 pm at the Parenting Place, 1500 Green Bay Street in La Crosse. Lunch is NOT INCLUDED, but you are welcome to bring your own. Please RSVP!
VVR will soon be making plans for a Youth Exchange student. Rotary International regulations require an annual background check for all Rotary Youth Exchange volunteers. If you get an email that the background check on file for you will be expiring soon, and you think you want to renew it, please contact Nancy Schultz FIRST.
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The Wreckers
I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,
They swung a beam, and the side wall fell.
I asked the foreman: "Are these skilled--
And the men you'd hire if you had to build?"
He gave me a laugh and said: "No, indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do."
And I thought to myself as I went my way,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care
Measuring life by a rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds to a well made Plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker who walks the town
Content with the labor of tearing down?
Join us on Zoom here: https://laxymca-org.zoom.us/j/81822994924?pwd=ZzlVeHZoOUdXeGZwSkxvd0tmZXhWQ (Zoom Password is 469027)
Check schedule as we do not meet in person every Wednesday and at times meet at another location.
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