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It's time for our family-friendly Minneapolis City of Lakes summer picnic!
The park is located just up the hill from Minnehaha Falls and near the Mississippi River and Veterans Hospital. It has a large playground and wading pool adjacent to the picnic shelter. We have reserved a picnic shelter, so the event can happen rain or shine. Please bring:
All the basics will be provided (plates, cups, napkins, etc.). A grill is available if you'd like to cook something up on the spot (or if you're a grill master and you'd like to volunteer to oversee the grilling, shoot us a note). Questions? Contact Jodi Massey or Aaron Wicks. |
Thursday, August 22
This spring, City of Lakes conducted a new Visioning Session focused on how member value. The result of that session was a one-page report outlining how we will achieve our three-year goal of growing the club to 125 members to fully support our vision of Service Above Self.
Download your copy of the report today.
Feed:
Quickly surpassing our initial goal of 10,000 meals, we set a new goal of 40,000 meals, which we exceeded, with a final tally of 53,890. Our feed initiatives have included partnering with Sheridan Story to stock weekend food bags for students at Jefferson School, the popular Saturday mornings at CES Food Shelf and building large projects out of food cans designed by Kodet Architects to benefit Second Harvest.
Quickly surpassing our initial goal of 10,000 meals, we set a new goal of 40,000 meals, which we exceeded, with a final tally of 53,890. Our feed initiatives have included partnering with Sheridan Story to stock weekend food bags for students at Jefferson School, the popular Saturday mornings at CES Food Shelf and building large projects out of food cans designed by Kodet Architects to benefit Second Harvest.
Read:
The Literacy Champs committee took on the 10,000 book challenge. Result: 12,793 books have been donated from our club. From an initial start of collecting used books from members & partnering with City of Minneapolis’ 4th Police Precinct and Project for Pride in Living to design, build & fill Little Free Libraries (special thanks to Kodet & O-A Design), our focus has narrowed to providing diverse books for young kids, working with Minneapolis organizations with a successful history & key focus on literacy. We have hosted book & book bag give-aways at schools and preschools, sorted books, read to kids, celebrated reading success at various celebrations, provided books to kids at an author party, stocked a middle school library and created books for kids at a morning meeting. We have brought in authors to speak, books to buy, and added books to our holiday gift drive present.
The Literacy Champs committee took on the 10,000 book challenge. Result: 12,793 books have been donated from our club. From an initial start of collecting used books from members & partnering with City of Minneapolis’ 4th Police Precinct and Project for Pride in Living to design, build & fill Little Free Libraries (special thanks to Kodet & O-A Design), our focus has narrowed to providing diverse books for young kids, working with Minneapolis organizations with a successful history & key focus on literacy. We have hosted book & book bag give-aways at schools and preschools, sorted books, read to kids, celebrated reading success at various celebrations, provided books to kids at an author party, stocked a middle school library and created books for kids at a morning meeting. We have brought in authors to speak, books to buy, and added books to our holiday gift drive present.
Over the last three years, City of Lakes Rotary Club has partnered with the following organizations as part of the Read & Feed initiative:
Boys & Girls Club
Edison High School
Hennepin County (Holiday Gift Drive recipients)
Hennepin County Corrections (through Hennepin County Library)
Jefferson School
Joyce Preschool (dual immersion preschool)
Kerlan Library at the University of Minnesota
Minneapolis Parks & Recreation
Minneapolis Police, 4th Precinct
Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute
New Horizon (N. Penn Ave)
Project for Pride in Living
Reach Out & Read MN
Reading Partners
Way to Grow
CES Food Shelf
Second Harvest Food Shelf
Sheridan Story
Thank you to all who attended the recent climate change forum we co-sponsored along with the clubs from Roseville and St. Paul Sunrise. We had record attendance! I am posting the slides from the event for all who are interested. Thanks!
On May 4, over a dozen City of Lakes Rotary Club members and family members came together at Community Emergency Services (CES) to prepare meals for families in our community. Besides providing volunteer support, City of Lakes is also proud to support the work of CES financially.
City of Lakes volunteers on a bi-monthly basis. Please see below for a list of upcoming dates.
July 6, 2019
September 6, 2019
October 26, 2019
January 4, 2020
The Minneapolis City of Lakes Foundation provided $1,500 to Joyce Preschool in south Minneapolis to support reading and related learning tools for the 3, 4 and 5 year olds. Supplies and books were purchased in both English and Spanish and these young learners and their teachers are excited to have these new resources to inspire learning in their classrooms. Thanks for your support of the Minneapolis COL Foundation, we are able to continually support great organizations like Joyce. Thank you!
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Registration for the The Leadership Fellows Program (LFP) is open! The goal is to equip cohort members with practical skills for personal, professional, and Rotary leadership and spotlight Rotary as the leadership development organization we know it is. Click here for more information.
August 28, 2019
- Day Chair: Jim Voss
- Greeter: Kathy Kuehl
- Check-In Desk: Jeff Roby
- Reflection: Ellie Krug
- Opening Song: Rooters
- Vocational: Kathy Kuehl
The COLRC Peer Group is for Rotarians to help each other develop personally and professionally. See below for this year's meeting schedule and click on the Read More... below for the groups Purpose Statement, Core Values and additional information on meeting times and location:
Schedule for next meetings in 2019
January 10 | Business Plan | John Rent |
February 14 | Working with a partner | Gayle Noakes |
March 14 | How to set up an Incentives structure | Kurt Nelson |
April 11 | Making progress - how to check and reset | Shaun Irwin |
May 9 | Team dynamics | Kurt Nelson / Gayle Noakes |
June 13 | Best book of the year | All share |
