September 2024 Bulletin (Oct. 01, 2024)

Cornerstone Mission - Serve Meal
30 Main Street
Oct 01, 2024 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM

School of St. Jude Dinner & Auction
First Congregational Church
Oct 26, 2024 5:30 PM

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September 3, 2024 Meeting

Our speakers this morning were Jean Kessloff, President and Darla Drew Lerdal, Executive Director of Historic Rapid City. They shared information on their work restoring the Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy house at 727 South Street. Currently the work has moved to the interior and when completed they will attempt to have it registered with the National Historical Record. Historic Rapid City is working to preserve Rapid City’s history. For more information please visit their website: www.historic.org

September 10, 2024 Meeting

Today was Rotary Day and Kim Baker, Chair of the PI Committee, went over our web page, Club Runner sign up and our Facebook page. Please utilize these great Rotary resources and like our Facebook page & posts. www.rushmorerotary.com
Facebook/rushmore rotary.

We had classification talks from Michael Steves ( attorney) and Kim Baker (Insurance-Retired).

To end the meeting we had a game to get to know our fellow Rotarians better. Great idea!

September 17, 2024 Meeting

Our speaker today was the new Athletic Director for SD School of Mines, David Crum. He comes from a college sports ticketing and fundraising background. The Hardrockers are a division II school so they are a good balance of athletics and academics. Their players are there persuing engineering degrees. They have 310 scholarship athletes in 13 sports. The school has a 96% job placement rate for athletes. The SD School of Mines would love to see the student population and citizens of Rapid City at more games. Come check out at least one game this season.

September 24, 2024 Meeting

This morning we collected diapers for the Oyate Center's Mom's Tour (https://themomstour.info/) The tour is focused on reducing the unacceptably high maternal mortality and morbidity rates in the U.S., especially among Black and American Indian/Alaska Native moms. Thank you for your donations and Scott Van Dam for organizing this.

Linda Peterson donated Foundation points to thank Sandy White Shield and Kibbe Brown for all their hard work with the White Clay Makers Space and human trafficking. They each received a Paul Harris Fellow. Congratulations!

Our speaker today was Miss South Dakota, Joelle Simpson. Joelle is from Rapid City and is currently studying Medical Laboratory Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Her platform focuses on Nurturing Nature. She has a passion for penguins and the black footed ferret, which has successfully thrived here in SD through captive breeding. Joelle is also an accomplished harpist and figure skater, (a quad gold medalist). She will be competing for Miss America in January. If you would like to see Joelle’s upcoming series on YouTube called Nurturing Nature you can follow her on facebook (miss South Dakota), or visit her web page at misssd.org.
Joelle is raising money to get to the Miss America Pagent. If you would like to help see the picture above to donate.

School Of St. Jude Dinner & Auction

Serving at Cornerstone Rescue Mission

Serving at Cornerstone Rescue Mission today. Ron Jeffries, his brother Jim, Willis and Pat Sutliff and Mary Kenner. Thanks for your help!

United Way Day Of Caring 2024

September 5th was the United Way Day of Caring 2024. Rushmore Rotarians showed up to help paint and clean up at Storybook Island. Great job people!

District End Polio Walk/Run

District End Polio Walk/Run

The top performers will be recognized at our District Conference.

D5610 Polio Walk Run:
We are at the brink of eradicating Polio virus from the world. This is an initiative started by Rotarians in 1979, and we are committed to continue our support until the goal is reached.
Wild Polio is currently reported just in Afghanistan and Pakistan. About 15 cases /yr of wild polio in the past few years. We are vaccinating children throughout the world spending close to a billion dollars each year. Rotary International is third highest contributors in the world, behind Gates Foundation and US Government towards this cause. Efforts are under way to eradicate polio from those two countries. If we can do that, we can stop vaccinating our children and keep the world safe from Polio, just as we did with small pox.
This year we will support the cause by organizing a virtual 1K/5K walk/Run during the month of September.
How it works:
1. Choose your own time and location and complete your walk or run (1K or 5K) during the month of September.
2. Talk to your family members and friends to join you for the “Rotary Polio walk”
3. Request your friends to support you by donating money for the cause - “Eradicating Polio from the world” and by raising awareness about the current status about Polio. You and your team (if you choose to organize one) can walk or run 1 K or 5 K and keep your time in which you accomplish this.
4. Send the information about your time and funds raised to aakumarjr@gmail.com (Dr Ashok Kumar, D5610 “End Polio Now” chair.) Call me or any of the committee members if you have any questions (605 390 6238).
Go the Rotary Foundation web site and contribute the raised fund (from you and your team) in your name to the Polio Fund or give the collected funds to your club’s treasurer (to send to Polio fund). Make sure you send the information about the amount you sent to me by e-mail. You do get credit towards Paul Harris Fellow for the amount you sent.
Together we can do this - “Eradicate Polio from the world “- and keep our children safe without having to vaccinate them.
We appreciate your support and commitment.

September 2024 Social

The September social was last night at our President Heidi Bell-Gease’s house. There was some great food and wonderful fellowship. Enjoyed watching the game in the “grainzebo”.