President Elect Pre-PETS Conference Training

Presidents Elect resources are now online on the PETS web page.  You can also register for the PETS conference online through the Upper-Midwest PETS site.

Register for the District Conference Beginning in January 2011

District Governor District 6220 Governor’s Conference Registration

April 15-17, 2011

Online Registration begins in January 2011.

Stone Harbor Resort and Conference Center

107 North First Avenue, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin • 1-800-746-0700

District Welcomes New Club

District 6220 now as its forty second Rotary Club with the addition of the Packerland Sunrise Rotary Club in Howard, Wisconsin.  They meet at the Comfort Suites Hotel located at 1951 Bond Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday mornings at 7:30am.  Christina Trombley is the first President of the Packerland Sunrise Rotary Club, and we want to welcome her and all of the charter members into our Family of Rotary in District 6220.  

- Steven Selvick, District Governor

November Newlstter Posted

The District 6220 Newsletter is now online at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/november2010.pdf.

Photos of Fundraising/Membership Training Session

Check out our Facebook page for pictures from the 6220 Foundation/Membership Training program.  http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/media/set/?o.66451560968

August Newsletter Posted

The August Newsletter for District 6220 is available at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/august2010.pdf. 

Lakeland Clubs’ “Rump Roast Run” Fundraiser Continues to Grow

Contact: Susan Pukall at suepukall@hotmail.com for more information

It sounds wacky – it is wacky – but “Rotary’s Rump Roast Run” generates serious fundraising dollars for the two clubs in the Minocqua area.

While many serious runners turn out for the 5- and 10-kilometer race, others show up in cow costumes, or wear black and white spotted caps, or t-shirts showing a butcher’s diagram of cuts of beef. One couple dresses their Welsh corgi up in a different costume each year to do the 5k fun walk. The grand prize for the top finishers in each race? A 20-pound hunk of raw beef!

Why the bovine theme? The clubs started the event seven years ago, tying it into Minocqua’s annual Beef-A-Rama festival on the final Saturday of September. Beef-A-Rama is one of Wisconsin’s wackier food festivals and has been taking place in Minocqua for nearly 50 years. The event started as a way for downtown merchants to say “thank you” to tourists and summer residents at the end of the season.

Beef is slow-roasted all along the downtown main street by local businesses and community groups, and then each roast gets rated by “celebrity” judges. Many groups choose a different costume theme each year, and you can pass by Pirates of the Caribbean one minute and the giant Klementz sausage mascots the next. After the judging, the event turns a bit surreal, with each roast being paraded down the street on everything from silver platters to elaborate floats – a display that has been compared to something out of a Dr. Seuss story. The roasts are then taken to a park on the edge of town to be carved up and sold to the public as sandwiches.

“We thought a race could not only be a good fundraiser for the clubs and promote awareness of our public service projects, but would also be beneficial to the community if we could attract people into town earlier in the day,” says Rick Wilson, race coordinator and a member of the Lakeland/Minocqua Breakfast club. “The awards ceremony is over by late morning, so hopefully the participants will stay in town and do some shopping, attend the crafts fair, have a little lunch and watch the parade.”

The starter’s gun goes off at 9 a.m. but Rotarians are busy registering participants Friday night and early Saturday morning, making sure they get their numbered bibs, long-sleeved commemorative t-shirts and bottled water.

The racecourse starts in downtown Minocqua but quickly shifts to hug the shore of Lake Minocqua, then turns down wooded country lanes. The 5-kilometer participants finish by crossing an old railroad trestle back to the island, while the 10-kilometer runners head down a former railroad bed called the Bearskin Trail before turning around and finishing back across the trestle.

 “Runners consistently say this is one of the prettiest courses they’ve ever done,” Wilson said. “They enjoy running past the lake, and the fall colors are almost always starting to turn here by the end of September.”

The first Rump Roast Run drew 85 participants but that number tripled the following year due largely to positive word of mouth, and grew to over 650 last year. The Lakeland Rotarians also hold a 1-mile run for children 12 and under that now draws over 60 kids.

An awards ceremony wraps the event up, with the top 3 finishers by gender and age brackets receiving awards, and the top finishers in each distance getting the afore-mentioned roasts – and a cooler to take it home in.

However, though their work with the race is then over for the day, in 2009 the Minocqua Rotarians decided there was opportunity to increase their fundraising at Beef-A-Rama by hosting a beer tent during the afternoon. That, too, was a success and the plan is to continue it.

A lot of work but the proof is in the bank account
After a few years of planning this event, the race committee members know what needs to be done and are busy on and off throughout the year. A week after the event, they get together to talk about what worked well and what could be improved for the following year. Thank you letters and receipts are sent to sponsors and donors. Results are posted to the website. And then the whole cycle of finding sponsors and planning the next year’s event starts all over.

But the proof of the event’s success is in the bank statement: The run has generated a cumulative total of $84,000 for the two clubs over the first six years. The funds have been used to support both clubs community service projects, including construction of a park pavilion with public restrooms, donating playground equipment to the Town of Hazelhurst, and a large financial contribution to the Lakeland Food Pantry when it moved to a larger building.

The hope that the event would also benefit the community was confirmed by research conducted by the Lakeland High School marketing class in 2008.

Contacting past race participants, their research showed that over half came from more than 75 miles away, and most said they dined out during the weekend or shopped locally. The class extrapolated the reported spending levels to all race participants and estimated that the runners spent about $45,000 in the area during the 2007 event.

They gave high marks to the friendliness of the Rotarian volunteers and ninety percent of the participants surveyed said they planned to return in the future, with many of those saying they would bring additional friends with them. One participant summed it up best: “We had such a great time at the Run and Beef-a-Rama--there will probably be an even larger contingent from Hayward next year.  You people really know how to throw a party.”

History of District 6220 Posted

Learn more about the history of District 6220 by visiting the history page at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/about/historyofdistrict.htm.  A special thank you to PDG Pryse Duerfeldt for collecting the information. 

July Newsletter Posted

The July District Newsletter is now available at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/july2010.pdf. 

June Newsletter Available

Your June 2010 District 6220 Newsletter is available to view at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/june2010.pdf

May Newsletter

The May newsletter of District 6220 is now available at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/may2010.pdf. 

WPR - Route 51 Never Forgotten Honor Flight on May 6th

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: 5/3/10
For more information, contact:  Glen Moberg ▪ 261-6307

This Thursday, May 6th Route 51 regional talk radio devotes a second program to the Never Forgotten Honor Flight, a project that flew more than 100 World War II veterans free of charge to Washington DC this past week.  The vets had a chance to see the World War II memorial and Arlington Cemetery, and to receive some long overdue recognition for their service.  A crowd of 500 people welcomed them back home to Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee at the end of the one day excursion.  Host Glen Moberg discusses the experiences of this day to remember with three people who made the trip: Honor Flight organizer Jim Campbell; Pete Wasson, Assistant Managing Editor for the Wausau Daily Herald; and Joe Karlen, one of the men in the 8th Infantry Division who went ashore at Normandy on D-Day. Listeners will also hear the stories of other local World War II veterans who made the flight.

Route 51, Wisconsin Public Radio regional talk show, can be heard from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. Thursdays on the Ideas Network stations WLBL 91.9 FM Wausau, WLBL 930 AM Auburndale/Stevens Point, WHBM 90.3 FM Park Falls, WHAA 89.1 FM Coloma, and for those with a high definition radio, on WHRM 90.9-3 HD.  We’ll be taking calls from our listeners live on the air at (715) 261-6371 and 1-800-780-9742.

Wisconsin Public Radio
518 S 7th Avenue
Wausau, WI  54401


Please go to neverforgottenhonorflight.org to see how you can help our World War II veterans take a free trip of a lifetime to Washington D.C.  Their time is running out, so please help us now

April Newsletter - Updated

The updated version of the April Newsletter is available at www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/april2010.pdf. 

March Newsletter Available

The March Newsletter for District 6220 is now online at http://www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/march2010.pdf. 

PETS Agenda Posted

The PETS Conference Agenda is available at www.ridistrict6220.org/pdf/2010%20PETS%20Agenda.pdf

Register Now for the 6220 District Conference

May 14th - 16th, 2010 - District 6220 Annual Conference

Put on your DANCIN’ DUDS and get ready for a great time in Eagle River!

6220 District Conference
Eagle Waters Resort
Eagle River, Wisconsin 54521
www.eaglewaters.com

Register Online on the District Database:
1. Logon to the District Database at http://www.DaCdb.com/rotary 
2. Select “Calendar” tab at the top of the screen.
3. Select “Go To RegisterME” entry
4. Select "RegisterNOW" link beside the calendar entry for the District Conference
5.  Enter conference attendant information and pay online.  You will receive 2 confirming e-mails: One from the Conference registration, and one from the on-line payment processor.  

The conference resort, Eagle Waters Resort, has a limited number of rooms available on a first come first serve basis and should be contacted directly at
800.892.8377 or 715.479.4411 ASK for Sharon.


To Register By Mail:
DOWNLOAD the PDF registration FORM at http://www.directory-online.com/Rotary/Accounts/6220/Event/77141929/Registration%20for%202010%20Rotary%20District%20Conference.pdf
Download the PDF registration form. Print it out, and mail it in with your credit card information or check.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS must be made separately... Visit http://www.directory-online.com/Rotary/Accounts/6220/Newsletter/0/DISTRICT-CONFERENCE//District%20Conference%20Schedule%20of%20Events%20and%20Hotel%20information.pdf to view the PDF for the Schedule of Events and hotel information.

The conference resort, Eagle Waters Resort, has a limited number of rooms available on a first come first serve basis and should be contacted directly at:
800.892.8377 or 715.479.4411
ASK for Sharon.

Saturday's continental breakfast consists
of coffee, juice, fruit & pastry

The Rotary Walk For Those Who Can’t

Download the Volunteer Form and Waiver for "The Rotary Walk For Those Who Can’t"

February Newsletter Available

The February Newsletter for District 6220 is now available at www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/february2010.pdf. 

Follow the GSE Team in India

Follow the 6220 Outbound team in India.  Visit http://mkusz.blogspot.com to read their blog.

Etta Project Final Report Posted

The 6220 site has posted an excellent report of an Etta Project our district supported with the help of a Matching Grant from The Rotary Foundation. This project is something every Rotarian in the district can be proud of! With the help of Engineers Without Borders we were able to get clean water to many Bolivians who would otherwise go without! It is also an excellent example of how a final report should be written for a Matching Grant.


Thanks,
Eric Paulsen, District Project Fund Chair

January Newsletter Available

The January Newsletter is now available at www.ridistrict6220.org/newsletters/january2010.pdf.