No Meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, December 11th and we will meet next on Tuesday, December 18th at Noon at Red Sauce Rebellion!
Our program on Election Day was a Club Assembly, and a lot of material was covered. There are some big changes coming in our club’s future. .JPG)
The first news is that we will be changing our meeting site to Red Sauce Rebellion in downtown Excelsior. They have a meeting room that we will use for our lunches.
The second news is that we will be changing the meeting schedule to a different format. We will meet the first two Tuesdays of the month as we do now, and on the third Tuesday, we will as a club work with some local charitable organizations. The fourth Tuesday we will have nothing scheduled and will not meet.
Both of these changes were presented to the club by the board, and the club members present at the Club Assembly approved them. It will be nice to be back in Excelsior for our meetings, and eating our meals with real silverware and plates!
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Nick discussed 8 characteristics with the STRIVE students: 1. You have a Choice. 2. Take Responsibility. 3. Convert Failure to Success. 4. Choose Words Carefully. 5. Fuel Your Attitude. 6. Accept Life’s Challenges, Lessons. 7. Look Beyond Self. 8. Express Attitude. As part of his multi-media presentation he show a couple clips of Nick Vujicic who is a motivational speaker and was born without arms and legs but an incredible attitude to succeed. The students were touched by is life with many brushing away tears. The group then met in small groups to hear the Mentor’s most challenging situation and how they dealt with it and also to have students share their stories and the kids really opened-up. Simply stated – It was Our program on October 30th was a surprise because our expected speaker did not show up. Dr. Draayer gave us an impromptu talk ab
out what our club has done internationally in recent years, and told us of the reading program that he is working with. The program gets books to kids at an early age, and gets them “tuned” to learning.
out what our club has done internationally in recent years, and told us of the reading program that he is working with. The program gets books to kids at an early age, and gets them “tuned” to learning.Our club is hoping that the district will join forces with us on this program and make it district-wide.
STRIVE held its first student meeting with Tim Liftin Presenting on “Attitudes” and as always it was out of sight! We had four more students join the group to bring our total up to 18 students. Tim totally engaged the students with a multi-media presentation emphasizing that it all starts with having a positive attitude in life. He explained happiness and that you start with it and not end with it and how to set-up a “to do list” and how to take the first step to make things become a reality and not to procra
stinate. He spoke about dreams and had the students write down what they wanted life to be like at 30 years old and to stick their dream in a drawer and keep going back to it over and over again. Most importantly he explored famous people that didn’t let failure stop them from reaching their goals. He ended with a competition on their cell phones that asked questions from his presentation and Chinaka Ihekweazu was the fastest with the most correct answers and got the prize. Who said that kids don’t listen. (Photo- Will Carlson, Tim and Gisell Varela)Our program on the 23rd was a demonstration-type presentation by Kate Ingalls-Mahoney. She is the director of The Learning Lab whic.JPG)
h is a service of Augustana Care.
h is a service of Augustana Care.The Learning Lab is located near the International Market Building in Minneapolis and their mission is to connect older Minnesotans and their partners with home health and safety technologies that will help them live independently. Their place would be a fun place to work because they are always testing and evaluating devices that help ease the pains and problems of old age.
Kate, a local resident, brought a number of examples of items they recommend: pressure, time, and sound sensitive items that act as alarms, reminders, or lighting in the user’s home. Their items are usually very simple combinations of items we’re familiar with. One example she had was a pill bottle with a timer on it. The timer shows the time the bottle was last opened helping the user to avoid missing a medication, or double-dosing.
Contact 612-843-6790, or www.thelearninglab.org.
Our program on the 9th was a talk by Rolf Lowenberg-DeBoer who is the director of City House. 
City House provides listeners for people who appear to be ignored by others; usually, their clients are homeless or suffering from disorientation from the normal. Their volunteers spend their time listening and talking with people at various shelters in the area. Usually, they are one on one. They don’t offer counselling, but just listen and help give their client a feeling of self-worth.
They work with a number of agencies in the downtown Minneapolis area, and cooperate with other agencies that provide food, clothing and shelter for the needy. Their website is www.city-house.org.
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TRIVE Started it 2018-19 year on Thursday, October 11th with dick Glover give the STRIVE Program Overview and introductions of Mentors. We had 13 students in attendance of the 21 potential possible. The Mentors in attendance were Dick Glover, Don Draayer, Michelle Seets, Lou Graber and Steve Frazier. The kids were very attentive and applauded for each of the Mentors after they spoke. We look forward to another great year with our STRIVE Students. Our next meeting is on Thursday, October 25th on Attitudes with Tim Litfin presenting.
TRIVE Started it 2018-19 year on Thursday, October 11th with dick Glover give the STRIVE Program Overview and introductions of Mentors. We had 13 students in attendance of the 21 potential possible. The Mentors in attendance were Dick Glover, Don Draayer, Michelle Seets, Lou Graber and Steve Frazier. The kids were very attentive and applauded for each of the Mentors after they spoke. We look forward to another great year with our STRIVE Students. Our next meeting is on Thursday, October 25th on Attitudes with Tim Litfin presenting.
Highway Clean-up was today (Oct. 16th) but the team of Molly Swenson and Jenny Janson got out early and did there prior to last week’s cancellation of the clean-up due to rain. Stay tuned for this week’s report from Karen Frazier
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