Whitnall Park Rotary Club spent $1000 to purchase 100 face shields and 500 face masks for the Milwaukee County Emergency Operations Center. The items were delivered to Rotarian Mason Pooler, West Allis Fire Chief and head of the Milwaukee County Emergency Operations Center.
WHITNALL PARK ROTARY CLUB
Serving Greendale, Greenfield, Hales Corners, and Muskego, WI
Since 1975
Home of District 6270 Governor 2013-2014
Service Above Self
Welcome to our Club!
Serving and Enriching Our Community through Leadership and Learning
1st & 2nd Tuesdays at Whitnall High School at 7:00am. 3rd Tuesdays at Bosch Tavern at 5:30pm
Whitnall School District Community Room
Whitnall School District Community Room
5000 S. 116th Street
Greenfield, WI 53227
United States of America
Greenfield, WI 53227
United States of America
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Tour de Cure --- Cancelled
Boerner Botanical GardensAug 08, 2020
Public is invited to human trafficking community forum at Whitnall High School on February 25th. Whitnall Park Rotary Club is sponsoring the event, featuring a personal story and panel of experts.
Brett Bennett, the Director of Vision Care for the Skygen International Foundation, spoke to our Club today about bringing vision tests and glasses to the children and people of Tanzania. Skygen has provided 110,000 eye exams and over provided over 25,000 pairs of glasses to the people of Tanzania in 2018. Each patient receives an exam of the same quality as you would receive at your local eye doctor. While this may seem like elementary care we are speaking about people who don’t have addresses, mail capabilities, phones and only 4 eye doctors per 2,000,000 people. Those statistics may help put this care in perspective.
The Assistant District Governor gave the club an award for our contribution on World Polio Day.
Our speaker for the day was Abigail Bornemeier from the American Diabetes Association. We learned about the growing numbers of people impacted by diabetes and risk factors.
Members of the Whitnall Park Rotary Club took part in a great cause: The Hunger Task Force StockBox build. 16 club members participated and packed 15 pallets of boxes.
Colleen Hansen from Community Projects for Senior spoke to the Club today. Community Projects for Seniors, started in 1986, has over 400 volunteers and provides 4000 meals for Thanksgiving Christmas and Easter for seniors in Southeastern WI. They also provide care packages and parties for seniors throughout the year.
Julie Rome - The President of Dan Jansen Family Fest spoke to the Club about The Moving Wall commemorating the Vietnam War Memorial. She informed us of the work that went into getting The Moving Wall to Greenfield. She also told us stories of the veterans who came to share in The Wall. The stories she told and the tributes she shared were a beautiful testament to the men and women who died in the war as well as the survival and pains of those who survived and came home.
Jim Michlig spoke at our October 1st meeting. He shared how their district is making meaningful connections for students with colleges, careers and the community.
Rotary International District Governor Steen Sanderhoff spoke to the Whitnall Park Rotary Club on Tuesday 9/3/19
On Tuesday July 9th we had the pleasure of hearing from Greenfield Mayor Michael Neitzke.
In response to the WPRC Board of Directors' recommended changes to the weekly meeting time and venue, the entire WPRC membership approved the proposed changes by a vote of 24-2. Currently, the membership of WPRC stands at 27. Thus, 96% of the WPRC membership participated in the decision.
Starting in January 2019, our weekly meeting format will move to the following approach:
Breakfast meeting to be held on the first Tuesday and second Tuesday of the month with a start time of 7:00 a.m. and end time of 8:00 a.m.
After Hours social to be held the third Tuesday of the month with a start time of 5:30 p.m.
Board of Directors will meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month with a start time of 7:00 a.m.
If there is a fifth Tuesday of the month, some sort of hands-on project will occur .
Final details on meeting location(s), any changes in costs, etc., will be released in the next few weeks.
Whitnall Park Rotary Club hosted its annual Christmas Art & Crafts Fair on December 1, 2018, at Whitnall High School. The event was a huge success with 1,958 guests offering a $3 entrance donation at the doors. More than 160 crafters displayed and sold their items to this huge crowd. WPRC members, their family members, and other recruits did an awesome job of team work and expended great effort to ensure success. Thanks to all, and congratulations, on a job excellently done! WPRC member Kent Bieganski (retired Chief of Police, Hales Corners) has provided some 60 photos from this great event. See the slide show by clicking here.
Ciara McHugh, 2018-2020 Global Grant Scholar from Rotary District 6270, has begun her PhD. program at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She describes her program in her own words: "Over the next few years, through the support of LINCS (Leverhulme Interdisiplinary Network for Cyber Security) and the Rotary Foundation's Global Grant Scholarship, I'll be exploring how police and communities interact around the world. I'm interested in looking at tensions between minority groups and police forces, and how we might rethink relationships between the two." Follow Ciara's progress and adventures via her blog: https://ciarajmchugh.weebly.com
