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ic noon rotary mtg summary 3.8.18
Posted by Shawn Reineke on Mar 14, 2018
Our Meeting was called to order by President Mike McKay
 
Announcements
 
President Mike announced that we need a few volunteers to help take minutes at our weekly meetings.
Join the team of note takers, Rtns. Shawn Reineke, Devin van Holtjein and Sara Sedacek for our weekly meetings. This offers a great way to become engaged in our club! Please contact Rtn. Shawn Reineke or Club
President Mike McKay for more information.
 
President Mike acknowledged that today is International Women’s Day and extends his Congratulations!
 
Rtn. Dorothy Paul announced the Night of 1,000 Dinners Iowa City held at Johnson Robert A Lee Community Rec Center was a wonderful event that took place Wednesday, March 7th.
Over 65million people have fled their homes and risked their lives in search of refuge. Most are children, but less than half have access to education. The United Nations Association of the United States of America, in tandem with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and its fundraising arm USA for UNHCR, is working to prevent a lost generation by giving refugee children the education they need to build a better future. Our Club helped to sponsor refugee women’s education. A panel of refugees living in Iowa City spoke about their first-hand experiences at the Kakuma Camp in Kenya, and refugee education. 
 
Rtn. Christina Kimerle announced the Fore the Family Golf Tournament. In just 16 years, Fore the Families of RMHC-EIWI has raised more than $750,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois and is co-sponsored by our Iowa City Thursday Noon Rotary Club.
1 golfer sign up pays for 2 families to stay at the Ronald McDonald House for 1 night. Contact Rtn. Katharine Marshall at katharine.marshall@foriowa.org to get signed up or volunteer to help!  If you are interested in sponsoring a golfer, contact Rtn. Verne Folkmann.
  • Date: June 4, 2018
  • Event held at Finkbine Golf Course located at: 1380 Melrose Ave in Iowa City
  • Registration capped at 144 golfers
  • $150.00/golfer, $600.00/team
  • Includes meals, range balls, hole-in-1 contests, prizes and raffles, and so much more!
Rtn. Ryan Bell and Rtn. Katharine Marshall are leading the charge for our club for the upcoming Earth Day – Tree Planting Initiative and are asking for each member to donate to the cause. Our club needs to raise $2500 to cover our share of tree planting in the area. One or both of them will be collecting donations for the next
several weeks after meetings. Please contact Katharine at marshall.katharine@gmail.com
or Ryan at ryno@localsloveus.com for more about the upcoming Earth Day – Tree Planting Initiative.  Each $10+ donation is entered into a drawing for a $50 Bread Garden gift card. Ryan is excited to report that $240 was raised after our meeting today and brought on both President McKay's business and Past President Usha's non-profit as corporate sponsors! Rtn. Janice Baldes was the winner of the $50 gift card to Bread Garden.
 
 
Rtn. Jon Brown announced the New Member Committee is bringing their new energy into new projects. They are working with other Rotary Clubs to have a presense in 2 upcoming parades, The Coralville 4th of July Parade and the University of Iowa’s Homecoming Parade. All members are encouraged to participate.
 
Rtn. Chris Catney announced the books that our Rotary Club sponsored for the Xicotepec Library will be leaving Iowa on Saturday morning for delivery to Xicotepec! “Thank you for providing to this project!”
 
Our Club heard from Goat Rider: Paul Park
 
Rtn. Kelly Hayworth introduced our program speaker, Josh Schamberger, President of Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau since 2001.
PROGRAM:
Josh presented our Club with the 2018 tourism revenue update as well as shared several events to take place in our community this year. Tourism in the state of Iowa is over an $8 billion industry. Travel generated expenditures in Johnson County totaled over 4 million in 2017 and the tourism industry. Johnson County is now the 2nd largest tourism expenditure County behind Polk Co.
 
Josh described 2018 as a year with several BIG events scheduled to take place. The University of Iowa Athletics, Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and USA Wrestling are excited to serve as hosts for the 2018 UWW Senior Men’s Freestyle Wrestling World Cup at Carver Hawkeye Arena April 7-8, 2018. Record-setting attendance for the USA Olympic Wrestling Team Trials in 2012 & 2016 and decades of wrestling success on collegiate and international levels has paved the way to bring this incredible event to the best wrestling fans in the world! The US will welcome teams from Cuba, Japan, Georgia, Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan. This should be an exciting weekend as we also host the Mission Creek Festival downtown Iowa City as well as the International Literature event.
 
Josh described the 1st Annual RUN CRANDIC powered by University of Iowa Community Credit Union. Participants will choose the marathon, half marathon or 5K between Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Iowa City, Iowa.
All proceeds will benefit the Cedar Rapids Community School District and Iowa City Community School District. This event will bring 3000 participants to the area from 3 countries and 30 states.
 
Ragbrai update: Josh highlighted the fact that Iowa City is scheduled to be one of the overnight towns, stopping here on July 27th for Ragbrai. This is the first time Iowa City has hosted as an overnight town since 1976.
 
FryFest celebrates it’s 10 year anniversary and we also celebrate Nile Kinnick’s 100th birthday this year. This celebration of all that is Hawkeye takes place August 31 in the Iowa River Landing with a block party, Hawkeye Tradeshow and pep rally.
 
Josh announced The UCI approved the 2018-2019 World Cup calendar for cyclo-cross, with Iowa City's Jingle Cross again kicking off the series in September.  Josh is excited that UCI chose  Jingle Cross as one of the rounds for the Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup. Over the past 15 years, Jingle Cross has grown into one of the premier cyclo-cross events in the world and it's terrific to have the best riders compete here in Iowa City. It is excellent for the cycling community and the continued growth of cyclo-cross in North America.
Josh shared plans about the Iowa Arena Project. A new arena and athlete training center are part of a project that Coralville will build in the Iowa River Landing (IRL), a 180-acre mixed-use development located on Interstate 80 at Exit 242 (1st Avenue). Seating capacity of 6,216. A single full-size sheet of ice will support the University of Iowa Club Hockey Team, the Iowa City-Coralville Hockey Association youth teams, and a possible United States Hockey League. The Arena will have the flexibility to host a multitude of athletic events and tournaments, from wrestling and basketball to indoor football and soccer, in addition to concerts, family shows, and special events. Open date is scheduled for fall of 2019.
 
President Mike thanked Josh Schamberger for his enlightening presentation and opened the floor for any comments.
 
The meeting ended at 1:00 pm as President Mike led the assembly in reciting The Four Way Test.
 
MEETING:
 
Singing: America the Beautiful and Vive Le Rotary was led by Bob Crane with Doris Preucil on the piano.
 
Please forward any newsworthy items and/or photos to Jon Brown or Janice Baldes to include in the weekly slide decks emailed to members prior to each meeting and shown just before Rotary meetings at the Club. You can send information to: Janice Baldes janicebaldes@gmail.com or Jon Brown at mjonBrown@taxesplusiowacity.com
 
For questions related to Club administration, please contact us at secretary@iowacitynoonrotary.org.
 
It is our policy to have all members silence their cell phones before the meeting and refrain from answering their cell phones during the meeting out of respect to the speaker and fellow members.
 
Our Greeter, Kate Moreland announced visiting Rotarians; Kelly Garvin, Muscatine; Hazel Seaba, IC AM
Guests of Rotarians; Jason Walton (Jerry Waddilove), Weijing Wu (Kate Moreland); Tim Carty (Ryan Bell); Caleb Winter (Nicole Daufeldt)
 
Program: Tom Cilek; Attendance: Melissa Schooley
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