August 11 - Phil Bruneau August 18 - Patrick Boria August 25 - Pat Arling September 1 - Tom Vonhof September 8 - Doug Anderson September 15 - Ken Mosier
MASTER AT ARMS SCHEDULE:
Aug 11-Alan Williams
Aug 18-Alan Williams
Aug 25-Dave Bellows
Sept 01-Dave Bellows
Sept 08-Pat Arling
Sept 15-Pat Arling
Sept 22-Doc Aak
Sept 29-Doc Aak
Master At Arms - Dave Bellows with "Viking" trivia.
ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE - Message from Joel Theisen
Our Lakeville Rotary club is sponsoring a young student Nerea Ugarte Puereta age 17 from Madrid Spain and she is set to land on August 18. 2016 Air France Flight 694 at 15:40 (military time) which is 3:40 PM our time at Terminal Two at MSP. I am hoping to get as many people as possible to meet her when she lands to make her feel welcome to Minnesota, please let me know if you can make it. Hope all of you can make it. She is excited to come to Minnesota but I am sure she is nervous at the same time so anything we can do to make her feel happy, safe and excited will be greatly appreciated by her, her family and the undersigned as the YEO Officer in charge of her visit.
Speaker-Kent Olson – University of MN Community Outreach
Tom Hendrickson introduced our speaker Kent Olson. Kent is on the Iringa Hope Board and an Associate Dean at the University of MN Extension Center for Community Vitality.
Dr. Olson’s extension and outreach work focuses on farm management issues. He develops educational materials and decision tools to help farmers choose which options are best for them within the U.S. farm bill. He has written a set of information sheets describing the options and is developing educational materials for farmer and agricultural professionals. In response to the wet spring in 2013, he analyzed farmers’ options and choices under crop insurance regarding prevented planting, adapted an analysis package and made it available on the web and press release. He has spoken on topics such as “Trends, Issues, Threats, and Opportunities Affecting Farmers” and “The Good, Bad, and Ugly: Helping Solve Hunger in the World” to public audiences. Due to a rapid decrease in crop prices, many farmers were facing an extreme squeeze between low income and high rents so Dr. Olson developed an analysis package for a spreadsheet and made it available on the web.