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The Rotary Club of Amigos de Milwaukee After Hours is a multilingual club with a passion for diversity in Milwaukee
Service Above Self
We meet Tuesdays at 5:45 PM
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758 North Broadway
Milwaukee, WI  53202
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Are you ready for an opportunity to enjoy an amazing a cappella performance, raise money and have fun? On Saturday, January 20, 2018, the Rotary Club of Mitchell Field will host its fourth annual Milwaukappella performance. The evening will feature Transit, the winner of the 2017 Open Mid-Atlantic Semifinal and a finalist in the 2017 International Championship of A Cappella. Proceeds from ticket sales will help fund community and international projects of The Rotary Club of Mitchell Field.

 

Transit features a diverse repertoire of music from every decade since the 1950s, including songs by The Beatles, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, Maroon 5, Christina Perri and many other artists. There’s truly something for everyone! Their heart-thumping bass, vocal percussion, instrument emulation, innovative arrangements and diverse solo styles create an incredible show that leaves audiences speechless.
 
Combining soaring leads, smooth harmonies, and a thumping rhythm section, Transit demonstrates the power, versatility, and emotion of the most natural instrument of all — the human voice.
 
The evening performance will open with local vocal students who participated in the day-long a cappella workshop taught by Transit and other music professionals.
 
For program ads and information about sponsoring a student for the day-long workshop, please contact us.
 
For tickets, please go to the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center.
 
..before the curtains go up. An important part of Milwaukappella is the full-day a cappella workshop for high school and college students. The student workshop fee includes lunch, dinner, the opportunity to open the evening show and a ticket to enjoy a premium seat for Transit’s performance. The workshop is open to all high school- and college-age a cappella singers, whether or not they’re currently in a vocal group. Sign up early! Attendance has increased each year and spots are limited.
 

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Tuesday, January 16 - Creating a Dementia Friendly Community -
Of the estimated 5.5 million Americans living with Alzheimer's dementia in 2017, an estimated 5.3 million are age 65 and older and approximately 200,000 individuals are under age 65 and have younger-onset Alzheimer's. One in 10 people age 65 and older (10 percent) has Alzheimer's dementia.
 
Eric Russow, and his wife Bernadette, have worked with the Alzheimer’s Association for ten years and have recently starting working on Dementia Friendly Community Elkhorn.  The goal of a dementia friendly community says Eric is one where people living with dementia can feel welcome and are assisted with normal activities of their daily life.  Eric and Bernadette offer training for local companies and so far they have trained VIP, Elkhorn Police, St Patrick’s Church, Associated Bank, and the Mathieson Library in Elkhorn.  Eric  will give examples of how a business could be dementia friendly.  He will also help the audience to understand what dementia is and is not including this one example.  Dementia is not forgetting where you put your keys.  Dementia is putting your keys in the freezer. 
 
The international symbol of Dementia Friendly Community is a purple angel over a globe of the world.  Eric says that the goal of a Dementia Friendly Community is to make quality of life better and ease the fear and isolation associated with dementia. 
 
SAVE the DATE - Tuesday, February 20 - Paul Harris Celebration and the Birthday of Rotary!!  Imagine 113 years of service throughout the world!  Join us as we celebrate "Service Above Self" within Rotary and with those who are not Rotarians but giving of their time in the community.  Details to be announced soon including ways to nominate those you believe should be recognized whether they are a Rotarian or not!
 
 
Plan to attend the Rotary International Convention in Toronto - contact Past District Governor and member of the Convention Goers Fellowship to learn more
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2018-19 RI President Barry Rassin wants Rotary members to Be the Inspiration

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Rotary International President-elect Barry Rassin laid out his vision for the future of the organization on Sunday, calling on leaders to work for a sustainable future and to inspire Rotarians and the community at large.

Rassin, a member of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, unveiled the 2018-19 presidential theme, Be the Inspiration, to incoming district governors at Rotary’s International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “I want you to inspire in your clubs, your Rotarians, that desire for something greater. The drive to do more, to be more, to create something that will live beyond each of us.”

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2018-19 RI President Barry Rassin announces his presidential theme, Be the Inspiration, at Rotary's International Assembly.

 

Rassin stressed the power of Rotary’s new vision statement, “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.” This describes the Rotary that leaders must help build, he said.

To achieve this vision, the president-elect said, Rotarians must take care of the organization: “We are a membership organization first. And if we want to be able to serve, if we want to succeed in our goals — we have to take care of our members first.”

Rassin asked the incoming district governors to “inspire the club presidents, and the Rotarians in your districts, to want to change. To want to do more. To want to reach their own potential. It’s your job to motivate them — and help them find their own way forward.”

Progress on polio

Rassin noted that one source of inspiration has been Rotary’s work to eradicate polio. He described the incredible progress made over the past three decades. In 1988, an estimated 350,000 people were paralyzed by the wild poliovirus; just 20 cases were reported in 2017 as of 27 December. “We are at an incredibly exciting time for polio eradication,” he said, “a point at which each new case of polio could very well be the last.”

He emphasized that even when that last case of polio is recorded, the work won’t be finished. “Polio won’t be over, until the certifying commission says it’s over—when not one poliovirus has been found, in a river, in a sewer, or in a paralyzed child, for at least three years,” he said. “Until then, we have to keep doing everything we’re doing now.” He urged continued dedication to immunization and disease surveillance programs.

Sustaining the environment

Rotary has focused heavily on sustainability in its humanitarian work in recent years. Now, Rassin said, Rotarians must acknowledge some hard realities about pollution, environmental degradation, and climate change. He noted that 80 percent of his own country is within one meter of sea level. With sea levels projected to rise two meters by 2100, he said, “my country is going to be gone in 50 years, along with most of the islands in the Caribbean and coastal cities and low-lying areas all over the world.”

Rassin urged leaders to look at all of Rotary’s service as part of a larger global system. He said that this means the incoming district governors must be an inspiration not only to clubs, but also to their communities. “We want the good we do to last. We want to make the world a better place. Not just here, not just for us, but everywhere, for everyone, for generations.”

 

 
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