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Latino Focused but not exclusive and English is our language! In the Latino tradition, your children are welcome to attend with you!
Service Above Self
We meet Tuesdays at 5:45 PM
Milwaukee Athletic Club
758 N Broadway
Milwaukee, WI  53202
United States
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Rotarians and NON - Rotarians are invited to our social THIS Tuesday, April 5 - see you at La Fuente 

April 5th Monthly Social at La Fuente
 
 
La Fuente is known for fun, food, and margaritas!  Join us for all three!  Once a month, on the 1st Tuesday, get together with your friends, fellow Rotary Amigos at the location listed below in Milwaukee at 5:45 PM. You can grab a few drinks, eat some good food (killer appetizers) . No structure, no topics, no presentations. Just enjoy a night out with your fellow Amigos and friends where you can practice those "soft-skills" all the marketing folks seem to have. Members are asked to contribute a nominal donation of $10 to help defray costs.  Guest contributions are covered by the membership committee.
 

Location: La Fuente - Milwaukee
Address: 625 S 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Directions: Click Here to go to website for map and directions 
 

April 12th -  Karen Puhl & Pam Schwalbach: Simple Hope - Clean Water Efforts in Tanzania 
 
There are many ways we can all get involved in clean water, regardless of where in the world it is needed.  This is one program whose focus is in Tanzania.  Working together with all people and faiths to build community and provide hope to those who are compromised in rural Tanzania Africa is the mission of Simple Hope.  The direct mission of Simple Hope is to empower lives through faith, nutritious food, clean water and education of sustainable processes.  Simple Hope is a registered tax deductible organization in the State of Wisconsin USA
 
Upcoming Meetings - 
Tuesday, April 19th – Laurel Kashinn: Going Indie Successfully: How to Write a Strategic Business Plan
Tuesday, April 26th – CLUB ASSEMBLY: 2015-16 Rotary Year – The Final “Push”
Tuesday, May 3rd - Social - Kasana
 

 
Bono praises Rotarians for their World Service and selflessly giving to make a difference in the world.  Take a minute to see the video and his praise for our being the first Chapter and the present in eradicating polio from the planet.  We are VERY close!  Amigos Rotarians have been a part of water projects, medical clinics, nutrition projects, and polio vaccines.  See more below on how active Amigos Rotary Club has been!
 
 
 
 
Service Above Self. Rotary gives us the chance to do more locally and internationally than we could ever do alone.
 
Rotarians Tre Waldren, Dorothy Krupa & Angela Rester have served in Guatemala Medical Rotary project with Enrique Gandara (Rotarian from Guatemala City now working in agriculture in Madison, Wisconsin).
 
THIS club, Amigos Rotary Club provided funding for a water project in Baja Tole' Panama in partnership with Rotary Club David Panama. Dorothy and Angie visited the project site prior to approving the project.
 
Dorothy & Angie also participated in a polio vaccine day in Kerala India with Rotarians from local clubs. Angie has also done polio vaccines in Nigeria, Power Flour projects in Panama, and visited projects in Argentina & Chile. Dorothy is a Founder and active in a micro lending program for women in Haiti.
 
If you want to get involved come learn more at one of our meetings on Tuesdays at 5:45. First Tuesday is always a social and April will be at La Fuente
 
 
 
Rotary Amigos:
March 21st - Club Assembly
 
This planning session resulted in a number of actionable items/projects. Duties assigned and planning begun for a community service project with Pan-African Community Association (PACA).
 
Discussed adding "After-work" to the name of our club since we ARE an "After-Work" club.  Everyone was reminded that our club was deliberately chose a time that allowed members to have time to leave work and get to the meeting.  It is also convenient for people who are commuters to meet before heading home or passing by downtown Milwaukee on their commute and still have time after the meeting to have dinner with family or friends, or attend an evening class, or head out to the theater or restaurants after the meeting.  By not including a meal, the time is shortened and the cost of joining Rotary is not an impediment to joining.  It also allows those without flexible work day schedules to participate in Rotary. 
 
It was decided that we will organize a wine tasting event.
 
March 14th - Leonardo Fernandino:Staff Scientist at Medical College of Wisconsin - BRAIN MAPPING
 
It was a VERY interesting program and had a lot of "ah-hah" moments.
 
Leonardo was one of seven authors for 

Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs - click on the title to go to a summary.  Brain & Language  - 2012

The problem of how word meaning is processed in the brain has been a topic of intense investigation in cognitive neuroscience. While considerable correlational evidence exists for the involvement of sensory- motor systems in conceptual processing, it is still unclear whether they play a causal role. We investi- gated this issue by comparing the performance of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) with that of age-matched controls when processing action and abstract verbs. To examine the effects of task demands, we used tasks in which semantic demands were either implicit (lexical decision and priming) or explicit (semantic similarity judgment). In both tasks, PD patients’ performance was selectively impaired for action verbs (relative to controls), indicating that the motor system plays a more central role in the processing of action verbs than in the processing of abstract verbs. These results argue for a causal role of sensory-motor systems in semantic processing.

 

 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Dorothy Krupa
May 20
 
Anniversaries
Dorothy Krupa
June 3
 
Tre Waldren
Cathy Waldren
June 9
 
Join Date
Don Cohen
April 26, 2013
3 years
 
Nestor Godinez
May 27, 2014
2 years
 
Angela Rester Samse
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Citlali Mendieta
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Dorothy Krupa
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Maria Flores
June 30, 2009
7 years
 
Russell Hampton
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