Thursday, September 11, 2025

Lunch Buffet

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Roger Reinert took office as the 40th Mayor of the City of Duluth in January 2024.

He brought to office relevant experience from the private, public, and military sectors.

Roger makes his home in Duluth's Observation Hill neighborhood.

He is a sailor, avid runner, and licensed pilot.

 

Saturday, September 13, 2025
Three time slots available between 7:00am - 1:30pm

Pick a time slot or stay as long as you want.

Please contact Allison Hanig-Landrus at cell: 612-281-3036

email: ahanigla@amfam.com)

 

 

 

 

 

By Anthony Nordan

 

This week at Rotary we were welcomed in by President Zach Walters. There wasn’t going to be a reflection today but a familiar visiting Rotarian by the name of Jireh Mabamba came to our rescue. His reflection talked about a great many things.

 

 

For him coming to Duluth is like coming home. Rotarians remind him and should remind each other of the power of being together. We are a community that unites and creates lasting change. A call to live with purpose and build bridges across cultures. Small initial acts of service and fellowship are what initiate change. He asked the question, “What changes can I help create?” We can unite people with purpose as Rotarians and that is what we should carry forward.

 

There were 4 guests today.

 

We had a few self-reports today as well.

 

 

 

President Elect Dan Maki

 

There were a few announcements today:

 

  Scheduled for September 13^th Volunteers will be handing out water to marathon runners near the Backwoods station.

Renne Burns – District Conference Committee

 

 

The chair of the day is Greiger Yount. She introduced Harbortown Rotarian Karl Everett as someone who is well traveled but started his journeys in Minnesota. He attended college at UMD locally then moved to Ohio for further studies. He is a geologist, and by nature he gets to different areas around the world. Karl serves on district boards, both the grants and water committees.

 

Harbortown Rotarian Karl Everett

 

Throughout Karl’s presentation he gave us several beautiful views of the mountains in Bolivia. 

His first visit was in 2013, his second was in 2015, and third in 2018. He has been to Bolivia several times to help with the medical needs of the clinics set up by a non-profit friend of his. Karl gave us several statistics about Bolivia. Bolivia is the poorest country if South America, 40% live below the poverty line. Life expectancy was estimated to be 46 years old in the 1980s but has risen to 64 years in 2018. The country, founded in 1825, is land-locked and many of its economic challenges are due to the lack of a port and mountainous passages.

 

Karl has traveled to Bolivia often to deliver donated medical supplies, and, with fellow Rotarians, help build medical clinics. Poverty is acute and makes like difficult for families who earn not much more than $300 - $400 US. Karl shared a story about a child named Gabriel that was being “held: at a Bolivian hospital until his parents paid off his medical debt. The young boy had meningitis and without the lifesaving medicine he would have died. With Karl’s help, the family paid off that debt and Gabriel was able to return home.

 

8% of babies die withing days of birth. 1/3 of children die before age of 1. For many years Karl has been working with ‘Mano a Mano’ to address some of these issues. Together with Rotary they have built 188 clinics so far. Infant survival is up to 10x higher in the areas that these clinics are working in. These clinics are working some of the most austere and rural areas of Bolivia.

 

Karl also showed us some financial numbers of what it takes to build a new clinic. It costs $110,000 to build a new clinic. The last clinic built had 1,210 patients visits.

 

Q&A

 

President Zach Walters did the 50/50 raffle drawing. There was $55 up in the raffle. The winning numbers were 3724529 which Bill Lundberg had the golden ticket.