This Week at Rotary
Thursday, August 15, 2024
IN PERSON & ZOOM
For Those Attending in Person
Lunch Buffet
11:30AM START
(Zoom Meeting Opens at 11:45)
(Link Sent Thursday Morning)
At
Kitchi Gammi Club
Lindsey Whitlinger, Committee Chair
September 28th, 2024
10 AM – 5 PM
Lester River Rendezvous is a fall festival that has been held in the heart of Lester Park for 25 years. On the 26
th and 27th of September,
Education Days provide 500+ students a full day field trip experiencing a historic hands-on voyageur village learning about the early fur trading era. The final day, Saturday, the park is open to the community to come explore the voyageur village, craft vendors, petting zoo, food trucks, and a kid’s carnival.
Lindsey is a lifelong, Duluth resident, residing in Lakeside/Lester Park. She has been going to the Lester River Rendezvous as long as she can remember. She is passionate helping her community come together and thrive.
Highlights from Last Week’s Meeting
By Rob Hofmann
Rotarians gathered once again in the West Dining Room at the Kitchi Gammi Club and were called to order by President
Elizabeth Simonson who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and Four Way Test. A
personal Reflection was offered by
Jeff Wencl who shared impressions from a Seattle, WA
Returning Warriors Workshop for vets like himself who have returned from recent wars seeking help as they reenter life. One theme
Jeff Wencl highlighted from the workshop was “Resiliency” – a theme well suited for today’s program. He also noted a talk by a Navy Chaplain who shared advice as how to
navigate the “peaks” and valleys” vets will experience reentering their lives. As Rotarians, perhaps together we can help others navigate life’s “peaks” and valleys”
Jeff Wencl
Self-Reports were good for the Golden Can. Jerry Pelofske put $53 in celebration of his 53 years of marriage. Congratulations! Jay Ott added a few dollars sharing a quick tale about his bumper car experience. Watch out for deer!
Jerry Pelofske
Jay Ott
Did you catch the mistake? Your Gimlet editor (and this week’s reporter) Rob Hofmann kicked the Golden Can for his error in Googling, then placing an unknown person’s picture as the featured speaker for this week’s program. That was not our speaker Tammi Johnson (see her picture below)
Rob Hofmann “The Buck Stops Here!”
Although the ceremony was delayed a few weeks, Club #25 President Elizabeth Simonson was able to publicly recognize Past-President Gary Melander’s year as Club #25 President. With great ceremony, Elizabeth Simonson placed the pin on Gary Melander’s lapel. Apparently, no blood was shed…
President Elizabeth Simonson with Past-President Gary Melander’s
Tammi Johnson, Lutheran Social Service’s (LSS) High-Fidelity Wrap Around Facilitator/Coach provided insights on a nationwide program that helps families. High-Fidelity Wraparound Program lifts family voice and choice so that they can “wrap” the best support around youth and their families. LSS helps families tap into a network of “natural supports,” from neighbors to friends to family members, alongside identified mental health professionals, who can all contribute to overcoming life’s challenges.
Wraparound shifts focus away from traditional service-driven problem-based approach (“downstream” approach) to a more upstream solution.
Speaker Tammi Johnson of LLS
High-Fidelity Wraparound is an evidence-based process in children’s mental health because it is:
· Driven by youth and their families
· Inclusive of the people who are important in their lives
· Reflective of the youth and family’s strengths and culture
· Supported by an effective team process
· Led by a single care coordinator.
Wraparound view of the people served:
- Everyone is capable of change
- All people have strengths and an amazing ability to succeed when treated as unique individuals with strengths-based individualized approaches
- Families are the experts on “self” and their situation
- Sustainable behavior change comes from self-motivations
Wraparound Mindset – TEAM Based:
Together
WE
Achieve
More
(L to R) Past-President Gary Melander, speaker Tammi Johnson, President Elizabeth Simonson and Bex Klafter (LSS)
Golden Nuggets of Club 25 History
Rotary Club of Duluth – Chartered July 17, 1911
By Rachel Martin and Jerry Thoreson
Young Edward J. Filiatrault, owner of the first Ford Dealership in Duluth, has tremendous impact in Club 25 history
Holding a Duluth banner, Edward J. Filatrault in the group photo at the 1911 National Rotary Convention in Portland. The entire group photo is below.
In 1910 when he was 34 years old, Edward J. Filiatrault helped organize Duluth's first Rotary Club and become one of Club 25's charter members in 1911. Born in Faribault, Minn., he moved to Duluth with his family in 1886 and graduated from Duluth High School. Filiatrault studied electrical engineering in Buffalo, N.Y., and then did electrical work for the Burgess Electrical Company in Duluth. In 1901, he and his partner, Emil A. Nelson, established the Mutual Electric and Automobile Company, selling automobiles and garage supplies.
This was the first automobile dealership in Duluth. Filiatrault made the first automobile sale in Duluth in 1902, the same year he married Andrea Chaput, a Duluth resident. In 1908, Filiatrault and Nelson divided their business, with Nelson forming the Mutual Electrical Company, and Filiatrault forming the Mutual Automobile Company. By 1911, Filiatrault had the first Ford dealership in Duluth.
Last week, we shared that the 1912 International Rotary Convention was held in Duluth, with 598 delegates from 41 clubs. The Thursday activities included “the largest auto parade ever held in Duluth” as delegates toured Skyline Boulevard. Without a doubt, Ford Dealer Edward Filiatrault organized and probably loaned vehicles for the event. Remember, this was 1912! Google AI states that in 1912 there were less than 10 vehicles per 1,000 in America.
Fittingly, Filiatrault promoted road development in the state legislature and was President of the Teddy Roosevelt Highway Association. He was President of the Duluth Auto Club and a member of St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church. He donated land for a church Health Camp at Three lakes, and was President of the French Naturalization Club.
Filiatrault died in 1922 at age 46 of complications from an operation. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Duluth.
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