Welcome to the Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans

 
YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR NEXT MEETING; NEW DAY/NEW TIME/NEW LOCATION

 
 
Thursday, July 10, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
 
Chanhassen American Legion Post 580
290 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN
 
 

At our next meeting we will do an informal strategic planning session for our Club where you can openly share and discuss ideas to make our Club the best resource possible for serving veterans and be the most rewarding Club in Rotary to be a Member of.  Topics will include service projects, public relations, Foundation giving, and membership.  

Of course, our meetings are always open to anyone desiring to serve, support and walk beside veterans and their families. At our 2nd week of the month meetings [held on the second Thursday of the month from 5:30 to 6:30 PM at the Chanhassen American Legion] we enjoy a topic of interest to veterans, Rotarians, and our metro community families. We meet in the lower level meeting room; there is a server to take our food and drink orders. The food is excellent, and portions are very generous [Many will need a take home box!!!] Significant others and children are welcome!!!

Our other gatherings occur around service projects or social connections with the veteran community. These are held in various locations and times as scheduled. If you are part of a veteran organization [or any organization that cares about veterans] and would like to host a gathering of club members, please reach out to our President, Guy M. Marzano, (612)839-7288 [Phone or Text] or at guymarzano@gmail.com. We truly enjoy working on projects that benefit veterans.
 
Let’s make the 2025 - 2026 a milestone year in the history of Our Club!!!
 
SOFAS FOR SERVICE
UPCOMING: On Saturday, July 19, all of our Club Members [and their families] are invited to meet for breakfast at 9:00 AM at Keyes Cafe on Lexington at Larpentur in Roseville to form carpools to attend the Open House for Sofas for Service, the #1 organization we support!!! The Open House [11:00 AM - 2:00 PM] will be at their warehouse, 1610 Spooner Ave. Altoona, WI 54720. A check for $3,000.00 from our Club Foundation will be presented there at Noon. 
 
 
PARTICIPATE IN OUR RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE
 
Club Member Jeff Staads volunteered at the drive and donated!
 
 
We have two slots filled and two more open to check donors in from 3:00-5:30pm & 5:00-7:30pm (includes table break down).  Let Mark know if you can volunteer. (Anyone is welcome to help.)
 
The Rotary Club of Minnesota Veterans is committed to strengthening our community and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood donations. Blood drives are a way of giving the community an opportunity to help save lives. Veterans are known for being concerned about the safety and wellbeing of others. That is why Rotary is such a good fit for those who want to serve veterans and their families. 
 
It all began in 2020, after a Red Cross speaker presented at one of our club meetings about all that the Red Cross does for Veterans. When a club member asked what we could do to help, he suggested hosting a blood drive. Our veteran club has successfully hosted 21 Blood Drives! More than 2500 patients have received blood products from our efforts.  We are especially thrilled when our donors discover that their blood products end up at the VA to help vets! 

 

Our next drive will be Thursday, July 24, 1:00-7:00pm Click here to sign up for an appointment  Summer is a time when fewer donors come out. Can we count on you?

 
 
About Rotary Veterans
 
We are a group of Veterans and other service minded men and women living in Minnesota who were chartered as a service club within Rotary International in October, 2019.  Our sense of service derives from military core values of "Service before Self"  that parallels those of Rotary International "Service above Self." 
 
Service includes: actively caring for one another and our extended families - especially during times of hurt; serving in our communities - youth, civic organizations, schools and the elderly; duly honoring other veterans & their families - especially during times of grief; and serving those in area/regions where we have served, such as projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, etc.  

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