Presiding at Noon Meeting

Ristola Bass, Catherine

Visitors & Guests

Bogle, Gary

Greeter

Hagel, James

Greeter

Chambers, Dick

Apr 21, 2022

Kate Boeve

World class Highland games athlete, and how Holland is hosting Waterfront Celtic Festival in June

Apr 28, 2022

Robert Ortman

Challenged Students luncheon

May 05, 2022

Steve VanderVeen-Writer

History of Holland

May 12, 2022

no club meeting, TT Kinderparade Grand Marshalls!

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Welcome to Holland Noon Rotary Club

Thursdays at 12:10 PM

Haworth Hotel at Hope College

225 College Ave
Holland, MI 49423
United States of America

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Afghan Family Requests

We have secured permanent housing for our Afghan family. A list of needed items for their living areas was mailed out earlier.

If you have items on the list that you wish to donate, please take a picture and send it to Carol Swart. Items do not need to be brand new but should be in good condition. Someone will contact you about donating the item.

Carol's email is carol.lynn.swart@gmail.com.

Big Rotary Party! St Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Day Party

Join us for the first event where all the Holland, Zeeland, Allendale Grand Haven, Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Clubs come together to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Hosted by the Lakeshore United Rotaract Club.

We start the event off with 30 minutes from the West Ottawa Jazz 1 Band – “One of the best kept secrets of the Holland/Zeeland area”. Members of this top Jazz band at West Ottawa are consistently accepted to U of M, Mi State, Western, Central Michigan and Interlochen band programs.

Then we finish with an hour of meeting and mingling with the coolest people doing wonderful things in our world!

Please be sure to register as a guest at the following link so that we can prepare to have enough food and drink for everybody!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Rotarian Response to Ukraine

Rotarians Respond to Ukrainian Crisis

More than half of the 2.5 million refugees fleeing Ukraine have arrived in Poland where Rotary members are organizing shelter, transportation, and basic necessities for the incoming refugees.

Rotary Club of Olsztyn is collecting and managing donations for refugees, primarily unaccompanied children, staying at Ostróda Camp. Within a few hours, four cars full of donated items were collected— including food, clothes, bedding, personal hygiene products, as well as some toys.

The Rotary Foundation has received thousands of donations, totaling over $1.1 million. These donations support efforts like that of the Rotary Club of Olsztyn as well as provide medical supplies in Ukraine and support refugees who have fled to neighboring countries. #RotaryResponds

Donate to Rotary's Disaster Response Fund to support refugees and victims of the Ukraine crisis here: https://lnkd.in/eQTexMPG. Or you can donate to (Rotary General Secretary) John Hewko's personal fundraiser https://raise.rotary.org/Ukraine-Refugee-Crisis/fundraiser

Mar 17 Announcements

Mar 17 Hybrid Meeting - In Person at Haworth Hotel and On-line

We are continuing to meet in person at Haworth Hotel as well as on Zoom. If you did not sign up for lunch at last week's meeting, you should have received an email from Catherine with details on how to register for in-person meals. You will need to bring $15 in cash or a check to pay for lunch.

Here is the link for the meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81628886872

Meeting ID: 816 2888 6872

Our speaker is Kory Gier Owner and President of Holland Bowl Mill.

The Holland Bowl Mill was originally started as the Wooden Shoe Factory in 1926 by Chester VanTongeren and to this day is still owned and operated by Chester’s relatives. In 1984 the Holland Bowl Mill became a separate company.

Last Week at Rotary Mar 10, 2022

Club Updates

We are anticipating the arrival of our inbound exchange students at the end of summer. If you know of anyone who is interested in hosting an exchange student, please let our Rotary Youth Exchange committee numbers know.

Our Afghan refugee family will be moving to their new house on Saturday. Call Carol Swart if you can help.

MSU Bioeconomy Institute (MSU BI)

Dr. Tom Guarr was with us to talk about MSU BI. When Pfizer shut down their Holland manufacturing plant, they donated the portion that was a pilot plant to MSU in 2007. In 2009 the university created MSU BI. Their mission is to provide manufacturing capabilities, incubator space for startups, and research. In 2016 a location in East Lansing was added to the MSU BI organization. The Holland location concentrates on specialty chemicals while the East Lansing location specializes in fermentation.

MSU BI has run more than 600 commercialization scale-ups for companies. The facility has a wide range of reactors, dryers, and other equipment. All environmental permits are kept and there is a fill-time safety officer.

MSU BI runs an internship program to allow college students to learn about working in research, to tour local industries, and to learn about business operations such as patents. They have had about 70 interns from 20 different schools. The interns go on to graduate school or into industry after completing their internships.

The research is concentrated on "green" technologies. In the last few years there has been a dramatic decrease in the cost of solar and wind generation. These technologies are now the least expensive ways to generate electricity. The challenge is to develop methods to store the energy until it is needed. Worldwide about a billion people have no reliable access to electric power. Energy can be stored by mechanical, thermal, chemical, or electrical methods.

MSU BI has concentrated on flow battery technology. In this type of battery, the chemical fuel moves through the cell to maintain the storage capability. Flow batteries can be scaled up to very large sizes for municipal use. The technology being pursued uses biological elements to replace the usual toxic and rare components. MSU BI has created a commercial venture called Jolt Energy to market the batteries.

US31 Highway Cleanup
Veldheer Tulip Farm
Apr 23, 2022 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

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