Excelsior Rotary Meeting 10-6-2020
The Excelsior Rotary Club met on Zoom on Tuesday, October 6th and was preceded by the Board of Directors meeting.
At the Board meeting there were several important decisions made: 1) We will continue to meet on Zoom to the end of the year. 2) Tad Shaw will represent us in learning about the Support Lake Street in Mpls. endeavor sponsored by the AM Club for Metro Rotary Clubs. 3) Steve reported on the Rotary Golf Classic and that we raised $39,064 and our club has received a check for $19,583,02. Members that want a copy of the Golf Event Power Point can send Steve an email and get their own copy as is too large to send on Club Runner. Contact Steve at sfrazier@usjet.net the 5.8 MB file. 4) Karen thanked the members Marianne Laurent, Jenny Janson, Dick Glover, Lou Graber, Jim Cada, John Ferm and Karen and Steve Frazier for helping with the Highway Clean-up on Tuesday, September 22nd. 5) October will be Warm Hands and Warm Hearts for Resource West. Please bring new or gently used coats, gloves, hats, scarves, boots, and children’s snow pants to Excelsior United Methodist Church located at 881 3rd Ave. in Excelsior between 11 to 1 PM open Monday through Thursdays. The Deadline is October 31st and place your donations in the box with Excelsior Rotary’s name on it. 6) Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army on November 17th and watch for the sign-up sheet. 7) Happy Hour at Excelsior Brew on Tuesday, September 26th at 5:00 PM. 8) There will be no Christmas Party this year. 9) 4th Quarter Invoices coming out soon - $110 during pandemic. 10) Financials good with Club-$15,224, Foundation Savings-$18,634, Checking-$25,069. 11) Happy Bucks-$2,900 and starting next meeting members can donate and be billed on next quarter.
Rotary Club Meeting on October 6th and featuring Jill Holter’s Biography and Golf Power Point.
Tim Litfin was the Opening Marshal doing the Pledge and 4-Way Test and then did a fun Music Trivia with the Club.
President Kate did the Anniversaries and Club Anniversaries and announced that the Club meeting will be by Zoom through the rest of the year. STRIVE is on-hold until we find a way to do it during Covid. Also our presenter on October 29th will be District Governor Tom Gump.
Karen Frazier reported on the Highway Clean-up ant thanked Marianne Laurent, Jenny Janson, Dick Glover, Lou Graber, Jim Cada, John Ferm and Karen and Steve Frazier for helping with the Highway Clean-up on Tuesday, September 22nd. She announced that October will be Warm Hands and Warm Hearts for Resource West. Please bring new or gently used coats, gloves, hats, scarves, boots, and children’s snow pants to Excelsior United Church located at 881 3rd Ave. in Excelsior between 11 to 1 PM open Monday through Thursdays. The Deadline is October 31st and place your donations in the box with Excelsior Rotary’s name on it. Also Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army on November 17th and watch for the sign-up sheet. Karen is also reaching out to members we haven’t seen lately and/or in need of assistance to get on Zoom.
Steve Frazier Co-Chair of the Rotary Golf Classic presented a Power Point with the results of the fundraiser held at Deer Run on Tuesday, September 15th and the Virtual Auction that was held September 1st through the 15th. He thanked President Kate, Nick Ruehl, Scott Zerby, and Karen Frazier for their four months of service working on the committee. The bottom line is that the event raised $39,608.05 with our club receiving $19,583.02! The Virtual Auction raised $18,488.67 and was a great success considering Covid and our first try doing a virtual auction. We had an outstanding Marketing Plan on Social Media with 1,447 emails sent to targeted audiences, 4,421 views on Rotary Classic.Org, and 48,300 Facebook impressions. Our goal of reaching outside of Rotary was very successful as we had 152 Golfers of which 131 were Non-Rotarians and in the virtual auction 59% of the winning bids were Non-Rotarians! Steve ended by thanking the 28 Club members that were sponsors, hole sponsors and donors of auction items and auction bidders for their support of our Rotary Golf Classic Fundraiser.
Jill Holter gave her Biography and it was great! Jill noted that she attended the Happy Hour gathering on September 29th at the Excelsior brew and how fun it was. Jill was adopted and grew up on Lake Minnewashta. She recounted her school experience and favorite teachers from Minnewashta Elementa
ry, West Jr. High and MHS. In high school she was very active in Tennis (Team Captain), Golf, and swimming. She graduated from the U of M with an English Major and had great friends that she still gets together with. After college she became interested in PR and Marketing working with the International Marketing Group and rubbing elbows with many of the tennis greats and NW Bank.
ry, West Jr. High and MHS. In high school she was very active in Tennis (Team Captain), Golf, and swimming. She graduated from the U of M with an English Major and had great friends that she still gets together with. After college she became interested in PR and Marketing working with the International Marketing Group and rubbing elbows with many of the tennis greats and NW Bank. Jill is very much a Mom’s Mom with six kids and her second husband Karl. Two are now out of college and their home is a hub for their kid’s friends and she smiles as says that there is always room for another one at her table. Karl is a great Bartender and Star Wars fan. She home-schooled her kids for 13 years and loved it but in 2013 got divorced and she needed to send her kids to Minnetonka Schools. During that transition she was desperate for food, money and work. She swallowed her pride and received food and help from the food shelf. She was so impressed with the mission of the food shelf she went to work for Lakeland’s Co-op in marketing and it was amazing. This led to appearances on TV that she said were great but “3 minutes of sheer terror!” and also had a home garden planting segment on TV. While at Lakeland she also helped new distributors get their brands on the Co-ops shelves. She then took a position with VEAP (which like ICA) in hunger relief and help for the homeless and handled their Facebook accounts and communications program.
However after only a year at VEAP she was compelled to quit her work there and to care for her elderly father and to advocate for him in the health systems. He passed in October 2019 and so she started her own company – Holter Communications. Then on January 21, 2019 Peg Keenan at ICA called and asked her to come work there as Community Relations Director. She loves her position there and loves her volunteerism in Minnetonka’s Vantage Program, Rotary, a member of Women Who Really Cook, and political volunteer and also gets her kids involved. She loves food and to cook. She is fond of her father’s ribs recipe, her award ribbons and trips to Ireland and other distant places. She thanked everyone for being in Rotary and took Q&A. Great job Jill and we are proud to have you as a member of our club!