Recap from our June 21, 2021 Club meeting.
Invocation: Lindsey Phillips
Visitor: Mark Roberts - MPW
Happy News/Announcements: Jessica Wittman was happy that Mike Wedell joined our meeting by zoom (he was the only one today on Zoom). Lindsey Phillips wanted to remind us of the car show at big Hy-Vee Saturday starting at 3:00 it will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Special Olympics. Frank Iliff put in a dollar for forgetting his badge at home :) Megan Francis is happy that she now has the tablet propped up to record the meeting/zoom so she does not need to hold it. Megan also reminded us of the cookout that Senior Resources is putting on at Crossroads, Saturday June 26th from 11 to 1.
Club Business: We had our annual meeting. Rick Gosney read the bylaws. Officers were nominated and approved. The following was approved by all members present for the 2021-2022 Rotary fiscal year. President- John Kuhl. President Elect and Membership Chair - Naomi DeWinter. President Nominee/Vice President and Secretary - Megan Francis. Community Service Chair - Frank Iliff. Service to Humanities Chair - Greg Bock. Youth Services Chair - Mike Wedell. Vocational Services Chari - Rob Yant. Treasurer - Lindsey Phillips. Sergeant at Arms - Chuck Moody. Immediate Past President - Rick Gosney.
Program: Our program today was Matt Schweizer - District Store Director of Hy-Vee. He oversees the stores in Muscatine, Durant, Wapello, Columbus Junction and West Liberty. Matt started his career at Hy-Vee as a stocker in Mason City, he moved to Muscatine in 2012. There are 275 Hy-Vee stores in the midwest and they hope to add 20-30 a year for the next few years. Voted 5th best grocery store chain in the United States. The company employees 88,000 people in the state of Iowa, 2nd largest employer in Iowa. The company donates $60 million a year to charities, the 3 largest being - the Red Cross, Veterans Foundation, and Make a Wish Foundation. Local stores can choose their local charities. Their largest competition right now is online shopping - Amazon and Walmart. Matt shared with us what it was like being a food supplier when everything shut down in March of 2020 and all the challenges - staff shortages, supply shortages, safety for workers and shoppers, online orders increasing overnite to what they normally did in a whole week. They hired 22 nurses to administer Covid 19 vaccines, in March alone they gave 10,000 shots. Staffing is still a BIG concern. Matt was very happy to announce that they are getting new technology, scanners, etc. this week. Thank you Matt and Hy-Vee.
Reminders: June 28, 2021 - our program will be Sheriff Quinn Riess. July 5th - there will not be a meeting in observance of Independence Day. July 12 - Will be the Rotary Presidential Gavel Passing.
Have a great week.