On April 19th, Waukee Rotary President Devin Boyer presented a check to the Waukee YMCA Executive Director Eric Kress for our second donation for the new video board in the aquatics area. The Rotary Club has pledged in total 3 donations to the new video board.
At the April 19th Rotary meeting, City of Waukee assistant public works director Rudy Koester spoke to the club about the different traffic and street projects coming to the City of Waukee in the next year. He talked extensively about the phase 5 expansion of Alice's Road, which runs from Olson Drive to north of Hickman Road. He also spoke about work to be done on 10th street and Little Walnut Creek Drive. Thank you, Rudy, for updating the club on the upcoming projects!

It was great to hear about Waukee's latest project: a miracle league baseball field, play area, and all-inclusive fishing pier. The new addition to the community will be located near the second high school in the City of Waukee's youth sports campus.
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At the April 5th meeting, Club President Devin Boyer presented City Administrator and Rotarian Tim Moerman with one of the Drive Carefully signs that were donated by the club to the City of Waukee. In total, 10 of the signs were donated and will be placed around the city of Waukee by the schools to remind everyone to drive carefully!

At this mornings meeting, Anna Bergman and the tree planting committee talked to us about the Waukee Rotary Club's efforts to plant trees this year. Rotary International president Ian Risely has challenged all 1.2 million Rotarians to plant a tree this year. The Waukee Rotary Club is working with Waukee Schools, the City of Waukee and Waukee Area Christian Services to plant trees. Thank you Anna and the tree planting committee for updating us on how we can help!

Enjoyed hearing the great things happening in Central Iowa with Jay Byers and the Des Moines Partnership! For more information about the Des Moines Partnership, head to www.dsmpartnership.com Thanks for stopping by!

Congratulations to Joyce Wheeler for receiving her Paul Harris Fellow #3 and #4!! Ryan Gau presented her pins to her at the March 29th meeting. Great job Joyce!!

We are happy to welcome our new members, Tori, Sam, and John, who received their membership package at yesterday's meeting! We are beyond excited to have these three new members join the Rotary Club of Waukee!.jpg)
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We had a great meeting yesterday morning with Brenda Long, the executive director of Garden Gate Ranch, speaking to our club about how they help victims of human trafficking. For more information, head to http://www.gardengateranch.com/ Thanks for stopping by!

Waukee Rotarians were inspired on March 15th 2018 by the keynote speaker, Shelly Vroegh, 2017 Iowa Teacher of the Year. Shelly is an instructional coach and fifth grade teacher at Lakewood Elementary School in Norwalk, Iowa.
Mrs. Vroegh is passionate about developing teachers as leaders as well as working to recruit and retain quality teachers. She strives to empower teachers to create classrooms where students will have high quality literacy and math experiences and its is her desire to cultivate a growth mindset in both students and teachers.
