Join us for a FREE Community Event In Maple Grove

The Rotary Clubs in the NW suburbs of the Twin Cities is sponsoring a Free community event to celebrate the 100-year Rotary Foundation party at Town Green Music Park 7991 Main St., Maple Grove (Park by Maple Grove Library) from 10 am – 2 pm.  This is a joint party with Rogers, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Crystal/New Hope/Robbinsdale rotaries.  It is family fun for all with live music, photo booth, food trucks and bouncy houses.  Help your neighbors by bringing a food donation for CROSS.

We’re celebrating 100 years of The Rotary Foundation “doing good in the world”! 
Since its first contribution of $26.50 a century ago, The Rotary Foundation has spent more than $3 billion on projects that promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, support education, save mothers and children, and grow local economies. 


Rotarians are your business neighbors — working together to improve the quality of life in our community and world. Members contribute their talents, passion, experience and resources in Service Above Self. 

It is exciting to share with you our new coupon website. Couponsandbeyond.com is now up and running serving the Twin Cities area with thousands of local coupons.

This website available to all with free coupons for consumers of all types of items and services. Couponsandbeyond.com has local offers ranging from donuts specials to oil changes offers. Please check out our site and if you could please like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/couponsandbeyond/.

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Great Business Event Coming To Maple Grove

The Rotary Club of Maple Grove is sponsoring a business workshop led by Ethical Leaders in Action. This half-day seminar shows how ethical business leadership can drive the bottom line and help you with your business relationships. Here is the link to find out more. 
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ethical-business-leadershipdriving-the-bottom-line-tickets-8704707013

Should Be A Great Year!

I needed a big event to get me going on the blog again and becoming the President of the Rotary Club of Maple Grove has spurred me into action. I will blog about all the exciting and important things our club does. I will also blog on general information about business and an occasional thought or two that I want to share.

It is exciting being part of a group of people that accomplishes so many good things in Minnesota and around the world. At our Rotary Club, some of our projects include helping to build a school in Haiti, providing school supplies to children in a small town in Mexico who would not be able to go to school without our help, and working with our local high schools to help our leaders of tomorrow grow and make good decisions. Locally or nationally we do good things!

Please follow with me during my year as the president of Maple Grove Rotary Club.

Facebook Privacy Settings

I know many of you use and enjoy Facebook. Here is a quick article about a new privacy setting issue. I suggest you read it(short) and then follow the steps. It is easy I just did it!

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=566253786&ids=0OdzcTcPcSdzkIdzwTcPkOdzoRb38Uc3wMc3oSdiMPc3wOdPsPdzkIcz8Md3oNdzoR&aag=true&freq=weekly&trk=eml-tod-b-ttle-80

1. Log into Facebook.
2. In the top-right corner click on Account and go to Privacy Settings.
3. Click "customize settings" (toward the bottom-middle of your screen).
4. Look for the section titled "Things others share." The permission you accidentally gave Facebook to use facial recognition suggestions is located in the "Suggest photos of me to friends" option. Click on "Edit Settings" to change that.
5. Choose "Disabled" and then push "OK

Bring on Spring and the Twins!

There is something special about the snowmelt and the start of baseball. It is amazing to see sunlight both when we drive to and leave work; it brings certain level of energy to us all. This morning when I read the paper with the list of baseball games today, I just had a good feeling.

How special is spring? It is a time of new life. One can hear it in the birds and watch as trees bloom. I love to see the flowers slowly come up from the ground knowing that they will soon be an awesome flower in the summer. It is this new work in the spring that creates such an amazing sight. Just like the trees and flowers, I believe it is time for us to put something new in action. To bottle up all the extra energy we get from the sunlight and put to good use. It is time to start a new project that you been putting off during the winter. We need to dig into that list of “to do’s” and do one or two of them. I suggest choosing one extra thing from work and one from home. If you do, your summer flowers will look amazing. Take advantage of the springtime feeling and do something special today! Go Twins!