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The Eden Prairie AM Rotary Club is an organization of men and women committed to providing volunteer service to the local community and around the world. 
September 18, 2018
MEETING AT EDINA COUNTRY CLUB!
Manny Villafana - Living Legend of Medicine
Joint Offsite Meeting
Manny Villafaña is one of Minnesota's most successful entrepreneurs. In 2006, the World Society of CardioThoracic Surgery named him the “Living Legend of Medicine,“ for his pioneering leadership of St. Jude Medical, CPI/Guidant, ATS Medical and his latest venture, Medical 21, Inc. Beyond his dedication to medtech, Manny is a well known philanthropist and lecturer at Harvard, Universities of MN, Iowa, Notre Dame, Miami of Ohio, Stanford, Brown, St. Olaf, and others. Governor Dayton proclaimed October 27 as “MANNY VILLAFAÑA DAY.”
Marnie Wells on Aug. 28 introduced Eden Prairie A.M. Rotary Club members to Camp Tanadoona and its long history with Rotary. Wells is CEO of Camp Fire Minnesota, the organization whose camps include Tanadoona, more than 100 acres located about five miles west of Eden Prairie on Lake Minnewashta. The idea of a camp for Camp Fire Girls – an organization that started as a type of Boy Scouts for girls – was presented to downtown Minneapolis Rotarians in 1923, after which club members made financial pledges in order to purchase the Lake Minnewashta property, a purchase culminated in 1930. Since, area Rotary Clubs have also played a part in funding the camp and its facilities, which are expected to serve about 5,000 kids in 2018 through a variety of programs including summer camp and K-12 field trips for environmental learning. The need to connect kids to nature is profound, says Marnie, since on average kids are spending roughly 90 percent of their time indoors..jpg)
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