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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. Want to make a positive impact? Join us! 
Paul Grangaard, formerly CEO of Allen Edmond Shoes and CEO/Pres. of US Bancorp Piper Jaffray has embarked on his latest venture CircleRock--- combining his strong ties to garment manufacturing and giving back to the community.
PROP is grateful to have sponsors for the 700 seniors and kids in its Holiday Gift Giving Sponsor Program, but is still looking gas and grocery cards for these families and seniors to provide them a nice holiday. You can provide a financial donation to PROP or purchase gift cards to Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Cub, Super America and Holiday in increments of $10. Please give your donation to John Goergen at a meeting, or drop off or mail it to PROP: 14700 Martin Drive, Eden Prairie, 55344.Amy Hudson: The Exercise Coach
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Robb Hiller introduced Amy who through The Exercise Coach in Eden Prairie helped him recover muscle strength after his recovery from cancer treatment. Amy grew up in Chicago and graduated from Bethel. She operates The Exercise Coach franchise in Eden Prairie. Amy was not athletic growing up and found her five hours a week running to be too time consuming. The program consists of two twenty-minute workouts per week which are structured, and trainer led to provide maximum improvement of strength and muscle development to protect aging adults.
Muscle loss begins in our thirties and continues at a rate of 10% per decade if not prevented through exercise. Muscle loss can lead to Sarcopenia but can be reversed through resistance/strength training. This can add up to seven years to life expectancy. The program improves all body systems (cardio, muscular, metabolic, skeletal, hormonal and neurological).
Jim Nelson: Maximizing Donations to the Rotary Foundation
The ins and outs of The Rotary Foundation and its grants were explained Nov. 20 by Jim Nelson, an Edina attorney who has been a Rotarian for 19 years, including a term as district governor.
Jim’s interest in this topic is motivated in part by having experienced several “Rotary moments” over the years, including a Rotary water and sanitation project in Honduras that – because of improved bathroom facilities – greatly increased the number of teenage girls attending a local school.
Rotarians need to know the power of The Rotary Foundation and its ability to provide dollars for local clubs’ projects, he said. TRF, as it is known, has both global grants and district grants. Global grants are pretty self- explanatory. Like the Honduran project he described, these are typically abroad and are in one or more of six general areas: peace and conflict prevention/resolution; disease prevention/treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and economic and community development. A club’s $10,000 global-grant project can easily turn into funding of $35,000 with district and TRF matches and even $55,000 if other clubs are involved.
DR. DON DRAAYER AND DR. SYLVIA SEKHON - Reach Out and Read: The Importance of Healthy Brain Development in Children Ages 0-5, and an Innovative Program to Help Support It
Dr. Sekhon, a pediatrician and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota began the presentation with some very insightful facts and statistics about the importance of healthy brain development in very young children. Eighty percent of all brain development occurs between birth and age 3, with 90% completed by age 5. Adverse experiences in early childhood can disrupt the connections made in the brain and influence gene activity—this is known as epigenetics. Exposure to drugs while in the womb, abuse, neglect, stress, household dysfunction and other negative experiences can result in children with lower I.Q.s and learning difficulties. Children not ready for kindergarten and those not ready by third grade are at high risk of not graduating from high school.
STEVE LEAR - THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE: ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST
Our speaker Steve Lear, a member of the Twin Cities Jewish community and a frequent speaker about Israel and the Middle East, suggests that in this very tribal world we would be better off to substitute another word for “peace” when talking about solving the problems of the Middle East. He suggests that “consolution,” a short version of the term “constructive solution,” would be a better goal.
One of the keys to “consolution,” says Lear, is regular and frequent voting in Middle Eastern states so that the governments reflect the wishes of their constituents. That kind of democratic approach hasn’t always been evident, he added.
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