NOON meeting -- Adult Protection and Elder Abuse Prevention in St Croix County (Feb 08, 2023)

Adult Protection in St Croix County

Assistant Corporation Counsel for St Croix County (and River Falls Rotarian) Amber Hahn will present about what Adult Protective Services does, how community members can help the population served by Adult Protective Services and what citizens can do to help ourselves and our loved ones avoid finding themselves in situations requiring guardianship.

About the Speaker: Amber Hahn is currently employed as Assistant Corporation Counsel for St. Croix County. She started in this position in April 2022 after working as a prosecutor for 14 years. In her current role she provides legal advice and representation to county departments, handles guardianship cases on behalf of the county, represents the child support agency and also handles the county's emergency detention cases. She lives in River Falls with her husband and two children, Nora 8 and Calvin 5.

Students - Exchange Experience and Camp Enterprise

Short-term Foreign Exchange Experience: River Falls High School senior Sydney Johnson shared photographic highlights of her three-week exchange experience in southeastern France near Grenoble and Lyon. She showed pictures of her host family and places they visited. Since she was there during Bastille Day, which is the French equivalent of America's Independence Day, Sydney got to see fireworks on the Eiffel Tower. She wants to return to France for a longer period before she enters college and plans for a semester abroad in college. She answered questions about her career interests, and she talked about time her family spent with the host sister that came to the US with her.

Rotary Camp Enterprise: River Fall High School senior Johan Valentine and junior Perry Kotz described their participation in Rotary Camp Enterprise. Rotary Camp Enterprise gives student experience with business principles activities and also showed them that getting to know your business partner makes negotiation and teamwork easier. The experience consisted of team building activities and simulated business activities such as selecting a product, organizing people into teams and making a presentation on that product. Both Johan and Perry were CEO's of their small teams, which added to what they learned. They also showed flexibility in speaking to Rotary without their slides due to video system problems. The two also answered questions about future plans.

5th Tuesday MORNING in-meeting service

Last week's 5th Tuesday project was putting stickers with Rotary's name and a clever phrase onto seed packets that we'll hand out when EarthFest 2023 happens in a few months. As always, the work went quickly, and we were able to get in some early morning socializing and getting to know one another better as we worked. Beyond that, the pictures you can see by clicking "Read More" tell the story. Thanks to Karla for taking the lead on this, and thanks to those who braved the cold to come and do good.