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2019 State Fair's Top 11
Aug 09, 2019
Mindy Williamson is the Director of Marketing for the Iowa State Fair. The 2015 Iowa State Fair was her first as Marketing Director, but Mindy has been a Fair lover and attendee for many years. Most recently, she worked for the advertising agency, Amperage, specializing in non-profit and governmental clients. For about 9 years prior to that, Mindy worked for the Iowa Corn Growers Association as the Communications and Public Relations Director, managing public relations, media, and internal/external communications. Some of her most successful events included the Iowa Corn Indy race and the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series. Mindy has her certification in volunteer management and has nearly completed her accreditation in public relations. She has a BS in Biological Pre-Medical Illustration from Iowa State University with a specialization in botany. Mindy and her husband, Kevin, live on an acreage in Madison County and have two kids, Taelor and Trent, a few crops, show pigs and a dog named, Otis. Note: This meeting is free to DMAM members and their families as described above. Visiting Rotarians are welcome to attend but must purchase their own tickets and breakfast at the Cattlemen's Beef Quarters. |
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Impacting our Community
Aug 16, 2019
Jeff Chelesvig is President & CEO of Des Moines Performing Arts, an organization he has led for more than two decades. Under Jeff’s leadership Des Moines Performing Arts, which owns and operates the Des Moines Civic Center, has grown to present seven series including the Willis Broadway Series. He is a member of the Broadway League’s Board of Governors where he serves on the Executive Committee and Intra-Industry committee. Additionally, Jeff serves as President of the Independent Presenters Network. In 2005 Jeff was honored with the League’s Samuel J. L'Hommedieu Award for Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management. |
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Property Taxes: What SF634 Means to You
Aug 23, 2019
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District Governor's Message to DMAM
Aug 30, 2019
Erna Morain was born in the Netherlands but embraces Iowa with a passion—enough to be named the Waukee Citizen of the Year in 2017 for all her community service. She is a living example of Rotary’s 2019-20 theme “Rotary Connects the World”, and holds as friends, hundreds of Rotarians around the US and the world through her Rotary activities. A successful commercial property realtor in Holland, Erna moved to the US in l983. She met her husband, Steve, through a business connection years later, and they married and moved to Waukee in 2004. Both are hands on volunteers in many organizations in the Des Moines area. Steve has retired as General Counsel of Farm Bureau and its insurance companies and stays busy working on boards of Des Moines University, the Iowa Law School Foundation, Insurance Hall of Fame and other organizations, and is a 40 year member of the Rotary Club of Des Moines. Erna and Steve share five adult children and two grandsons. They love traveling and have been all over the US and 27 foreign countries. Erna is a graduate of the Waukee Leadership Institute. She also served on the Waukee Economic Development Corp and currently is on the Waukee Betterment Foundation. She has been a board member, Interim President, and Ambassador of the Year of the Waukee Chamber of Commerce. Erna saves her greatest passion for Rotary. She joined the Waukee Club in 2006, served yearly as a board member and President in 2013-14. She served two years as an Assistant Governor before being nominated as District Governor. She takes special pride in serving as DG, since her father-in-law, Fred Morain, was a DG in the District in 1970-71. She also considers it a personal challenge to encourage more women to seek leadership in Rotary. Erna and Steve are still pretty good athletes. They still find time in their schedules to ski, swim, hike, bike and walk. Erna once completed 15 straight RAGBRAIs. She and Steve hope to walk a mile or two in each Rotary city in the District on their Club visits this year to personally view each Club’s local projects. |
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The State of Iowa
Sep 04, 2019
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