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May 08, 2021
Volunteer opportunity: Pack 30,000 meals – Food Bank of the Heartland is the recipient of the meals. Date: May 8, 2021 Location: The Family Room Church, 8333 Fort St. Please enter on the lower level on the northwest corner of the building.
Shifts available: 7:45 to 9 AM 9:15 to 10:15 AM 10:30 AM to 12 PM
Number of volunteers per shift: 40 We will have four 14-foot tables with ten people per table. Volunteers: Any person age 5 years and above is able to volunteer. All children must be accompanied by an adult. How to sign up: USE THIS LINK Safety measures: Masks are required. Hand sanitizer and hairnets will be distributed on-site. |
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Millard Scholarships
May 10, 2021
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UNL Assistant Mens Basketball Coach
May 17, 2021
Armon Gates is in his third season on the Nebraska coaching staff. A native of Chicago, Gates returned to the Big Ten after serving as associate head coach at the University of Florida under Mike White. Gates has coached and developed all-conference performers at three schools during his coaching career. |
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May 17, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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May 24, 2021 1:05 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
We are having our next New Member Orientation May 24 from 1:05-1:30 after our regular meeting. If you have not attended a new member orientation, please try to attend at this time. You can RSVP to Adrian Enzastiga at aenzasti@amfam.com Thank you for being a member of Millard Rotary! Adrian Enzastiga |
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Jun. 07, 2021 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Election Systems Software
Jun. 14, 2021
Todd V. Urosevich High School - Omaha Westside College - University of Northern Colorado
Business Career 1973 - Mutual of Omaha Sales Representative - Carl Roderick Agency - Northern Colorado 1975 - IBM Sales Representative - Omaha Branch - Southwest Iowa sales territory 1979 to present - Election Systems & Software (ES&S) Corporate Office Omaha NE. Served as the National Director of Client Services for ES&S for 18 years - In November of 2000 served as the Corporate Spokesperson during the 36 days it took to declare George W. Bush the winner of Florida’s electoral votes Served as Vice President of After Market Sales from 2002 to 2008 Currently serving as a Regional Sales Manager representing ES&S in the Northeast |
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Jun. 14, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Jul. 12, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Douglas County Clerk of the District Court
Jul. 19, 2021
John Friend – Bio Douglas County Clerk of the District Court
A life-long resident of Omaha and a 25-year veteran of the Omaha Police Department. He has a bachelor of science in criminal justice. He retired in 2007 upon being elected to the office of the Clerk of the District Court. He was re-elected in 2010 and 2014 and 2018. He and his wife Karen have been married for 34 years and have two adult sons, both police officers. |
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Munroe-Meyer Institute
Jul. 26, 2021
Károly Mirnics, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Munroe-Meyer Institute Hattie B. Munroe Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UNMC
Dr. Mirnics earned his medical degree from the University of Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia) School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh where he established his own laboratory in 2000. In 2006, his laboratory moved to the department of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
In 2010, Dr. Mirnics was named James G. Blakemore Professor of Psychiatry and served as the departmental vice chair for research and associate director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, the oldest intellectual and developmental disabilities research center in the United States. In 2016 he joined the UNMC family, becoming the fourth Director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation (MMI).
As an internationally recognized, disease-oriented neuroscientist, Dr. Mirnics collaborates with scientists across the country and the world working with his research team to discover the molecular basis of human brain disorders, and develop treatments for these conditions. His innovative research uses a variety of genetic, molecular, cell biology and behavioral tools across multiple diseases models, and has attracted more than $15 million of extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Dr. Mirnics serves on the editorial boards of more than a dozen prominent scientific journals and numerous national scientific advisory committees. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications, which have been cited more than 14,000 times. He has received multiple prominent national and local awards for his scientific endeavors and community engagement, including the 2018 Help is Hope Award from the Autism Action Partnership recognition as the 2019 Friends of Scottish Rite Honoree. He is an elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences external council, and serves on the board of directors of Special Olympic International. For all of Dr. Mirnics' accomplishments, as a researcher, teacher, community advocate, and administrator, his greatest passion and desire is to improve the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. His vision is to see MMI become a worldwide leader in transforming the lives of all individuals with disabilities and complex health care needs. He is married to Zeljka Korade, DVM, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics at UNMC, and has two children (Marco and Emma). In his free time, he enjoys reading and fishing, and he is an avid chess player. |
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Aug. 09, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Aug. 16, 2021
Tammy Conroy is the Director of Education at the Nebraska Humane Society. She has been employed in this capacity since July 2017 and enjoys sharing about humane education as well as what NHS does with the community. Prior to working at the Nebraska Humane Society, Tammy worked in the child welfare field for 14 years. Tammy has adopted a few animals from the Nebraska Humane Society to include her dog Buddy and two hedgehogs Quilliam whom passed away in 2020 and Marshmallow. |
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Executive Director for Youth Emergency Services
Aug. 23, 2021
Bio for Mary Fraser Meints A leading advocate for at-risk-children and youth in Nebraska, Mary Fraser Meints, is the Executive Director of Youth Emergency Services in Omaha, Nebraska. As an advocate for homeless youth, Meints is on the board of Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless. Under Meints’ leadership, Youth Emergency Services has grown services to serve youth and young adults experiencing homelessness and near-homelessness. Meints strives for systems improvement in her work to end youth homelessness. Her many years of experience in the world of child welfare and juvenile justice provide a good basis of knowledge in working with the at-risk and homeless populations served by YES. Meints has worked directly with children and families and served in administrative roles with the Department of Health and Human Services and at Uta Halee and Youth Emergency Services. Meints is currently serving on the Young Adults Voluntary Supports and Services (Bridge to Independence) Advisory Committee), focused on the implementation of the law to provide benefits to young adults who have been in the foster care system |
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Aug. 23, 2021 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Aug. 23, 2021 1:05 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
We are having our next New Member Orientation August 23 from 1:05-1:30 after our regular meeting. If you have not attended a new member orientation, please try to attend at this time. You can RSVP to Adrian Enzastiga at aenzasti@amfam.com Thank you for being a member of Millard Rotary! Adrian Enzastiga |
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The Cloisters On The Platte
Aug. 30, 2021
Joe Ricketts is a native of Nebraska City. He graduated from Creighton University in 1968 with an economics degree and began his professional career in the financial services field. In 1975, he co-founded First Omaha Securities. Under Mr. Ricketts’ leadership, First Omaha Securities grew quickly and evolved into TD Ameritrade, a trailblazer in the online trading industry. TD Ameritrade managed hundreds of billions of dollars in client assets and led its competitors with hundreds of thousands of trades per day. In 2020, TD Ameritrade merged with The Charles Schwab Corporation. Since 2008, Mr. Ricketts has devoted himself to a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. He has also actively engaged in philanthropy through Opportunity Education Foundation, The Ricketts Conservation Foundation, The Ricketts Art Foundation, and The Cloisters on the Platte Foundation. His book, “The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get: An Entrepreneur’s Memoir,” was published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster. Mr. Ricketts and his wife of 58 years have four children and 14 grandchildren. |
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Omaha Chamber - Sarpy County Economic Development
Sep. 13, 2021
Bio for Andrew Rainbolt, Executive Director Sarpy County Economic Development Corporation Andrew Rainbolt has 15 years of housing, workforce, and economic development experience. He joined the Greater Omaha Chamber in 2008 as the Workforce Development Consultant. He held various positions within the Chamber’s Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership business attraction team. In June of 2015 Andrew was named the Executive Director of Sarpy County Economic Development Corporation, now known as Grow Sarpy. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and holds a Masters of Urban Studies in Community and Economic Development from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. |
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Sep. 13, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Sep. 16, 2021 10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
WHAT TO EXPECT THE DAY OF THE SCRAMBLE |
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Commercial Development
Sep. 27, 2021
Angela Smith Angela Smith is a long-time Omaha resident with more than fifteen years’ experience focused on building and strengthening the capacity of nonprofit service organizations. In her role at Spark, Angela leads the Spark Developer Academy, helping to provide technical assistance to emerging real estate development professionals who identify as BIPOC, women or gender expansive individuals. Her recent volunteer service includes serving as Board Chair for the Nebraska Chapter of the Grant Professionals Association and as Treasurer for her children’s elementary school PTA. |
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Workspace Innovations
Oct. 04, 2021
Neeraj is the CEO of Modus Coworking and a real estate developer with Clarity. As a real estate developer, Neeraj has developed and is in the process of developing an approximately $500,000,000 of multifamily, mixed-use and commercial projects since 2014. Neeraj's primary focus is on tax credit projects, specifically, affordable housing and historic renovations. Neeraj and Clarity's Omaha projects includes multiple mixed-use projects in the Blackstone District in partnership with Greenslate Development such as Blackstone Corner, the Colonial Apartments, and Blackstone Station and Union. Neeraj is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. |
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Oct. 18, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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