The Rotary Club of Mitchell Field completed its second annual “Flags for Heroes” project in Oak Creek this year and its first in South Milwaukee. This multi-purpose event was designed to honor heroes—military and civilian, deceased and living—at a display of 200 American flags placed on the lawn of the Oak Creek Community Center over the Memorial Day weekend and 100 around South Milwaukee City Hall from Flag Day through the Fourth of July.
 
Funds raised by these events help support RCMF’s charitable and community projects such as the Milwaukee Homeless Veterans Initiative and VetsNet, families in need, senior citizen organizations and college scholarships for area high school graduating seniors.

When the 2017-18 Rotary International president, Ian Riseley asked each Rotarian to plant a tree, the Rotary Club of Mitchell Field thought beyond its service area to where they could do the most good. They reached out to Tanzania where people are struggling to survive. Through a contribution to Simple Hope, a Milwaukee-based non-profit, the club purchased 25 fruit trees in Tanzania. Along with the Mukwonago Rotary Club, they were able to fill a truck and take delivery the day before the road was washed out by rain.

The Rotary Club of Mitchell Field started running Food Truck Sundays in 2017 with Educator’s Credit Union, who was the event sponsor. Besides great food from the food trucks, visitors got to meet the staff at Educator’s Credit Union and score some free swag, like these sunglasses. After the fall event ended, the leftover sunglasses were donated by Educators to Rotary. A Rotarian then took the sunglasses to Guatemala. Dana, who was part of a Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership team, said “because people {in Guatemala] are in the sun so much, it is a great source of eye problems so we distribute as many sunglasses as we can get our hands on. One day as I was heading to the gates to get into clinic, I spotted these two cuties who had obviously been there on a prior day. Their mama graciously allowed me to take their photo.”