Submitted by: PDG Tom Riley

Minneapolis Rotary International Convention 2029
On Monday February 5 Rotary International announced that the 2029 International Convention would be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. District 5580 isone of the sponsoring districts.
 
Attendees at the 3rd Rotary Convention in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, 6-9 August 1912. http://riconvention.org.
 
Two other International Conventions have been held in Minneapolis, the first in 1928 and the second in  1974.
 
 
The third National Rotary Clubs convention, though, was held in our District back in 1912, and it was there that Rotary International was born as Winnipeg, the first club outside of the US, was welcomed into Rotary.
 
So we can be proud of our roots in Rotary, and we can help plan for a magnificent convention in 2029.

 

Thomas Riley

PDG

Source: Rotary-As We Saw It. PDG Max Moore, Valley City, ND, 1962