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The Rotary Club of Edina will hold a Vocational Day meeting Thursday, Oct 24, at Edina High School, Edina. Check in will begin at 11:45 a.m.and the meeting and tours will end promptly at 1:30 p.m. Box lunch and beverages will be provided. Please register if you plan to attend so we can order enough lunches and prepare for tour groups at the meeting. This counts as the meeting for the week, so there is no additional cost for regular members. Senior Active members will be charged $20 at the door as usual. Registration will be open until Noon on Monday, October 21. Click here to register.

PARKING ONLY at St. Patricks Church of Edina, 6820 St. Patricks Lane, Edina across the street is available. There will be a few spots roped off for those unable to walk from St. Patricks to EHS Door 5 and a few Handicap only spots will be available. Please park in the St. Patricks lot and walk to the Edina High School Door 5 entrance.

Please register today if you plan to attend. Box lunches need to be ordered for those attending. Contact Club Service Director Fred Slyvester with questions or more information about Vocational Day.

Lexi Reed Holtum, Executive Director and Lobbyist of the Steve Rummler Hope Network, has been with the organization since its inception in 2011. Lexi leads and fosters the growth of the organizations three programs; Prescriber Education, Advocacy, and Overdose Awareness. Lexi is instrumental in the passage of public health and safety laws enabling the state to have tools and resources needed to address the opioid crisis. She’s created the Network’s Overdose Prevention Program and established partnerships with hospitals, treatment and sober living facilities, first responders, treatment courts, colleges, and communities in order to reduce opioid overdose deaths. Lexi engages experts in the field of addiction and chronic pain to produce non-biased enduring CMEs which are utilized by doctors and medical students in 40 states, Austria, New Zealand, Europe and Asia. In addition, she is a nationally sought-after speaker and advocate. Her testimony in Washington DC has offered perspective to government agencies as they adjust the ways we approach our national opioid epidemic. Lexi is a person in long-term recovery from the disease of addiction, the proud mother of one child, and she was Steve Rummler's fiancé.