The year of 2017 marks a prolific 12 months of humanitarian efforts and hands-on projects for Prescott Sunup Rotary. Here’s a look at the year of 2017 in review.
We started off the year in February by participating in the Caborca Polio Vaccinations Project for Rotary District 5495. Together with other Rotary clubs and Caborca Rotary, we went from house to house in rural neighborhoods immunizing children under five against polio, parasites and digestive diseases.
In April we engaged in a massive effort to save a physically challenged woman living alone from losing her house. A massive amount of debris, including two campers, chicken coops, sheds, etc. needed to be removed or the county would take her house. Sunup came to the rescue with chainsaws, axes, sledgehammers and crowbars. After a grueling day of intense labor, we had cleared all the debris, saved her house, and greatly increased her quality of life. 
Our club once again came to the rescue of elderly, disabled woman living alone who was being threatened with eviction. The Coalition for Compassion and Justice (CCJ), contacted the club with an appeal to save a woman’s home from being removed from the mobile home park because she was in violation of the park’s paint code. We marshaled the troops, and now Barbara proudly exclaims she has the best looking mobile home in the park.
The Prescott Sunup Rotary Club once again gathered at the Prescott Courthouse Plaza in the early morning hours in August to provide their annual renovation of the All Veterans’ Memorial statue and the surrounding garden, including a general cleanup, landscaping the garden with fresh flowers and plants, as well as sanding, scraping and painting the memorial’s protective boundary.
Sunup Rotary of Prescott began delivering hot, ready to eat meals to the Prescott Area Shelter and Services (PASS) in August, 2017. This is a homeless shelter for females and their children which depends entirely on people like us to provide meals for the residents. On a side note, we also provided homes for their three feral cats!