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Bio: Aaron Tice is the Treasurer of The Rotary Club of Grand Junction and The Rotary Club of GJ Foundation.  He also serves on the District Grant committee as the Chairman and is currently serving as the Vice President of Bookcliff Country Club.   He is the founder of a Registered Investment Advisor, Delphi Wealth Partners, which he founded in 2015 to provide fiduciary advice to his clients, friends, and family.

Aaron is both an alumnus of CMU and, of course, University of Oregon where he graduated with a BS in Biochemistry.   He married out of his league when he met Bailey and they are lucky the two, Sawyer (8) and Kinley(6), take after their mother.   

Program will include discussion of the role and finances of the Rotary Foundation.

Bio: HopeWest is excited to announce that Dusty Dodson has accepted a position as the new Senior Vice President over the HopeWest PACE program. Dusty has been a long time, highly respected, health care administrator on the Western Slope and most recently has served as a health care consultant. For a decade he was the Director of Extended Care and Services for Grand River Hospital District. He has an extensive background in both acute and long term care, and has served as a consultant for CMS Region V. He holds an MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in Sociology.

Dusty has been active in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and has served on the board of the Colorado Health Care Association. He has also been involved with governmental affairs and policy working as a Governor-appointed member of the Community Living Advisory Group and Colorado Rural Health Center Policy Committee.

Throughout his career as a leader in healthcare, he has been successful in not only starting programs but dramatically turning around programs. Dusty strongly believes in the power of teamwork and credits his successful track record to those who have worked for him – speaking volumes about his leadership style.

HopeWest is truly thrilled to have Dusty as part of our Senior Leadership Team and knows that the people working on his team will enjoy working for such an inspirational and capable leader.

Come to our next Zoom meeting ready to have fun and to tax your memory.  We are going to explore what you remember from school.  We will also find out how much we remember about Rotary.   This is easy, straightforward, and highly interactive.  For complete fun, we will determine how smart we are as a group.  Are we as smart as a 5th grader, or as an 8th grader, or as a 12th grader, or as a Rotarian? Can we as a group graduate from a modern elementary school, middle school, and high school?  And are we well-prepared to be able to tell the world all about Rotary.

Don’t worry, your answers will be completely anonymous—so no one will be embarrassed about how smart they are.

I've been fly fishing since I was 14. That's 34 years. I'm always learning something new and always seeking out new water to test myself against.

I began learning fly fishing from one of my Scouting leaders who tied his own flies and began learning to tie flies in 1994. After an unfortunate event of losing all my tying materials and gear in 1996, I finally bought just enough materials and basic tools to get "back in the saddle" and today, thousands of flies and fish caught on my own creations, the fire still burns as brightly as it ever did for this sport that is as much about solitude and recharging (as Steven Covey always said "sharpening the saw") as it is about the thrill of catching a new personal best or a first catch of a new species. I look forward to sharing some of my adventures and a few of the basics of the sport and its attendant accessories, with my fellow Rotarians

Bio: Aaron Tice, a Certified Financial Planner, is not your usual Investment Advisor and took an odd route to becoming the expert that he is.   He self admittedly got lucky because he heard other people’s good ideas and used them himself, buying Intel when he was 11 years old through the generous help of his father, Dr. Larry Tice, and the educational savings account he set aside for Aaron’s future education.  Facing the culmination of the effects of that edification with a Biochemistry degree, he finally learned his most valuable lesson in life. . . 

Bio: Scott Winans has been involved with singletrack trail creation for over 25 years, and has served since 2009 on the board of directors of the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, Inc. (COPMOBA), and since 2011 as President. COPMOBA is a 32+ year western Colorado regional non-profit organization committed to advocacy for, and construction and maintenance of, non-motorized singletrack trail.

Via its current four chapters, COPMOBA furthers its mission through active and responsible partnership with Federal and State management agencies, County, Municipal, and organizational agents, as well as business and individual members in all of the communities in which it operates. Scott believes that these community relationships, and the demonstrated lifestyle and economic benefits of trails in the communities, are the keys to the grounded success of the organization.

Scott is the V.P. of Engineering for Mountain Racing Products, based in Grand Junction, where the team designs, tests, and manufactures high-end mountain bike components, utilizing the local trail networks as our testing grounds. Scott is also the co-owner of Rapid Creek Cycles, in Palisade, serving the needs of local riders and paddlers as well as visitors to the regions agriculture and viticulture resources.

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The Palisade Plunge Trail project, "The Plunge", is spearheaded by the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association (COPMOBA), a 32+ yr grassroots non-profit with five chapters throughout western Colorado, dedicated to planning, creation, and maintenance of singletrack trail resources in the region and their economic and lifestyle benefits to our communities.

The Plunge is a federally approved route connecting the top of the Grand Mesa to the valley floor in the Town of Palisade via high quality non-motorized singletrack trail plus a paved path connection along North River Rd into downtown Palisade

The Town of Palisade, City of GJ, City of Fruita, Mesa County Commissioners, Palisade & GJ Area Chambers of Commerce, GJEP, Outdoor Recreation Coalition, Visitors and Convention Bureau, and others, back COPMOBA’s submission of the Palisade Plunge for designation as a "16 in 2016" trail project by the State. 2015 the state designates the Palisade

$527K Phase 1 funding was awarded to Mesa County via Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Colorado the Beautiful grant. Construction of Phase 1, roughly the lower half of the route, began in July, 2019.

$1.234M Phase 2 funding was awarded to Mesa County via GOCO Connect Initiative grant funding.

Phase 2 construction will be completed in the late Spring to Summe