Everyone depends on someone who depends on childcare. Our Estes community thrives when our families thrive because children are our future workforce, community members, and community leaders. However, families living in Estes Park are struggling continuously to access high quality, affordable child care, necessary for working families and critical to healthy development of our youngest citizens.
Michael Moon, Chair of the Childcare Services Committee, a subcommittee of the Estes Park Economic Development Committee, will speak at the Rotary Club of Estes Park on Thursday, November 16, at their regular noon meeting. He plans to address the issue of insufficient childcare availability in the Estes Valley.
Moon’s career was in high tech at Harris Corporation, Storage Technology, Intel Corporation and Weyerhaeuser. He holds a BSEE and MSEE fro Georgia Tech and a MBA from the University of Oregon.
Since he moved to the area, Moon has been active in many civic activities. He was the Chair of the Lot 4 Election Committee for the Estes Park Medical Center and was a Planning Commission Chair. Additionally, he serves as an active member of the Estes Park Police Department Auxiliary, the Presbyterian Community Church, and the Broadband Committee of the Estes Park Economic Development Corporation.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 1.2 million Rotary members in 35,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries. Rotarians believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Rotary clubs work together to promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water and sanitation, support mothers and children, foster education, and grow local economies. We encourage you to get involved.
The Rotary Club of Estes Park meets Thursdays at the Rodeway Inn in Estes Park, located at 1701 North Lake Avenue on Highway 34 just west of Dry Gulch Road. Visitors interested in learning more about Rotary and its programs are welcome to attend. Buffet is served at 11:30 a.m., the Rotary business meeting opens at noon, and the program begins at 12:30 p.m.
Posted by Rita DuChateau
Everyone wins at Philanthropy Day!
Our club had a great representation at the Nov. 9 Philanthropy Day at the YMCA. Thanks to Pete Sumey for setting up an attractive display that drew many comments. Thanks to Dave Evans, Kathy Groesbeck, Thor Homme and Karen Thompson for their help. Did we also see Bill Solms, Pete Sinnott, Jack Boatman, Wayne Andersen, Madison Casey, David Tavel, Rick Taylor and Harriette Woodard at the event?
While the club did not win the top award in Enduring Service Category, we did get our message of service out for 400+ guests to hear. And we netted a new corporate sponsor for the 2018 Duck Race and possibly two new beneficiaries.
All members should be proud of our club's accomplishments in its 91-year history! Bring on the 2018 Estes Park Rotary Duck Race Festival!
November 2 Meeting Highlights
President Kathy Groesbeck called the meeting to order. Karen Thompson gave the invocation. Dave Evans led us in singing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” to celebrate the World Series and our guest speaker Jim Pickering being from Houston, home of the champions. Then, the Pledge of Allegiance. Ward Nelson led introductions. We welcomed Mel Rueppel of Sunrise Rotary who came to hear Dr. Pickering’s program. Guy Van der Werf introduced his guests, Dennis & Robbie Gellhaus who have recently moved here from South Dakota. We welcomed back our former member, Dick Broman, who is visiting from Texas.
Mel Rueppel of the Sunrise Club
Guy's guests Robbie and Dennis Gelhaus
Our own Dick Broman
Major Announcement
President Kathy and Roger Thorp made a major announcement of our club’s new sponsor for the Duck Fest-- The Ridgeline Hotel and parent company Delaware North of Buffalo, NY. She outlined hers and Roger’s meeting with the General Manger and Regional Manager and the new role the hotel would play in the Duck Race as major sponsor, hosting Duck Central, packet pickup by the charities, thank you party for sponsors, three major Duck Race prizes and much more. She also said that District Rotary approved our proposal to sell a duck ticket to each visiting Rotarian here at the District Conference at Duck Race time to fund Polio Plus which is double matched by the Gates Foundation.
Exciting Ridgeline Hotel partnership announced.
New Member Induction
Scott Thompson, accompanied by sponsor Gene Oja, led the induction of Harriette Woodard into our club. Harriett then gave her very interesting biography.
Welcome, Harriette, to the Rotary Club of Estes Park!
Scott told a joke.
Program
Our program was by Dr. Jim Pickering, Historian Laureate of Estes Park, who told us the interesting story of Frederick Francis Chapin who is The Chapin of Mount Chapin in the Mummy Range.
Jim Pickering received a Piece of the Rock.
Adjournment
President Kathy adjourned the meeting with the recitation of The Four-Way Test.
Submitted by Madison Casey, scribe and Rita DuChateau, photographer
Rotary Quote of the Week
"It is an incredibly effective model that we have here in Rotary, one that no other organization can match. We are completely local and completely global: We have local skills, connections, and knowledge in over 35,000 clubs, in nearly every country of the world. We have a deserved reputation for transparency, effectiveness, and good business practices, and because we are highly skilled professionals as well as volunteers, we achieve a level of efficiency that very few otherorganizations can approach."
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