August Club Assembly (Aug 08, 2016)

Membership Committee

Clay Fell is the chair of the Membership Committee. August is Membership Month! Ask someone to join us for lunch. Let's find some new members! Any ideas or suggestions, please contact Clay.

Gold Committee

Hurrah! We did it! And THANK YOU to our golf chair PP Joe Hughes and his incredible committee! Great event! Lots of fun! Perfect weather! Please remember the Golf Social on August 29th at 6pm at the Aurora Summit! This will replace our regular lunch meeting on this date. Great opportunity to socialize, celebrate, thank our golfers and maybe even recruit some new members!

Rotary Foundation

PP Lloyd is the chair for the Rotary Foundation. He shared some history. The Foundation was started 100 years ago and the 1st matching fund was for $26.20! Last year, the Rotary Foundation gave out $94 million in grants! This is the top foundation in the world! The leading grants go for disease, water, education, maternity and early child health and peace and conflict. SMOKY HILL ROTARY is #1 in the District for donations to the Foundation! Rotarians have been very instrumental over the years raising billions of dollars to help eradicate polio.

International Committee

PP Betsy Jansen is your chair for the International Committee. Betsy shared activities we've been a part of in the past and currently. Romania has received our support to gain much needed medical equipment and Montenegro has also received our support to obtain clean drinking water. Our newest project is for much needed medical supplies in India. We have a budget of $3250 plus an additional donation of $1000. We have applied for and been granted matching funds by the district. What a way to make a difference in the world!

Club Services

Jerry is your man if you have ideas or want to be involved with our club services and activities. We currently have the following events: Charter Night, Installation Dinner, a Fall Social, a Holiday Social and all the events associated with the Golf Tournament. Potlucks have often been popular with us. In the past, we've enjoyed events at the Botanic Gardens when Chilully was here, the Distillery in Aril, Craft beer events and helping new businesses get off to a good start. Any thoughts on other activities you'd like to see? Please connect with Jerry and this committee!

RYLA

Craig Essex is the man to talk to if you want to get involved with RYLA! We sponsored 7 students this year for RYLA and Yound RYLA. This is a pretty incredible program as it is really leadership for youth by youth. There are 2 weeks for each program. Registration is on Sunday and program wraps up on Friday. The days are long! Staff start at 6:30am and often are not done with the day until after midnight! The rewards are well worth the sleep deprivation! Interested in becoming a part of this program? Talk with Craig!

Community Service

PDG Talee Crowe is your Community Service Chair. Talee shared that this committee is alive and well! Current projects include the Adopt a Family Christmas, Special Things for Special Kids, Boy Scout Troop 641, Art at the Children's Hosptial, Comitis, Gateway Battered Women's Shelter, Habitat for Humanity, Peaceful Schools, Ronald McDonald House, Thanksgiving Baskets and the 180 Program! Wow! We're a busy club and your editarian probably missed a program or two!

GREAT NEWS! Talee says there is money in the budget to take on another project! Do you have a cause you want to champion? Bring that information to the Community Service committee!!

MEETING NOTES

CLUB MEETING NOTES:

President Denny Passatino opened the meeting with some dates in history which your editarian ran out of time to investigate further! However, November 7th date in history shows a lot of activity! In 1651, the Sun King was crowned and he was only 13 years of age! Lewis and Clark have the first recorded sighting of the Pacific Ocean and the Wright Brothers completed the first cargo flight for a department store! And - of course - there was some sports history! You sports trivia folks know your history!

Barbara Fruitman joined us today to say THANK YOU for our contributions to the SHARE project. With the support of our contribution, she was able to present gift cards to 117 families to aide in their holiday endeavors.

Habitat for Humanity: Was AWESOME! We had beautiful weather and worked with a great crew! If you have some time, take a drive through the Globeville neighborhood which is North of I-70 and East of I-25. Numerous homes have received some much needed TLC from Habitat for Humanity! Paint, new door hardware, new street numbers and the building of a ramp from the backdoor filled out the day along with some cleanup. The home looks so inviting! Thank you for pitching in on this project Al, Craig, Hugh, Susan and Susan's husband, Ted!

Talee shared that we are collecting knit hats - new or used in clean and good condition over the next several weeks. These hats will go into the backpacks we'll be filling for our 180 program. We need approximately 30 hats and we can find homes for any extra hats. Please bring them in! We fill the backpacks on 11/28/2016. We learned that the 180 Outreach and Comitis have lost federal funding but are working to keep moving forward with support from groups such as Smoky Hill Rotary.

Thanksgiving season is here! Instead of Thanksgiving baskets, there will be King Soopers gift cards for families in need. The Food Bank of the Rockies is always looking for volunteers if you'd like to help fill food baskets.

Need to improve your skills in the kitchen? Join Talee at the Ronald McDonald House on Nov 15th. You must be there at 4:15. Talee is still in need of 6 more volunteers.

Golf! Yes - golf! Our Golf Committee never sleeps! Mark your calendars now for the tournament for 2017. Friday, August 4th! Thanks Gary!

Presidential Trivia - appropriate for Election Eve!

The oldest person ever elected was Ronald Reagan and the youngest ever elected was John F Kennedy. Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms and George Washington was the only one appointed by a unanimous vote. The most lopsided election was 1936 when FD Roosevelt won the election. Ford was the only President to serve as both vice President and President without being elected and he does have a run named for him at Vail!

HAPPY Birthday to Jim, Mick and Bruce!

And, even though they are no longer active members of our club, Happy Birthday to Fran and Vlad!

Smoky Hill Rotary club goal is to raise $500 for Polio Plus. Let's make this happen!