Golf Fundraiser-
The plans for our August 6 Golf Fundraiser continue to advance. Golf Chair Gary Frisch is working with Givsum to set up the registration website for the tournament. If you have donors from previous year’s tournaments, please contact them to invite their participation. Even if they are not able to contribute this, there is value in keeping our name in front of them for the future.
District 5450’s District Conference is coming up on May 7 and 8. It will be a mostly virtual event. You can find more information on the District website.
Upcoming Programs-
Our schedule for programs is as follows:
May 3: Maria Galter-Walk 2 Connect (builds on Walk America)
May 10: Chris Stein on Monarch Butterflies
May 17: Bob with Sustainable Communities: The Rest of the Story
May 24: Traci Brown: Fraud Busting Body Language
May 31: Dark (Memorial Day)
June 7: Ron Green with Peaceful Schools
June 14th: Dr. Tanyss Munro "Teaching Mothers to Teach the World"
Thanks to Susan Michalakes for her tireless efforts as Program Chair!
Checks for the Club-
Checks for dues, etc. to the club can be mailed to:
Smoky Hill Rotary Club
PO Box 440778
Aurora, CO 80044
Woohoomanity!
This year the club will have a golf tournament after cancelling last year's event because of the pandemic. Not knowing how the world will react to a tournament in August the club board decided to create a new effort to raise funds to help supplement the golf event. The board chose Woohoomanity to raise funds this year. We will reach out to new sources of funds and get to tell our Rotary story about what we do in the community each year. Just might be a great tool to recruit new members.
So everyone:
Save the date: September 25th, 2021
Ride in the Denver Century bike ride that day, 25 miles, 50 miles, 85 miles or 100 miles.
Volunteer to help run the bike ride with other Rotarians if you don't want to ride.
Create your own event such as committing to walk a certain distance, ride a stationary bike at the gym for a set number of miles.
All this effort is used to raise funds for our club this year that will supplement the money raised by the golf tournament. So start thinking about who you know, family friends or business acquaintances who can help you raise funds.
More to come in next week's bulletin.
Hugh Radke
Celebration of the Week: Tuesday, May 4th - Star Wars Day
Fans chose this date to celebrate their favorite movies as "May the Fourth be with you" is a pun of the franchise's famous catchphrase said by Obi-Wan Kenobi to a young Luke Skywalker "May the Force be with you".
Star Wars Day is only a fun observance, and as such, it is not a national holiday in the United States.
How to Celebrate?
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What better way to spend this day than watching or re-watching all of the Star Wars Movies? Watching only the original trilogy will take 6 hours and 17 minutes. However, for the hardcore fans, doing a marathon of every movie in the franchise takes 1 day and 1 hour, or 25 hours!
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Many fans choose to throw a party to observe Star Wars Day, and the official Star Wars website has many recipes inspired on the foods from the movie, such as blue milk, and porg rice balls.
Next meeting - May 3, 2021, 12:00 noon
