GOLF TOURNAMENT …
Tournament Chair PP Gary Frisch was pleased to report the tournament went really well and most importantly, everyone had a good time! There will be a golf committee wrap up meeting next week so please email any ideas, thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc. to Gary so the committee can take them into consideration. Mother nature also cooperated … the rain held off! Please note the khaki pants and shorts being worn by President Talee Crowe and PP Clay Fell in this picture. Nicely done!
Golf bookkeeper PP Mark Johnson said we set a record for gross receipts (over $42,000), golfers (148), gross receipts per golfer ($280) and after expenses projected net proceeds of $29-$30,000! Mark presented the club with $1,596 in net proceeds from the raffle ($1,940 gross less $344 cost of TV).
Day of Event Chair PP Bev Edwards gave a special thanks to everyone who helped with DOE and personally enjoyed getting a little bossy because she could supervise people other than hubby Myles!
President Talee believes Smoky Hill Rotary organizes a top notch golf tournament and was particularly pleased that Hugh Radke did not cry when the Krank It representative did not show up! Talee also thanked PP Jim Wingert for his continued support of the tournament as a platinum sponsor!
For three (3!) weeks the newsletter published the golf tourney attire (Rotary burgundy shirts and KHAKI pants/shorts). In the picture on the left, PP Gary Frisch and PP Nancy Jones are wearing … KHAKI! Nicely done! PP David Maxwell and PP Bev Edwards are wearing … GRAY!?!#?. An 8 year old tournament … how does it go … "Where have all the khaki's gone, long time passing?" But who noticed? It was easy to notice the colorful golfer in the picture on the right. Next year maybe the shirt chair (say that really fast) PP Clay Fell can become the short chair and order shorts like these since we get the shirts right but can't seem to figure out the difference between khaki, gray or white shorts.
PP Craig Essex attended Young RYLA two weeks ago with 144 eighth graders and was happy to have survived this 12th Young RYLA!! Awesome service for 12 years! Young RYLA changes the lives of many kids! In recognition of his long term, loyal, quiet service President Talee Crowe presented Craig with a special pin for the "Silent Rotarian"! Congrats Craig! Craig introduced RYLA participant Hope Lowry pictured here with Craig. Hope said Young RYLA taught her to be a good leader using empathy, integrity and self-awareness (understanding your own needs so you can help others with their needs). There were many group activities and introspective activities such as a silent sunrise hike. Young RYLA offered Hope many opportunities to learn and grow. Hope thanked the club for giving her the experience of Young RYLA!
PP Nancy Jones was happy to report that our Salvage restaurant server Shauna is thankful for our support and is now a sales consultant with Fischer Van Lines Moving & Storage. If you have any moving or storage needs give Shauna a call (720-297-9904 or 303-287-0355). Nancy highly recommends Fischer as does the Editarian who used Fischer two years - they did a fantastic job!
If you didn't see it in the district newsletter, a good friend of our club PDG Frank Sargent married his longtime friend and fellow Rotary Club supporter Sandy Algermissent in July! George Eliot wrote the following words read at the ceremony … "To be with each other. What greater thing is there for two human souls than to minister to each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?"
SGT-AT-ARMS … From our Sarge and PP Jim Suss: "WEAR YOUR ROTARY PINS"!
THIS WEEK'S THOUGHT …
"Hearts that beat to the tune of kindness can change the rhythm of the world" --- C. J. Peterson, Rotarian
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Bill Tai is an annuity expert with Transamerica. Bill lives in Parker and his mother was a German Farmer and his father is an Hawaiian. Transamerica is now based in the CenturyLink building in downtown Denver. The Transamerica Pyramid tower in San Francisco was no longer cost effective and has been leased out to other tenants.
The stock market has been on a long bull run. How do you protect the profits that have accumulated? Is it time to protect the profits? Annuities are one alternative but they have to be the right fit for your circumstances. Companies no longer provide defined benefit plans (i.e. pension plans), they have been replaced with defined contribution plans (i.e. 401k plans, etc). Annuities are considered personal pension plans that can replace traditional pension plans. Life expectancy continues to rise. It is common to see 100 year old birthday cards in stores now and today there are 48,000 100 year old's collecting Social Security! The largest annuity in existence is Social Security.
There are three types of annuities: fixed, fixed index to a cap level and variable. Fixed annuities provide more protection and while the variable annuity is exposed to the market (riskier), there is more upside potential. The most common question clients have is how much to put into an annuity. To answer that question you have to have a pretty good idea of what level of monthly income is required to meet your needs (and wants -- vacations, etc!).
Bill believes the next shoe to drop will be inflation. Before you invest in an annuity, you should talk with your financial advisor and review the ratings of the financial institutions through Moody's & Fitch, Standard & Poor's, etc.
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TA-DAH! THE VOTE IS IN … THE BENT NOODLE!
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