Once again, our 17th annual STATE OF OUR CITY was held May 11 at Wings Over The Rockies-Centennial Airport. This luncheon event, hosted by our club, featured a presentation by our distinguished Centennial Mayor Stephanie Piko. Her presentation inspired the audience with insight into the tremendous happenings of our city. Over 300 prestigious business persons, community leaders, municipalities and city officials were present.
Club President Tom Gross gave an update on our club activities, Retired General John Berry told us what is happening at Wings Over the Rockies, Exploration of Flight. Ivey Bostrom from our title sponsor Arrow Electronics enlightened us with their water project in India providing healthy water to the population. Last, but not least, Officer Bear was sworn as an official member of The Arapahoe Sheriff's Department as a therapy dog assigned to Cherry Creek Schools who was funded with $9000 from our Centennial Rotary Foundation for canine and equipment.
Our crack (and drenched) parking director team guided cars into the parking lots during a torrential rainstorm. However, there was a silver lining to the clouds as another great State Of Our City came to a close.