Weekly Noon Meeting Notes
** FORWARD ****
Special thanks to Jan Keyton for taking notes this past week and for sending photos to your traveling WS "Team". Also, thanks go to several individuals, Club Leaders, and friendly members who dropped us a line to make sure we have **Corrections this week from last week in Germany***(Please note the dates on the events that are here; they should be correct now.)
"We" appreciate the help as we get ready to take the training wheels off of The WS in the new Rotary Year!
The Opening Announcements
President Bob presided
Greeter: Zig Berzins
Inspiration: Phil Clarke
Preamble: Phil is getting AC at his home and his 2nd book is at the printer!
Smile to Deceive –
Good for longevity and intention
Travel –
A foreplay for friendship
Doubles our joy, extending to friendship
SMILE !!!
Welcome to:
Jan and Jerry Selinfreund, Patricia Sznip (a member been away for 2+ years)
Guests: Bob Bevans, Littleton Pinehurst Rotary
Debbie Leonard told of the upcoming 4 th of July PARADE in Highlands Ranch
4 th of July, 9AM, at Town Center; Debbie asked for volunteers to decorate our float and pass out candy as well as The Rotary/Peach Sale flyers along the parade route. We need more peeps !!!
Also, next PR meeting June 18 th, Tuesday, 4:15pm at Debbie’s home.
HRRFoundation Vote:
Debby told of 56 members voted for 4 persons running for a
Trustee position. All 4 were incredible.
Ray Leaycraft from Sunrise, and Connie Golas and John Logan were elected.
Thanks to Debby Doig and Shrin Murthy for handling the vote.
Bob announded the Lone Tree Movie Night: Saturday, June 15, 8:30pm start
A Community event with a grill. The movie will be ‘Sandlot’.
Also announced:
Ray Anderson and Bob visited Floyd Nelson to present his Honorary Membership plaque this past week. Floyd was touched by this honor. He joined RCHR in 1994, and will turn 89 this year. (Many facts were in last week’s WS) * Editor's Note: we have a photo to share from this. If it is not included later, it will be sent in a separate or forthcoming communication.
June 27th we will be DARK.
June 29 th is the Changing of the Guard Party, 12-3pm, Northridge Rec Center Pavilion
Noon members: bring a side dish (not cold slaw, please.) Sunrise members, please bring a dessert.
Jerry Wilford, our RCHR RI Designee since 1996 is stepping down. John Kennett will
be our new RI Designee as approved at the Board Meeting on June 12th .
WWW – Western Welcome Week – is 8/17, Mark Eberly will chair this annual
event/beer booth.
King Soopers/Safeway rewards cards: Kari will send out the “how to” sign up shortly. But if you are new and just want to go to the website, you can sign up and 5% comes back to our club. THIS IS FREE MONEY TO US AND IS TYPICALLY AROUND $350/WEEK!!
The hyperlink is not working, but if you copy/paste what is below, it *should* take you to the sign up page:
https://www.kingsoopers.com/i/community/community-rewards
Also, we are looking for a new Chair of this committee. Let Chip Kennedy know if you’d
like to serve as Chair. This is a great way for a new member to help the club and does not require a great deal of time or tricky skills! Please consider helping out if you are looking for a way to "plug in" to our great club!
Dues: billing for 1 st Quarter of 2024-25 will go out first of July, on July 1 we will be
paying our clubs dues to RI and the District. Your prompt payment will be appreciated.
PROGRAM
Tamie Fennell and Bill Simmermon reported on their attendance at the RI Convention in
Singapore in May along with a great slide show and many stories.
After a 16 ½ hour flight (Bill lucked out with an aisle seat (lucky duck); they both reported it was a True Experience! The climate in Singapore makes you “sweat like crazy” Tamie reported.
RI President Gordon McAnally promoted World Peace. He is a Mental Health advocate
and spoke of our RCHR and Colorado Pediatric Mental Health project. Bill was sitting in
the audience of 14,000 Rotarians when the announcement of Pediatric Mental Health
came about and he said it was quite an experience!
They both told of favorite stories, of
meeting countless interesting people with beautiful cultural clothing, and said it is a great way to connect with Rotary friends.
Our District hosted a Happy Hour with the E Club 1.
The 2024-25 RI Convention will be
in Galgary, Canada on June 21-25, 2025. Almost in our backyard!
Perhaps we can get a group from our club to travel together? Let's talk about it!
Bill shared pictures and stories of his post-trip to Vietnam, and Tamie shared her post
trip to Cambodia where she visited the water to rural families where our Connie Golas
has a well along with 450 more wells. FYI, to new members, this is part of the WASH program, which involves many people in our District and focuses on Water And Sanitation Health. Both Tamie and Bill fell
in love with the warm, friendly people of Asia.
Marion Trummer won the 50/50.
Happy Bucks: Terre Cone wished all our fathers a Happy Father’s Day with a cake from
herself and Arthur.
Jerry Selinfreund gave a $50 check on behalf of Jan Keyton’s 80th Birthday, and Jan gave a $80 check towards Polio Plus.
A few straggling notes from the emails...
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The RCHR Board of Directors met last week. The next meeting is July 10, 2024.
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The Youth/RYLA update
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Applicants have been selected.
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Our club is sponsoring 18 students this year. 13 come from Highlands Ranch, 1 is from Denver, and 4 are from Laramie, Wyoming.
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The Next Community Service meeting will be on 6/20. ***Please note that we are working on a way to provide MORE details on a weekly basis with a hyperlink or some other means of attaching details for those who want to read more. This group does so much of the vital "day-to-day" work of the club, we believe that the WS can help be a way of promoting these activities and we will work to reach out the appropriate people to "flex" more of the capabilities that ClubRunner affords us.
Ok...whew...that is a lot of info. We are going to try to attach a photo gallery here but if we cannot do it before 3pm, we will send this and follow up with an "Extra edition" shortly! Thanks, again, for all the help!
We hope to see you on Thursday!
~Your WheelSpinner "Team" :-)
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