Wheel Spinner (Jan 15, 2016)

WHAT'S HAPPENING
Wednesday, January 20

Sunrise Club meeting DIFFERENT LOCATION!
see details below
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January 21

DOUG KRUG

elsolutions

“New Results Require New Thinking: Please STOP the problem-solving!”

Also on January 21

Project Cure, 6:30-8:30 pm

January 28

GEORGE BRAUCHLER

Arapahoe County District Attorney

Aurora Theatre Trial - part 2

February 4

Kurt Kaczor

Executive Director

Douglas Elbert Task Force

DID YOU MISS LAST WEEK’S MEETING? HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED:

PAUL HARRIS PIN PRESENTED

Congratulations to Fred Erb who was presented with a Paul Harris +3 pin.

LIBRARY UPDATE

Bob Pasicznyuk, Executive director of Douglas County Libraries, gave a thorough update on what’s happening in our excellent library system. Interesting factoids:

book sales are actually rising at 4%, even with the availability of electronic content
Dougco has one of the highest readership stats in the country, putting us in an enviable position
Discussion on their ideas for library space reorganization

OTHER NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT

FRIENDSHIP DINNERS

What are friendship dinners? It’s a chance for new and old members alike to meet up and get to get to know each other better. Our wonderful hosts open their homes for this to happen outside the confines of the Thursday meeting. Needless to say, we don’t want all the responsibility to fall on the hosts, so everyone brings both food and drink. This can take on the look of a true pot luck or a sit down or a buffet/cocktail party, a Mexican party or, in the case of one host, Carolyn Bradish, a soup party!

So get signed up, sheets will go around again at Thursday’s meeting. Then plan on sharing a great evening with either Natasha Nola or Marion Trummer on Saturday, Feb. 6 or Carolyn or Arthur Cone on Saturday, Feb. 20.

NIBBLES & SIPS HONORS HR ROTARY!

You may have heard Nibbles & Sips thrown around during meeting announcements. Here’s the skinny – it’s a fundraising event sponsored by one of our community outreach groups, IFCS, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 27. But the big news is that our club is their 2016 Honoree! This is a huge honor for our club, as we’ve put in hundreds of volunteer hours, donated a lot of money, time and resources, and have had several members sit on their board. IFCS recently changed their name from Interfaith Community Taskforce to Integrated Family Community Services.

HR ROTARY GOES INTERNATIONAL! DESTINATION COSTA RICA!

By Bill Simmermon, chair, International Service Committee

Beautiful country for a volunteer trip!

Over a year ago the Int'l Service Committee decided to take on a project where we could have club members’ travel to a site and roll up our sleeves. After reviewing projects in Africa, Asia, South and Central America, we decided on the Costa Rican Book project in the land of the rich coast or Costa Rica.

There were several reasons we decided on the Costa Rican book project. We wanted to support the newly formed partnership between RI and Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV). Several of the PCV are from Colorado and we wanted support our local Coloradans. We already had a connection and relationship with the Give A Book Foundation (Carl Dickerson), as Sue Fox and Denver Rotary have supported this service project. And literacy is one of the six areas of focus for RI.

Another considerations were that several committee members were interested in touring the country, in addition to doing the service project.

MORE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES – A ROTARY CRUISE!

Our mistress of travel, none other than Jan Kucharski, is planning the next offering…A cruise to Belize City, with ports of call along the way. More on that to come on Thursday when Jane will present the particulars. Watch your email for more info as well.

If you’re interested, you’ll need to put down a $200 balcony cabin deposit by Feb. 11.

RI PRESIDENT’S DINNER & POLIO FUNDRAISER A HUGE SUCCESS!

Ravi Ravindran attended the event

Mary Kay Hasz, HR Rotarian and District Governor hosted the President’s Dinner on January 9. We were honored to have not only Mary Kay, and a representative from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but also RI President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran, whose presentation was “Be a Gift to the World”. The event raised over $30K for polio!

The event was sold out with over 500 in attendance, our club hosting 3 tables and the Sunrise Club also had a table, making our showing 40 strong!

Save the Date!
2016 BRIGHT FUTURES GALA, Saturday, October 8, 2016
By Debby Doig, Gala Chair

The 2015 Bright Futures Gala netted our Foundation just over $55,000! The organizations and projects we collectively support, and passionately believe it, will indeed benefit from the generosity of all who participated. A big Thank You from your Gala Chair -- we now set our sights for our next big event!

LEND A HAND TO DOUG & DEBBY

So many of you provided meals for Doug & Debby before the holidays, but we need another round of sign ups. If you recall, Connie Golas created a site at http://carecalendar.org/.

Here is the login info:
Calendar ID : 225049
Security code : 9245

We're hoping they can get a meal each Monday and Thursday. To facilitate deliveries of meals, you could bring a meal to Rotary on Thursday and Connie or Jane will deliver it.

SUNRISE CLUB NEWS

By Ann Mather

Please note: The Sunrise Club will be meeting at a different location this week, January 20th. The meeting will be at the Littleton YMCA, 11 W. Dry Creek Court. It will be held at our usual time from 7:15 to 8:30am with refreshments served. From 8:00 to 9:00am, the YMCA fitness director will be giving the members a lesson in the game of popular game of pickle ball. Anyone wanting to join us is welcome. Please contact AnnMather@aol.com, 303-570-9838, and let her know you will be attending. Please bring appropriate workout clothes and shoes if you will be playing pickle ball.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Do or do not. There is no try.

~ Yoda