Weekly Bulletin for the week of January 2, 2025 
 

Meeting Notes from the (Noon Meeting) & Announcements 

• There will be a Pickleball Tournament on 1/25 that is hosted by the Cherry Creek Club and a couple of others.
• The annual MLK Marade March for Rotarians in Downtown will be on 1/20. For information on both, please contact Bill Simmermon at bsimmermon@blueskyprivatewealth.

• IFCS will gather to serve again on 1/15 and is in need of 5-6 volunteers.
• Eagle Academy is having an event on 1/21 and also needs 5-6 volunteers. You may contact Claudia Caves for information on these events. cjcaves123@gmail.com​​

• We will have a Solar Panel event for Ukraine at Mountain Vista High School on January 11, 2025. Please contact Zig, Terre or Kim if you would like information about the program or the activity on that day. Those who signed up to be there should have instructions for the day. Please be at Mountain Vista High School by 9:30 am on Saturday. There will be pizza and we will have a live Zoom call with The Ukraine. Special thanks to our friend, Andy Lenec, and DG Tamie Fennel for bringing this to us, and extra thanks especially to Terre Cone, Zig Berzins, and Jeannie Taylor, our initial Angel Investor for making this possible. Kim DeCoste is actively working to engage Highlands Ranch High School and with Andy and others in the Ukraine to identify a Sister Club for us. More to follow when appropriate. We appreciate the club's support of this effort..

• President Arthur's let us know our speaker Thursday will be Kyle Enders, CEO of We Don't Waste. We will also get to hear from Bill Simmermon about his trip with Project CURE to Africa.

• Please mark your calendars and REGISTER ASAP to save some money. THE PRESIDENT OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL will be be in Denver for a dinner on February 1, 2024 at The Wings Over the Rockies Museum. Please visit the District Website for our District (5450) or find the email from Bev Mendel that went out with the headline "EXTRA EXTRA".  CORRECTION The final deadline will be January 23, 2025. Do not delay and let's enjoy a great evening with her and in support of our District Governor, Tamie Fennel.

• We were also reminded the "Early Bird" rate for THE RI CONVENTION in Calgary in JUNE of 2025 also has less expensive EARLY registration now. Many of us will be there! Let's make it a group adventure and show up in force, RCHR! There was also an email from Bev Mendel in the District Office about tours for Rotarians who attend.

 COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS

FROM THE PAST WEEK & THE MEETINGS

Sunrise Meetings Group Update
Apologies are owed to the Sunrise Club who meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at HRCA Eastridge Recreation Center. Colette Hepp has sent a few updates that got "lost in the shuffle" in recent months. We will do a better job of keeping Sunrise Club activities here in the WS.

From their meeting on 12/18, we have the following notes:

• Win Pendleton presented on the fascinating history of Black Holes and what we know of deep space. (Did you know Win was an esteemed Professor in his professional life?!) 
• John Zwak was also at the meeting and may be joining one of our clubs.
• We learned that Mike Runyon has had to withdraw due to a change with work and schedule conflicts.
• Bill Medlicott still has Rotary Piggy Banks you may request for your spare change. Funds will help with the Backpack Society effort the Sunrise Group is championing. Please reach out to Bill if you would like a piggy bank: bmedlicott2@gmail.com
• The group will soon turn its focus to the Recycle Event planning in May.
• They met on 1/8 for breakfast at LTGC. (Notes to follow.)
• The next meeting is scheduled for 1/22 at Eastridge. Please stop in if you have not been in a while or have never been.

Flyin' B Meeting Update

From the last meeting, we have the following notes:

• Reminder that we meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month from 4-5pm in the Longs Ridge Classroom. We often gather after the meeting for a "Dutch" dinner at The Windows Restaurant. 

• Nominations for Club Officers begin now for the changing of the guard on 7/1. If you nominate someone else, please ask their permission and you may nominate yourself. All are welcome who are interested.

• At the next meeting we will introduce our newest members.

• The Apple will be passed at the next meeting also to kick off a new year.

• We will further discussed memorializing Mike Oldham. We are considering additional funds to be added to the $8,000 WC Student Server Scholarship Funds.

• Project updates will be given at the next meeting.

• If time permits, we will discuss the History of the 4 Way Test and real world examples of how to apply it in our everyday lives.

Additional Committee News and Other Announcements

   The Rotary Club of Highlands Ranch

A short note from Kim regarding The Wheel Spinner.

Some of you have heard, but Paul and I have decided to move this year to join our son in Maryland. He is fully employed and in Graduate School and his girlfriend plans to attend Columbia Law in 2026, so we think he is staying East.

We hope to retire to Bethany Beach, Delaware, but as Paul is ready to move on from his life in Corporate Finance, it is time for us to find a new start while we still have the get up and go to do so.

We have set our eyes on the summer for the move. But the schedule is still in flux.

Therefore, it is important that we get someone to train on how to do The Wheel Spinner.  I know you all think it's a huge task and difficult but it does not have to be. I can help bring the next editor up to speed and leave easy how-to instructions when it is time. I just wanted to let you all know myself.

Our company was founded and has been based in Centennial since 2007, and it is not moving. I am adding travel to our services so that I can move around the world more easily and offer programs, coaching, and training, and I will be happy to help others who plan to travel or who need my core services of communication, writing, public speaking, and career transition assistance.

The Rotary Club of Highlands Ranch will always be a "home" to me and I will be back often, I promise.

Happy New Year, friends. You are a very special group. 

Yours in Rotary,

~Kim DeCoste, Editor