THIS WEEK: NCOA Activities - Tom Keyton, Tim Sparks, and Jerry Selinfreund plus the t-shirt contest
Craving pizza? Support the Mountain Vista Interact Club Fundraiser all day Saturday, Oct 30th at Parry's Pizza in Highlands Ranch. When you mention you are supporting MVHS Interact Club the Club will receive 20% of proceeds from delivery, take out, and dine in. I know you don't want to cook Saturday!
Inspiration: Elya Kinsey
50/50 winner: Steve Miller will sell tickets
LAST WEEK:Themed Table Day
7 tables (International, Community Service, Youth, Military Support, Tech (ClubRunner, Amazon Smile, and King Sooper/Safeway), Public Relations, and RI/Foundation) gave a brief commercial of their goals and provided tech support.
We welcomed Kelsey's daughters Scarlet and Elaine and Bill Medlicott from Sunrise. We also
celebrated Aaron's birthday.
Rotary Moment - Neil DiLorenzo
Neil shared how Rotary Youth Exchange and his love of travel influenced not only his life but his family's life.
President, Bill and new member, Sophie performed a skit depicting the success of Bright Futures and congratulating Tom McHugh on his leading the challenge to meet the $100K goal. An event is judged on its success and we met ours financially grossing $108K with a net of $92K! Our Foundation will be challenged to plan the impact of those dollars including the successful peach sales. We have had a phenomenal year!! Bright Futures was also fun and full of fellowship. 80% of the survey respondents would like a social, dinner celebration for the next event.
Thanks to Grace Roscoe for sending an update on Interact.
Hello Rotary Friends,
I hope you are all doing well. The school year has slowly begun to return to a slight sense of normalcy, allowing The MVHS Interact Club to do many more in-person events this year.
The MVHS Interact Club has had great success thus far this year. We started the year off with several events. One of our favorites has been the Peaceful Schools Program, where we go into classrooms, grades 1-3, at a local elementary school to read and discuss books. We also helped distribute peaches into cars with Rotary. During our homecoming week, we hosted concessions at our school football game, raising $1400. With this money, we purchased a $1000 shelter box and donated the rest to the MVHS unified program.
Even though we have overcome many of the challenges Covid presents, we are still facing a few difficulties. Due to our local Senior Living Center, Brookedale, being at high risk, we have continued to send our monthly videos filled with many fun things. We have also added a new component. Pre-Covid, we were able to go into the home and do exciting crafts and activities with them. Since we can not do that during these times, we have started making crafts to deliver to the home to decorate for the seasons and holidays.
Coming up, we are participating in our school, Trunk-or-Treat street. Trunk-or-Treat street is where many clubs at MVHS decorate different cars for the community to walk-thru and get candy. The MVHS Interact Club will be hosting two Halloween-decorated cars with candy for the kids, but we will also be hosting a sock drive.
We would like to thank you for your continuous support of our club. We will continue to send you updates on all the activities we are participating in.
MVHS Officer,
Grace Roscoe
Grace also shared their fundraising event at Parry's Pizza this Saturday as noted above.
Announcements
Youth awards and scholarship on hold this year.
Military now has 20 Veterans in the Club and will be honoring them on Nov 11th at the lunch meeting. Mike Foss is heading the celebration; we hope all Veterans can make it. If you have questions contact Mike.
The International Committee has applied for a global grant to train teachers to teach in Costa Rica and possibly Africa. WAC is an ongoing mission.
The next Community Service meeting will be Nov 18th.
See Bev Mendel's email from Oct 25th to sign the petition for Rotary license plates.
The Keytons had an awesome vacation which many of us followed on Facebook. Here they are golfing with Joe Roos in Junction and Jan provided an update on Charles Tutor.
Many of you Rotarians remember Charles and Joan Tutor who were members of RCHR about 6 years ago before moving from Parker back to Gunnison CO where they previously lived and raised their family.
The Keytons had the pleasure of visiting Charles Tutor in Gunnison this past Saturday. Charles, now in his mid 80s (and a Past DG) is very active with many daily activities in his town plus his Rotary Club of Gunnison. He is on dialysis at home nightly. Charles lost his wife Joan last May very suddenly to a stroke; they have been married 65 years.
He misses Joan immensely as he was sure he would pass first so this has been quite a shock. He shared many emotional moments with us and I hope we were helpful to him.
He lives in a beautiful home just a tad north of Gunnison that his builder son built for he and Joan to finish their beautiful lives together. We had a marvelous visit with Charles; he is a wealth of information on so many subjects, and he keeps right up with sports. So here’s just a touch of info on Charles to catch you all up to date.
Discover New Horizons is the theme for this year's Rotary convention, June 4-8 in Houston. Register now for a reduced rate, $475, before Dec 15th, convention.rotary.org.
Family of Rotary Concerns
Floyd will be returning home with support on the 28th.
Community Service
15 volunteers are needed for the IFCS Thanksgiving food distributionNov 20th. Please call Claudia, 262-391-4833 to volunteer.
As you clean out your closets pull out those clothes, hats, shoes, etc. you haven't worn for months/years and bring them for the St. Francis Center/
Samaritan House clothing driveNov 28th and Dec 4th.
Contact Elizabeth, 970-799-4321, if interested in volunteering at ReStore and register at habitatmetrodenver.org (click the ReStores tab).
Project Angel Heart continues to collect decorated bags for food distribution.
Remember to send yourvolunteer hoursto Elizabeth including your name, what activity you participated in, the date of the activity, and the number of hours, 970-799-4321.
Upcoming Events will no longer be listed here. Please look at the right column for upcoming events and volunteer opportunities. Click on the event for full details.
Please join theHighlands Ranch Rotary Sunrise groupfor our regular meetings at Eastridge Recreation Center, 9568 S University Blvd. Aspen Room. We are a very active club, have regular speakers, participate in “safe” service volunteer opportunities, and strive to make a difference in the community. And we have fun at the same time!
Meetings are the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 7:15 – 8:30 am. Please contact either Gary Smith (303-522-3355) or Elena Cumberbatch-Lynch (303-875-3418) if you plan to attend. This is a great opportunity for a make-up meeting or for potential members that cannot easily attend noon meetings. We look forward to seeing you and welcome any guests that would like to join us!
