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Our club members apreciated the very candid presentation by City Manager Dallin Kimball at last Wednesday's meeting. He shared with us his very positive outlook about Precott's present and future, along with some of the happenings about which he is most excited. After this summer's announcement that the city will receive $15.3 million for critical improvements of the Prescott Rodeo Grounds, which Kimball said would be primarily used for installing underground utilities, ADA compliance and improved seating and sound, he was anticipating the City Council's approval of a new Master Plan for the Rodeo Grounds' 43-acre site off Gail Gardner Way. Also particularly exciting for him was a proposed Prescott Regional Airport runway shift and extension. He told us that would save the city millions of dollare in land acquisition costs, as well as expanding the airport's ability to handle larger aircraft, including the largest fire-fighting tankers. Where Prescott-Sunup Excels Rotary has five Avenues of Service: Club, Community, Vocational, International and Youth. Our Sunup Rotary Club has particularly excelled in Community, International and Youth. However, that which makes us exceptional among all of the other community service clubs in town has been our International Service. In fact, Sunup Rotary has been one of the Rotary leaders in International Service in all of Arizona.  Most of our club's amazing International Service Projects (see the list below, under International Service) have emanated from a remarkable International Projects Fair, which is held annually, rotating each year between locations in Arizona and central Mexico. For more than 20 years we have been building relationahips and creating partnerships between Rotary Clubs and Districts to meet identified needs in countries around the world, through the use of Rotary Foundation Global Grants — including a number of projects which have been located right here in Arizona. It all begins at the Mexico-USA Friendship Conference and Global Grants Exchsange, and this year it will be relatively close-by in Yuma. Our International Service Director, Todd Clancy. will be representing our club there in Yuma, along with John Stewart, another member of the Internatonal Service Committee. They are looking for others who may be interested in becoming members of the International Service Committee, and anyone who is willing to join them in Yuma for this incredible conference, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3. Interested? Please click link below for more information and registration, or contact Todd Clancy @ taclancy2000@yahoo.com, 480–285–7719 CLUB SERVICE Sunup Rotary's First Annual Chili Cook-Off is happening on Saturday, October 25, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Touchmark at the Ranch. A $25 ticket entitles you to sample some of the best chili in Prescott, cooked up in competition between our talented chefs. Tickets can be purchased at our club meetings, or by contacting Parshalla Wood, our ticket coordinator, at parshallawood@gmail.com, or by calling her at (928) 713-6716. A maximum of 300 tickets will be sold, so get yours soon, while they last! COMMUNITY SERVICE ALZHEIMERS WALK Participating in the Alzheimers Walk last Saturday, and representing our Prescott-Sunup Rotary Club, wsere Christy Manning and Jane White (pictured on the left in the photo below). Some of the names which Jane was honoring with her walk. Christy also had her list of names of individuals she was remembering and honoring with her walk. She was representing both OneAZ (note her shirt) amd Sunup Rotary (note her cap). Thanks, ladies, for representing our club! Support Our Bundles of Love Diaper Drive  Please bring your diapers ( sizes 4, 5, and 6) and /or Pull Ups to our meeting this Wednesday, or you can order from Amazon, Target, etc. and have them delivered to Marsha Teller at: 6849 Golden Tree Drive, Prescott, Az 86305 Amazon has several non-brand names that are quite reasonable. In addition, if you want to just hand her cash, Marsha will be happy to accept your donations, and she will do the footwork for you! Also very important: If you have barely used board or picture books, please bring them as well. They will be packaged with your diapers to encourage reading readiness. INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Sunup Rotary's Iinternational Service Committee facilitates and promotes humanitarian projects and cultural exchanges across borders. Through our participation in the annual Mexico-USA Friendship Conference and Global Grants Exchange, we have participated in funding/international partnership for a myriad of high impact Rotary Foiundation Global Grant projects throughout the world, including the following most recent projects:
GG2342585: Equipment and training for children’s burn unit Puebla, MEX 2019
GG2125495: Vocational training community literacy Sonora, MEX 2021-2022
GG218116: Equipment and treatment for seniors with Parkinson’s disease Xalapa, MEX 2020-2021
GG2236345: Incubators/training for infant care. Tehuacán, MEX 2023
GG2096288: Vocational training and equipment for mobility devices. Cuernavaca, MEX 2024
GG2465059: Classroom and field training for unemployed youths Africa 2024-2025
GG2574537 Rainwater harvesting and purification for 16 primary schools Nogales MEX 2024
GG2465195: Cleft lip & palate treatment Hermosillo, MEX 2024-25
GG2458674: Rainwater harvesting/purification for 25 homes/primary school Xalapa, MEX 2025
GG2573785: Vocational training and resources for adolescent girls Xalapa, MEX 2025
Photo projects in order: 1) infant incubator training, 2) cleft lip/palate treatment, 3) burn unit equipment, 4) empowerment adolescent girls, 5 & 6) potable water for neighborhood families, 7&8) potable water primary school          CHILDREN: Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? ACT NOW! Move out, get a job, pay your own bills.
Really enjoy yourselves, while you still know everything! __ I’ve just renamed my wifi network to “Police Surveillance Van #02.” That should keep the neighbors on their toes for awhile. __ This book on marriage says, “Treat your wife like you treated her on your first date.” So after dinner tonight, I am dropping her off at her parents’ house. __ When a woman asks you to guess her age, It’s like deciding whether to cut the blue, red or green wire to diffuse a bomb. __ I never thought I’d be the kind of person who’d wake up early in the morning to exercise. I was right. __ I thought the dryer made my clothes shrink. Turns out it was the refrigerator. __ This getting old is a terrible thing.
I blacked out for twenty minutes this morning
Before I realized I’d put my hoodie on backwards. __ My wife says I only have 2 faults: I don't listen, and something else... __ |
