Co-President Christy Manning, Barbara Beck, and Parshalla Wood, Program Sponsor

 

Upon the recommendation of Par Wood, our club's Program Committee invited Professional Counselor Barbara Beck to speak to our club about "Achieving Mental Health in These Challenging Times."  Summing up her advice, she told us to focus on the "now," rather than on the past or the future.  That includes letting go of past baggage, and refusing to stress over what might potentially happen in the future.  Life results in some wounds and scars, but as has been said, "We don't heal the past by staying there.  We heal the past by living fully in the present."

 

Barbara commended our Sunup Rotary Club on our significant commitment to the development of our JR RYLA leadership camp for 6th, 7th & 8th graders, and our sponsorship of a new Interact Club this year at Mile High Middle School.  She said this age is most vulnerable to drug and human traffikking, and that a large percentage of the traumatic experiences which individuals carry into their adult years are based on abuses experienced during these middle school age years.

 

 

 

Our Club Fellowship is a key aspect of why individuals join a Rotary Club, and why they remain as members over the years.  That fellowship consists of creating friendships, meeting and socializing with each other, and working together on projects to meet needs and to make life easier and better for those in our community, and in other communities around the world  who are experiencing difficult times.

 

This Wednesday we will be doing all of that at our meeting as we work with our club members, along with members from our new Interact Club at Mile High Middle School.  Then next week, instead of our usual morning meeting, we will be joined by our spouses, significant others, and invited guests, as we enjoy the fun and fellowship which always goes with our club's Christmas Dinner Party.

 

Aren't you glad you are a member of our Sunup Rotary Family?

 

 

 

 

Marsha Teller, our Community Service Director, is hoping to see as many club members as possble coming early to this Wednesday's meeting, in  order to help with filling the 100 bags for the Mayer Jr. High/Sr. High Christmas Project to benefit their many homeless students.  She reminds you that donuts and cocoa will be served, as an inducement to get up and join us at 6:30 a.m.

 

Many thanks to Finer Things Meet-Up for Prescott, who donated $300 of supplies at their Christmas Lighting pre-party to our Mayer School Project!  Teamwork makes the dream work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prescott High School Interact members helped last Friday afternoon to load Rotarian Ron Williams' trailer with the mobility devices which have been collected in Prescott and surrounding communities.  The Prescott load was driven to Queen Creek early Saturday morning. where it was loaded into the Denver-bound U-Haul truck, along with other East Valley equipment being stored there at the Canyon State School.

 

 

Some of the donated specialty disability equipment being loaded into the truck from the East Valley storage container.

 

Interact District Council members transferring equipment from the West Valley storage container in Glendale to the truck heading to Denver.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you enjoy hearing the music of handbells at Christmas, we highly recommend hearing the High Desert Ringers Christmas handbell concert, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," at the American Lutheran Church, 1085 Scott Drive, Prescott, on either Monday or Tuesday, Dec. 15 or 16, at 7:00 p.m.  The concert is free to the public, with a free-will offering to help offset expenses.