We had a wonderful annual Transition Dinner on Saturday night at the Frisco Day Lodge courtesy of Rob Phipps, our incoming club president. We had more than 60 Rotarians and guests in attendance on a beautiful summer night. Black Diamond Catering provided a stellar dinner. Thank you Rob for organizing this event!
Now, we are on to the 2023-24 Rotary year with Rob as our new club president and Wendy Myers as our president-elect. Let's all commit to helping them get off to a great start in their new roles. Remember we are dark on Tuesday July 4th. Our next club meeting, the first with our new club management, will be on Tuesday July 11th. Wendy has lined up an exciting speaker for this meeting. Don't miss this one!
Today is the last day of my term as club president. I want to thank every club member again for your unwavering support as we pursued the Rotary theme of IMAGINE this year. And, IMAGINE we did! It has been an amazing journey for our club, beating all of our goals to Make Good Things Happen in our community, our world, and in ourselves. Thank you, thank you! I hope you had as much fun as I did this year.
By the time you read this on Friday morning, we will have held our club's Orientation Social at the Elks Lodge. Many thanks to our Membership Committee chaired by David Guignard for making this event happen. Several committee members worked long hours updating our membership packet so it would be ready for the Social. Sandy Mortensen created a great presentation about our club and Rotary for this event.
Two final reminders to mark on your holiday weekend calendar:
Rotary Bingo night on Monday July 3rd at The Pad in Silverthorne at 6:00 PM. Our club will be the beneficiary of the net proceeds of the fun bingo night. Please stop by and join us for a round of bingo with your family and friends.
Car raffle ticket sellers for the Frisco July 4th parade are needed and into the following week. See QR code below this message to do an easy signup using your cell phone.
Let's continue on our Rotary journey together as we Create Hope in the World and strive to make Summit County Rotary Club the best in our District. Remember that every single one of you is a YOU ROCK Rotarian :)
Wishing you all a wonderful and safe holiday weekend in Summit County!
Yours in Rotary,
Joan Tilden
Our meetings are available via Zoom on Tuesdays at 7:20 Here is how to join our meeting:
Lori Burke and Susan Juergensmeier relax at the Dillon Amphitheatre and enjoy the concert after their volunteer shift on June 22nd. There is still space for volunteers at our next Dillon Amphitheatre volunteer concert on August 7th.
Rob Phipps, as incoming club president, presents an amazing piece of geologic artwork to outgoing president, Joan Tilden at our annual Transition Dinner on June 24th. WOW! I love it!!
Terrence McGeehan, July 1 Joan Tilden, July 9 David Farmelo, July 14 Don Sather, July 16 Elaine Gort, July 16 Elizabeth Campbell, July 26 Larry Stone, July 30 Michael Kurth, July 31
Happy Anniversary
Terrence McGeehan, 39 years Andy Jarski, 8 years Nate Phillips, 2 years Julie Hicks, 2 years
Click to signup to volunteer for Summit Rotary’s upcoming projects. As we know, helping our community is always fun, satisfying and meaningful — rain or shine!
Calling all volunteers to help at the July 11 Tuesday Night Free Community Dinner at The Elks Club in Silverthorne (4:45 - 7:00). We need 4-6 more volunteers.
Click to Sign up or go to the volunteer links in the volunteer sectionof our member site.
This year's prize is a 2023 Ford Bronco Sport 4X4 on a three-year lease, with an alternative of $20,000 in cash. Ticket pricing is unchanged from last year. More details can be found on our website at this link.
Our Annual Car Raffle is a key source of funds for our service projects. All members are expected to participate at least at the minimum level of selling or gifting a personal packet of 19 tickets (only $130+). We need at least, and preferably more than, half of our members to be active in sales to the public and in various committee roles, some of which are still open. Contact co-chairs Steve Cornwell 303-842-6934 or Jim Brook 970-409-8995.
The initial volunteer schedule has been posted to 'Sign Up Genius' and you can access that on via our Volunteer links section via the link in the story below, or on the top left corner of the CR members page or via the QR code (Just center your cell phone camera on the QR code, then click on the website link that will come up on your phone).
Please check out available selling shifts and sign up.
The Rotary Club of Summit County is seeking host families for the 2023-24 academic year.
Our club will be sponsoring two outbound Summit High School students, going to spend one of the best years of their lives in Sweden and Finland. In turn, we will host two foreign students who will live in our wonderful community and attend SHS next year.
Each student will stay with three different Summit County families, so each host family has a student live with them for three months. It is a fun, educational, eye-opening way to bring the world together and make international connections.
Please consider participating in this life-changing opportunity and youth service by hosting an international student. Contact Youth Exchange chair, Kim Nearpass-Pollack, if you are interested or have questions. She will be happy to provide detailed information. drknearpass@yahoo.com
You may also visit the Rocky Mountain Rotary Youth Exchange website:
We have chosen "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea as our next, fiction book. The reviews say, "This powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal novel is at once a heart-wrenching wartime drama and a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women."
Cindy L. and Sandy M. highly recommend that you watch the film "Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony" using this streaming link: https://youtu.be/EhZODfxCj6Q
This is a 2013 documentary that follows Beethoven's 9th Symphony to China, Chile, Germany and Japan. Sandy and Cindy saw it last week at the Breck Eclipse Theater (thank you NRO!) and found it very moving, educational and still of our time. You can read about it in the NY Times or NPR as well as other news sites. Kerry Candaele, the director, provided the streaming link for us to pass along to anyone who might be interested. It's about 70 minutes, have your tissues close at hand, there is lots to discuss after you watch it.
And feel free to pass it along to others -- Perhaps his latest film "Love & Justice" will be available in our area sometime soon.
The plastic team collected and processed 45 pounds of plastic this week. Thank you to our loyal team! More help from others is appreciated. Contact Marcy, Cindy, Frank or Steve to learn more.
Calling all Rotarians! Here is an easy way to raise funds for our club!
Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation has been accepted to the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Once you link your City Market Shopper's Card to Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation, and swipe your City Market Shopper’s Card when shopping, SCRCF will earn a reward.
1. Create a City Market digital account -- Use this link to create a City Market digital account (if you don't already have one).
2. Link your Shoppers Card to SCRCF:
-Sign in to your digital account. Make sure you have a preferred store selected to view participating organizations.
-Look for Community Rewards on the left hand bar.
-Enter Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation or the "NPO" number PV058
-Click “Save”.
If you need to review or revisit the selected organization, you can always do so under your Account details.
3. SCRCG organization earns.
Any transactions moving forward using the Shopper’s Card number associated with your digital account will be applied to the program, at no added cost to you. City Market donates annually to participating organizations based on your percentage of spending as it relates to the total spending associated with all participating City Market Community Rewards organizations.
To ensure that the club newsletter and other Clubrunner emails are successfully delivered to your email inbox, add the following email address and domain name to your email's contact list/safe senders/whitelist:
Email spam filters often include the ability to "whitelist" certain sender IP addresses, email addresses or domain names to protect their email from being rejected or sent to a junk mail folder.
From Wickipedia: A whitelist is (1) a list of email addresses that a mail server or email client program is configured to accept as valid, incoming mail. Also called a "safe senders list," only messages from addresses on the list are allowed, and all the rest are discarded. (2) A list of valid domain names that a mail server is configured to accept. All mail from users with that domain are allowed.
Gmail:
According to internet: Gmail offers an option to add specific addresses or domains as "safe" so they aren't automatically marked as spam, known as a "Whitelist." Your Whitelists must be managed and set by you. If you want to accept all email sent from a specific address, follow these instructions:
Log in to your Gmail
Click the gear icon in the top-right, and select Settings.
Click the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.
Click Create at New Filter.
In the pop-up window, in the From field enterthe clubrunner email addresses listed above separated by OR. example mailservice@clubrunner.ca OR @clubrunner.email
The Membership Committee needs new Rotary members (especially people who have joined Rotary in the last 2 - 3 years) to join the Committee to help us meet our challenges in attracting and retaining new members. The Committee meets as needed to discuss approaches in how we can add, and involve, new members. We need to recruit new folks to keep our club vibrant and involved in the community!
A Prospective Member should attend 3 meetings before turning in his/her application, sponsor form, a short bio and $50 application fee to the Membership Chairman, David Guignard, or to any one on the Membership Committee. The application will be presented to the Membership Committee for approval. Once approved, the applicant's bio will be posted in our bulletin for 3 weeks. If there are no questions about the Prospective Member, the induction will be scheduled. Two categories of Membership are available – a Family Membership and a Corporate Membership. Please contact an individual on the Membership Committee for details on these new types of Membership.
Membership Committee Members are: Chairman - David Guignard, Julianne Gilchrist, Sandy Mortensen, Ann Clement, Susan Juergensmeier, Stephanie Katz, David "Woody" Woodland.
By attending Rotary meetings or events you give consent for yourself and your minor child(ren) to be photographed, videotaped or filmed at the meeting or event and for The Rotary Club of Summit County and its affiliates and agents to use your likenesses, voices, actions and statements for promotional purposes in any media now known or later developed without compensation.
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