Welcome to Our Club, Proud Member of District 5450
Service Above Self
Tuesdays at 7:00 a.m.
Senior Center
83 Nancy's Place, CR 1014
Frisco, CO 80443 United States of America
Our meetings are in person and also have a Zoom option:
Join through this website:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/559621585
Meeting ID: 559 621 585
Password is 8675309
Call in 301-715-8592
It certainly has been a busy and interesting week. How can we make magic happen? Don't give in to the rhetoric and stay the course!
Our Club has lots of opportunities to be seen throughout the county, especially during August. Be sure to look at the Activity Schedule and sign up to help out!
If you can, please welcome our new Exchange Student at DIA along with Jack Kriss.
I enjoy greeting each and every one of you at our meetings!
Here's to a wonderful Rotary year!
Wendy
Car Raffle Ticket Sellers Needed !
Please help out by going to our Sign Up Genius using the QR code below. We know it's a busy time for everyone, and we appreciate your help.
Terrence McGeehan, July 1 Tina Schroeter, July 6 Christine Murakami, July 6 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, 40 years Andy Jarski, 9 years Nate Phillips, 3 years Julie Hicks, 3 years
Hello. My name is Pat Simpson. My roots are from the Midwest growing up mainly in Ohio and Wisconsin with a short residency in Port Angeles, WA and Annette Island, AK when my father served as a bush pilot during the Korean war. As a child, I learned from my parents the importance of philanthropy and helping others in need. Our family would help our elderly neighbors with snow removal, yard care, meal prep, etc. It was self-understood that we helped our grandparents. We were Scouts involved in community service. My parents‘ motto was “Help others without need of recognition or reward and the world will be a better place.” Although, I have never reached as high a bar as they did, I still have time.
My first interaction with Rotary was through Girl Scouts. I was given a grant to go to the Girl Scout Senior Roundup in Coeur de Laine, ID. After the event, I was a speaker at one of the meetings. It could have been intimidating for a 16-year-old, but their kindness and generosity made me at ease.
I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Zoology specializing in palaeoentomology. My goal was to go on to grad school, but personal circumstances made me decide to take off a year to ski bum in Aspen. That year turned into 14 years which included a marriage, 2 children, 1 foster child (who is now my nephew) and a radical change in career. I worked in hotels and for the Aspen Institute. At 25, I decided to start my own property and rental management company because I was too naïve to know that I really wasn’t prepared. But with my headstrong determination, I worked hard and had a fairly successful company. Due to demands of motherhood, I sold the company and worked for the Snowmass Company as manager of the Snowmass Club and later General Manager of Woodrun V condominium which gave me a more normal schedule.
Our jobs took us to South Carolina and Florida. Unfortunately, my husband passed away while I was in my late thirties with two preteens. I was contacted by my past company, Lowe Enterprises/estination Hotels, to run a Resort in Florida with the promise that they would give me a position so I could return to my beloved Colorado. It took 8 years for that promise to come to fruition but finally I moved to Denver. Although my residence was in Denver, I was opening projects in Stowe VT, Cle Elum WA, Palos Verdes CA, Charleston SC and Squaw Valley, CA and wasn’t home as much as I wished. Since I was rarely home, in 2015, I sold my 1888 Capitol Hill Victorian and moved to my tiny ski condo in Silverthorne. Best decision of my life! I finally “retired” in May of 2019. I had a wonderful summer taking 2 of my three grandchildren on a trip from Shannon Ireland, London, Paris, Venice, and Athens. The fun didn’t last long. In August, Lowe asked me to help with a project in Puerto Escondido Oax, MX for a few months. On March 15, 2020, I agreed to be the interim general manager until a replacement manager could be found. Three days later the world fell apart and I served in that position commuting back and forth until April 2022. I still consult for them and a few other properties just to keep my mind sharp.
On the fun side, after my children left home, I took up some hobbies like running marathons– 14 including Chicago, Detroit and New York (at 50); mountaineering on very high (14K to 20K) mountains – Everest Base Camp, Kilimanjaro, Pico Aconcagua and Cerro Boneta, Argentina, Pico Orizaba, MX, Whitney, Rainier, and various 14ers (at 62); road biking events (at 58) and paddleboarding (at 70). Always athletic, I did downhill skiing, Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, canoeing, hiking, ice skating, camping, hiking, horseback riding, swimming, running 10Ks and half marathons, etc. throughout my life I have just pumped up my goals and will try to keep it up as long as possible.
I’m back! Summit County is my home. I look forward to being a Rotarian.
The team processed 67.4 pounds of plastic this week.
Please bring us DRY plastic! If the plastic you drop off at our Rotary meetings is wet, it will go into the trash as the Trex requirements are clean, dry plastic without tape or labels.
We're pleased to announce that we have been able to add the Summit County Rotary Charitable Fund to Amazon.
What this means...by following this link (https://smile.amazon.com/ch/84-1215233), and selecting the Summit County Rotary Charitable Fund as your Charity, Amazon will donate a percentage of every one of your purchases to us! This is a very easy way to get additional funds for our projects. If all of our members select this option, we imagine there will be a nice little contribution to help our club!
Instead of going to amazon.com when you make purchases, go to smile.amazon.com and you'll see us listed there!
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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:
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Click the gear icon in the top-right, and select Settings.
Click the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.
Click Create at New Filter.
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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.
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