I hope that you all have plans to spend quality time with friends and family in the coming week. I will be in New Mexico with my sister's family relaxing and letting the cousins go wild. After a long week of herding cats and trying to get the ducks in a row so that we can get away, I am thankful. Thankful that we have a home and a car and jobs and vacation time. Thankful that my children are healthy and happy. Thankful that my community cares enough to come together to try and make sure that those who don't have enough, get enough.
I am thankful for the Past Presidents of our club for taking on the important task of leading the club, continuing to guide the club and, most recently, asking Judi LaPoint to be our President Elect Nominee for the 24-25 year. Thank you to Judi for saying yes! I am thankful for our current Board of Directors and our President Elect, WendyMyers. I am thankful for the new slate of Board members that Wendy has chosen:
PEN - Judi LaPoint
Secretary - Andrea Browne
Past President- Rob Phipps
Treasurer - Mike Kurth
Sgt at Arms - OPEN
Club Service - Marcy Woodland
Community Service - OPEN
Youth Service - Judy Hunt
International Service - Laura Johnson
Community Awards - Juhree Wendl
Membership - David Guignard
Fundraising - Catheryn Carlson
Marketing/PR - Scott Price
I am thankful for all of our committee chairs and members of those committees. I am thankful for all of the people in our community that support us in what we do. I am truly, from the bottom of my heart, thankful for each and every one of you. Thank you for helping me to Create Hope in the World and for keeping this wonderful Rotary thing we've got going!
I love you all!! Thank you for all of the good that you do!!!
Rob
Our meetings are available via Zoom on Tuesdays at 7:20 Here is how to join our meeting:
We had a great presentation from Maddy with FDRD and 22 Interact Students!
From our wonderful Youth Exchange Officer, Kim Nearpass-Pollack:
Here's a link to the page where Rotarians can get a background check in order to interact with our exchange students for Rotary sponsored/sanctioned events: https://rmrye.org/rotarians/
There is a tab on the right side of the above link to "Background checks". Or, alternatively, they can go directly to this link:
Click the link below to see the latest youtube explanation of how our club finances work, including the charitable fund. This video is about 14 minutes long.
Scott Price, Nov. 5 John Ryan, Nov. 10 Andy Aerenson, Nov. 20 Camille Cooper, Nov. 26 Cindy Levin, Nov. 29
Happy Anniversary
Marilyn Hogan, 34 years Jeff Burns, 23 years Brian Blankenmeister, 9 years Aimee Straw, 4 years David Farmelo, 2 years Chris Manwill, 1 year Bill Bartels, 1 year
Please pick up your Ice Melt Tickets at the Rotary meetings. David Matthews will have them at the meetings. If you will not be attending an in person meeting, please contact Ann Clement almclement@comcast.net to make arrangements to get your Ice Melt tickets.
The ICE MELT CONTEST is one of our biggest fund raisers. Please sell your tickets and return your envelope to Bee, David or Ann.
The Book Club met at Steph's house and had a vigorous discussion of "Hell of a Book," which included Deb on Zoom from Belize. Next month's selection is "The Heat Will Kill You First. Life and Death on a Scorched Planet," by Jeff Goodall. We will meet on Thursday, December 7th, at 4pm for discussion (location to be announced).
Future books to be discussed are: January: "The Terraformers," by Annalee Newitz; February: "The Devil's Highway: A True Story," by Luis Alberto Urrea
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.
Cindy, Rick and Pat upcycled 60 pounds this week. Please bring your plastic into Rotary these next two weeks, so we can hit 10,000 pounds before the wrap comes out. if you've been collecting it at home, now's the time to bring it in!!!
And please consider joining our team now and again on Tuesday afternoon, ManyHandsMakeLightWork!
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!
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.
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