WELCOME Rotarians announced PRESIDENT ELECT BOBBY LARSON at Wednesday’s meeting. He rang the bell at 12 p.m. to officially get the meeting started then made the announcement on the buffet, we will have fellowship and at 12:15p.have the presentation.
We were led in the pledge and song by Member AUTUMN HUFAULT. Today’s song was “My Country Tis of Thee”.
The Inspirational moment was given by CHRIS EDWARDS. CHRIS shared a great quote about the soul of a city. It’s in the people, in helping others and giving back to the community. Which is just one of the reasons we are all here today.
Sergeant at Arms DAN KALM stepped up to the podium to introduce our guests. Welcome to all Rotarians and guests.
Next PE BOBBY LARSON announced the Cookie Monster for this week. It’s Member JASON GRABOSCH from Foothills Bank. JASON stood up to receive his award of the Cookie Monster Badge and was handed his official Cookie Bag for the leftovers. Thanks for your sponsorship this week JASON!
PE BOBBY LARSON then asked GEORGE LARSEN to step up to the podium to introduce our speaker for today’s presentation, Don Bourn, CEO of Bourn Companies. Don presented slides about the projects Bourn Companies are currently working on that is “Uptown”. These slides offered a visual update on this project, that is the old Foothills Mall. Once completed, this will be a great mixed-use property focused on safety, with residential, commercial spaces along with retail spaces, restaurants and a park. There were a few questions from the audience before presenting Don with our Make Way for Books, book signing “Dig, Build, Excavate” to go into the Library.Next up were our Rotary Club Birthdays. PHIL GUTT (8/27). A very happy birthday to you!
We have one New Member to introduce this week. PHIL GUTT introduced new member SCOTT TILLEY of TRAK to the club. Welcome SCOTT!
The Raffle and King of Clubs game presented by DAN KALM. King of Clubs card was not drawn. Better luck to all club members next meeting.
Next up…Rotary Announcements:
PE BOBBY LARSON reminded the members the announcements are on each table to view and listed on the website as well as in the Tucsotorian.
PE BOBBY LARSON shared the slide of the Red Badge Selfies for this week, everyone looked great! Remember to take selfies with our Red Badgers. For the next meeting we are back in our normal room, on the other side of the TCC. BOBBY gave a huge congratulations to the members that were a part of the Senegal Global Grants project. It’s quite a feat to be awarded a Global Grant. There is a lot of planning and research that goes into the process. The grant has officially been signed, sealed and delivered! The Grants Committee will meet after next week’s lunch to plan the next steps.
DAVE WHITE gave a quick Car Show update. There are still plenty of opportunities to help sell tickets, be sure to sell, sell, sell when you are out and about too. There are several ways we’ve made it easy for you to create links and share on social media, there are posters, cards and QR codes in the back of the room for you to display and share with your colleagues and friends. The Car Show will be here before we know it.
DIANA MADARAS then announced next week’s meeting will be all about the amazing Service Projects our club participates in. There will be a raffle and those that had participated in 5 or more service projects last Rotary year will be entered into a drawing. A huge thank you to all the Service Project Captains last year. Be sure to attend next week. PRESIDENT ELECT BOBBY LARSON then gave another big thank you to DIANA for taking on the Service Projects. DIANA has really put a lot of work into this.
Last announcement was a Happy Jackson from JASON GRABOSCH. He recently was blessed with the new title of Granddad. Congratulations JASON and family on your amazing addition to the family!
PRESIDENT ELECT BOBBY LARSON closed today’s meeting by thanking all our members and guests for being here today and those watching online. The scholarship cups are on the table if you’d like to donate. Happy birthday to PHIL. Welcome to the club SCOTT.
CHRIS EDWARDS gave the final toast before ringing the bell to adjourn the meeting. Here-here! That’s all folks!
