PRESIDENT DOT welcomed us to the meeting and we enjoyed a Hawaiian themed lunch. Then, she introduced new member ROB SAME for the pledge and song. ROB owns a transportation courier service, Rob's Elite Deliveries, LLC. GARY HIRSCH played a great rendition of “You’re A Grand Ole Flag.”
DOT then let us know of some sad news and we had a few moments of thought: JOHN STROBECK’s health is deteriorating and going to assisted living in Nevada to be near his son. MONTE CLAUSEN is recovering from a foot infection and still has a couple of months of rehab. We also thought about DON ROLLINGS and his beloved wife Nan who recently passed.
CAMI EVANS offered the inspiration based on Kindness. Remember to be kind and you never know how much it might matter to someone. She’s grateful that we’ve been so kind as she gets to know our membership.
DAN KALM has graduated from a cast to a boot for his foot recovery and introduced visiting Rotarians and guests. PRESIDENT DOT welcomed those members who were visiting online to include JOE PENNINGTON and his wife Mickey as well as DORINNA YORK who is in Fools Hollow Lake.
PRESIDENT DOT thanked TIM GRAUNKE and his company Solar Gain for the cookie sponsorship and awarded him a coveted Cookie Monster.
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BUSCH introduced our speaker Marie Fordney who we first met when they worked together at the Community Food Bank. Marie has been advocating for children for almost her entire career and has been the Executive Director of Children’s Advocacy Center of So. AZ for the past sevem years. The Children’s Advocacy Center is the front line responder to child abuse and related events. The majority of abuse is sexual abuse in our community (57%) with physical abuse (22%), domestic violence and kidnapping (18%) taking up the other majority pieces. 7,000 children in Pima County are abused each year. Without treatment, they are 4 to 12 times more likely to become alcoholics, drug abusers as well as become depressed and/or attempt suicide. They are also more likely to become morbidly obese and contract STD’s. 50% of the Center is dedicated to prevention by training those that work with children (teachers, counselors, etc.). We can help! Become a Steward of Children and learn to recognize the signs that a child may be being groomed before the abuse has taken place and how to help avoid circumstances that may leave the child at risk. We can also help by donating money and/or participating in the annual fundraising Golf Tournament that is happening on September 28th. Log on to CACSOAZ.org for more information. Marie did a very heartfelt and passionate presentation that included a few tears. It’s great that they have her as their leader of such an important center. She signed the book “Dandi McLion Has Her Say!”
BUSCH introduced our speaker Marie Fordney who we first met when they worked together at the Community Food Bank. Marie has been advocating for children for almost her entire career and has been the Executive Director of Children’s Advocacy Center of So. AZ for the past sevem years. The Children’s Advocacy Center is the front line responder to child abuse and related events. The majority of abuse is sexual abuse in our community (57%) with physical abuse (22%), domestic violence and kidnapping (18%) taking up the other majority pieces. 7,000 children in Pima County are abused each year. Without treatment, they are 4 to 12 times more likely to become alcoholics, drug abusers as well as become depressed and/or attempt suicide. They are also more likely to become morbidly obese and contract STD’s. 50% of the Center is dedicated to prevention by training those that work with children (teachers, counselors, etc.). We can help! Become a Steward of Children and learn to recognize the signs that a child may be being groomed before the abuse has taken place and how to help avoid circumstances that may leave the child at risk. We can also help by donating money and/or participating in the annual fundraising Golf Tournament that is happening on September 28th. Log on to CACSOAZ.org for more information. Marie did a very heartfelt and passionate presentation that included a few tears. It’s great that they have her as their leader of such an important center. She signed the book “Dandi McLion Has Her Say!”
DAVE WHITE was celebrating his birthday. Did you know he makes very large machine parts for equipment all over the world? He said there are two things that he loves: All of us and that the people in this club are passionate about making our world better.MIT
CH PISIK introduced our new member ROB SAME. ROB was born in Cameroon. His wife, Elvira, still lives in Cameroon and hopefully she’ll be able to be with him in the USA soon. Among many things, he has been a professional ballroom dancer in the past. ROB owns a courier service and can deliver things all over Southern Arizona to include Phoenix.
CH PISIK introduced our new member ROB SAME. ROB was born in Cameroon. His wife, Elvira, still lives in Cameroon and hopefully she’ll be able to be with him in the USA soon. Among many things, he has been a professional ballroom dancer in the past. ROB owns a courier service and can deliver things all over Southern Arizona to include Phoenix.We had four Blue Badges presented at our meeting:
- BRUCE TUNZE gave ROGER LaFAYE his blue badge. ROGER works with Micamp Solutions and they do good work with credit card processing. He’s also already brought in four members!
- RICK ROSE gave KASPER KAVALARIS his blue badge. KASPER recently purchased Film Creations and is ready for more work.
- CLIFF BOWMAN gave KEVIN BARKER his blue badge. KEVIN is the VP at Lovitt & Touche. KEVIN played football for Syracuse University and beat the U of Arizona in 1990, 28-0. It’s a good thing that his daughter goes to the U of A now.
- PHIL GUTT gave CLARK GODING his blue badge. CLARK is an accountant and enjoys creating model railways as a hobby.
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DAN KALM drew the winning number for the 25/50/25 Raffle. There’s close to $1,800 in the pot and the winning card was NOT drawn.
ART ALLIS was recognized for winning the Bill Sweet Member of Distinction award from Skål. Skål is a professional tourism organization that functions around the world.
PRESIDENT DOT had a few announcements:
- Remember to look on the tables and on the slides for upcoming events/projects.
- Red Badge Selfies.
- The next two lunch meetings (8/6 and 8/13) will be in the in Turquoise/Crystal Ballrooms.
- DAVE WHITE let us know that over 4,000 Car Show tickets have been sold. We only have 26,000 to go. Get out and start selling tickets, please!
- BOBBY LARSON reminded us of a Community Food Bank work project on August 23rd. He needs lots more participation.
CAMI EVANS offered a toast and then we were off to the heat of Tucson.
