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WINNER The Rotary Club of Parker June 4, 2015 Volume 2, Edition 23

Inside this issue:

Chaparral Interact Club…………..2

Shelter Box……………………………..3

Peaceful Schools training………..4

Change of Command………………4

Birthday’s & Anniversaries...…..5

Community Picnic…………….……5

Marv Moes Award …………………5

Parker Rotary Sponsorship Club

Giving…….………..……..………………6

Parker Days…………………………….6

Rotary Events………………………….6

Projects &Committees…………….7

TAKE ACTION: www.parkerrotary.org

President: Lindy Blackburn President Elect: Michele Duncan Secretary: Ben Martin Treasurer: Bob Satrom

Follow Us – The Rotary

Club of Parker

This Week Speaker

June 4

Vocational Talks

June 4

Greeter Liz Volz

June 4

Pledge Jane Johnson

June 4

Invocation Ken Clairborne

Looking Forward

Jun 11 Sheriff Tony Spurlock

Douglas County Sheriff's Office update

and introduction of Undersheriff Holly

Nicholson-Kluth

Jun 18 Sharon McCreary UN Refugee program for Colorado - English as a second language Jun 25 Change of Command dinner at Pradera Golf Club Jul 02 Michele Duncan District Assembly Jul 09 Sherry Fox Veterans with TBI Jul 16 Director Fred Koch, Darrell Roberts, Art Griffith Douglas County Public Works Engineering Department Jul 23 County Coroner Jill Romann Rotary Exchange Student Experience Aug 06 Chief Justice Nancy Rice Colorado Supreme Court

Duty Roster

PRESIDING LINDY BLACKBURN

CHANGE IS COMING!

Beginning in July

Meetings will be held every week except for months with 5 Thursdays in which case we will schedule an evening social.

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○ Calculator: Club funds were used to purchase a graphing calculator for a math student who could not afford to buy one. ○ Trick or Canning: On Halloween club members collected over 600 items of canned goods for the Parker Task Force instead of traditional trick-or-treating. ○ Sweet Street: Club members volunteered at Chaparral’s indoor Halloween trick-or-treat event to provide a safe and fun environment for children in the community. ○ Gifts for Custodial and Kitchen Staff: Students stuffed decorative coffee mugs with candy and treats. They were delivered to each member of Chaparral’s custodial and kitchen staff as a thank-you for their service. ○ Teacher Appreciation: Twice this year, club members wrote positive notes of appreciation for all Chaparral teachers and placed the notes on teacher’s doors or white boards. Students also washed teachers’ cars in support of a member’s “Year of the Teacher” campaign for her Girl Scout Gold Award. ○ Rotary Community Corps: Eleven club members volunteered to help seat and serve attendees at the Rotary Community Corps 5-year celebration. ○ Hat Day for Polio: To support the “Pennies for Polio” campaign (in conjunction with the Legend High School Interact Club), students paid $1 for the privilege of wearing a hat to school. Operation Christmas Child: Members collected toys and personal items for needy children around the world. The items were packed into individual gift boxes and funds were collected to ship the boxes overseas. O Dominican Republic Literacy Support: Working with Community Connections Intl., club members attempted to plan a trip to the D.R. with 2 goals in mind: support of the Literacy Project for which they made books last year and the establishment of an Interact Club in Consuelo, D.R. Unfortunately, not enough students were able to travel; however, plans are underway to support CCI in other ways. There is no question that Chaparral's Interact Club is one of the most active and vibrant in the community. t The Rotary Club of Parker can be proud of their many enthusiastic members and their and numerous and varied accomplishments. Way to go, Chaparral!

The Chaparral Interact Club celebrated the end of the school year with a banquet. Co-presidents, Emily Pook and Kellyn Dassler, assisted by their faculty advisor, Carolyn Ford, handed out certificates to now nearly 50 dues-paying members. Collectively, the club provided over 600 hours of service this past year. Here are some of their many worthwhile projects accomplished during the 2014-2015 school year. Nike Grind: A drive to collect used athletic shoes so that they can be recycled, i.e., ground up and used for playgrounds. Three large trash bags of shoes were collected. (See: http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/c/better-world/reuse-a-shoe) ○ Teens for Jeans: A drive to collect used jeans for homeless teens. Two large trash bags of jeans were collected. ○ (See: https://www.dosomething.org/campaigns/teens-jeans) ○ Birthday cards for kids in homeless shelters: During a club meeting, colorful paper and markers were distributed for club members to create birthday cards for kids in homeless shelters. Cards were sent to homeless children through https://www.dosomething.org.

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Serving with ShelterBox in times of disaster By Ellina Kushnir, RI Programs staff

When disaster strikes, our partner ShelterBox often works closely with Rotarians to evaluate local needs and devise a plan for immediate response. The Rotary family provides vital assistance to ShelterBox Response Teams by helping with disaster assessments, housing response team volunteers, and helping coordinate relief logistics. Over the past twelve years, Rotarians, Rotaractors, and Interactors have partnered with ShelterBox to help communities in dire need of assistance immediately following a disaster:

When the April 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, Rotaractors and Rotarians quickly connected with ShelterBox to assess damage and mobilize emergency relief teams. The Rotary family in Nepal and around the world has been instrumental in helping ShelterBox with logistics, transportation, housing Response Teams, and sponsoring emergency shelter tents and relief kits.

In addition to distributing transitional housing resources, ShelterBox also provides SchoolBoxes with educational materials to mitigate disruption in education as teachers continue working with students while communities are rebuilt. ShelterBox works with a variety of implementing partners and fellow relief organizations to ensure necessary aid including medical care, food assistance, and permanent housing is included.

Each ShelterBox, tailored to the particular disaster, typically contains a relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack, and other essential items. Distributions may also include SchoolBoxes containing essential tools for teachers and basic educational supplies for 50 children.

Parker Rotarian Al Johnson, said that an anonymous donor offered to match the first $100,000 in donations marked for the ShelterBox matching gift campaign during the month of May, 2015. So our latest $1,000 for one box has turned into 2 boxes. Al’s records show that the Rotary Club of Parker began supporting Shelter Boxes in

2006. Our boxes have been sent to Beirut, Lebanon, Karachi, Pakistan, Mexico, Niger, Sumatra, Haiti, Ethiopia, Uganda and Nepal . The boxes all cost $1,000 each, and are designed to support 10 people for at least 6 months. With the box just purchased, we’ve purchased 18 Shelter Boxes since 2006!

District Training 5/30/15

Michele

Jane Kam

Li

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YOU’RE INVITED PEACEFUL SCHOOLS PROGRAM

ORIENTATION Monday, June 15, 2015

5:30 TO 7:00 PM Peaceful Schools Program

Who: Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Clubs that would like additional information

about how to implement the Peaceful Schools Program (PSP) in their community.

When: Monday, June 15 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Where: Daniels Fund, 101 Monroe Street, Cherry Creek

What: Everything you need to know about planning and implementing the PSP program in your local community.

Cost: No cost for orientation; $150 per club for the PSP Toolkit which includes the

materials needed to implement the program.

Contact: For more information and to RSVP:

June 15 training contact Lynne lkmc1125@gmail.com or (303) 905-6729

Change of Command Dinner

Thursday, May 25 – Pradera Golf Club

6:00 arrival and reception *cheese & cracker display, vegetable crudité with hummus*

7:00 plated dinner

Salad

House salad with dried cranberries, candied nuts, white cheddar, apple, and white balsamic vinaigrette

Entrée (choice)

Grilled filet mignon with wild mushroom demi-glace, creamy garlic mashed potatoes, and jumbo asparagus

Honey and whiskey brined airline chicken breast, roasted sweet potatoes, chicken stock reduction

Sweet potato crusted salmon filet with sautéed winter greens and maple bourbon butter sauce

Vegetarian pasta primavera

Dessert

Molten Chocolate Cake with vanilla crème anglaise, few fresh berries.

Please rsvp to: kamieb1234@gmail.com

Please include your name, name of guest and dinner choice for each.

COST: Free to Parker Rotary Club Members $15.00 per non-member guest If you make a reservation and do not attend for any reason, you will be billed $35 per person.

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APRIL 29

By Mike Oldham

It is hoped that as many of our members as

possible will attend this event which is being

held to inform youth in our community, that

over the past year have been associated with

our Rotary Club, and their parents and

siblings, about the benefits that Rotary has to

offer to them in their futures. The second goal

of this event is to determine if the parents of

any of these youth would like to consider

becoming a member in our club. Along toward

the end of this month emails will go out to the

parents and students asking for RSVPs for this

event.

I will circulate a clip board asking club

members to sign up to attend and bring a

guest if they like. My plan is to prepare an

agenda well in advance and ask our president

and president elect, and Youth Service

Chair, to speak to this group. Refreshments

will be served.

If you have questions please let me know. This

function is an activity of your club's

Membership and Youth Services committees.

Thanks, Mike Oldham

State of the Town REVIEW

LAST WEEK: Ponderosa High School Student of the (last) Month: Blake Runyan

Lisa Frizell, Douglas County Assessor

SHRIVER, BILL June 12

PETTY, GLENN June 18

ROTH, KEVIN June 20

HOEPPNER, EYDIE June 30

MARTIN, DOC & Kay June 11, 1966

49 years

VANDERHEIDEN, TOM & Nancy

June 11

COLL, HANK and Betty June 13 1959

56 years

HILL, RANDY and Kathy June 16 1978

37 years

BRALY, JACK and Alice June 18 1961

54 years

WAGENER, WAYNE and Marge

Jun 25

Rotary Anniversary

BREITENBACH, KAM 9 years

Jun 01, 2006

MARTIN, BEN 9 years

Jun 03, 2006

BRALY, JACK 8 years

Jun 18 2007

COMMUNITY PICNIC

Picnic & Movie in O’Brien Park—Saturday, June 20th

(IF it rains, we will take our lawn chairs and blankets

to the Parker Senior Center)

Cost: $5 per person - Must purchase tickets from Kam

or at the Parker Senior Center. Fried Chicken Dinner.

Includes: Chicken, baked beans, cole slaw, roll, wedge

of watermelon and a bottle of water.

The dinner is a fundraiser for the Parker Senior

Center. (This is not our annual picnic)

All you need to bring is your lawn chair or blanket for a

picnic dinner and for watching the movie. (Movie is

optional). This is a great way to get together for a fun

evening and to help support our community.

The Parker Chamber of Commerce will be presenting

the movie Despicable Me at dusk. There is no cost for

the movie.

Marv Moes Achievement Award On May 19th, Rotarian Hank Coll presented the Marv Moes Achievement Award to the graduating students at Ave Marie Catholic School. Cathy Moes was present for the awards and increased the amount each received from $100 to $200 per student. The award is for Academic Achievement. The winners of the awards were Frida Hill and Mathew Gauss. This the 8th year for the Marv Moes award. Marv Moes served as President of the Rotary Club of Parker and died on Tuesday, November 3rd in Parker, Colorado. He was 72 at the time of his death.

Rotary Club of Parker

Optional Sponsorship Program 2015

Platinum - $1,000 or more – Tom and Leslie Duncan,

David and Paula Cichon

Sliver-$500 - $749 - Larree Morgan

Optional Sponsorship Program 2014

Platinum - $1,000 or more - Bill and Nancy Gripman, Irv

and Kathy Buck and Anonymous Donor +1

Silver – 500 - $749 – Larry Brutlag, Michele Duncan, Al

Johnson, Jane Johnson, Doc Martin, Lew Million and Bob

Satrom

Bronze - $250 - $499 – Glenn Petty

Copper – up to $240 – Wayne Wagener

Upcoming ROTARY Events 2014 - 2015

June 5

RI Convention @ San Paola

June 5 – 10 Project Sanctuary Retreat – 4 Rotary

Club of Parker members volunteering for week

June 9

Board of Directors Mtg. 7 – 8:30 a.m.

The Egg & I

June 13

Parker Task Force Food Drive

June 13 & 14

Parker Days Ticket Sales

June 16

Project CURE 7:00 – 900 p.m.

June 25 – Change of Command @ Pradera

June 27 – 28

MS Bike Ride

July 11

RCC of Parker Car Wash Fundraiser @ Kwik Car

Wash

10:00 – 3:00

August 18

Project CURE 7:00 – 900 p.m.

September 10 – District Assembly

September 19

Parker Task Force Food Drive

October 20

Project CURE 7:00 – 900 p.m.

December 15

Project CURE 7:00 – 900 p.m.

PARKER ROTARY SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM

Parker Days are here AGAIN!

The Rotary Club of Parker will be doing a fundraiser at Parker Days selling food/beer

tickets.

Dates: Sat and Sun June 13 and 14

Shifts: Sat 1:30-3:30

Sun 11-1:30 and 1:30 - 3:30

12 people will be needed for each shift. Please see Michele Duncan to sign up!

CHANGE IS COMING!

Beginning in July Meetings will be held every week except for months with 5 Thursdays in which case we will schedule an evening social.

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2014-2015 SERVICE COMMITTEES & SPECIAL PROJECTS Club Service…………………………..Kam Breitenbach Committee Chair…………………………Jane Johnson Attendance ……………………………………………..Ben Martin Change of Command …………...…… ….Lindy Blackburn Editorian……………..………………….…..…Kam Breitenbach Club Historian ……………………..……………..….Ron Beller Club Photographers…………....….Jim Boyd/Ron Beller Holiday Party …………..Jane Johnson/Kam Breitenbach Gloria Beckley, Stephanie Baldwin-Ross Summer Picnic……..... Jane Johnson/Kam Breitenbach Linda Jarret, Stephanie Baldwin-Ross, Gloria Beckley Dinner for 8………………………………………...Jane Johnson Kam Breitenbach Inspiration/Invocations, Pledge, 4-Way Test, Greeters …………….… Tom VanderHeiden & Scott Gough Music ……………………………..……..Jim Muir, Steve Gilbert, Steve Brown Programs………..…..Tom VanderHeiden & Scott Gough Webmaster …………………..…………...……….Larry Brutlag Website Stories & Site Editor..….....Kam Breitenbach COMMUNITY SERVICE …......Bill Kelly, Director Bike MS ………………….…..Larry Brutlag, Michele Duncan Boy Scout Troop 16 …………………….……. Mike Oldham Castlewood Canyon State Park…..…………..Jim Boyd Carl Finamore, Ron Beller Denver Indian Center…………….………….Mike Oldham Alvaro Pisoni, Carl Finamore, Wilson Groen Flower Power ……………………………....….Larree Morgan Tom Furmanski Health Fair—DC Area Clubs …………...Carl Finamore Melanie Baker-Hood, Michele Duncan NAMI-Douglas/Arapahoe Counties .....Bill Shriver Parker Task Force...................................Larry Brutlag Jim Boyd, Steve Brown, Steve Small, Wayne Wagener, Tom Furmanski, Kam Breitenbach & Nancy Gripman Parker Police Department ………….……......Jim Boyd Praying Hands Ranch ……………………………Jim Muir Michele Duncan, Gloria Beckley Project C.U.R.E. ……………….……..………… Don Clasen Project Sanctuary ………………………………....Li Pettett Janice Beller, Kam Breitenbach & Jane Johnson Rotary Community Corps………...Kam Breitenbach Michele Duncan, Stephanie Baldwin-Ross, Gloria Beckley, Li Pettett, Janice Beller Rotary Community Corps Rocky Vista University…………………………………Kam Breitenbach Julie Rosenthal, Jane Johnson, Lindy Blackburn Rotary Reads ……………....…………….………... Bob Kramer Toys for God’s Kids …………………………...…..Don Clasen Larry Brutlag, Bob Kramer, Wayne Wagener The Crisis Center ……….……………………Michele Duncan Julie Rosenthal Veterans Day Remembrance Committee...Jim Boyd Carl Finamore, Steve Trevino Parker Senior Center..…………….……. Kam Breitenbach VOCATIONAL SERVICE … Dave Selden, Director Business of the Quarter …………………...Steve Trevino District Club Ethics Award ….....……….....Bill Shriver Ethics Scholarships ………………………..…..Dave Selden

Four Way Test ……………….…......…....Dave Selden Vocational Talks ………………….……...……....Amie Jones

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE… Li Pettett, Director Deaf School/Water, Dominican Rep.…..Steve Brown Ghana Audiology Project ……………….......Jo Stone India Water Project ………….……………..…..Irv Buck Ron Beller Respire Haiti Project …………………...Mike Oldham Romania Orphanage Project….…Steve Sumption Open World …………………………..……...Alvaro Pisoni Li Pettett, Irv Buck Polio Plus…………………………..…....………Lew Million Shelter Box …………………..……….……......Al Johnson

YOUTH SERVICES ... Larree Morgan , Director Interact Chaparral …………………………….Li Pettett RYLA/Young RYLA ………………….....Mike Oldham Scholarships, Chaparral……..Tom VanderHeiden Scholarships, Ponderosa ……….…………Bill Kelly Student of the Month, Chaparral .…….……. Tom VanderHeiden Student of the Month, Ponderosa ….… Bill Kelly Student of the Month, Lutheran..Steve Budnack FUND RAISING ………. Peaches………………...…………………….…...Larry Brutlag Gloria Beckley Mayor’s Ball/State of the Town…..Steve Trevino Tom VanderHeiden, Mark James, Lindy Blackburn, Michele Duncan, Melanie Baker-Hood, Ron Beller, Carl Finamore, Larry Brutlag and Kam Breitenbach ROTARY AWARENESS …Ron Beller, Director Facebook Edit…………………..…… Kam Breitenbach GRANTS ………….....….Larry Brutlag, Director Kam Breitenbach, Michele Duncan, Mike Oldham SERGEANT AT ARMS…….......……..Randy Hill MEMBERSHIP..…...Michele Duncan, Director Past Chair………………………………...Lindy Blackburn Classification…..……………………….……..Bill Shriver Club Roster ………………….…….…..……...Ben Martin Family of Rotary……..…………Al and Jane Johnson Fireside Chats…………….……….………Mike Oldham, Glenn Petty Inductions..…………….…………...….Michele Duncan Mentor Program………….….…………………Irv Buck New Member Information .….…..……..Jim Boyd Recruitment & Development ........Mike Oldham Red Badge, Blue Badge ………..…….Jane Johnson FOUNDATION……………………….Jane Johnson, President & Tom Duncan, Treasurer Trustees….. Steve Small, Carl Finamore, Doc Martin, Hank Coll, Lew Million, Bob Satrom, Harold McCloud, Lindy Blackburn