| Posted by Manuel Lopez on Dec 09, 2011
Don Smith, Joann Notorfrancesco, Alfonso Ochoa, Kriss Philips and Manny and Elizabeth Lopez drvove to San Carlos Mexico to deliver a $400 Scholarship. The San Carlos Rotary Club which speaks only English has a scholarship for Students that may not have the opportunity to attend school and The Rio Rico Rotary Club is now a part of that scholarship. Thanks to our Board and Foundation we have delivered the first of hopefully an annual event. It is incredible how far $400 can go in Mexico to help a student continue his education. Thanks to all who participated in making this posible. |
| Posted by Blaine Moyer on Aug 19, 2011
Rotarians have raised $185 million for Rotary's $200 Million Challenge to help underwrite the cost of ending polio around the world. Let's finish the last 1% and eradicate polio from this earth. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr.
Our speakers last week were OKONGO SAMSON and PAUL NZOMO both from Kenya. These men represent Unite 4 Africa, Incorporated an Arizona corporation and a 501-c-3. Their group equips and mobilizes individuals and organizations to transform their communities spiritually, socially, physically and economically. OKONGO has travelled to 34 countries where has helped transform community leadership particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. |
| Posted by Manuel Lopez
Guests were: Peggy Borgstrom, Roxanna Brown, Tonya Cooksey, Mike and Sue Duggan, Carol Edwards, Lucy Foster, Angie Gruenemeier, Mary Helen Maley, Dee Meadows, Ernie and Sally Montagne, Aleatha Moyer, Alice Petersen, Jim and Yoly Ross and Barbara Smith, |
| Posted by Manuel Lopez
Richard is an Instructor of the Border Patrol Academy. He is from Michigan. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on May 31, 2011
The last time we gathered our speaker was Hugh Margesson. He represents Sasabe Avansando. Their efforts are to attempt to help and change, for the better, the town of Sasabe, Arizona and Sonora. Hugh is from San Clamente, California and has made many trips here on a humanitarian mission to help the people of Sasabe. Education breaks down at about middle school age. they have supplied paper, school supplies and over 200 back packs to the children there. In the past Sasabe used to be a town that produced bricks which probable was the supply for most of the homes in Green Valley. Today schools are having a hard time, businesses are closing and only about 20% of the town is functioning. About 200 people a day there have no food. Recently an individual from Altar has purchased much of the land on both sides of the border as a ranch. Maybe this will help change Sasabe. Very interesting program. |
| Posted by Blaine Moyer on May 31, 2011
There has been a great deal of confusion about whether or not our Club was permitted to hold fund raising events to supplement our Club Budget. During our budget meeting this morning I called Rotary International and talked to John M. Hannes, Coordinator, Club and District Support for Central Pan America. After a very pleasant and informative conversation with Mr. Hannes he sent me the following email message: Club President-elect Blaine: Greetings from Rotary International, and thank you for your phone call! Again, my name is John, and I am a Coordinator with Club and District Support, Central Pan America, which works with your district. As we discussed in our phone conversation, your club is able to hold a fundraiser in which the money raised would benefit the club budget, provided that the club is up-front in explaining where the money is going (in the interest of transparency). In other words, when looking at advertisement or hearing about the fundraiser, there should be no confusion from any participant as to where their donations are going. If the above is unclear, or if you have more questions, please let me know! Best regards, John M. Hannes Coordinator, Club and District Support Central Pan America This is great information and will be of benefit to the Club in the years to come. Mr. Hannes also passed along all of his contact information and explained to me that he was our point of contact at Rotary International for any questions we might have. I have to say I was quite impressed. Blaine
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| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on May 10, 2011
Our speaker last week was Jennifer Argyros. She is the Site Coordinator for the Rio Rico Family Resource Center. What a wonderful resource center our community has. The offer classes in active parenting. The also offer a baby care workshop, computer classes, GED classes, puppet shows, parent mentoring and much more including ESL classes. All in all they offer 20 different things for families, parents and children. We are very lucky to have such a program in our community. Thanx Jennifer for your presentation to Rio Rico Rotary |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Apr 12, 2011
SPECIAL THANKS TO BLAINE! What a wonderful fun and fund raising event our roping was last weekend. It was the brainchild of Blaine and we thank him for that. Almost 100% of the club participated. The food was great and the participation for the roping was pretty darn good considerig the weather. Riders and their families had fun and so did our club. We made some money too! The saddles as prizes came out great! The buckles are a work of art and everything fell into place. Thanx to all who helped. Again it was a fun and fund raiser. |
| Posted by Manuel Lopez on Mar 28, 2011
Art Petersen was inducted in to our club as the newest member |
| Posted by Manuel Lopez on Mar 28, 2011
Congratulations to our club! We have been presented with a Banner for being a 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club. |
| Posted by Manuel Lopez on Mar 22, 2011
Loraine is presented with her Paul Harris Fellow on behalf of her parents Linda and Walter Lewis |
| Posted by Manuel Lopez on Mar 17, 2011
Doug Woodard the incoming Membershp Chair for our District in 11/12 |
| Posted by Blaine Moyer on Feb 28, 2011
For this week only, March 2, we are back in the Mariposa Room. Please note this on your calendar and let your guests know. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Feb 15, 2011
Welcome to the club! Debbi Caballero is now a member of Rio Rico Rotary. Sponsored by Don Smith we have learned that she is primed and ready to be a great Rotarian. She is working rapidly to become a true blue badge member. She was concerned when business kept her from having perfect attendance but made a special effort to attend our most recent board meeting not only to watch our board in action but also to maintain her attendance. Great job Debbi.
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| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Feb 15, 2011
On April 9th of this year will be our first ever team roping. Special thanks to Blaine for leading us on this event. Also being a huge help is Billy Padilla. Billy has been involved with many roping events and promises great success for this one. Billy is a champion roper himself. Last week he was on hand to answer any questions and give us advice for our first roping event. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Feb 15, 2011
Our Student of the month for February is Jessy Alverez a 5th grade student in San Caytano Elementary School. From the same school our Feature Teacher this month is Stacy Johnson. Principal Gail Rich was on hand to share some great comments about each one. In the photo are the above mentioned and family members along with some friends of them all. |
| Posted by Blaine Moyer on Feb 08, 2011
February 16: Sierra Madre Room February 23: Santa Cruz Room March 2: Mariposa Room March 9: Sierra Madre Room March 16: Sierra Madre Room March 23: Sierra Madre Room March 30: Fun Night |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Jan 19, 2011
Our featured school this month was Coatimundi Middle School. John Fanning is the Principal of that school. This month he chose Maileth Ortega from the eigth grade class room of Catherine Parker as our Student of the Month. John shared that she always has a very positive attitude an recently led the blood drive for the entire school. Catherine is our Feature Teacher for the month. She is a 15 year experienced teacher and has been with our district for 5 years. She works with Superintendent Rod Rich serving on the math and science committees. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Jan 19, 2011
Our program last week was Lucas Behrans our exchange student from Germany. Every outbound and inbound Rotary exchange student is required to make a formal presentation to their host club. Last week we enjoyed Lucas telling us about his homeland. Rio Rico High School really appreciates his talent on the basketball court and he is blending in well in our community. Lucas is from a land of 81 million people. The currency for Germany and all of Europe is the Euro. There are 2065 cities in Germany and Berlin has a population of 3.4 million. We learned that there is a President of Germany but is really a figure head that only signs bills. The real decision making is made by the Chancellor. Transportation all over Germany is good with great roads and very fine train systems. We enjoyed viewing maps and learning about the history of Lucas' home country. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Jan 05, 2011
Last week Phil Silvers was our program. It was a special Rio Rico Rotary honor to have Phil with us. He recenty served as a RI director from 2008 to 2010. There is only 17 directors world wide out of 1.2 million Rotarians around the world. Phil and Kathleen were instrumental in establishing Rotary in Russia and Phil was a key player in starting the Ramallah Rotary Club in the Palestinian West Bank. Phil and Kathleen have been invited to be speakers at regional and district Rotary events in a number of countries. Phil has a Ph.D. and Kathleen has a Ph.D. in education. Phil was with us to tell us a little about the history of District 5500. The 100th Rotary Club in the world was the Phoenix 100 club established in 1914. In 1920 the Mesa club was established. It was 1921 when Rotary began to get a foot hold in southern Arizona. That year Miami, Nogales and Tucson Rotary clubs were established. In 1947 the first 2nd city club was chartered in Tucson. That was the Catalina Club. What a great program we enjoyed last week. Makes you feel like inviting a friend to Rotary. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Jan 05, 2011
In our on going effort to support the Rotary Foundation Denny announced that Blaine Moyer is now a Benefactor. We really appreciate Blaine's contribution. |
| Posted by Donald Smith Jr. on Dec 28, 2010
Denny our Rotary Foundation was proud (as the whole club was) to give Manny his Paul Harris Ruby pin. Special thanx to Manny for his continued support to the foundation. |
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