The Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs is proud to name Zoe Hart from the Soroco High School as a recipient of the Rotary Club Student of the Month award for May 2013.  Zoe is a senior this year and is planning to attend either the University of Denver or University of Colorado at Denver in the fall of 2013.  She currently has a 3.97 G.P.A. and has maintained a challenging schedule for herself throughout the last four years.  She was amongst a small group of students to start a travel club at the Soroco high school.  Her first year, she traveled to Paris and this past year, traveled to Spain.  This is an example of Zoe’s enthusiastic and adventurous nature.  She is also very creative, outgoing and has a joyous outlook on life.

Zoe’s name stood out in a competitive senior pool this year as someone very deserving of this recognition.  She has involved herself with a program called, “Live Below the Line”, to raise awareness of local and world poverty.  She is now part of a website which raises money for the World Food Organization.  In addition to this project, Zoe has hours upon hours of community service, mostly working with children in some fashion.  This is Zoe’s passion.  She describes her work with children as an opportunity to help them grow and become greater adults.  She wants them to know that there are no limits in life.  She intends on being a role model for other children and wants to help them to reach their fullest potential, as her own mentors did for her, early on.

  Zoe has worked incredibly hard to get to where she is today and to enjoy some of the privileges of travel.  She was not given these opportunities on a silver platter.  Therefore, virtues such as diligence, humility, charity and kindness are naturally a part of her repertoire.  We feel that the way that Zoe chooses to conduct her life fits well with the mission of the Rotary Club. 

The Club's board of directors met on Monday, May 13th.  The board adopted the club's budget for 2013/2014, approved Craig Koehn's application for membership, and approved Paxton Jones' request for resignation.  The board also reviewed the status of the club's strategic plan and brought the plan current.  Here are several sections of the club's strategic plan:

 Membership:

• Currently 85 active and 11 honorary members.  In 3-5 years have 85 to 100 members.
• Continue New Member program to assimilate existing members to become active members
• All members active on a committee
• Look at having one meeting per month not be a lunch - and instead be after hours social or volunteer activity
• Hold a membership recruitment event 2x per year
• Hold a new member event 2x per year

International Services:

• Agua Prieta project annually
• Agua Prieta orphanage project annually, with visit to AP by Rotarians and Interactors
• 1-3 other projects annually depending on club interest
• Youth exchange annually
• Vocational Technical Assistance Team participation as interest allows

Vocational Services:

• Interact to be a priority
• Dictionary Program
• RYLA and Young RYLA - send 4 students per year
• 4 Way Test in all 8th grade classrooms
• Support SSHS projects

In addition to the awesome flower barrels, this year the club has hanging baskets

The Club will deliver flower barrels on June 11.  Hanging baskets are also available and need to be picked up the evening of June 11, from the Howelsen Parking lot.  You will be responsible for your own watering and care.  For watering and fertilizing recommendations, please call Karl Bunker at 846-7415. 

 First come, first served. Number of containers is limited. Orders and payment must be received by Friday, June 1, 2012. Sorry, they cannot let be picked up without  pre-payment. Call Debbie Aragon at 879-1756 or Karl Bunker at 846-7415 with questions.

Available:  June 11, 2013  (Tues. evening)

Cost: $115 per barrel

          $  45 per hanging basket

 Unfortunately, we had to raise prices this year to pay for replacing the plastic inserts that disappeared last year. 

 To order, complete the form below and mail with payment to:

Rotary Flower Barrel Project

Attn: Debbie Aragon

P.O. Box 773957

Steamboat Springs, CO 80477

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Order Information:

Name___________________________________________________

Mailing Address____________________________________________

e-mail or FAX______________________________________

Delivery Address__________________________________________________________________ Phone_____________________

______ Number of barrels ($115 ea.)

______ Number of hanging baskets ($45 ea.)        Please make checks payable to Steamboat Springs Rotary Club

______ Total enclosed  - Sorry, we cannot accept VISA or MasterCard

 Flower varieties vary from year to year and may differ from container to container. .

The Steamboat Springs Rotary Club is pleased to honor Cole Miller, from the Hayden High School, as Student of the Month for April 2013.  Cole is an impressive and hardworking young man who always has a great outlook, respect and maturity. Cole is ranked in the top 15% of his class with a 3.82 GPA. He has challenged himself by taking rigorous courses including Advanced Placement and Honors courses in English, Science, and Math. Cole has also taken advantage of dual enrollment courses and received College Credit and Certifications for Welding during his time in the Babson-Carpenter Career and Technical Education Center.  

Cole has been on the Honor Roll all four years he has attended Hayden High School and, among other high achievements, Cole scored a 27 on the ACT.  Teachers comment that Cole is a leader, hard worker, respectful, good communicator and industrious. They also state that he pays great attention to detail, has great work ethic, is a team player and is self-directed. Cole is also very punctual and has almost perfect attendance.

Upon graduation on May 20, 2012, Cole will attend Colorado State University where he will study Mechanical Engineering.

Mr. Paul Scoppa, HHS Construction Trades teacher, stated, “[Cole] is always willing to help anyone in need of assistance”.

Mr. Kevin Kleckler, HHS Vocational and Technical Education Teacher, commented that Cole is “an outstanding young man with tremendous work ethic and who has an attention to detail. He will be a great asset to the engineering profession.”

The club's grants committee has awarded spring grants to the following groups:

 *  The After Prom - This is a parent sponsored event to provide a safe, supervised and drug free event for students after their prom dance at the Steamboat Springs High School.  $500.

 * Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurses Association - Funding to support their Aging Well classes in Routt County for seniors.  $975

 * Routt County Council on Aging - Funding to support their transportation program that takes seniors to the grocery store so that they can grocery shop.  $975.

 The club will have one more grant round - with grants restricted to proposals which benefit seniors - planned for this spring. Applications are available on the club website (see the bar on the right) and are due on April 15th.