RYLA Highlights and Gilbert Jennings combine for a memorable Sunrise Rotary Meeting

The Dixie Sunrise Rotary Club was treated to a great meeting Thursday. Pictured in this blog are two of the RYLA participants we sponsored this year and they gave a enthusiastic recap of their experience and their new found passion for Rotary. Also pictured is one of our newest members, Lisa Davis, who was a facilitator at this year's RYLA. We heard about the speakers and the activities and the commitment level of these two participant's is off the charts. We look forward to working with them as a club and the possibility of helping them start a Rotaract club.

We also had a presentation from Gilbert Jennings representing the Spirit of Dixie II. This group is one of the major contributors in helping make improvements to the campus of Dixie State College in an effort to help them achieve university status. The idea is to make the campus a place where members of the community want to come and chill and soak up the atmosphere of an institution of higher learning. There are plenty of avenues of service for our club and I could see the wheels turning in President Wilcox's head. Overall, a great meeting. It is great to be a Rotarian. Especially in our club.

This just In: Rotarian Joe Christopher steps up and contributes!!

Rotarian Joe Christopher came through for the club in a big way by scheduling our speaker for our meeting on the 20th of October. With his experience with the American Cancer Society he brought in Christina Goodman, Patient Services Manager, with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Christina is seen in the pictures getting recruited by President Wilcox and signing a dictionary for our dictionary project. Christina gave us an awesome presentation on the L&L Society and how it is helping people on a daily basis with their battles with cancer. She also told us about the bone marrow donors list and how to get on it and there was a lot of interest by members of the club. We hope to be able to help in some way. Thanks for your time Christina.

A Visit from the Youngest District Governor in the World!!

Thursday the 13th of October was an historic day for the Dixie Sunrise Rotary Club. Our program began with the inuduction of a great husband and wife team into our Club. President Wilcox, with the help of District Governor Rick Cambra, inducted the Davis' into our club and gave them all the rights and priveleges of being full fledged, card carrying Rotarians. We are excited to have them in the club and look forward to getting to know them better and serving the community with them.









For the second part of our program, it was our distinct pleasure to hear from the youngest Rotary District Governor in the world, Rick Cambra. He was able to attend our bored meeting the day before and this morning gave us some great words of encouragement about Rotary and District 5420's direction in the upcoming year. (which is nearly half over) A couple of take home messages that impacted this blogger were the PR campaigns to be run by the district featuring real live rotarians' pictures on bill boards; and the charge to make Rotary fun. Because if is not fun, your club will be shrinking. We were all impressed by the DG's professionalism, except for the time he swore when he talked about Mark Heiner. Well, who doesn't? Anyway, a great meeting and if you missed it, you really missed it. See you next week.