Highlights from the Dixie Sunrise Christmas Party

Members, spouses, friends, entertainers, and one Special Guest helped make the 2011 Sunrise Rotary Club Christmas party a great event. El Presidente Wilcox started the festivities by presenting our tireless Abbey Inn staff, Maria and Calvin, with a token of our esteem and appreciation. (What? Nothing for Shayne. No. Bummer for you) We then had a tremendous program provided by Carol Sue and her awesome students on the violins. Angels could not have sounded better. The meeting was topped off by a visit from the skinniest Santa we have ever seen. He graciously delivered white elephant gifts to club members. Wow, the stress of the season has really taken a toll on Santa this year. Anyway, a great party. Now enjoy the photo recap. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Dixie Sunrise Rotary Club.

SGMT Makes an Appearance at Rotary

We all enjoyed real togetherness last Thursday as we met in the small room in the main building of the Abbey Inn. We were honored to have the muckety-mucks from the St. George Musical Theatre make a presentation to our club and bring us up to date on the status of the community theatre. Dan Olsen, Bruce Bennett and Doug Bishop gave us the run down on how they are planning to bring the SGMT back on line. The new home will be in the old Sunroc corporate building on the top of Flood Street by the movie theatres. Their new fund raising model is to commit business to pledge money to help raise the nearly $500,000 to renovate the building and get the cast and crew self sustaining once again. With possible money available from an Eccles grant, they were very optimistic that they could raise the pledges by the end of January 2012. They also shared stories of how SGMT has helped the community and the actors and production people associated with the company. It was a very informative meeting and we all need to dig deep and contribute to support the arts in the community. That is all.