A New Member and a Seasoned Veteran

On Thursday the 21st of June it was our pleasure to welcome another new member to our club.  Pictured here is President Wilcox inducting Craig Andrews as our newest member.  Notice that John Johnson and Craig are wearing the official sponsor/inductee uniforms for the occasion.  Also, notice that John is telling Craig with his right hand that he is number one as far as new members go.  Sorry, Butch.  You held that distinction for only one week.  Now it is Craig's turn.  We welcome Craig to our club and expect great things from him as a Rotarian.

We were honored to have our own Hal Eward present to us on Thursday.  Hal is retired from air trafficking (which should not be confused with drug trafficking) and he gave us a great presentation on the history of controlled air space development and how we keep track of all those planes every day.  It was a fascinating meeting and we appreciate the hard work and effort Hal went through to bring us this information. 

Stay tuned for next weeks blog on highlights from our service project in Snow Canyon State Park and our Pass the Gavel meeting for President Wilcox to President Wittwer.  We hope everyone will be able to attend.

Something for Everyone.

It was a great meeting on the 14th of June at the Dixie Sunrise Rotary Meeting.  The fishy scrambled eggs were a bit suspect, but other than that we had some great happenings.  It was our privilege to welcome into our club the newest member Butch Jentzsh.  He is pictured here with the three high powered Rotarians of the club, El Presidente Jeff Wilcox, 25 time Rotarian of the year, Lynn Spafford, and All Around good Human, John Johnson.  We are excited to have Butch in our club and look forward to getting to know him better.

In other news, we were pleased to welcome a visitor from the Bern Rotary club in Europe.  I have forgotten his name, but he made an impact on our club as he introduced himself and explained about his club. 

Our presenter on the 14th was Russ Talbot of Talbot Recovery Services.  Russ have been working for about 30 years to help people over come addictive behaviors and better understand the role recovery can play in a persons life.  Russ has about 4 post BS degrees and he knows what he is talking about.  It was a very interesting meeting.  Thanks for being part of our day Russ.

Getting Caught Up!

Due to a snafu with our picture taker, it is this resigning blogger's job to get the blog updated for the last two weeks.  To the left and right are pictures from our meeting on the 24th of May.  Bill Woodard was our guest speaker and he gave and excellent presentation on the Shelter boxes and where they have been deployed in the world over the past few years.  We saw some awesome pictures from real life disasters where Shelter boxes have made the difference in peoples lives as they have pretty much lost everything.  Some people are still living in their tents two and three years after a disaster which demonstrates the value and durability of the Shelter boxes.

In our meeting on the 31st, which was yesterday, we had the great honor to witness one of our long time members, Joe Christopher, receive his Paul Harris Fellow + 1.  This means that Joe has donated enough money to the Rotary Foundation to merit the awarding of a second Paul Harris Fellow.  It appears from the photo that El Presidente, Jeff Wilcox, is more excited about presenting the award than Joe is about receiving it.  Maybe it was the snide remark that threw Joe off his normally jovial look. 

In other news, Carl was our program presenter and he did an excellent job educating the club on the Rotary Foundation.  He told us what the money is used for, how we can contribute, and the ways in which our foundation benefits the world.  Truly an awesome place to put your money if you want it to do some good.  Carl has been around the block a few times as an attorney, a marine, and in the Cypress Rotary Club and he told our club of their "contribution" methods.  Let's not ever have Carl conduct a horseplay session.  I couldn't afford it.  Well, this blogger resigned yesterday in the meeting due to the member's lack of interest in the blog.  I hope my replacement has better readership.  Good Speed.