Announcements from the Rotary Club of Evergreen meeting of October 25, 2024
 
Pledge of Allegiance and The Rotary Four Way Test
Inspiration of the Day: 
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch.”
―  Robert Brault
 
President Announcements:
 
  • Peace Education & Action for Impact Will begin its third iteration in February 2025. The Rotary Clubs of Evergreen, Golden, Boulder, Wheat Ridge, and Conifer have all financially supported this program in the past. Bob Rose will have further information.
  • Trip to Africa: Patrice Henning will be holding an information meeting for anyone interested in the August 2025 Africa trip immediately after our November 8 Rotary meeting.
  • Sponsors of our Club The sponsors of our club are listed on the table tents on your table. Please acknowledge them when you see them or better yet when you do business with them. We still need more sponsors so see Mindy about becoming a sponsor.
  • Senior Thanksgiving next month. All slots are full, but if you are still interested contact Erica Sprenkel.
  • Bell Ringing – a signup genius will be coming out soon for the month of November and December. Please sign up and bring the fun to this easy 2 hour shift at the Walmart store. Contact Dave Laughlin at davelaughlin9@gmail.com for more info. 
  • December 5th is our Club Holiday Party. Please sign up on Signup Genius.
  • December 20 is an annual party at the Unger’s house.
 
This Month’s Birthdays!
Anna Harry    Oct. 6
Al Steger       Oct. 8
Ken LeVos     Oct. 12
Kris Fisher     Oct 13
Hanna Holt    Oct. 18
Tim Grace     Oct. 25
 
This Month’s Club Member Anniversaries!
Doug Turner              25 yrs 10/08/1999
Don Unger                 23 yrs 10/12/2001
Marianne Temple     12 yrs 10/01/2012
Laurie Romberg       12 yrs 10/26/2012
Kevin McGuire         8yrs    10/14/2016
Kelly Gant                  7 yrs   10/20/2017
Mindy Hanson          5yrs    10/18/2019
Duffy Duffy                3yrs    10/08/2021
Ginny Boschen         1yr      10/27/2023
 
Guests:
Earl Bouschn 
Kara Sanderfer, Salvation Army
 
Thank you for providing todays breakfast to:
Ginny Boschen
Brenda Belrose
Erica Sprenkel
 
New Member Inductee:                                           Red Badge Graduate:
Payton Thomas                                                        Chris Hoidal
 
Club Announcements:
- Chuck Adams
Kevin McGuire needs our prayers at this time. He is scheduled for surgery for an ulcer of some sort in his throat. He has been in the ICU at St. Anthonys.
 
Thanks to Gary McKay for all the orange bags he saw on the side of the road from the Road Warriers pickup last weekend.
 
Chuck is in charge this year of finding the next leadership for our club. Please, if you are interested in leading our club, let him know.
 
  • Kay LaMontagne
Friday, December 6 is the Annual Downtown Holiday Walk at 5PM. Please come early to the Evergreen Design Center (great parking) at 4:30 for a Peace Pole Dedication. Extra fun food truck and marsh mellow toasting will be happening as well.
 
  • Bruce Anderson
Boogie at the Barn is TONIGHT. Come to Wild Game for good music and fun. There will be a wine auction in addition. All proceeds go to Resilience 1220.
 
  • Lauren Kaufman
We have a big construction project being planned at El Rancho for a Truck stop and more. She has more detailed information if you are curious to see what plans are underway that will affect our ability to get in and out of Evergreen off I70.
 
  • Jeff Stone
The Great Compassion Sand Mandala Tour will be in Evergreen Wednesday, October 30 through Sunday, November 3. A group of Tibetan Monks from Leh Ladakh, India, will be building a sand mandala at Congregation Beth Evergreen. Stop by CBE to witness the construction, chat with the monks and support their school for underprivileged children, The Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialectics. If you would like to host dinner with the Monks on Tuesday, October 29 or Saturday, November 2, please call Patti Stone at 720-318-7940. This is an opportunity to share the Monks with your friends, and family. You may also schedule your house blessing or business blessing with Patti. Volunteers are needed to staff the Monk’s gift store (and hang out with the Monks) next Thursday and Friday, during the day. Schedule of events: 2024 Mandala Tour Flyer Evergreen. More information: Ngari Institute. Ted Ning suggested watching this documentary: Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. It can be found on Amazon.
 
  • Bob Rose
We have an opportunity to participate in world peace. The Peace Education and Action for Impact program will begin its third iteration in February 2025. Our club has financially supported this program in the past. There will be a Zoom information session THIS SATURDAY, OCT. 26 at 10AM MST. 
 
  • Gail Sharp
Homeless Veteran Backpacks! We REALLY NEED HELP! Donations are very low for our back packs. Tomorrow is the last day to collect items for the back packs. Money is always welcomed! Write a card for one of these vets that are on the table. All can be dropped off at Wildgame. 
 
  • Richard Aylor
  • The EChO Food Drive is going well. We collected 106 lbs of food two months in a row. We are asking for a bit more food to cover the holiday months. We are pushing for a bit more help on November 15th to up our amount of food donated.
• Marsha Walsh
Alternative Gift Fair is coming November 9 & 10 at the Evergreen Lutheran Church on Hwy 73. We as a club have been working with women in Guatemala, providing assistance with business micro loans. A lot of these venders at the Fair benefit from these micro loans and provide wonderful gifts for the holidays.
 
  • Kara Sanderfer and Dave Laughlin
Salvation Army bell ringing starts Nov. 16 – Dec. 24. Please sign up on the Signup Genius and bring your smiles, talents and FUN to a 2 hour shift at Walmart. All the money we collect here goes directly back into Evergreen.
 
• Greg Podd
The Rotary International Convention is coming June 21-25, 2025 to Calgary Canada. You will never experience anything like it. 30,000 people from 200 countries speaking 20 different languages all with a common goal, to be a great Rotarian. It's practically in our back yard so please consider this amazing experience.
 
  • Larry Caine
He had the distinct honor of presenting the club wedding gift to the next couple who has been married for 50 years. He passed this honor onto Curt and Barb Harris.
 
Speaker today: Curt Harris – Rotary Foundation and Evergreen Rotary Foundation
 
Rotary International
Founded in 1905 by Paul Harris
Now boasts 1.4 million members 46,000 clubs in 130 countries
 
Evergreen Rotary Club: 501(c)4 nonprofit (donations/dues not tax deductable)
Evergreen Rotary Foundation and Rotary International Foundation 501(c)3 nonprofit (donations are tax deductible)
 
The Evergreen Rotary Foundation Members
Al Steger current President and Dale Schlinsog past President
Jim Kreider – Treasurer
Board of Directors are all club members
 
Our club foundation has assets of 1 million bucks. Funded by fundraisers and on- going individual donations. We have funded over $70,000 in projects in our community, internationally and our legacy projects of which our last one was the EChO food truck.
 
Rotary International Foundation
Initial contribution was $26.50 but since then they have funded over $6 billion in projects. In 2023 they funded over $343 million in projects around the world. They have net assets of $1.25 billon dollars. Greg Podd is a trustee of this foundation. Next year will be the Vice Chair of the Rotary Foundation.
 
The funding given by the Internation Foundation come as District Designated Funds (DDF). Those are the Rotary Foundation’s funds that can come back to clubs. The other funds are held in world fund which is their other works.
 
District grants - cash matching 1 to 1.
Global Grants - $10,000 can become $37,000
 
Our most recent Global Grant was for Bob Rose’s project in St Helene, Honduras for $216,000.
 
We can get $15,000 match every year. Not all grants are international. 2/3 of the grants are done locally.
 
Why Give to the Rotary International Foundation?
This organization is recognized as a 4 star, 100% rated charity. We have gotten this rating for the past 5 years. They are good stewards of your money and 92% of the money goes directly into projects.
 
Polio Plus Project
Success in the Philippines in 1985 lead to the leadership wanting to see if they could eradicate polio from the world. Now over 2.2 billion dollars have been spent trying to do just that. We are 99% there. Only a hand full of countries are battling this disease, Pakistan and Afghanistan are still showing signs of the disease. We need to cover the costs for 3 years past the last known case for us to declare success. We are short for the $50,000,000 needed to get the matching $100 million dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Fund.
 
Push Polio Plus Society
Sign up for $100 a year. We now have 3 Polio Plus members in our club, but we need a few more.
Our club donates $1,000 a year through our speaker donation.
 
$10 a year - Evergreen every year contributor
$100 a year -Sustaining member
$1000 a year - Paul Harris Society member (14 of those in our club)
 
Paul Harris Fellowship - you are acknowledged by a pin with precious stones representing every $1,000 donated.
 
Curt Harris announces his new position with the District Chair of the Bequest Society. 
 
Rotary Direct
An automatic way to give monthly, quarterly or annually.
 
Greg Podd remarks
Around the world only 34% of all Rotarians give to the Foundation
Only 14.2% give to the Polio Plus program
Costs a billion dollars annually to operate the Polio Plus program.
We are not meeting our $50million match with the Gates Foundation so money is taken out of the world fund to cover the loss.
 
Is Polio Plus part of the Rotary International Foundation or is it separate?
            Polio Plus is a project within the RI Foundation.
 
What do our club dues funds go to?
            They are NOT part of either foundation. They are collected for club activities, breakfasts, rental space and dues we pay to the District and International. 
 
Respectfully submitted by
Laurie Romberg
 

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