Your current Board of Directors have begun to consider options and line items of the Pagosa Rotary Community Assistance Fund (CAF).  As you know this is the budget that guides our planning for various fund raisers and how those funds will be used in the community.  If you have specific thoughts about these efforts for 2020, now would be a great time to reach out to an Officer or member of the Board of Directors and let them know so it could be considered.

 

Speaking of the Board of Directors, the Annual Meeting (most likely December 19) will be the opportunity for you to vote on these leadership positions for the Rotary Year of July 1 2020 - June 30 2021.  The Board members who will have served their 3 year term and be leaving the Board are:  Shellie Peterson, Cindi Galabota, Neal Johnson and Sam Pittmon. If they are willing, these Board members may serve another term if so elected by the membership OR 4 new nominations for Directors will be necessary.  Please give this some thought and consider which of our members would take an active role in managing the Club and be good candidates to lead our club in the future.  Please reach out to a current Officer or Board member with your thoughts.

 

Nick Tallent - President

Mike Vanover - President Elect

Shellie Peterson - Past President

Jim Garrett - Secretary

Larry McClintock - Treasurer

Pat Love - Sergeant of Arms

Melanie Garrett - Board Member 

Allen Roth - Board Member

Granton Bartz - Board Member

Sharon Crump - Board Member

Cindi Galabota - Board Member

Sam Pittmon - Board Member

Jenelle Syverson - Board Member

Bill Hubbard - Board Member

Art Benzel - Board Member

Neal Johnson - Board Member

 

 

Once again, Rotary delivers!  Rotarians spent time with the 3rd grade students delivering and discovering their new color illustrated dictionaries.  The children are always excited about this book.  It is their only book from school that belongs to them, they put their name in and they can take it home to share with their family.  Students were instructed about how to look up words, read the definitions and the way the word was used in a sentence.  It is always a very fun event for Rotarians.  

 

Jaime Novoa, the club's exchange student from Spain, was very interested in the children's reactions!  Five classrooms of students received around 25 Dictionaries for each classroom at a cost of around $2,000.  The Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs has been performing this service for 15 years, 14 of which have been under the leadership of JoAnn Laird.  

 

I WILL HAVE TO ADMIT  when Jenelle from the Choke Cherry Tree first introduced this concept to the Board and later to the Club, I did not grasp the possibility right away.

 

Now that it has had time to 'sink in' I am becoming a really big fan!  All of us are going to do a certain amount of gift giving this year.  Directing our purchases to the Choke Cherry Tree AUTOMATICALLY IS A WIN FOR ROTARY!  Now of course, we need to consider ALL OUR SPONSORS, support their businesses and THANK THEM for their support for all the work we do in the community.  That goes without saying.

 

This promotion though has the potential to become a very sustainable fund raising effort for Rotary....and Jenelle....will do all the work!  How great is that!

 

The fact that you can send this 'code' to everyone you know - or don't know for that matter - is amazing.  You can give your friends and family a discount, and grow funds for our work at the same time.  Share it wide, share it far!  This discount will work on the online ordering system so even your Aunt in Alabama can use it!  Let all that sink in!  5% contribution for Pagosa Springs Rotary - 5% savings for using the code.  Not many deals that good.  54PSROTARY