Marana Rotary Club
Weekly meeting minutes
October 12, 2021
Randy – said he would like to have $500.00 donated SALF (Southern Arizona Law Foundation)
John Dooling made a motion to give up to $500.00 to he SALF organization. Don Second it, we voted majority vote was passed.
Randy said at the board meeting, a new committee was formed, and John Dooling is the head of it. It is to decide what we will do with the excess funds the club has $18k in GF, and the foundations has $11k.
The Peace Garden dedication will be Friday the 22nd from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. The poles have the phrase “May peace prevail on earth” in 16 languages.
Randy said we still need some minister, rabbi, Muslim leader to speak the will speak about 2minutes. Laura will try and get on from the Lutheran Church and Kathy has a relationship with the Jewish Center she will contact them. Don will attempt to contact one of the Indian tribes to see if someone would be willing to talk.
Sulee will take the banners next Tuesday and bring them on Friday to the dedication. The Marana Police Chief and some dignitaries from Rotary are already scheduled.
Kathy has written a press release regarding the dedication.
Happy Bucks:
Harold – told Randy we had not received the $500 from RI for the bench at the peace pole, Randy said he would investigate it and that’s what Harold is happy about. Kathy things are going well. Sulee is just happy. John Dooling told us about his 50 years (college reunion and having some great conversations with some of his old friends. Deznise will not be in town next week (I guess she is happy to get out of dodge for a week). John Z, just happy. Richie is very excited he got a promotion at work to the HR Director this is a virtual pat on the back Richie. Don 2000 families received shelter boxes in Haiti, and he is a Red Sox fan and there still in it. Laura happy her brother came to town, and he fixed her screen door. Randy, Happy he went to Kathy (who was a foreign exchange student) wedding in TX.
Our speaker was Ross Freezer, talked about Rotary Peace Corp Fellowship and where he was at,(I didn’t get the name of the location) and he said there are a 160 members of the Peace Corp that have returned and are here in the Tucson area. We should be cultivating them to become members.
We can go online and see projects that peace club are posting online. He showed us a video of where he served and donated close to 20,000 books. The teacher and coordinator in the video said it how much the videos helped the kids. One of the teachers said she had grown up in the US in such book rich environment and these kiddos don’t have books they can usually read. The books have been a chance to help the feel successful and when the finish a book they feel so excited. The group have also been doing some training for teacher. COVID had truly affected how this group can function right now.
I was truly touched by the video.