During this meeting, Club members received an update from Dave Gamrath with the Tucson Hope Factory.
Location: NWFD Training Facility and Hybrid
Attendees: Laura Clymer, Don and Kathy Jorgensen, John and Cindy Dooling, Bob Bishop, Beckie Penman, Dan Contorno, Andrea de la Cruz, Christine Leonard, Harold Burtzloff
Guest: Former member, now living in Ohio, Tom Mangold
Guest Speaker: Dave Gamrath of Tucson Hope Factory
After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, in perfect unison, President Andrea began with:
Happy Bucks:
- Don-Recalled a Rotary trip to Africa with our guest, Tom Mangold.
- Christine-Spending five days with one of her kids and a Celebration of life for her sister.
- Tom Mangold-Reminisced about life's adventures including walking Great Wall of China. Turned 80 last week!
- Harold-Still going toe to toe with his clothes dryer. Parts ordered.
- Cindy-Sixty friends and family at our house to send Ezra off to the Army. Another grandson graduates tonight at Ironwood Ridge HS and another grandson awarded Student of the year as an 8th grader at Basis Oro Valley.
- John-Happy Cindy is helping with notes as he left home without hearing aids.
- Dan-Heather is walking the Portugal Camino de Santiago. Dan is a little bored being only one home and they are expecting a 4th grandkid! Also he commented that the Mayfly Project, where foster kids learn how to fly fish, was a great success with Sunrise Rotary actively involved as well as our club with he and John Dooling.
- Laura-Gave us a little bit of info regarding quail gestation period of 21 days and the dedication of quail mommies.
- Bob-On Rotary Vocational Fund of AZ board.
- Kathy-Daughter returning home with FBI transfer and looking at Tucson houses.
- Beckie-Doves are silly! Nest on front door wreath and new wreath has been picked over for nesting material. GK's are GREAT!
- Dave Gamrath- Unplanned kitchen remodel almost done and a dog rescue adoption
- Andrea-LIFE!
Guest Speaker:
Mr. Gamrath, our speaker this past January, gave us an update regarding The Tucson Hope Factory. Stats say the cost of incarceration is 46K a year and a micro home is 6K. Ninety percent of micro home tenants transition to permanent housing with 4 months being average stay. The program is in 15 states and 28 cities. While the micro homes are not plumbed, there are kitchen, bathroom, shower and laundry facilities on site.
Frustration with EPA finding forever chemicals in the soil at Fire Station #8 where the first site is planned. Also, a hoped-for Big Idea Challenge grant from the UA may be lost to a Mars habitation plan. The UA has been exceedingly helpful especially the Drachman Institute and Department of Architecture.
For more information go to WWW.TUCSONHOPEFACTORY.ORG