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Past
Winter Park - Fraser Valley Club Activities
- Please join us February 2nd for a presentation by Leanna Roberts of the Vail Club to learn about OrphanAct--a Rotary supported NGO that works to support orphans in counties where the need is both challenging and compelling.
- Join
us on the January 26th for Gary DeVries who will be talking about the
life of a
ship's Captain!
- Join us next Tuesday the 4th to learn more about Mountain Parks Green Energy Programs when Rob Taylor of Mountain Parks Electric presents to the Club.
- Then on Tuesday Nov 10th, we'll visit with Kirk Klancke, District Manager of the Winter Park Ranch Water & Sanitation District who will be telling us about The Moffat Water Firming Project
- Next
Tuesday the 13th!
PLEASE MEET OVER AT THE NEW REC CENTER ! The
WPFV Rotary Club will be treated by Dan O'Connell to a TOUR OF THE NEW
REC DISTRICT REC CENTER as it nears completion! Don't forget to bring a hard hat if you have it..
- On the 6th of October, we
hope you can join us for Glen
Trainor, Chief of Police for the Towns of Winter Park
& Fraser for discussions of Law enforcement topics
important to our community.
- Please
be our guest for lunch this Tuesday
to hear from the Town of Winter Park's Mayor, Jim Meyer. Come join us
to learn
about what is happening at the Town of Winter Park on a host of
different issues. We hope you
can make it.
- Our other programs lined up for
September are, on the 15th,
Tim Showalter of the Granby Club will be our guest to talk about Update
on Energy Policy in the US.. and on
the Sept 29th, we'll see Penny
Suazo, Principal, Fraser Valley Elementary
- Please join
us Tuesday Aug 25th to hear from our own Eden Recor to learn about the status of our Club's Ecuador Project. Eden will be sharing with us the story of his recent trip to Ecuador this
summer and about his direct particiation in the project and how the
work is going. He'll be showing photos from his trip and talking
about the current state of the water project in the village of Malingua
Pamba--a Quecha village that is about the same altitude as WP--10,000
feet above sea level. Visitors are welcome to attend what promises to
be an excellent presentation. Hope you can make it
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! Please let your friends and neighbors know that the WPFV-Rotary will be hosting our Congressmen Jared Polis on Tuesday September 1st. Everyone is welcome to attend and to meet and speak with the person that represents you in Washington DC!
- Please join
us and bring a friend next Tuesday the 11th to what promises to be
a very interesting meeting with our Speaker: Mike Thompkins who
will talk to our Club about Grand Lake Issues. You also might
wish to come early to visit with some esteemed guests who
will be joining us include Brandon Shaffer, President of the Colorado
State Senate, John Morse State Senate Majority Leader, Dan Gibbs our
District's State Senator, and Elena Barishnikova a Rotarian from the
Ukrain
- Please join us this week for a presentation by District 5450 Literacy Chair Hal Koczwara. Come and learn about
our District's literacy programs and how important they can be to
families the world over. And.. We'll be at the picnic groups
just near the south end of the Beaver Village Lodge.. Follow the dirt
road by foot, cross the bridge and you're there.
- Host
Families Needed for Exchange Student!
The WPFV Club has the opportunity to host a Rotary Exchange Student for
the coming school year, but need to find 2 or more host families to
host the student for the better part of a year. Our student this year
is a young Argentenian woman who will be a senior in high
school. She speaks English but wants to improve her speaking skills
while
living here. If you or anyone you know is interested in being
a host family or learning more about what is required, contact our
Youth
Committee Chair, Judith Graham at 726-9543
- Host
Families Needed for Exchange Student!
The WPFV Club has the opportunity to host a Rotary Exchange Student for
the coming school year. Our student this year
is a young Argentenian woman who will be a senior in high
school. She speaks English but wants to improve her speaking skills
while
living here. If you or anyone you know is interested in being
a host family or learning more about what is required, contact our
Youth
Committee Chair, Judith Graham at 726-9543
- Mark your Calendars! All-Club's in GC Picnic
is set
for Sunday July 19th, from 1PM to 4PM at the Barn below Shadow
Mountain
reservoir dam. Bring a fishing rod and a dish to share.
Click Here for Details.. Questions? Contact Mark Johnson or use our contact
form
- Attention
Golfers! Do your part to help the WPFV Rotary Club
raise funds to
support Rotary International's fight to completely eradicate Polio from
the world. The 2nd Annual WPFV Rotary Golf Tournament will
have a Shotgun start at 1:00PM, Monday July
27th.
Have a schedule conflict or not a golfer but still want to
help? We're also looking for hole sponsors for support. Hole
sponsorship costs $100 and you'll get your name on the pin of
the hole you sponsor. Contact Club President Mark Lund to
sign up
to play or to be a hole sponsor. (you can also use our contact
form )Cost
to play will be $125 per player.
- This week's guests at our Tuesday noon lunch meeting are Megan Ledin, Executive Director & Ron Nelson, Board President of the Grand Foundation. Please join us to hear the two community leaders..
- Grand
County Food Banks Running
Low!! Grand County's food banks are reporting
extremely high usage and
unusually bare shelves for this time of the year and are asking for our
help. Our Winter Park Fraser Valley Rotary Foundation will match up to
$500 in members donations and Grand Mountain Bank will donate another
$1000 to the cause. Help us take the edge off of hunger here
in
Grand County.. contact us at info@wpfv-rotary.org to find out where you
can leave food, or simply
send a check made out to the "WPFV Rotary Foundation" and mail it to:
Winter Park-Fraser Valley Rotary Club,
PO Box 745, Winter Park, Colorado 80482, USA
- Adopt
A River Clean Up Date Set! The
WPFV Rotary Club is joining with the Colorado Headwaters Chapter of
Trout Unlimited to do our semi-annual clean up of the Fraser
River. To learn more about the Fraser
River Adopt-a-River Project, join us on
Wedenesday May 27th at 4:00 p.m. at the Lion's
Pavillion just south of Safeway in Fraser. We will clean our
usual portion from the Safeway south to Rendezvous. Trout
Unlimited will be cleaning from the Safeway north to County
Road 8. If you can make it please contact Will Arduino to let him
know you can help. (you can also use our contact
form too) Note that Sandwiches and beverages are provided at
the conclusion of the clean up, so take this opportunity to come out
and help maintain this
community resource.
- May 5th's speakers are Kay Borvansky and Roberta
Hovermale of Horizons Specialized Services Horizon's
provides help to individuals with developmental delays or disabilities
in the five counties of northwest Colorado
- Happy End
of the season everyone! This Tuesday April 21st Savannah Shipman
will be our lunch speaker. Savannah spent a year
in Turkey
as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange program. If Savannah’s
presentation at our annual dinner
is any indication, it will be a great program.
- Tuesday April 14th speaker was Gary Defrange from the Winter Park Resort.
Gary joined us for an update from the Resort on how the season went and
what the summer has in store.
- Tuesday April 7th saw guest speaker Carol Wolff of the Rocky Mountain
Repertory
Theatre. She joined us to let us know about the upcoming season &
RMRT's building project.
- Next Tuesday, March
10th, Lion's Club
member and long time coordinator of the Fraser Valley 9 Health Fair,
John Erwin will be speaking to the club about the upcoming Fraser
Valley Health Fair. This is one of the most important health
events in our valley each year and a great way to see your friends and
neighbors who've been hiding indoors all winter. Let's give
John
a great audience and learn what's new about this year's 9 Health
Fair!
- This week's meeting is our "1st
week of the
month" early morning meeting (already!)
so remember to join us at the Beavs for our 7:30AM breakfast meeting
March 3rd.. Our speaker next week will be one of our own, Dan
O'Connell. As President of the Fraser Valley Metropolitan
Recreation
District, Dan will be talking to our club about the progress
of
the construction for the new Fraser Recreation Center as well as the
progress on
the other Rec District projects at Pole Creek and the Fraser Valley
Sports complex.
- Our Speaker on February 24th is Sondra
Chessare. Sondra is the Executive Director of the Advocates
Victim Assistance Team of Grand County. ADVOCATES: Victim
Assistance Team is a non-profit, volunteer based organization whose
mission is to end domestic and sexual violence in the Grand County
Community. To accomplish this mission, ADVOCATES provides
extensive victim support services, information, prevention education,
and community awareness. Please come and welcome Sondra and learn
more about the essential services Advocates provides in our community.
- This
Tuesday
Feb 17th is a Club Assembly meeting so come out and enjoy some good old
fashioned Rotary fellowship over a relaxed lunch at the Beav's. PLEASE
NOTE The Mountain Family Center needs our help. If you have any
extra food that you can donate, Steve Radcliffe will be collecting what
you bring at this meeting--or you can drop it a the Gallery IV store in
Winter Park.
- Granby is having there winter
social at
Mavericks Grill in Granby on Friday night Feb 20th. It
starts at
6:30 w/a cash bar with dinner at 7:30. Cost $30 per person.
Prime
Rib or Sea Bass.There will also be a small silent auction during the
cocktail hour. Come enjoy the fellowship of Rotary!
- Mark your calendars for our lunch
speaker on Feb 10th which will be Al Barrett of the Granby
Club.
Al will be sharing his story and photos from his trip to
Summit
Mount Everest!
- Community Event!
Attendthe public
meeting to discuss issues relating to the Recreation Center in
WP/Fraser. Sky Hi Daily News is sponsoring a public
forum on
Thursday February 5th at the Fraser Library from 6 to 8 PM.
All
Rec District broad candidates will be at that forum and it should be a
good & open discussion of the issues before our community on
this
important topic.
- Don’t forget this
Tuesday's the 3rd's
Breakfast 7:30 AM @ The Beav’s. Our meeting will be an
international one featuring the international staff currently @ Beaver
Village from Columbia, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay
&
Brazil. Plus our guest speaker is Zibinew Zemikowski [Ziggy]
who
will be talking about communist control of Poland and his flight from
the iron curtain to West Berlin and then to Dallas,
TX.
- On Tuesday January 20th, our
Club's will visit with the Granby Club's Stewart Thomson
who is also the Chair of the Grand
County Planning Commission. Stewart will be presenting some
historical real estate sales data as compared with '08. This
promises to be
an interesting presentation so invite your friends.
- Steve Radciffe has been successful is finding
an excellent guest speaker for the January 27th's lunch
meeting. Traci Maddox will be speaking to our Club about her
new book called "The Essential Employee" which talks about
how to create success by becoming essential in the
workplace
- DON'T FORGET ! ! This Tuesday the 6th of Jan is our
first try at having a once a month 7:30AM
Tuesday morning meeting. Our speaker will be Jaymes Wood who is the new Excutive Director of Grand Youth Adventures. Note that only the 1st
Tuesday of each month is a breakfast meeting.. the rest are at noon as
usual.
- Mountain
Family Center can use
your
help. Our Rotary Club is making a $500 donation to the
Mountain
Family Center this holiday season, but given the state of the economy,
especially here in Grand County, MFC will need all of the help they can
get. They are looking for individuals willing to sponsor
families
for the holidays. For more details on how you can make a
personal
contribution to the Mountain Family Center, give them a call at
725-3257.
- Mark your schedules for next week's lunch speaker too. Dale Sonnet of the High Country Stampede Rodeo will be joining us.
As this was the 25th Anniversary for the Stampede there will be lots to review.
- This weeks WPFV Tuesday lunch
speaker will be our AG Mark Krieg. Join us!
- Join the WPFV Rotary Club this Friday December
5th at 4:30 PM to decorate a tree for the
Lions Club Christmas Tree Auction. Wine will be served for
the decorators. The Lion's Club XMas Tree auction will be the
next day, Saturday December 6th from 4 to 8 PM. Both events
will happen at Beaver Village Lodge.
- Please join
the WPFV Rotary Club at this years annual fund raiser and enjoy Grand
Theater's
production of "Ha Ha Holidays" on Dec 4th. Our annual fundraiser's
doors will open at 6:30PM to start the social & silent
auction
with the Play to follow at 7:30PM. All this will
once again take place at the Grand Theater in Winter
Park. Tickets are $25 each with
all proceeds going to purchase Rotary Shelter Boxes for
disaster
relief around the world. Don't forget our silent auction too
so
if you have items to donate, please bring them to a club meeting so we
can start getting prepared for the event. Thanks to Petra
Recor
who is heading up this effort and could use some additional volunteers
to help with the auction. Please contact her at 627-5068 if
you
can help.
- This coming Tuesday Nov. 4th (election
day!) our
Club's own Eden Recor will be presenting on his recent trip to Ecuador.
Eden will be telling us how the WPFV Club's particiation in this
International project is going. He'll be showing photos from
his
trip and talking about the village of Malingua Pamba--a Quecha village
that is about the same altitude as WP--10,000 feet
above sea level. Visitors are welcome to attend what promises to be an
excellent presentation.
- Mark your calendars for the
upcoming DISTRICT ROTARY EVENT down in Denver.. Come hear
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter's "State of
the State" address, come to lunch at 11:45 AM, Denver Merchandise
Mart click here for details
- With Elections less than a month
away,
don't miss the chances to meet a number of candidates who'll be
visiting w/ the WPFV Rotary Club. (Invite your friends and Neighbors
too!) Tuesday Oct 7th, Todd Hagenbuch will join us.
Todd is running for Colorado House District 57. Then on the
Oct 21st, we'll have as our guest Randy Baumgardner who is the
republican
candidate--also running for the same seat. Then on Tuesday the
28th Republican candidate running for the 2nd Congressional District,
Scott
Starin, will visit with us.
- REMEMBER that September is National
Hunger Awareness Month so please visit the Mountain Family Center Food
Bank Locations in Hot Sulphur Springs or Kremming here in Grand County
to
contribute.
- Pam Gilbert provided a
great update on our mutual project in Ecuador. For more
information on the Ecuador project, see Pam Gilbert's website
at
http://www.escuelaminga.org
- PLEASE NOTE if you're
interested in travelling to Ecuador to see this project in action, Eden
Recor is leading a group there from October 16 throught the
26th.
Total cost for transportation etc. will be around $2,000.
- Our speaker this week will be Past
District Governor Mike Hayes. He'll talk to us about his
Micro
Lending and revolving credit experiences in Rotary..
- Don't miss your chance to meet your
District
Governor, Steve Cantrell Tuesday the 23rd at our lunch meeting at
Beaver Village Lodge. Members can also come early (10:30AM) to attend
the Club's board meeting too.
- The 1st Annual Grand County Rotary Golf
Tourney was a great success. The tournament raised more than
$2400 towards the WPFV Rotary club's goal of $3000 for the polio
eradication effort and matching grant from the Gates
Foundation.
A job well done by Mark Lund & Will Arduino and to
all participants that made this event a success!
- REMEMBER that September is National
Hunger Awareness Month so please visit the Mountain Family Center Food
Bank Locations in Hot Sulphur Springs or Kremming here in Grand County
to
contribute.
- Join us for Susan Perkins from
the Mountain Family Center Tuesday the 9th. The topic is
Hunger
Awareness Month. REMEMBER that September is National
Hunger Awareness Month so please visit the Mountain Family Center Food
Bank Locations in Hot Sulphur Springs or Kremming here in Grand County
to
contribute.
- Please join
us for this week's lunch Speaker Pam Gilbert (Sept 2nd) who will be
giving us an update on our International Project in Ecuador.
Tuesday
at noon at Beaver Village Lodge.
- Pam Gilbert provided a
great update on our mutual project in Ecuador. For more
information on the Ecuador project, see Pam Gilbert's website
at
http://www.escuelaminga.org
- REMEMBER! Paticipate in our 1st annual
Rotary
Golf Tournament on Sept 8th at Grand Elk Golf Course. The
proceeds from this event go directly to match the Gates foundation
funds that will help eradicate polio for good. Click Here
for details!
- Debbie Harris from the
Troublesome Horse Rescue organization (who was our speaker 8/26/08)
wanted us to pass along that they are having their annual
fundraising dinner, Saturday Oct 18, starting at 5:00 p.m. at
Caroline's Cuisine near Grand Lake.
The cost is $60 per person. Caroline's is at
9921 U.S. Hwy. 34, 10 Miles from Granby near Grand
Lake, 970-627-9404 is their number
- Join us for next Tuesday's lunch meeting
(Aug 12th
at noon, at Beaver Village Lodge in WP) to hear Fran Cook,
Mayor
of Fraser speaking about current events at the City of Fraser.
- Don't forget to attend the Einsenhower
Statue's unvailing event on August 9ths 10AM near the fishing ponds in
Fraser
- Don't
miss this weeks
lunch speaker fellow Rotarian Dan Clark from the Parker Rotary club who
will be speaking about the details of Rotary's final push to eradicate
Polio.
- THIS
THURSDAY the 24th.. Mark
your calenders to see Susanne Jalbert speaking at the Winter Park Town
Hall on Thursday, July 24 at 7PM.. She will be presenting her story of
her three years in Iraq.
- Don't
forget our Club's annual Club
Picnic this
Sunday the 13th.. Invite your friends and family!
- Next
week on the 15th we'll have Patrick Brower speaking about
Public Affairs in Grand County
- Our
Club will hosting Ann Daley the Associate Curator of the Petrie
Institute of Western American Art, at the Denver Art Museum.
Ann
we be talk to us about theDenver Museum's Western Art
Collection and more.
- This
week (June 10th) our lunch
speaker will be Kip Hale, Esq. Come and hear more about the
work that Kip has done in Cambodia & The Hague. To
learn more before lunch Click Here...
- The
WPFV
Rotary Club's
Adopt-a-highway program
is under way this month! Click
here for more infomation about this program.
- This week's (5-27-08) lunch speaker will
be Joan Boyle, ED of Grand County Habitat for Humanity. She
will be speaking about the important role that affordable housing plays
in Grand Couty and also about GC HH's "Habitat Hobbie" --the Grand
County's HH fund raising evnent
- Next week's lunch meeting speaker
is Jen Giacomini of the Grand County Rural Health Network.
Jen will
present the "Aches" Program for Adults & "Pains" Program for
Kids here in Grand County. Join us
and
learn more about these 2 great healthcare programs and how they are
bringing affordable health care to Grand County.
- WPFV-Rotary
Club's Annual
"Service Above Self" Award Dinner April 12th at 6:30PM at
Beaver Village Lodge in Winter Park was an excellent event!
For more details Click Here.
- Please help the WPFV-Rotary Club
Welcome
a Group
Study Exchange team from Germany who will be visiting Grand County
April 10th thru the 12th. Read more about the GSE team and
its
members Click Here.
- Please join us as Ian Munday from
Rotary's Shelter
Box program tells this remarkable story of how the Shelter
Box Program provides basic humanitarian aid
world-wide
- Check out
Rotary International's World
Water
Day (March 22nd 2008!) web site here.
It's part of
Rotary's big effort in March to raise awareness about the millions of
people around the world with no safe water supply.
- Join the WPFV Rotary Club on lunch
on
Feburary 5th
for a screening of the movie "Hurricane on the Bayou" hosted by Tab
Benoit. Hear the story of the changes that are visible in New Orleans
long after Katrina
- The
WPFV Club is having an
Ecuador Night at
the Beav's this Friday evening Nov 30th! Click Here for
Info..
- WPFV
Rotary
participates in
the Fraser
Lions Club Festival of Trees to benefit local
non-profits
- The Club
Picnic for all Grand County Rotary Clubs and their
families was great!
- Our
1st Annual "Service Above Self"
Banquet and Party was a great success.. For more details just
Click Here..
- Check
out our Calendar of
Speakers, If you see something of interest, come by and
sit in--you'll be glad you did.
- The
Winter Park-Fraser Valley Club would like to acknowledge the generous
gifts our club as received from other Rotary Clubs and individuals as
we start out. Thank you for your support! (Click
here for a list of contributors)
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