August 31
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were excited to have Larry Horton - District 5495 Governor (2022-2023) as our speaker. Larry presented Club president Aaron McDermid with the Rotary banner for 2022-23 and spoke about plans/goals he is hoping the District will accomplish during this year. He also shared information about other clubs in the District. He made a number of acknowledgements to our Club and members during his presentation.
e were excited to have Larry Horton - District 5495 Governor (2022-2023) as our speaker. Larry presented Club president Aaron McDermid with the Rotary banner for 2022-23 and spoke about plans/goals he is hoping the District will accomplish during this year. He also shared information about other clubs in the District. He made a number of acknowledgements to our Club and members during his presentation.Larry was also pleased to get to help us induct our newest member, Brandon Anthony!
August 24
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r speaker was Abby Lyon - Lost Dutchman District Executive with 'Grand Canyon Council Boy Scouts of America'. Abby's presentation included updates about projects / activities the Boy Scouts are currently involved with, along with information about fundraising, and other information about their organization.
r speaker was Abby Lyon - Lost Dutchman District Executive with 'Grand Canyon Council Boy Scouts of America'. Abby's presentation included updates about projects / activities the Boy Scouts are currently involved with, along with information about fundraising, and other information about their organization. Scouting programs offer young people many wholesome opportunities. Their mission is to help prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
To learn more about the organization - https://www.grandcanyonbsa.org/ ---https://www.facebook.com/GrandCanyonBSA
August 17
Myra Garcia - Program Director - 'AARP Experience Corps Pinal - Casa Grande' spoke about the program, which is an inter-generational volunteer-based tutoring program that has proven to assist children who aren’t reading at grade level to improve and become great readers by the end of third grade. The program's volunteers are adults, aged 50 and older. These adult volunteers are helping to disrupt the cycle of poverty by making a lasting difference in the lives of America’s most vulnerable children by helping to give them to the skills to be able to read with confidence.
More volunteers are needed! For more information - https://achievepinal.com/aarp-program.html -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHLLKRxufdI
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n Fisher, Senior Vice President of HUB International, was inducted into the club by a group of members . Welcome to the club, Dan!
n Fisher, Senior Vice President of HUB International, was inducted into the club by a group of members . Welcome to the club, Dan!August 10
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ur speaker was Brian Koehn, (Co-Founder, CEO & Co-chair of the Board) from 'Social Profit Corrections: Putting People First'- (SPC). Brian shared how his passion for corrections reform and social justice prompted him to end his 28-year career in corrections and start SPC. Through his tenure as warden at five separate facilities, Brian experienced firsthand the gaps and opportunities within the criminal justice system. His personal mission is to reform corrections.
ur speaker was Brian Koehn, (Co-Founder, CEO & Co-chair of the Board) from 'Social Profit Corrections: Putting People First'- (SPC). Brian shared how his passion for corrections reform and social justice prompted him to end his 28-year career in corrections and start SPC. Through his tenure as warden at five separate facilities, Brian experienced firsthand the gaps and opportunities within the criminal justice system. His personal mission is to reform corrections.Social Profit Corrections (SPC) is focused on methodologies to help reduce rates of prison incarceration and recidivism through drug/alcohol rehabilitation, onsite job training and education programs, accessible mental health/self-care treatment, mentorships, employee training, medical care, real world re-entry assistance with the single goal of creating a sustainable correctional model that truly reduces the rates of incarceration and recidivism.
For more information -- https://spcor.org/ - or - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briankoehnspc/
August 3
Garett McDermid, from Fair Oaks, CA, joined, via Zoom, sharing information about 'Family FreeRide' - a 501(c)3 / non-profit he began in 2019. From an early beginning with just friends focusing on getting their kids outside and onto bikes more often, the effort quickly evolved to weekly bike rides. It was quickly recognized a 'practice field' was needed where kids would be contained and safe. The area also needed to be fun enough to keep kids interested.
Early on it was obvious neither existing riding/dirt trails, nor sidewalks, work well. Some close calls with fast moving cyclists on paved bike trails made this quickly apparent -- plus, kids/bikes on dirt trails are difficult to to keep track of - with some kids riding faster and some slower.
'Family FreeRide' began working with their local park district to improve an existing park area, and in July 2020, the bike park reopened. Since that time the park has been an amazing success with their community, attracting people from all over the Sacramento region.
'Family FreeRide' has expanded to help more communities build fun safe places for kids to ride, teaching kids how to ride, and offering youth mountain bike sports program.
For more information about / and how to support the group --- - https://familyfreeride.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/familyfreeride -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCraGRHEVS8vUEj7zPv1QkFA - https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/family-freeride-phoenix-park-garrett-mcdermid/