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Trolls Teddy Bear Run

Superstition Mountain Rotary is participating in this year's 'Teddy Bear' drive which focuses on collecting donations of new teddy-bears/animals for 'Trolls Teddy Bear Run'.

Donations must be new/never used and can be made between now and end of November at our weekly Wednesday Rotary meetings.

If you're not a Rotarian, but still want to help provide some new stuffed teddy bears/animals? ----- Not a problem- the club's Service Projects Chair will be happy to collect your new bears/stuffed animals and deliver your donation. You can contact Jeff at jmitchellrecr@gmail.com.

'Trolls Teddy Bear Run' organization is a 501(c)3 focused on providing stuffed animals/teddy bears for police / first-responders / family advocacy centers, to have on hand to be able to give a 'fuzzy friend' to children encountered during traumatic situations. Often times, young children involved in these situations can be quite upset and traumatized. Being able to receive a 'fluffy/fuzzy teddy bear /animal friend' from the first responder can help to ease the tension / trauma the young child is experiencing.

2022 will be the 7th year for 'Trolls Teddy Bear Run', which occurs on the 1st Saturday in December each year.

Motorcycle riders participate in the event, riding through a course with various stops throughout the East Valley, where raffles, prizes, food and more await them - making it a fun day for all the riders.

This year Superstition Mountain Rotary, along with other area service organizations and community residents, will work through the end of November collecting donations of new stuffed teddy bears/animals. Help our first responders ease the tension and trauma of young children they encounter with your donations of new stuffed teddy bears/animals.

For more information - https://trollsteddybearrun.com/- https://www.facebook.com/trollsteddybearrun/

Apache Junction Homeless Coalition

The Club will be participating in the 'Apache Junction Homeless Coalition Cleanup with Police', along with other community groups, and volunteers.

Date - Thursday September 8, 2022
Time - 6:30 am
Meeting location - 310 N Plaza Drive - (Desert lot off of Plaza across from Hackers)

The 'Apache Junction Homeless Coalition Cleanup with Police' brings together volunteers from the city, faith community, clubs and organizations, non-profits, businesses and individual volunteers who all share a common mission to help with cleanup to help benefit our homeless population, and local community. Project is being led / coordinated by Sergeant Brian Pennington of the Apache Junction Police Department.

Volunteer projects will include a variety of clean up activities.

Come out and volunteer - help our local homeless population and the community

The Power of Social Media

We encourage Club members to visit our Club FaceBook page - https://www.facebook.com/SuperRotary/. We realize not all Club members have social media accounts, and some may not be comfortable adding social media to their life. If that describes you, we respect that. However, several Club members do have social media FaceBook accounts.
If you do, you can help our Club become more visible outside of our Club, and into the community. Here are a few tips to help promote the Club through FaceBook:

Social Media DOs and DON'Ts

- DO click emojis on a Club post --
(little icons under the post that when clicked reflect a person 'likes' or 'loves' a post - this also helps boost FB algorithms and helps 'push' the post to yet a broader audience)

- DO click 'Share' on a Club post -- (to the right side under the post) -
(doing this 'shares' a Club post onto your own personal Facebook page - where any 'likes' or 'shares' will be added to Club page statistics count)

- DO feel free to make a comment on the Club FB post / on Club page

- DON'T create a new post on your own FB page - ('share' the original post instead)
'Sharing' posts is accepted social media protocol. Separate new posts diminishes statistical count for the Club.

** As an example of how 'sharing' and 'liking' Club posts can help boost Club visibility:

Typically, posts routinely 'reach' only about 100 /or fewer people - ('reach' = the number of FB accounts that may 'possibly' see a post on their personal FB feed.) A recent Club post significantly surpassed the norm - -----
these increased numbers help broaden the visibility of the Club.

1,324 - people reached
7 - likes'/loves
16 - shares
11.1 times higher than typical distribution

In today's era of diminished printed newspapers, social media is one of the ways the Club can broaden its visibility in the community. Let's be sure to work with accepted social media protocols by 'sharing' and 'liking' and making our efforts as effective as possible.