Rotary Helps Oracle State Park Pete Watson and Barbara Barr Bengen The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke brought together park rangers and students to solve a safety issue at Oracle State Park. Years of Arizona’s challenging weather had deteriorated a bridge on the park’s popular Geology Trail. Park Manager Sinda Sutton talked to Community Services Chair…
30 Miles Away a Different World Joyce Wainscott and Patty See Thirty miles separate SaddleBrooke from Arizona’s Copper Corridor. The drive takes less than an hour, but those miles can represent a lifetime of difference. Communities such as Mammoth, San Manuel, Winkelman, and Hayden were once prosperous mining towns. When mines closed, jobs disappeared, businesses…
Barbara Barr Bengen Rotary District 5500 (Southern Arizona) announced that it has selected Lynn Devou as District Governor for the 2029-2030 Rotary year. District 5500 consists of over 50 Rotary clubs south of Phoenix. In the district newsletter, District 5500 commented, “Congratulations to Lynn Devou, from the Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke, on her selection as…
Pete Watson The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke and IMPACT of Southern Arizona need your help. We need full-sized hygiene and household items to help over 900 IMPACT families. The most needed items are: shampoo and conditioner, soap, deodorant, body wash, toothpaste, diapers, feminine hygiene products, laundry detergent, lotion, Ziploc bags, and dry pet food. If…
Barbara Barr Bengen Happy New Rotary Year! The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke celebrated the new Rotary year with a scrumptious dinner at the MountainView Ballroom. This traditional transition was marked by the passing of the gavel from President Alfred Lowy to incoming President Lynn Devou. Each new Rotary year, as we pass the gavel, brings…
Christianne Dettmann It’s been an exciting summer for the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club! Tom and Sandy Morgan are the newest in a steady stream of recent recruits, having been inducted at the club’s regular meeting on July 16. Tom was born in New York and lived on both the east and west coasts after obtaining…
Barbara Barr Bengen The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke has transformed 5 tons of recycled soft plastics into beautiful all-weather benches. We are grateful to the people of Catalina, SaddleBrooke, SaddleBrooke Ranch, Oracle, and San Manuel who have been instrumental in helping us reach this milestone in just 2 1/2 short years. Just think of those…
Sunrise Rotary Helps at More Than a Bed, Tucson Housing First Christianne Dettmann “Every child deserves to be valued” is much more than a mantra to More Than a Bed (morethanabed.org), a Tucson-based resource center for foster and adoptive families. This 501(c)(3) charity “…provides essential items—beds, clothing, shoes, diapers, toys, and more—at no cost to…
SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club Welcomes New Member Mike Frankovich Christianne Dettmann The SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club is thrilled to have yet another new member join its ranks! Club President Bob Lamar officially inducted Mike Frankovich at the club’s regular business meeting on May 7. Sponsored by current Rotarian Jack Stebe, Mike brings to the club…
Nancy McCluskey-Moore For many years, first grade students at Ray Elementary School in Kearny receive a handmade bookcase and at least two books at the end of the school year. Each child annually receives an additional two books (through the third grade) to store in their bookcase. This program was started by the Rotary Club…