Jeanne Becker Each year, local volunteers are honored for their dedicated service to organizations and citizens of Sun Lakes, making our community a better place to live because of their efforts. This year, the plated banquet dinner event will be held in the Arizona Room of the Sun Lakes Country Club on Sunday evening, March…
David Zapatka Entering the 2020s, which seemed so far into the future, caused me pause and focus on the plethora of words that come into our language every year. Entering the year 1920, some of the world’s great minds were inventing the rotary dial telephone, the pop-up toaster, and forming the League of Nations which preceded…
Dick Nelson Peter Meade joined Sun Lakes Rotary on Oct. 31, 2016. Since that time, he has accomplished much to help our members achieve some incredible goals. Peter is on the team for the club’s famous Pancake Breakfast. This year, tickets were only $5, and children were free; a way the club hoped to pay…
Norm Noble On Saturday, Nov. 16, at Sun Lakes Country Club between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., the Arizona Patriot Guard Riders and Sun Lakes Rotary and Lions Clubs are hosting an appreciation festival to celebrate Veterans Week. Come out and have a bit of lunch and a drink while checking out the raffles, silent auctions,…
Norm Noble Roger Edmonds was named Sun Lakes Rotary Club’s Rotarian of the Month for October. Roger is heavily involved chairing the club’s dictionary project that gives dictionaries to over 3,000 third grade students in all the 30 elementary schools of the Chandler Unified School District, plus two reservation schools. Roger is also the club’s…
Gary Whiting The Dictionary Project has been one of Sun Lakes Rotary Club’s most successful and rewarding projects that students, teachers, and Rotarians look forward to each year. The project was started in 2003 with this year marking the club’s 16th year of distributing dictionaries to all 3rd graders in the Chandler Unified School District.…
Eric Ehst, Executive Director America is known as the land of the rugged individualist. We think of our nation as having been built by intrepid pioneers, prospectors, inventors, and entrepreneurs. But that’s only half the story. Where would we be without the Minutemen who volunteered to help win our freedom, the neighbors who gathered for…
Mark Stapels Pastor Marvin Arnpriester of Sun Lakes United Methodist Church will address the Sun Lakes Rotary Club morning meeting, Tuesday, August 6. Pastor Arnpriester will reflect on Ministry “then and now” and 53 years as a Pastor. Don’t miss this account of a life well lived.
Norm Noble What does “Service Above Self” mean? It means helping somebody else before you help yourself. It is the motto of Rotary. It is a pledge spoken aloud at every Rotary meeting. In 1989, Rotary International established Service Above Self as its principal motto,…
Jeanne Becker Maybe you have heard about the Crystal Awards and wondered what it is all about. The idea for honoring volunteers in Sun Lakes was conceived in 2009 when meetings were held in the Splash office that included Harvey Boyd of Western Broadband, Linda Robson of Robson Publishing, Stan Scott of Sun Lakes Charities,…