Dick Nelsen The Sun Lakes Rotary Club is proud of the Rotarian selected for the month of March. This fellow joined our club on May 30, 2017. He was a member of The Chandler Rotary Club prior to joining us. Easy to spot, he is the one who is always on the run with a…
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Generals, March 2019
Sun Lakes Rotary Club’s Charity Golf – this month!
Norm Noble Want to win a new Lexus? It’s easy. Just make a hole-in-one on one of the designated holes at the 26th Annual Rotary Charity Golf Tournament on Sunday, March 24. Told you it was easy. March 24 will be the day that 175 golfers tee up their golf balls and begin play on…
Clubs & Classes, February 2019
Fascinating Rotary speakers planned for February
Norm Noble Mark Menasci, owner of Metro Valley Computer Solutions, will speak to the Sun Lakes Rotary Club on the morning of Tuesday, February 5. Mark’s company is a computer service resource for small business, not-for-profit organizations and individuals. That said, Mark has an interesting personal story (and video) to share with the club.…
Generals, February 2019
ATTENTION: 2019 Source Book™ update
The 2019 Source Book should have been delivered to your home by the Sun Lakes Rotary Club. If you might have been missed or did not receive your copy of the 2019 Sun Lakes Source Book, you can pick up a copy at the Robson Publishing (Sun Lakes Splash) office. Please review your listing in…
Clubs & Classes, February 2019
Sun Lakes Rotary to host 26th Annual charity Golf Tournament
Norm Noble Sunday, March 24, 2019, will be the day that 175 golfers tee up their golf balls and begin play at the Sun Lakes Rotary’s 26th Annual Charity Golf Tournament played on the 27 holes of Oakwood Country Club – Lakes, Sonoran and Palms. This has become a much-looked-forward-to event each year, with…
Clubs & Classes, November 2018
Sun Lakes Rotarian of the Month
Dick Nelson The Sun Lakes Rotary Club named Bill Crump its Rotarian of the Month for October. Bill joined Sun Lakes Rotary two years ago. It didn’t take long for his leadership skills to become apparent, and as a result, he was elected president-elect of the club, starting his presidency next July. In the meantime,…
Clubs & Classes, November 2018
Water is life on the Navajo Nation
Norm Noble The Sun Lakes Rotary Club has received a Rotary Foundation Global “Humanitarian” Water Grant to provide homes on the Navajo Nation with inside running tap water. Many of these people, our neighbors, presently have their water delivered weekly by a water truck into above-ground, 50-gallon holding barrels in their yards. These 50 gallons…
Features, August 2018
Sandy Lundberg – Educator of the Year
Norm Noble The Sun Lakes Rotary Club’s “Educator of the Year” award recognizes excellence in education throughout the Chandler Unified School District. In May, 2018, the Sun Lakes Rotary selected Sandy Lundberg, just-retired principal of Casteel High School, as recipient of its first “Educator of the Year” award. Club President Peter Meade said, “Sandy is…
Clubs & Classes, August 2018
32 years of Rotary in Sun Lakes
Gary Whiting The Sun Lakes Rotary Club was chartered on April 22, 1986. On July 1, 2018, we started our 32nd year. The club was conceived in 1985 when Chandler Rotarian Andre Felix put an advertisement on the Sun Lakes clubhouse bulletin board to see if anyone was interested in attending Rotary at the Palo…
Clubs & Classes, August 2018
A word from Sun Lakes Rotary’s incoming president
Ed Anderson Greetings! It was in 2015, while playing golf at Oakwood Country Club, that I was asked to come to breakfast to see what Sun Lakes Rotary was all about. It only took two visits, and I knew this was the organization for me. After a successful jewelry career, now semi-retired with over a…