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President’s Column:

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January 3, 2017

Inside this issue:

Upcoming Programs 2

Inspirators, Greeters,

Hosts

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Heart for Humanity

Fundraiser

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Calendar & Updates 5

Happy New Years! I hope everyone had a wonderful break from Rotary! It was kind of nice, but I have missed all of you! We are back at the University Club tomorrow. I am looking forward to a wonderful 2017! We have a lot going on! I believe registration is al-ready closed for the Presi-dents dinner, but should be fun with Rotarians and guests attending! Tom Cella, Dan Himelspach and Leslie Lawson, Bob Kemp and Danielle Garvin, Audrey Leavitt, Adams Price and Holly Price, Carolyn Schrad-er, Ann Tull, Heidi Reseta-rits, Melanie Gentz, Wayne Carter and Sarah Hite singed up for the presidents Dinner. If any-one else signed up last mi-nute, before registration closed please let me know! Also you may have heard - Rotarian, great friend, and founder of Crutches4Afri-ca, Dave Talbot, needs our

help. After spending time in the hospital, he just completed a short cardi-ac rehab and is headed home. We, his friends, can help get his home adapted for his wheel-chair. Carolyn Schrader will have more of an up-date on David at the meeting. Use the Link below to help.

www.beatool.org/davetalbot Also, keep thinking about Silent Auction Items for our Heart for Humanity Fundraiser that we can put together for February 11th to raise money for the Denver Mile High Foundation. I really plan to hit the ground running after the first and spend a the six weeks to come together to have a fun and successful night. Will you be able to help? Attend? Now that we are about a month away - we can hit the ground run-ning and see what we can do to have fun and raise some money?

I also just realized we missed the one of the deadlines for Early Regis-tration for the Rotary In-ternational Convention, which was December 18th, the next one is 31 March 2017: Last day for preregistration discount ($415 Rotarians/$100 Ro-taractors) - if you are con-sidering going, don't for-get to sign up. Tomorrow our speaker is - Jennifer Manhoff from Project C.U.R.E. will dis-cuss her experiences with the organization’s mission of delivering health and hope to the world while fulfilling her personal mis-sion of making a positive impact. Food for Thought is on break one more week but we are back at Bryant Ele-mentary on the 13th! Mark your calendars. See you tomorrow,

Melanie President Denver Mile High

Denver Mile High Rotary where commitment and service rise above the mountain tops

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Denver Mile High Rotary Upcoming Programs

January 4th - Jennifer Manhoff from Project C.U.R.E. will discuss her experienc-es with the organization’s mission of delivering health and hope to the world while fulfilling her personal mission of making a positive impact. In her role she delivers over 20 clinic and training programs to 10+ countries annually. In her presentation she will use the framework she developed for Project C.U.R.E. medi-cal missions to discuss partnering for success.

January 11th - Brian Kurzel, Regional Executive Director for the National Wildlife Federation, will speak about the importance of creating ‘nearby nature’ in Denver, and describe efforts underway to create better habitats in urban and suburban communities for monarchs, pollinators and people.

January 18th - Rutt Bridges will return to update us on recent developments in driverless car technology. He will discuss his book, Driverless Conquers Conges-tion, which describes how repurposing transit subsidies to autonomous carpools can provide free public transit during rush hours, virtually eliminate congestion, and put hundreds of billions of dollars back into the U.S. economy.

January Birthdays 6th — Bart Shaffer 18th — Paul Anderson 18th — Ted Hendryx 21st — Bruce Ward 22nd — Debra Flick

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Weekly Inspirators, Greeters & Hosts

January 4th

Inspiration - Michele Ashby

Greeters - Pat Barry and Bob Connaghan

Host - Preston Dickey

Rotary Minute - Debra Flick

January 11th

Inspiration - Mark Foseid

Greeters - Kevin Gallaway and Tom Gregory

Host - Tom Giordano

Vocational - Diane Wilson

January 18th

Inspiration - Susan Henderson

Greeters - Ted Hendryx and Dan Himelspach

Host - Sarah Hite

Rotary Minute - Noreen Keleshian

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Heart for Humanity Fundraiser

The Denver Mile High Rotary is going to put on a Silent Auction for our Foundation! The ticketed event invite has only gone out to club mem-bers, after the first of the year we will start reaching out to other Rota-ry Clubs, community members, friends family ,etc. All money raised will come back to our Foundation to be used in the 2017-2018 year. The intention is to have fun with this, reach out to our community, raise a little money and HAVE FUN! The beginning of the year is a wonderful time to reach out to businesses as organizations typically plot out their year and what they can donate. You have been emailed donation request letters and 501c3 forms. Please use those when you ask for donations. Ready to party? Buy your tickets here: Heart for Humanity Tickets

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Continental Breakfast

The continental breakfast will be served every 2nd Wednesday of the month.

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January 26th - Rotar ians who Sing and Fr iends—Can you sing? Want to hear

others sing? you don't have to sing, but join us for a fun night - and a little fund-

raiser, bring friends, spouses, partners, siblings, Rotarians from other clubs. $15

donation to the DMHRF and $1-$2 gratuity for Private Room Karaoke. Don't be

shy!

Join us for Rotarians who Sing and Friends - Register HERE - or let us know you

are coming and you can write a check to the foundation - there is only room for

30, so please RSVP. - Thursday, January 26th from 5:45 - 8pm at Voice

Box. We will have our own Private Room.

VoiceBox Karaoke, 2601 Walnut Street, Denver CO 80205.

Save the Date!

January 7th - RI President's Dinner Denver Marr iott South (10345 Park

Meadows Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124) 5:30—8:30PM

February 11th - Hear t for Humanity Fundraiser