Joe Mahon announces the club will attend the AZ vs. Oregon baseball game on May 4th. He will have a sign-up sheet at the April 24th meeting and then purchase the tickets that week. Game time is 6:00 PM and refreshments will be provided.
Willis reminded everyone of the scholarship committee meeting tomorrow, April 11th, at Charlotte Harris’ home at 4:00 pm. Contact Willis if you need directions. More applications have come in so Willis could use more volunteer readers.
The 4-Way Speech Contest is Saturday, April 13th. Jim Bunker will be attending with our contestant, Sarah Chambers.
Willis announced that so far we have 35 raffle prizes with 230 ticket stubs turned in. In both categories we need more as we are behind compared to last year. Ticket stubs and money can be turned in prior to the drawing on April 18th at the El Charro Café on Oracle at the Oracle Crossing Shopping Center (Sprouts Market).
There will be no meeting on Wednesday, April 17th because of the raffle drawing on the 18th. The next meeting will be on the 24th.
Doug Woodard reported that the Southern Arizona Day of Peace on Saturday, April 6th was a success. Peace is one of the six foci of Rotary International. The program included TED speakers from community agencies involved in peace building.
Eb Wilkinson presented Laura Ziady with a second Paul Harris Fellow.
Mike Lavor reported on how the 8th Grade Honors Program was progressing. At the meeting on April 24th he will provide more specific information and sign-up sheets for different duties. Parking is taken care of and there will be a professional photographer. Doug Woodard will be the Master of Ceremonies.
Barbara Kiernan from the Catalina Rotary Club spoke about the Rotary Global Grant for improving rural health care in Sonora, Mexico and specifically the opening of a clinic in Alamos, Sonora. The sponsoring clubs were the RC de Navajoa near Alamos (local) and the Catalina Club RC of Tucson (international). There were several supporting clubs, including Casas Adobes which donated $2,000. With the matching grant from the district, it became $5,000. The clinic opening and inauguration of the grant was in early February. Mike Kloehn was in the group from Tucson that attended. The grant is for 2 years.
The goal of the project is to provide sustainable health care for 7 villages of the indigenous Makurawe people by building on established cultural health care traditions, disease prevention and treatment. The plan is to train local people from high school age up to perform simple medical procedures, provide awareness and education and translate from the local language to Spanish. Tele-medicine using solar power will also be used as the villages are in remote and difficult to access areas.