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Superstition Mountain
Service Above Self
We meet Wednesdays at 12:10 PM
Gold Canyon Golf Resort
6100 S. Kings Ranch Road
Gold Canyon, AZ  85117
United States
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We welcomed visiting Rotarians Connie Pierce of the Wapahonata, OH club and Dean Holmes of the Livingston, MT Rotary club.  Our club guest was Janine Solley our speaker of the day. 
1. President Bryant welcomed our guests and visitors.
2. Mike Cowan is looking for 10 volunteers to sell beer at the Ranch Rodeo on Saturday, October 25th.  He passed around a sign up sheet and got his ten volunteers.
3. Sharon Stinard handed out purple ribbons made by the kids at the Boys and Girls Club to those present who weren't wearing purple on this day when we were all supposed to be doing so.  She reminded us of the Disco Fever dance fundraiser for CAAFA and encouraged members to come to the party or to make a donation in lieu of attending.  We will distribute dictionaries to 3rd graders on November 6th.  She passed around sign up sheets for the labeling party on October 17 at Bob Crow's home and for the dictionary distribution on November 6. 
4. Harvey Clark announced Congressman Paul Gosar's visit next week.  Gosar will actually be here at the resort starting at 7 AM to dialog with citizens. He reviewed upcoming speakers in November.
5. Bryant Powell reminded the club of the Food Bank drive for pie filling, evaporated milk and pie shells.  Several Rotarians brought in contributions today.  Gene and Jeannie Anderson are club coordinators for this project.
6. Mike Dungan brought us the news today in place of Bill Burrows.  He auctioned off a purple light bulb which Sandy Campbell bought for $10.
7. Mike Munion, Heather Itz and Tracey Yamamoto handed out golf ball drop tickets to sell.  Each Rotarian gets a book of 10 to sell.
8. Aaron McDermid handled the Sargeant-at-Arms duties.
9. The 50/50 drawing and $10 was won by Dean Holmes but he missed the joker.  We started the pot over today at $21 after Dan Govinsky's big win last week.
 
 
 
Meet our newest Rotarian Heidi Golemon.
 
Heidi serves as Principal at Peralta Trail Elementary School in Gold Canyon.  Len LaFlesch is Heidi's sponsor.  Heidi is married to Brad Golemon and they live in Gold Canyon.  Heidi, it is good to have you as our newest member!  Welcome to Rotary!
Our speaker today was Janine Solley, Economic Development Director for the City of Apache Junction. 
Unfortunately we did not leave Janine much time for her presentation so she had to cover things pretty quickly.  The mission statement below comes from the AJ Economic development website.
The City of Apache Junction is committed to assisting businesses in creating jobs and income opportunities for all segments of the population; providing efficient, attentive and courteous customer service; supporting and facilitating favorable site selection or expansion decisions by business and industry; promoting redevelopment and infill; and through these efforts, improving the quality of life for residents, visitors and employees in Apache Junction.
Much of the land around AJ is public land and not available so it is hard to find sites for large developments.  There is currently zero office space available in AJ.  She is proud of the median enhancements that have been completed on Apache Trail.  Janine told us of Buckskin that has a demographic search engine called Scout.  She illustrated it by speaking of the characteristics of the population that lives within a 5-min drive of the Gold Canyon Golf Resort where we are meeting. One goal is to diversify the types of retail stores in AJ.
BIRTHDAYS
October 3 - Pete Polster
October 7 - Jay Jones
October 8 - John Fillmore
October 13 - Ben Fellows
October 15 - Murray Hiatt
October 18 - Matt Ruppert
October 27 - Jeffery Hall
WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
October 3 - Matt Ruppert and Carolyn - 11 years
October 7 - Ron and Mary Knies - 42 years
October 12 - Dan Govinsky and Marian - 12 years
October 19 - Frank Hulme and Gloria - 24 years
JOIN DATE ANNIVERSARIES
October 17 - Heather Itz - 2 years
October 30 - Tom Puklin - 12 years
 
 
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October 17 - Dictionary Labeling Party - at Bob Crow's home
 
October 22 - Congressman Paul Gosar - Current Events (open to the public but REGISTRATION REQUIRED!)
 
October 25 - Ranch Rodeo - beer sales volunteers needed from 11 AM to 5 PM
 
October 29 - Douglas Price - FBI Agent in Charge, Phoenix Division
 
November 5 - District Governor John Pennypacker
 
November 6 - Distribution of dictionaries to 3rd grade students
 
November 12 - Darrell Smith - ATF Crime Gun Intel Program
 
November 19 - Joyce Welsh - NuSkin USA
 
November 26 - No meeting.  Happy Thanksgiving!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nearby Rotary Clubs that might be useful for meeting makeup attendance. You can find the meeting times and locations for Rotary clubs throughout the world by going to the Rotary International website (www.rotary.org) and clicking on "Club Locator" in the upper right corner of the screen.

Mesa East Rotary Club:  Thursdays at 12:00 p.m.

Superstition Springs Golf Club, 6542 E. Baseline, Mesa (16 miles)

Gilbert Rotary Club:  Thursdays at 7:00 a.m.
The Henhouse Cafe, 3244 E. Guadalupe Rd., Gilbert, AZ (20 miles)

Mesa West Rotary Club:  Thursdays at 12:10 p.m.
Hilton Phoenix East-Mesa, 1011 W. Holmes Ave.,Mesa (24 miles)

Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club:  Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m.
Banner Health Business Center, 525 W. Brown Rd., Mesa

Tempe South Rotary Club:  Fridays at 6:45 a.m.
Friendship Village, 2645 E. Southern Ave., Tempe (26 miles)

Rotary E-Club of the Southwest
www.rotaryeclubsouthwest.org

Other make-up opportunities can be found at www.rotary.org or www.rotary5510.org.