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Chair - Club District Foundation Grants
 
Chair - Club Membership
 
Chair - Club Rotary Foundation
 
Co-Chair - Interact Club of Apache Junction High School
 
Co-Chair - Interact Club of Apache Junction High School
 
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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  85118
United States
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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CLUB BUSINESS
1. President Ed exchanged trading banners with Jim Nelson, one of our winter visitors, who is a DG from District 6420 in Illinois.
2. Bob Benjamin presented the club with a plaque honoring our participation in the Lost Dutchman Marathon.  This year's volunteers had to deal with mud and rain but they persisted and the 8K was a success as usual. 
3. Mike Cowan reported that the staffing for all shifts of the Lost Dutchman Rodeo is now complete.  Mike and Ron Knies handed out ID badges for volunteers.
4. President Ed reported that club member Ben Fellows asked the club on behalf of the AJ Food Bank for a $3,000 grant to provide milk for kids over the summer months.  The club donated $2,200 toward the goal of $3,000.
5. Aaron McDermid raised some fines "for the children".
6. The drawing was worth $436 today.  The winning number was held by our visiting Rotarian Jim Nelson.  He won $10 but missed the joker.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CORRECTION
Our Symantec speaker on February 15 was Robb Leatherwood, not Brian Brotschi as I reported.  Mea culpa.
SPEAKER
Today's speaker was Jeff Serdy, the newly-elected mayor of Apache Junction.
One of Jeff's goals is to explore ways in which the various communities surrounding Apache Junction might cooperate to the mutual benefit of all of them.  He listed Gold Canyon, Lost Dutchman Heights, Superstition Foothills and the Museum/Mining Camp/Goldfield Ghost Town areas that surround AJ but are all independent.  What are the pros and cons of trying to be more integrated?  We have a potential community of 50,000 which would make us the same size as Yuma or Flagstaff and give us more political and economic clout.  And the surrounding communities would benefit from more localized AJ police and fire protection, sewer system, water system and trash removal.  Pinetop-Lakeside is an example of two communities benefitting from common governmental services but retaining their own identities. 
AJ is trying to re-interest developers in the Superstition Vistas property south of US 60.  It will likely be developed in stages via smaller purchases of land than was originally envisioned.  Jeff thinks we could use a larger Conference Center-Resort to bring in more conferences.  Southern Avenue could be run through to get a second route of access to Gold Canyon.  The proposed bypass is long in the future. 
Bryant and Jeff spoke of the opening of the Lost Dutchman Park for which the club provided a $10,000 grant.  The grand opening will be on April 22nd.
MARCH BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
MEMBER BIRTHDAYS
Tracey Yamamoto - March 17
WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
None found for March
CLUB JOIN ANNIVERSARIES
John Blessman - March 16
Paula Blessman - March 16
 
UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
March 1 - Terry Lubson - Rotary Micro Credit Chair
 
March 8 - Liz Paulus - College Bound Arizona
 
March 15 - Joan Marlow - Peaceful Easy Healing
 
March 22 - Bryant Powell - City Manager, Apache Junction
 
March 29 - Mannie Bowler - United Way of Pinal County
 
 
 
 
April 6-9 - RYLA camp
 
June 11-14 - Rotary International Conference - Atlanta
 
June 23-24 - District Conference - Flagstaff, AZ
 
September 14-26 - Rotary Trip to South Africa (Blessman)