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Thank You, Jim Penhale, for creating our newest club video from the Holiday Auction and Banquet Event back in December 2019. Enjoy everyone.

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With a new year comes a new opportunity for this years' freshmen students to consider one of our hallmark teen leadership programs, RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award)

 

District 5390, which encompasses all clubs in Montana, hosts its annual RYLA camp June 28 - July 2 at Luccock Park in the Paradise Valley near Pine Creek  Local Rotary clubs can recommend and select dozens of students statewide to participate in workshops, interactive programming, training and hands-on activities to help them become better communicators and leaders, as the first stage in their development as future Interactors, Rotaractors and eventual Rotarians.

 

Applications are being accepted now through the spring, so if any club members know of a deserving freshmen in any of our local high schools, or are home schooled, reach out to Laura Kuntz (Youth Services chair).  Recruiting and selecting RYLA candidates is yet another example of a joint-venture being implemented between members of both our Bozeman Noon and Bozeman Sunrise Rotary members.

 

Pictured below are 2019 BSRC-selected attendees (left pic) Alexis Holton and Ethan Gilpin, and right side, Brynn Tate and Alexis Holton

 

 

For ACTIVE members new to Sunrise Rotary, we wanted to educate you on what distinguishes an active member like yourself from a members whose status is called HONORARY. 

 

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Bob Farrington, Ted Campbell, Andy Blanchford, Mason Shaffer, Danielle Scharf, Doug Chandler, Jim Hamilton, Ted Schmidt, Roger Barnes, Steve Hample, I-Ho Pomeroy, Carson Taylor, and Chris Mehl, Sunrise Rotary recently helped the city of Bozeman with receiving a 50-year lease on the land our Park sits on along with working an agreement with a local developer to receive an additional 2-acres of land adjacent to the park for wetlands protection and rehabilitation. And, in the process, helped to facilitate a name change at the state level. Our new park name is now Glen Lake Rotary Park.  Due to the dedication of these members, and many others, we can now move forward with the next larger phases of our park master plan later in 2020 and beyond. Watch for additional details forthcoming from the Community Service committee.

Our Club enjoyed yet another opportunity to benefit from our partnership with the local Barnes & Noble store in Bozeman. Watch for an announcement soon on the donation that will be coming to our club to support our literacy and book giveaway program from the Nov 24 Rotary Day at their store

Here is a snippet from KBZK showcasing just one of the homes we helped Fix-Up this past Saturday September 22, 2018.  We truly want to thank all these fine companies for their support of this 9th annual event

Welcome our newest inducted members here in 2019.  Left to right, Nancy MacBride (Buffalo Restoration - classification ACCOUNTING), Tom Anderson (Retired DENTIST), Jerry Awe (Awe Financial - classification FINANCIAL PLANNER), and Abby Turner (Children's Museum of Bozeman - Classification CHILDRENS MUSEUM).

 

Of special note, we now have the very first (in our club's history) 3 members from the same family.  Bill MacBride, wife Nancy, and daughter Abby Turner. Also, Tom is brother of BSRC member Bill Anderson, and Jerry Awe is father of club president, Sydney Awe Rick. Thanks everyone for keeping it all in the family.

Members keep asking what's the easiest way to get access to member info including name, photo, email, cell and address info? For smartphone users, Clubrunner has built an app for both the Android and iOS operating systems. For Android devices, GET IT HERE.