Escondido Sunrise Rotary; Meeting to Serve our Community in Person and via Zoom; and "Our Annual Christmas Fellowship & Gift Exchange” and special surprise guest,
Glynna Hoekstra”
December 15th, 2022
As we all try to conduct our professional pursuits in new ways, it’s appropriate to remind ourselves of who we are as a Serving Organization… Our accomplishments, our fellowship and the reminder of our many successes is valuable as we seek new opportunities to serve…
We met again in person at the Chamber of Commerce… Great to enjoy the fellowship again and see all your smiling faces…
As a Club, we honored our nation with a salute to our Flag and, an invocation was offered by Jack Anderson ….
Welcome Guests ands visiting Rotarians:
Kirk Henson
Donna Aeling
Connie Criss
Glynna Hoekstra
Now, some Sunrise Rotary member milestones…
Birthdays: We had a lot of December babies!!! So much going on in September with the mommy's and daddy's 😉
Joe Holtz 12/25 (Christmas Baby)
Rich Aeling 12/26
Mark Maus 1/3
Spouses Birthdays:
Nancy Murphy 12/20
Lee Baker 12/31
Donna Boyce 1/3
Anniversaries & Congratulations to:
Jim & Becky Lund 12/21 48 Years
Alan & Lorraine Miller 12/21 40 Years
Doug & Natalie Schultz 2/22 15 Years
Chris & Kristin Lesso 1/3 22 Years
Rotary Anniversaries:
Silas Harrington 13 Years on 12/31
Jeff Johnson 31 Years on 1/1
Mike Dunlap 38 Years on 1/2
Jack Anderson 43 Years on 1/5
Rotarians Having Fun and Serving…
All kinds of fun and service and fun…
Pictures are worth a thousand words…
Dane White was officially congratulated and sworn in for his new Mayoral position in Escondido, way to go Dane or should we say Mayor White!!
The Fitzgeralds and the Hensons enjoyed a long weekend seeing Luke Bryan in concert and a couple days in Lake Havasu to celebrate Tom Fitzgeralds 60th birthday!! A bottle of really delicious whiskey was given to Tina as a gift!!
High 5 & Announcements:
Rich Aeling thanked everyone that was able to come out on December 7th to put together all of the bikes for the kids at Camp Pendelton. The bikes were delivered safely to 600 families and as usual Kendra Koed filled her position well as “the trash lady”. Thank you Kendra for always taking one for the team!! President Tina gave a gift to Kendra ;)
Doug Schultz brought a gift to president Tina from his trip to the Grand Canyon and Alan Miller delivered tangerines to the whole group, thank you Alan!! And as you can see by this pic Tina is hanging on to the "bell base" no matter what!!!
Program:
See the pictures below that highlighted all the festivities. Merry Christmas to all!!!
Even Mike O'Malley was in the spirit by spray painting his tennis shoes pink!!
Our Guest of honor Glynna Hoekstra
Also, we had a very special guest, Glynna Hoekstra who is battling breast cancer. It was so wonderful to see her. As a little surprise to her everyone dressed in pink and wore cowboy boots to show our love and support. Glynna updated everyone that they are still waiting on Sharp for a surgery date and the prognosis is very good and on a very good note Glynna won the Western Zone Championship with her horse. Congratulations Glynna and we will all be praying for you as you are going through this season.
Opportunity Drawing:
No opportunity drawing because of Christmas exchange
Will be in person and online at the Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 AM on January 5th……
Thanks for Attending Today’s Meeting….
Support for our Escondido Community …
Our great community and the success of its businesses is all of our responsibilities… Support the businesses that are doing all they can to survive during this challenging time… Take out some chow… Be ready to support them when the economy begins working again…
The ‘Giving Arch’ on Grand Avenue and Centre City Parkway reminds us that Escondido is a caring, giving community…
To all; be safe and be well…. God Bless those men and women that carry the load at our medical facilities, and God Bless our first responders… May our governmental leaders be wise, thoughtful and smart as this pandemic is overtaken by our hard work and collective support…
Online Meetings:
Technical Support for Online Meetings:
Our meetings will begin as a hybrid setting with in-person and on-line opportunities…The meetings will be technically managed by Past President Richard Agnew… Thanks for that Richard… And, Richard is prepared to support all of our attempts at joining the on-line meetings… Look for his email with details and links to log on to the upcoming Zoom meetings…
Watch for emails defining the next meeting. The system works fine, dependent upon your technical support available through your PC or laptop…
SEE YOU SOON…… In Person or ONLINE… Next meeting; January 5th, 7:30 AM at the Chamber of Commerce…
Check President Tina’s email for the reminder…
