Membership Chair Sarah Van Bourgondien inducts PVPD Chief Bob Ticer, with sponsor Art Harrington and DGN Joe Sweeney, as the first of 25 new members expected to be added to our club withinn the next year, recruited to become part of our satellite Rotary club in Prescott Valley.

 

 

Club President Christy Manning explained to the club how the new PV Satellite Rotary Club, recently unanimously approved by our Club Board, will be a process of "Growing a Club Within a Club." 

 

Citing Prescott Valley's 8.75% growth over the past 4 years, Christy noted that everyone has been in agreement that Prescott Valley needs a Rotary Club, but no one in the past has been able to come up with a workable plan to re-establish a club in this rapidly-growing neighboring town.  She said our club's leadership, being Rotary People of Action, has decided that NOW is the time for our club to act, and that creating a satellite club within Sunup Rotary is a win-win plan which will benefit all concerned.  As new members are recruited for the purpose of foming this club, our club will continue to provide the club structure, fundraising, service projects, receiving and accounting for the income, and reporting to Rotary and to the IRS — shouldering for the new satelllite club of all of these weighty responsibilities, until the new club reaches 25 members, and is able to charter as a separate Prescott Valley Rotary Club.  At that time they will assume all of these usual club responsibilities for themselves.

 

Christy noted that having the right leadership is critical to the success of any club or other organization.  She said this was another key factor in the Club Board's decision to act now to begin this satelite club .  

 

 

Bob Ticer, who has 19 years of past Rotary experience, including having served as President of one of his former clubs, shared his vision of how a PV Satellite Club within Sunup Rotary can work.  While the recruited new members will be inducted as members of Sunup Rotary, will participate in Sunup's socials, fundraising and service projects, and will be attending some of our club meetings, beginning in January the new PV Satellite Rotary Club will begin meeting at 4:30 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at the Prescott Valley Elks' Club.  As they meet, they will be working on building their membership for the new club, and they will be determining how they want their club to be organized and to serve their community.  It is expected that, even when the new club is fully formed asd separately chartered, our two clubs will continue to work together on projects.

 

Having been raised in Prescott, and still having a network of lifelong friends in this area. Bob has been eager to help form a Prescott Valley Rotary Club since he returned to the areaa to seve as the Police Chief of Prescott Valley.  He is confident the 25 new members can be found and added to our club fairly quickly to help establish this new club.

 

 

DGN Joe Sweeney revealed that he will also be joining our Sunup Rotary Club in January, with the intention of working with Bob on leading the new PV Satelite RotaryClub.  In fact, it was Joe who arranged for the new Rotary club to be able to meet in the Elks' Club's facilities.  He and Bob have been working for several weeks on plans for the new club.  Joe's many years of club and district leadership will definitely be an asset to the new club.

 

 

 

Sunup's Internatonal Service Director Todd Clancy with some of the members of our twin club in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

 

It is called by diffferent names in different parts of the world, but it has been a prevalent practice for a Rotary club in one country to have at least one partner Rotary club in another country.  In some cases, the clubs are known as sister clubs, or partner clubs; and in Mexico, the term "Twin Club" tends to be popular.  Clubs who are connected in this way can essentially do whatever they want with that relationship.  A common practice is to get to know each other's main service projects and annual events, and for at least the leadership of the two clubs to get to know each other.  At the best, the two clubs may undertake doing one or more projects with each other, including possibly a Rotary Foundation Global Grant Project.

 

Last year. at the annual Mexico-USA Friendship Conference and Global Grants Exchange, which was held here in Prescott, our club's International Service Committee representatives agreed to co-sponsor a TRF Global Grant Rainwater Harvesting Project with the Club Rotario Xalapa Manantiales. Their club was to be the Host Partner for the project, and our club agreed to serve as the International Partner.  The project was successfully funded and completed.  This year, when Todd represented us at the Mexico-USA Conference, when it was held in Xalapa, he stayed after the conference to arrange with our partner club for a visit to the area, and some of the homes, which were the beneficiaries of our project.  Todd will be presenting a program for our club on March 19, after he returns from Taiwan, to share with us his personal experience, along with some of the pictures, from his visit to that project.

 

As we initiated the project with this partner club, and as we worked with them on the project, we were asked if our club would be willing to become a Twin Club with this Club Rotario Xalapa Manantiales.  The relationship during the project had been a good one, and our club agreed to the idea.  Consequently, one of Todd's other opportunities, while he was down there, was to represent our club at a special dinner, which was planned to formalize our ongoing Twin Club relationship with this Rotary club in Xalapa.  Where this relationship may lead, will be up to the leadership of the two Rotary clubs.  But for now, be aware that our Prescott-Sunup Rotary Club has a Twin Club in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.