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Jon Haass, the founder and Director of the Economic Development Center, gave our club a very enlightening presentation on the performance record and the status of this program here in Prescott. The center provides training for entrepreneurs, including helping them to evaluate the potential success of the business they are considering establishing. They also provide incubator space in a couple of locations for some of these start-up businesses which are most promising. Among those, he told us about the remarkable vision and business plan of a 14-year-old girl. So far, although set back for a time by the pandemic, the center has helped a number of new businesses to get off the ground, adding both more local jobs and increasing the tax base for the quad cities area.  Vocational Service: According to Rotary's Standard Club Constitution, Vocational Service, the second Avenue of Service, has the purpose of promoting high ethical standards in businesses and professions, recognizing the worthiness of all dignified occupations, and fostering the ideal of service in the pursuit of all vocations. The role of members includes conducting themselves and their businesses in accordance with Rotary’s principles and lending their vocational skills to club-developed projects in order to address the issues and needs of society. This second Avenue of Service for our club could include: • Teaching today's youth how to make ethical and beneficial decisions, guided by Rotary's Four-Way Test (one of the primary objects of RYLA, JR RYLA and our Interact Clubs) • Sponsoring ethical decision-making forums and club roundtable discussions of ethical decision scenarios • Honoring businesses and professionals who have excelled in exemplified Rotary's Code of Ethics and Four-Way Test in their service to the community • Supporting The Rotary Vocational Fund of Arizona (TRVFA) in offering vocational education scholarships to Yavapai College's CTEC and other similar programs • Co-sponsoring with our Interact Clubs on-campus Career Opportunity Days • Sponsoring mentoring and job-shadowing opportunities for high school age youth CLUB SERVICE A. J. Sheridan reports that his surgery on last Friday went well, and he is on the road to recovery. Jerry Fohrman continues to make progress in Phoenix. Janet reports: According to the doctors, Monday they are taking out the dialysis port. They have him scheduled for being moved to the rehab hospital on Monday as well. He is still on the low dose of heparin, which he is tolerating well. We are not certain what they have in mind for doing the procedure for the a-fib. We are just going with the flow and grateful for skilled doctors and nurses knowing that they will do what is best. I can tell that Jerry is feeling better as he is bored 🙂. We welcome any visits and phone calls to help him pass the time. We miss you all and thank you again for your continued thoughts and prayers. Some of the Fun & Fundraising at Sunup Rotary's Double-Down last Saturday night COMMUNITY SERVICE Snack Shack The final Little League Tournament is June 19-24. It's your last chance to join in the fun! Use the link below to sign up! See you at the Snack Shack! A lady came to the hospital to visit a friend. She had not been in a hospital for several years and felt uneasy, not knowing about all the new technology.
A technician followed her onto the elevator, wheeling a large, intimidating looking machine with tubes and wires and dials.
"Boy, would I hate to be hooked up to that thing," she said.
"So would I," replied the technician. "It's a floor-cleaning machine."
YOUTH SERVICES Our Interact Ambassadors to Mexico Team departs from Phoenix Sky Harbor early this Thursday morning, flying to Mexico City. There they will be met by some of our longstanding Rotarian friends and partners, from our Mexico-USA Friendship Conferences & Global Grants Exchanges, who will be hosting them and transporting them by vans down to Cuernavaca. They will be working with the amazing traveling team of disabled wheelchair mechanics, whom our Sunup Rotary Club has helped to sponsor. Part of the JR RYLA Confidence Course, operated by our club's Jon Berry and our former club member Steven Canter (now with the Rotary e-Club of the Southwest) Becca Martz teaches JR RYLA delegates how to build and protect their self-esteem, as well as that of others. Camp Nurse (and our Sunup Club Secretary) Stella Ortiz decided to attempt the initial segment of the Confidence Course — when the kids weren't looking. Architect Steve Canter was serving as her coach and spotter.  Some lively Volleyball competition helped to break up the classes and other JR RYLA features. Held at Camp Wamatochick, six miles south of town on Senator Highway, in the tall pines of the Prescott National Forest, the Rotary-sponsored leadership development camp for 6th - 8th graders began on Wednesday, and it ended just before noon on Saturday. This year 66 of the youth who applied for the camp were accepted as JR RYLA Delegates. Special recognition needs to go to our club's Bob Keys, who spent countless hours serving as the JR RYLA Registrar. The new program, which Prescott Sunup Rotary was instrumental in launching last year, doubled in size this year. The leadership camp was successful by every measure. Teaching and applying Rotary's 4-Way Test is an integral part of the curriculum. |
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