Tis the season to be giving! As the Holidays approach, please remember who we are and give a special give to the Rotary Foundation.
Todd Norhton
Welcome to the Rotary Club of Surprise Sunset's webpage. We are a brand-new Rotary club and one of the newest in Rotary International located in the fast-growing City of Surprise, Arizona. We have veteran Rotarians, first-time Rotarians, working individuals, retirees, young adults, and the young-at-heart. In other words, we are a diverse group by design, affording opportunities to actively give back to the community.
We are leaders who are ethical, act responsibly and take action to tackle some of our community’s and the world’s most pressing challenges. We have initially identified Education & Literacy, Homeless Youth, Alzheimer's awareness and the Valley View Community Food Bank as our primary areas of focus and action.
If you are interested in helping others and having fun in the process, please stop by and visit, or contact us – please use the contact button above. We need interested folks to join us and help us expand our focus and work activities.
We are currently having our meeting on Zoom. The meeting are the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 5:00 PM. For the login information e-mail Jim Wooldridge at: jim@wooldridgeconsulting.com. We are hoping to start in person meeting again this fall. Come join us and experience the thrill of changing lives – others and our own.
Todd Norhton
Club President
Since Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative took on the fight against polio, we have developed systems to facilitate both immunizations and eradication. This infrastructure helps get us closer to a polio-free world. But did you know that it’s used to fight and protect against other diseases, too?
About a dozen club members enjoyed a few hours of fellowship while working to help the West Valley Food Bank sort donations and ready individual meal boxes.
In May of 2019, the Rotary Club of Surprise Sunset sponsored its first student through the Rotary Vocational Fund of Arizona (TRVFA) program. TRVFA partners with Rotary Clubs in Arizona to provide assistance to the working poor in obtaining an education up to an Associate Degree. Pierre Nkunzimana was awarded a one-year educational grant of $2,000 for his pursuance in the Licensed Practical Nursing program at East Valley Institute of Technology in Mesa.Prior to receiving approval for the grant, Pierre underwent a qualification process which included both a grant application, which determined his eligibility, followed by an in-person interview with several of our club's executive team. Happily, Pierre passed with flying colors and expressed his strong desire and passion to complete the nursing program as soon as possible.
During the new Rotary Club of Surprise Sunset's charter ceremony on April 2, the club's new president Kathy Linton showed a video on the Rotary Four-Way Test.
What makes this so unique, is that this video was totally created by 11-year-old Jacob Stuckey, grandson of club member Dick Stuckey.
Apparently, Jacob visits his grandparents every summer and thoroughly enjoys attending Rotary meetings with his grandfather. He was so enamored and impressed with Rotary -- and especially the value of the Four-Way Test -- that he created this video on his own and posted it at YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qDAfaK1jUO8&rel=0
