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Event: Rotary River Rally (Cardboard Boat Races)
www.rotaryriverrally.com

Event description: The 10th Annual Rotary River Rally, produced by
volunteers from Tempe, Arizona, Rotary Clubs, raises money for children’s
charities.
Wild and crazy cardboard boaters (this could be you!) build and paddle their
creations around a 200-yard course in search of coveted (and not so-coveted)
awards. The boats are built in a wide range of themes some of them are fast
and some of them are fun – most of them even float for their entire heat.

Date: April 17 & 18, 2009

Contact: Darryl Toupkin 602-284-1765 (c)

Set-up: Friday

Event Hours: Friday, April 17 Media Shoot at the Marina 6:30am-9am

Friday, April 17 Advance Boat Preview, Tempe Beach Park
4pm-8pm

Saturday, April 18 Cardboard Boat Regatta 10am-3pm

Admission Cost: Free

Parking: US Airways Garage & Downtown parking

For Public information:

Chad Holmes
City of Tempe
Recreation Coordinator
Parks & Recreation-Special Events
480.350.5847 office
480.350.5845 fax
chad_holmes@tempe.gov

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Welcome New Member Valorie Stading! Valorie works at Carr-Tenney
Mortuary.

THE Rotempary

April 7, 2009

LAST WEEK:

Randy Clawson

Ways to Save Energy

TODAY’S PROGRAM:

Jim Armstrong

Iraq Slide

NEXT WEEK:

Dan Hill

RYLA

New Member Welcome:

Valorie Stading, Carr Tenney Mortuary

REMINDERS:

Today is Canned Food week! Get out your dollars if you forgot non-perishables for TCAA!

Next Board Meeting will be on April 28^th after the regular club meeting. Everyone welcome to attend.

Thanks to those who helped Junior Achievement last week with the fundraising activities.

The Rotary River Rally is fast approaching. It’s the 10^th annual, and we’ll need your support. Please plan on helping on Friday night 4/17 or Saturday 4/18.

Our annual party at Don Liem’s house is planned for Saturday, 5/2. It will be a Pot-Luck with Monti’s grilling the steaks.

Have you registered for the District Conference yet? The deadline for early registration discounts was extended to this week. It’s going to be in Flagstaff and the Little America, and will be a great get away, as well as an educational experience on Rotary. Details are on the district website.

MAGAZINE MONTH:

If you picked up this month’s Rotary magazine, you read a note from D.K. Lee mentioning it is one of Rotary’s oldest traditions. Its forerunner was first published in January 1911, with Paul Harris himself writing the main essay. You’ll find lots of great content in our magazine. Do take time to read it, and then share it.

Speakers Needed:

See Lou Silverman with ideas for speakers. You can also reach him at 480-491-3216 ext. 25.

Items for the newsletter:

Please submit to Randy.Clawson@aps.com

the Saturday before our next meeting. Contact numbers: 480-446-0133 FAX or 480-446-0115 Office

HUMOR:

The doctor told the idiot to take the medicine after a hot bath. He could hardly finish drinking the bath!

DID YOU KNOW?

Hottest place on earth:

Dalol, Ethiopia

Coldest place on earth:

Plateau Station, Antarctica

Wettest place on earth:

Mawsynram, India

Wettest inhabited city:

Buenaventura, Columbia

Driest place on earth:

Atacama Desert, Chile

Driest inhabited city:

Aswan, Egypt

4-WAY TEST:

Is it the truth?

Is it Fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

Michael Monti * vsm480.441.4172 *
www.montis.com * Blog: michaelmonti.wordpress.com

March 17, 2009

LAST WEEK:

Jim Armstrong on Iraq

TODAY’S PROGRAM:

D.G. Don LaBarge

NEXT WEEK:

Steve Adolph

Tempe Union High School Dist.

REMINDERS:

Next Board Meeting will be on April 14^th after the regular club meeting.  Everyone welcome to attend.

The Mill Avenue Spring Festival of the Arts is coming up March 27-29.  We earned approximately $500 at the Fall Festival.  Can you block out some time to volunteer again?

The Rotary River Rally is fast approaching.  It’s the 10^th annual, and we’ll need your support.  Please plan on helping on Saturday, 4/18. 

Our annual party at Don Liem’s house is planned for Saturday, 5/2.

ROTARY LITERACY MONTH:

Dolly Parton has championed Literacy efforts, along with Rotary.  Can you be a champion too?  Seek opportunities to help those who can’t even read and understand this newsletter to a better life.  Volunteer your time, talents, and money.

Speakers Needed:

See Lou Silverman with ideas for speakers.   You can also reach him at 480-491-3216 ext. 25.

Items for the newsletter:

Please submit to Randy.Clawson@aps.com  

the Saturday before our next meeting.  Contact numbers:  480-446-0133 FAX or 480-446-0115 Office

HUMOR:

A couple in bed hears a knock at the door, which keeps getting louder.  The husband rolls out of bed and finds a drunk at the door asking for a push.  He refuses and gets back into bed.  His wife reminded him of the time he needed a push in the middle of the night, and that the Christian thing to do would be to get up and help him.  Reluctantly he went back to the door and asked the man if he still needed a push.  The response was yes.  Unable to see him, the man said where are you?    The response:  “Over here on your swing!”

DID YOU KNOW?

The balls used by major professional sports leagues are manufactured according to strict official specifications:  NBA Basketballs are made by Spalding.  Each is 29.5 in. in circumference and weighs 22 oz.  The leather cover is stamped with 122 pebbles per sq. in. (about 35,000 total) to improve gripping.  The rubber bladder inside, wrapped in nylon thread, is inflated to 7.5-8.5 lbs. per sq. in.

NFL footballs are made by Wilson, weighing between 14-15 oz.  They are cowhide stamped with stubble and sewn to a synthetic lining.  It’s bladder is inflated to 12.5-13.5 lbs. per sq. inch, and has 8 cross laces.

MLB Baseballs are made by Rawlings and weigh 5 oz. each.  A cork nucleus is encased in 2 thin rubber layers, wrapped in 369 yards of yarn.  The cowhide cover is sewn with 216 stitches using 88 inches of waxed red thread.

4-WAY TEST:

Is it the truth?

Is it Fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?rotempary_3-17-09