This week's speaker will be Tom Buckley, a former Geologist and Business Owner, currently acting as Oracle State Park’s Geologist and Trail Maintainer. Oracle State Park is a 4,000 acre park established as an environmental education center and wildlife refuge. Situated at an elevation ranging from 3,500 – 4,500’, the Park stays cooler and a little wetter than lower elevation areas nearby. This enables plant life to exist in several distinct ecozones throughout the Park. Furthermore, this elevation and location in the northern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains exposes rocks and minerals spanning much of the 1.7 billion year geologic history of this area. This amazing park is right in our backyard! This week's speaker will be Tom Buckley, a former Geologist and Business Owner, currently acting as Oracle State Park’s Geologist and Trail Maintainer. Oracle State Park is a 4,000 acre park established as an environmental education center and wildlife refuge. Situated at an elevation ranging from 3,500 – 4,500’, the Park stays cooler and a little wetter than lower elevation areas nearby. This enables plant life to exist in several distinct ecozones throughout the Park. Furthermore, this elevation and location in the northern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains exposes rocks and minerals spanning much of the 1.7 billion year geologic history of this area. This amazing park is right in our backyard! 
Ride to End Polio
Highway Clean Up
Books For Kids
Blanket Drive
Peace Pole Dedication
Madaras Fundraiser
Chili Feed
Empowering Girls
Welcome
This week's speaker will be Tom Buckley, a former Geologist and Business Owner, currently acting as Oracle State Park’s Geologist and Trail Maintainer. Oracle State Park is a 4,000 acre park established as an environmental education center and wildlife refuge. Situated at an elevation ranging from 3,500 – 4,500’, the Park stays cooler and a little wetter than lower elevation areas nearby. This enables plant life to exist in several distinct ecozones throughout the Park. Furthermore, this elevation and location in the northern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains exposes rocks and minerals spanning much of the 1.7 billion year geologic history of this area. This amazing park is right in our backyard! This week's speaker will be Tom Buckley, a former Geologist and Business Owner, currently acting as Oracle State Park’s Geologist and Trail Maintainer. Oracle State Park is a 4,000 acre park established as an environmental education center and wildlife refuge. Situated at an elevation ranging from 3,500 – 4,500’, the Park stays cooler and a little wetter than lower elevation areas nearby. This enables plant life to exist in several distinct ecozones throughout the Park. Furthermore, this elevation and location in the northern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains exposes rocks and minerals spanning much of the 1.7 billion year geologic history of this area. This amazing park is right in our backyard! San Manuel Summer Softball
To support Rotary International's initiative of "Empowering Girls", our club sponsored San Manuel's Girls Summer Softball League. These girls, ages 3-16 are learning an athletic skill, sportsmanship and determination.
Earlier this year we had a wonderful program about Adverse Childhood Events (ACE), and how they effect youth and adults in later life. There is a wonderful film that has been produced highlighting this issue. We have the opportunity to view the film on zoom.
Wednesday, August 17th from 3:00-5:00 pm Arizona Time.
We are excited to be collaborating with the SAYF (Southern Arizona for Youth & Families) Council on this showing.
Below is the Zoom link for the film. This is also where we will be holding the debriefing immediately following the film:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83044693221?pwd=SVk4cmFHRWsvcDN1SUR3SmplaDBDdz09
Meeting ID: 830 4469 3221
Passcode: 361370
Meeting ID: 830 4469 3221
Passcode: 361370
The film will start at 3:00pm sharp, so we suggest logging on a few minutes early.
Immediately following the film, we will host a debriefing to hear your reactions to the film and how you think this applies to our community.
We look forward to seeing you on the 17th!
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American Avenue Clean Up
Oracle Visitors CenterAug 20, 2022 6:30 AM
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Oracle Food Distribution for Impact
ImpactSep 07, 2022 9:00 AM
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Oracle Food Distribution for Impact
ImpactOct 05, 2022 9:00 AM
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Oracle Food Distribution for Impact
ImpactNov 02, 2022 9:00 AM
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Fore For Kids Charity Golf Tournament
Oro Valley Country ClubNov 21, 2022 6:00 PM
Welcome our newest Rotarians
Charlie Clark and Diane Demeroutis
District Governor Anita and membership committee member Patsy Ticknor inducted two new members to our club, Charlie Clark and Diane Demeroutis. Both with significant Rotary experience they will be assets to our club. Please find Charlie and Diane's bios here:
Gordon Wainwright
July 17.2022
Greetings fellow Rotarians ! Boy, we are off to a busy summer.
Snowbirds – we miss you ! How about staying connected by joining us on zoom? Wanda and her Club Services committee have done a great job of arranging programs for every meeting.
Committees – lots of work is being done between meetings and we still need some positions filled. For example, our new Club Services committee needs to fill several spots to help us organize our meetings. These jobs are not onerous, a few hours a month will do it! You can contribute from wherever you are. Please reach out to Wanda to see how you can help. I am sure you joined our club to help us get things done!
Youth Services – John and Linda Howard have already started the process of raising awareness in the schools for our academic scholarships. How about vocational grants / scholarships? Well, I feel we need to do work to get our arms around this. I simply don’t accept the notion that none of the students in the Copper Corridor are not interested in pursuing a vocation. I’ve asked Kristi Halverson, chair of Youth Services to have her committee dig into this. So, more need for good volunteers to get involved with her committee. Also, this committee oversees RYLA and the 4-way Speech contest. Typically we send one or two students to the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy. Why not sponsor five ?? I feel this Rotary event provides real impact to the future of young people. Also the 4-way Speech contest – we need to work with the high school students to prepare them for this contest, so they are bettered prepared. Thanks Fred Lowy for stepping up to mentor these students. With his background, they couldn’t have a better mentor!
Community Services – this committee just keeps adding important work. This year we will be active with National Night Out in San Manuel. We are donating money to both Oracle and San Manuel to help with food, prizes, and in San Manuel we will need about 4 volunteers to help. Another opportunity to get involved! The National Night Out event is designed to bring police and other first responders together with kids to spend an evening having fun. Lets get involved.
Fore For Kids – our major fundraiser is right on-track thanks to the leadership of Dan Watson. This golf tournament will be held November 21st . Dan’s committee has sold all of the major sponsorships and already has 78 golfers committed (only 100 golfer spots available). If you would like to golf sign up now !
July 28th – our District Governor (Anita McDonald) will be here for her annual visit. Please make every effort to attend this meeting and consider bringing a guest.
Wherever you are, please have a safe, healthy summer and remember to have FUN!
Yours in Rotary,
Gordon
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Oracle, AZ 85623
United States of America