A second degree black belt, Dawn has studied martial arts for over 17 years. She has applied those techniques – and more importantly how to not need them – while living in major US cities and traveling extensively. Her Every Day Self Defense seminars explore a variety of effective strategies based on preventing violence and crime before it happens. By teaching people how to look for, identify, and avoid threats, Dawn’s goal is to help them enjoy their days with more awareness and less fear. 

The ThinkSAFE curriculum was developed by interviewing world-class experts in the field, including police, US military and Border Patrol. Their knowledge and experience blended with Dawn’s to create the knowledge base she shares with clients today.

Dawn earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University and spent the first 25 years of her career helping businesses and non-profits grow via marketing and business development. Dawn loves exploring new places with family and friends, cooking, and the continuing challenge of keeping plants alive & flowering in the Southwest desert.

http://www.thinksafeseminars.com/

Welcome to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department website.   I am Sheriff Mark Napier and I am proud to offer you this window into our Department.  This provides you the opportunity to learn about our department and its programs, and have better access to us so that we may better serve you.

The Sheriff’s Department provides law enforcement services to approximately 330,000 residents in unincorporated Pima County and patrols an area covering 9,200 square miles with a total population of 1 million.  I am proud that the hardworking commissioned men and women of my Department provide an unparalleled level of service and answer calls that other agencies do not.  In addition, we run a full-scale correctional facility capable of housing up to 2,000 inmates—another huge responsibility that is met every day by my outstanding Corrections staff.

In my 28 years of law enforcement experience, there is nothing more challenging and rewarding than leading the Pima County Sheriff’s Department today.  As the 34^th elected sheriff of Pima County, I am humbled by the awesome responsibility and the obligation I have to ensure your safety and enforcement needs are met.  We aim to bring you the highest level of cutting edge service--provided with care, compassion, and professionalism.

Dustin Williams is a lifelong Native Tucsonan.  Graduating from Amphitheater High School in 1992, University of Arizona with a degree in education and a Master’s in education from NAU.  He started his career as an elementary teacher, was Assistant Director at Ha:san Preparatory & Leadership School and most recently taught 6^th grade math. His passion for Public Education has energized him to take the next step in his life. Dustin Williams is the elected Pima County School Superintendent and is excited about the future. He is committed to improve the education throughout Pima County.

Please sign up in “buddy teams or two people” for a two hour block.

Shift 1:  9 am – 11 am  (Paul DeLorme / Paul Hawkins)

Shift 2:  11 am – 1 pm  (Glenn Garrett/Jim Lovelace)

Shift 3:  1 pm – 3 pm  STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS

Shift 4:  3 pm – 5 pm  STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS

Send your requested time slot to Pat Kerr at pkerr@email.arizona.email or text 719-322-3641.

• Carrying out the policies and goals established by the Board of Supervisors;
• Providing information and technical assistance to the Board of Supervisors;
• Administering and overseeing all non-elected official departmental operations; and
• Providing management, coordination and communication on legislative issues and intergovernmental needs.

Community Outreach Coordinator Congresswoman Martha McSally

Tucson, Arizona

Mayor Rothschild is a native Tucsonan. His grandmother moved to Tucson in 1942 and opened a used furniture store on South 12^th Avenue.

He is a graduate of Canyon del Oro High School, Kenyon College and the University of New Mexico Law School. After serving as a law clerk for District Court Judge Alfredo C. Marquez, he went on to a 30-year career practicing law with the firm of Mesch, Clark and Rothschild. He served as managing partner for the firm and concentrated his practice in the areas of business law and estate planning.

The mayor has a long history of service with many nonprofits in the community and served as Board President for Casa de los Niños, Handmaker Services for the Aging and Temple Emanu-el. He has been married to Karen Spiegel for 34 years and has three adult children, Isaac, Nathan and Molly.

https://www.mayorrothschild.com/

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was an American immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors, and had either entered or remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit. As of 2017, approximately 800,000 individuals—referred to as Dreamers after the DREAM Act bill—were enrolled in the program created by DACA. The policy was established by the Obama administration in June 2012 and rescinded by the Trump administration in September 2017.^[1]

In November 2014 President Barack Obama announced his intention to expand DACA to cover additional illegal immigrants. But multiple states immediately sued to prevent the expansion, which was ultimately blocked by the courts. The United States Department of Homeland Security rescinded the expansion on June 16, 2017, while continuing to review the existence of the DACA program as a whole. The DACA policy was rescinded by the Trump administration on September 5, 2017, but full implementation of the rescission was delayed six months to give Congress time to decide how to deal with the population that was previously eligible under the policy.^[2]

Callie Jordan – Hummingbird Bio

Everyone Loves Hummingbirds

On April 11, 2017, the board of Old Pueblo Rotary approved the membership applications for two proposed new members.

Kirti Khalsa was proposed by Diane Goodyear. Kirti is CEO of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation.  She is a transferring member from Pantano Rotary Club. She was brought into Rotary by Randy Brooks of the Marana Club. She has been active in International Projects in Nogales and Mexico; she will also be staffing an Alzheimers booth for the International Convention in Atlanta this year. 

Linda Mazon Gutierrez was proposed by Lynn Kastella. She is President and CEO of her own company Poravion which is putting in new restaurants and shops at the Tucson Airport.

I have been flying for the Tucson chapter of the Flying Samaritans since September 2006. Flying Samaritans is a nonprofit organization that provides free dental and medical services to underserved communities in Baja California. I first soloed in April 1975 and have accumulated over 1500 hours of flying since then even with a 22-year gap. 

I retired from Raytheon Missile Systems as an Engineering Fellow in 2011. I moved from San Diego to Tucson in 1994 with the merger of General Dynamics Convair and Hughes Missile Systems. My main interests are amateur radio, scuba diving, woodworking, and aviation. 

I worked at Purina for 33 years , was a corporate officer for the last 16 years.  I, along with my fellow executives were all fired within 48 hours during a corporate take over.  I started over at 55 and , along with some partners, built a Biodiesel business that today is the largest in North America with $1.5 Billion in sales.  We are public listed on NASDAQ as REGI.   My wife and I have a charity called God Cares that has helped Veterans get to a better place in life.  We have helped several 100’s of veterans and their families in the 9 years we have been in business from all over the US.

The presentation is about all the personal obstacles that I had to overcome and lessons learned that I hope can inspire others.  I have spoken to many Universities, groups and Rotary clubs.  I am a Rotarian from Iowa, Illinois and Ohio.

My book, “Prepare for Leadership, from farm boy to Times Square” is a 5 star rated book on Amazon.  My website is: nileramsbottom.com

BAG IT reaches out to cancer patients, of any gender, age, or cancer type, at a critical time – right after their diagnosis. The information is designed to help them cope with their diagnosis, move more competently through the treatment process, empower them to become an active member of the treatment team, and transition to follow up care.

BAG IT provides information to people with any cancer and their families to help them cope with their diagnosis and treatment.  BAG IT helps Fight The Fear.

BAG IT will empower patients to be more involved in their care, advocate for themselves, and learn to cope with the challenges associated with diagnosis and treatment. Further, BAG IT empowers cancer advocates to promote this same vision in their communities.

Before moving to New York in 1998, she was the executive director of the Tucson Jazz Society for nine years, building it from 500 members and a $50,000 budget to become the largest jazz society in the country with 2,100 members, a budget of $250,000 and 42 concert productions a year. She volunteered for the TJS for eight years before becoming the organization’s first paid employee and, during that time, organized “Primavera,” the world’s longest-running women’s jazz festival. For five years, she was marketing director for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra following a year in the same position with the statewide Arizona Dance Theatre.

For four year, she was the Secretary of the Executive Board of the International Association of Jazz Educators, representing the jazz industry on the board. In her mid-20s, she was the Vice President of the American Federation of Jazz Societies. She currently serves as treasurer of the board of the Santa Cruz Alliance for the Arts which presents the Mingus Hometown Music Festival, a bi-national jazz festival she founded more than 20 years ago.  Since 1989 she has been the Executive Director of the Western Jazz Presenters Network, a coalition of 45 jazz festivals and venues in the West.

Ervin has held seminars on fundraising, audience development and marketing for many statewide and national conventions and was a marketing and artist career development consultant for the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Jazz Service Organization. The Mid-Atlantic Arts Alliance and The Kennedy Center hired her to write the curriculum to train new jazz presenters for a National Endowment for the Arts-funded three-year program. Trained in group facilitation methods and skilled in organizational development and planning, she facilitated the meeting where the Arizona Presenters Alliance was formed.

For the past 30 years she has worked as a jazz journalist for print and radio and has interviewed more than 150 jazz legends for KUAZ-FM, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Citizen, Tucson Magazine, Showtimes West, Down Beat, and Music Hound’s Guide to Jazz. Thirty of those interviews are archived at the Library of Congress. She is editor of Hot House magazine and was the jazz columnist for the Tucson Weekly for several years and has written liner notes for RCA, Capri and Doubletime records.

Ervin holds a degree in music and journalism and was a visiting lecturer in Jazz History at her alma matter, the University of Arizona. She has interviewed jazz greats on stage at the Monterey and Telluride jazz festivals and has emceed at the Montreux, Tanglewood and Telluride jazz festivals. For 20 years, she hosted jazz radio programs, first at Illinois

This is Suzanne's 12th year with the Rotary Dictionary Project. It means so much to her! Even with her physical limitations, she still glows from ear to ear each year when she works on this project!

Suzanne, contacts the school principal and 3rd grade teachers, tallies the number of books required to fulfill the needs and then places the order.

She then makes sure OP has Rotary Labels printed and are included inside each book.

The books are then packaged  into separate boxes for the the individual schools.

Suzanne , along with other Rotary Members who are able to accompany her, does NOT just drop the books off to the participating schools, but she presents them to the 3rd grade class(es) with  a 15-20 minute class session - demonstrating to the kids how to obtain information from this dictionary.

The teachers love the idea that there are lesson plans on  this website to assist them when teaching.  Http://www.dictionaryproject.org

The schools incorporate these dictionaries into their lesson plans for topics such as for the Maps of the World, The Constitution, US Presidents, Periodic Table of Elements, Facts about Countries & Locations and so much more.

The 3rd graders are so excited that they can put their own name in the books and that the book belongs to them! It's an amazing thing to experience! I've included a photo from the Mary Bell McCorkle School of Excellence. http://edweb.tusd1.org/mccorkle/

OPRC members,

A huge "shout out" to all those that helped at the Saturday Poker Tournament and huge Kudos to Keith Ganske and Jim Lovelace for all their hard work in organizing the event. What a success and fun time for all!

Mike Feder has been a General Manager in minor league baseball for 30 years, spending 1989 – 2001 as the GM of the Tucson Toros/Sidewinders and 2011 – 2013 as General Manager of the Tucson Padres. Mike received the Presidential Citation from Minor League Baseball and was the Pacific Coast League’s Executive of the Year in 2013. That was the sixth time he has received the Executive of the Year award in professional baseball. Mike also spent five years with the New Orleans Saints from 2011 – 2015 and two years as Coordinator, Tucson Special Projects for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014 & 2015.

In his years in Tucson, Mike has been very active in the community, serving on the Board of Directors for Visit Tucson, the Father’s Day Council which raises money for the Steele Children’s Research Center, the Tucson Police Foundation, and the Caballeros Del Sol. Mike was also the Media Director and a Board Member for the Copper Bowl from 1990 – 1996. Feder was inducted into the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame in 1998, as well as being honored by the Conquistadores in 1997 for long and meritorious service to the Tucson sports community.

He is currently President of the Mexican Baseball Fiesta (six years in Tucson), and Executive Director of the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl.

Executive Director

Funeral Consumers Alliance of  Arizona
520-721-0230

www.FCAAZ.org

Ruth Bennett is the Executive Director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Arizona, one of about 70 affiliates in the United States.

She has been involved with the FCA for nearly 11 years, first in Seattle and now here in Arizona.  She also served 8 years on the national Board of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, the last 2 as the Board President.

She lives in Green Valley with her spouse and too many cats.

Betty has been the Executive Director of Literacy Connects since it was formed on July 1, 2011. Before that she was the Executive Director of Literacy Volunteers of Tucson since June 2002. Literacy Connects was formed when five well-established literacy organizations in Southern Arizona merged to create one innovative organization. The over-arching mission of Literacy Connects is to open a world of possibilities to people of all ages through literacy and creative arts programs. Together these programs have 97 years of experience and annually serve more than 46,000 people in Tucson, Pima County and Southern Arizona.

Betty has lived in Tucson since 2000 having moved here from Cleveland, Ohio. She is a social worker and was the Executive Director of a transitional housing program for homeless families for 10 years in Cleveland. She loves working in literacy because it is addressing one of the root causes of homelessness and poverty, both of which have been her professional focus for 25 years.

Betty is the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of three delightful, precocious and adorable little boys.

Greene founded three programs that connect people in our community with the love of reading. The biggest impact has come from the creation of the Library’s Bookbike program in January 2012, the first public library program of its kind in the nation. Now, four years later, our first Bookbike has attended 335 events, logged 1,135 volunteer hours, pedaled 972 miles, and given away 36,146 free books. In August 2015, our program grew to a fleet of three bikes, and Greene is on well her way to her goal of “world domination by Bookbike.”

Greene also developed the Books on Wheels program to deliver books to homebound and disabled residents in our community who are not able to visit the library in person. Local volunteers select the books and Pima County Bike Ambassadors deliver the books by bicycle. The ambassadors also spend time talking about books and life with our customers who may not have a lot of interaction with people beyond family members and caretakers. The program is a boon to people who can no longer come to the library: a combination of reader’s advisory, wellness check, companionship, and exercise.

Greene’s third innovative mobile literacy program complements the other two: free reading glasses for all who need them. Greene created a partnership with the Downtown Tucson Lions Club, which supplies the Bookbike Program and most libraries with free reading glasses. Each month our libraries distribute over 250 pairs of reading glasses.

Doug began carving when not tending to chores on the family farm. At 16 he shipped out on a Great Lakes freighter and passed the time during off-duty hours carving small figures. After college graduation, he joined the U.S.Air Force and became a jet fighter pilot. He earned two combat decorations in Korea and again found himself passing time woodcarving. Doug later worked as an elementary and junior high principal. He was active in Boy Scouting with his son, and camp-outs found him carving a caged ball and chain for the fascinated Scouts.

Doug served as president of the Southwest Woodcarvers and is a member of Arizona Woodcarvers, National Woodcarvers Association, and Affiliated Woodcarvers, Ltd.

Doug is available to teach woodcarving seminars and judge exhibits and shows. His carvings are available for sale.

Contact info:
Doug Raine
8411 LaCanada
Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 297-2105

Nurse-Family Partnership

Briana is a senior at the University of Arizona, with a major in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. At UA, she currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the Student Alumni Ambassadors and the President of UA Rotaract. After graduating, she will continue her studies in law school and hopes to pursue a career in criminal prosecution. 

BSEE, Engineeering

• Rigor: We have increased the participation in honors and Advanced Placement (AP) classes, with over 40% of our students enrolled in at least one of the courses. Four years ago we offered three AP classes; now we offer fifteen sections. However, our teachers have incorporated higher-level of thinking activities in all classes. Flowing Wells’ students consistently score higher on the AIMS test than students at high schools with similar demographics. We increased our Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) reading score by 16 points and our math score by 39%!
• Relevance: We recognize that 21st century learners don’t learn the way their parents did. Who would have predicted 16 years ago that our children would have cell phones with cameras, IPods with portable music, the ability to send and receive text messages, PSP gaming systems, hand-held GPS, or blogs, Wiki’s, Facebook, and Twitter? In addition, we are fortunate to have an increasingly diverse student population, with students who have differing cultural backgrounds and experiences. Students have changed, and we will work on changing the way we teach to better help them learn by effectively incorporating technology, prior learning, and personal experiences into our instruction.
• Relationships: Research indicates that without building strong relationships with students, rigor and relevance is ineffective because learning will not occur. According to the International Learning Center, 60% of seniors are ready for college if they felt supported by teachers; only 15% of those who felt unsupported are ready for college.

Blessings from the Heart, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that concentrates its efforts on US/Mexico border towns and their inhabitants.  The company is an Arizona nonprofit corporation and is operated in Tucson, Arizona, USA.  The corporation was incorporated in 2002, with full tax exempt status received in 2003.  Blessings has been working with the Queen of Angels House (formerly Casa Pepito) in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico since our inception.  The corporation is focused on the Agua Prieta area, with the intent to provide additional support to the area through educational opportunities and other services as determined.

Our mission is to spread help, hope & answers

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  • Retired and works at Rotary District 5500
  • Studied Operations Research at The George Washington University
  • Lives in Oro Valley, Arizona
  • Married to Sally Montagne
  • From Galveston, Texas

Speaker September 8, 2015

Larry Lucero

Senior Director
Government Relations
& Economic Development

On April 21, 2015 the Pima County Board of Supervisors approved Resolution No. 2015-19 ordering a bond election to be held on November 3, 2015, and approving seven ballot propositions. If voters were to approve all seven propositions, the County would be authorized to sell $815,760,000 in general obligation bonds to fund projects that meet the purposes stated in each proposition.

• Proposition 425 Road and Highway Improvements
• Proposition 426 Economic Development, Libraries and Workforce Training
• Proposition 427 Tourism Promotion
• Proposition 428 Parks and Recreation
• Proposition 429 Public Health, Welfare, Safety, Neighborhoods and Housing
• Proposition 430 Natural Area Conservation and Historic Preservation
• Proposition 431 Flood Control and Drainage

In 1969, the City of Tucson agreed to assume control of Tucson Rapid Transit's struggling system. Under the city's direction, public transit began to flourish. Ridership increased, new buses were purchased and service rapidly improved. In 1975, a contest was held and the system was renamed Sun Tran. Today, Sun Tran operates 40 fixed routes, and the award-winning system remains on the cutting edge of technology as it has since the beginning.