Meetings will be hybrid, Zoom and in person until further notice. Join us at Little America at noon for a meeting that starts at 12:15. To join a Membership meeting with Zoom, follow the meetings information below.
For 20 years, Family Promise has been a premier organization in Laramie County providing shelter and services to children and their families who are homeless or at-risk of being homeless. Through a unique partnership with various local faith communities and countless volunteers, we strive to help families become self-sufficient through development of life skills, obtaining or keeping sustainable employment and finding stable, affordable housing.
Rachel Martinez is a Wyoming Native with an extensive background in federal grant programming and direct services to underserved populations. She received her Master's in Public Administration with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management. Before becoming Executive Director of Family Promise, she worked for a hospital grant under the Department of Health and Human Services for the Affordable Care Act. She also worked under the Department of Education for 12 years with federal TRIO programs. Rachel enjoys community involvement including Rotary, Hispanic Organization for Progress and Education, Wyoming Latina Youth Conference, Habitat for Humanity, and the Laramie County Community Partnership. Rachel has 3 adult children who attend college at the University of Wyoming and the University of Chicago. She and her husband recently celebrated their 25 year anniversary and are adoring grandparents to their 2-year-old grandson, Uriah.
ZOOM MEETING INFORMATION:
If you want to say, "Hi!" and catch up with each other before the meeting, please "join" the virtual meeting any time after 12:00. You will be able to unmute yourself and connect for about fifteen minutes. When you first join the meeting, you will be in a "waiting room" and we will let you in as soon as we can. At 12:15, we'll get the meeting started.
TO JOIN A ROTARY CLUB OF CHEYENNE MEETING FROM A COMPUTER, TABLET OR SMART PHONE
Or download the Zoom app from your App Store (iPhone) or Google Play (android) and create an account for future use. Then click the + Join button, and enter the Meeting ID: 890 5263 9939, password: 065537
Mick Finnegan introduced one of our newest Rotarians at our meeting last Wednesday.
In December of 2020, Janet Lewis was appointed as the Wyoming Executive Director for the American Red Cross. In this role she will assist in providing service in 21 Wyoming Counties, ensuring the Red Cross Mission is carried out. This includes providing direct assistance to families following fires and other disasters. As part of the Red Cross Fire Campaign, homes are helped to be safer by the distribution of free smoke alarms. The Red Cross also teaches people lifesaving health and safety skills such as First Aid and CPR, they connect military families via emergency communication services should the need arise. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the Wyoming Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, a role she took on when the chapter was established in 2014. Janet graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Communications and Political Science. She has enjoyed a 40-year career in marketing and administration, primarily in healthcare. She and her husband enjoy living in Cheyenne, where she can watch her niece and nephews grow up. Her hobbies include golf, kayaking, gardening and reading.
Join Braver Angels and Brian Martin, managing editor of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, on Monday, April 26, 7:00 - 8:30 PM for a lively Zoom discussion of the first four chapters of Senator Ben Sasse’s best selling book, “Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal.” Register in advance at: https://tinyurl.com/BookDiscussionThem. Discussion of the remaining chapters will be May 17, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. Discussion topics will include: how our increasing isolation and loneliness cause us to form “anti-tribes,” the media’s role in perpetuating division, why we need to spend less time on social media and more on community, and how we must “become Americans again.”
For more information, contact Tom Brantley - tombrantley@mac.com or Lindi Kirkbride - lindikirkbridewy@gmail.com.
Join with Rotary to promote the power of vaccines.
During World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, join with Rotary to combat vaccine hesitancy and misinformation by spreading the facts about why #VaccinesWork.
With decades of experience fighting polio, Rotary plays a key role in informing people about the power and effectiveness of vaccines. As COVID-19 vaccines become more available, Rotary members are using our experience in fighting polio to help communities with their vaccination education and organization efforts. And today, because we and our partners have worked so hard, wild poliovirus remains endemic in only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. But to eradicate it there and to prevent a resurgence in other parts of the world, we must continue to build trust in vaccines and raise funds for polio eradication, including vaccine delivery.
This year, you can take action for World Immunization Week in three easy ways:
Download and share our new two-minute video, “Rotary Inspires Leaders in Global Health,” and show it to your clubs. In it, global health leaders like U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore, and World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talk about what Rotary has achieved in the fight to end polio.
Post graphics and other content from Rotary’s World Immunization Week Toolkit on social media with the hashtags #EndPolio and #VaccinesWork.
Donate to Rotary’s PolioPlus Fund to help us and our partners deliver polio vaccines to vulnerable children. Your contribution will be tripled, thanks to the Gates Foundation.
The Ft. Collins After Work Club is trying something really unique as a fundraiser—with the emphasis on “fun". We will be taking a virtual cruise to visit some of our projects around the world, from Fort Collins to Kathmandu. (You didn’t know Fort Collins and Kathmandu were deepwater ports? Neither did they.). It includes music, dancing (sort of), a live horse race (honest), live Bingo, high drama, low humor, and a Treasure Hunt for solid silver doubloons worth $250. Did I mention we have our very own pirate? No seasickness pills, no passports, no vaccines, no masks, no covid tests, no flights, just the most fun you ever had at a Rotary fundraiser! Register at: Cruise Ship Fun-Tacular (auctria.com)
Here's another reason to look forward to 2021! A chance to win a new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport or $20,000! See Cheyenne Rotary's Facebook page or visit Spradley Barr Motor for more info about this sporty 4x4 vehicle. Buy your raffle tickets online here or from any Rotary Club of Cheyenne member. $50 each, or 3 for $100. To get the 3-ticket deal, click here. Cheyenne Rotary Ford Bronco Raffle Tickets - 3 for $100
THANK YOU Spradley Barr for your generous donation of this new release from Ford! All proceeds will go to the Cheyenne Rotary Club Foundation and add to the impact of Rotary's charitable work in Cheyenne. Help Cheyenne Rotary build the endowment to reach the $1million goal and ensure sustainable local community service indefinitely!
First Place Prize: 2021 Ford Bronco Sport or $20,000
Second Place: $1,000
Third Place: $500
Drawing on June 2, 2021. Title, taxes, insurance extra. All sales final.
To purchase raffle tickets by mail, please send a check by May 31, 2021, to:
Cheyenne Rotary Club Foundation
P.O.Box 511, Cheyenne, WY 82003-0511
Include a note with the name, address and phone number that you would like included on each ticket, as well as the mailing address that you would like the tickets mailed back to. For questions or to buy tickets over the phone, call 307-773-0355.
Per IRS, the cost of raffle tickets purchased from nonprofit entities is not deductible as a charitable contribution.
The Otto and Fran Walter Foundation has pledged $15.5 million to The Rotary Foundation to start a Rotary Peace Center in the Middle East or North Africa.
Rotarians, Rotaractors, and Interactors worked together in a nationwide project that promoted behavior change and initiated safety standards for businesses.
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