Jayne Hubbard was one of the lucky winners of the raffle and she will team as greeter next week with the other one, Gale Totten.
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Wellness Report
Lou Snodgrass made the best kind of wellness report, stating that she was aware of only two members with medical issues and both were in attendance, Blaine Keith and Don Parks.
Hosts and Guests
Kathy Haugner hosted Jeff Sarricks in addition to Tony and Clare John, who were visiting from England. Gary Hayward brought his wife Irmgard as well as their daughter Debora Manson. Toby Payne had his son Jared as a guest and Debbi Burdick introduced the Finance Director for CCUSD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Golf Tournament – Susan Vanik announced the final tally from last month’s Golf Tournament, showing net proceeds to our Club of $23,000. This makes it the most financially successful tournament in the recent past. She thanked Co-Chairs Howard Dicke and Bill Scully as well as their Golf Committee and those members that played in the tournament and were sponsors.
Flea Market – Kirk Wilson reminded us of Saturday’s Flea Market and mentioned they need help both on Friday afternoon and during the day Saturday, as well as shoppers.
Pancake Breakfast – Brian Kunkel said 10 tickets will be mailed out to members this week for the November 8th event, and that Jon Loffman is still looking for volunteers to help pre-sell tickets to the public.
Road Clean Up – Richard Saunders needs a dozen folks to help with this community activity, scheduled for November 15th. He has graciously refused an offer made last week by Sheriff Joe to bring out his female chain gang to help out.
Big Band Night – Susan Vanik reported that only 8 tables remain for this fun night on November 21st at the Carefree Resort.
Empty Bowls – October 24th is the date for this annual event benefiting the Foothills Food Bank. The time is 11:00am ‘til 1:30pm at Carefree Town Center. David Shirey also mentioned the High School’s Shadowbox Players presentation at the Fine Arts Center on October 23, 24 and 25th at 7:00pm.
Christmas Pageant –Toby Payne announced the annual community pageant will take place on December 6th and 7th at 7:30pm, with a Luminaria Run on the 6th.
PROGRAM
Our speaker, Michael Zimmerman, is the CFO of the local company Go Daddy.com. He explained how the company was started in the Valley 11 years ago and has become the world’s largest computer domain management company, with 6 million customers. Hosting websites is another part of their business and they have taken a lead role in global internet security. One event that brought the Company national exposure, and significant sales increases, was an advertisement run during the 2005 Super Bowl.
Go Daddy.com has become like a defacto Information Technology department for some small companies. Mr. Zimmerman proudly pointed out that Go Daddy has 2,000 employees and that there is no outsourcing of jobs. He mentioned that the founder, Bob Parsons, has always strived to be a good corporate citizen, supporting legislation to tighten laws prohibiting internet child pornography and rouge on line pharmacies.
Our speaker concluded by indicating Go Daddy is strongly committed to keeping the majority of their company’s operations here in the Valley. During the past year, the company has contributed over $1 million to charitable organizations, many involving youth services and juvenile medical research.
Next Week – Next week’s program will be Bruce Merrill, with a timely topic of the 2008 election.
Many thanks to reporter Howard Dicke and photographer Alan Haugner for making this issue of the Sundial a reality.
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