September 30, 2009 - Sundial

A cooling trend in the weather (finally) coupled with a warm welcome from our friendly greeters, John Skarda and Ted Dimon, put us in a positive frame of mind as we entered Harold’s. Max Link (the Czar) and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and Pastor Michael Schmidt provided a thoughtful invocation. Our musical selection was handled by Don Basta (he claims back by popular demand) and Lloyd Meyer.

Bob Swan and Jim Shaw, were the lucky drawing winners.



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Wellness Report – Lou Snodgrass reported no report, other than John Goslin is now in a care facility. Word was just received that the wife of Bob Hesselgesser has passed away. Don Parks informed the Club that he welcomes calls, which is the certainly the best way to really find out his medical situation.

Guests – Guests were Jack Gates (Don Parks), Mary DeGroff (Deb Adams), Hope Ozer (Bob Hesselgesser), Stephanie Pitel (Tim Pitel) and Paul Cocuzza from the Scottsdale Airpark Club.

New Members – Deborah Adams inducted the following members : Gail Thiele (wife of Hans), Peter Royers, Steven Bebee (Principal of Cactus Shadows High School), Bruce and Sylvia Farley and Dana Gonder.

It was announced that these members put total Club membership at 257, which will qualify us for a Distinguished Club award.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pancake Breakfast and Lunch – This will be served at Sky Ranch from 8:00 to 3:00 on Oct. 3rd, as part of Carefree’s 25th Anniversary celebration. A large crowd is expected and thus Brian Kunkel and Jim Keller have distributed a schedule of times for volunteer help.

“Baby Shower” – Next meeting, members are asked to bring gently used, or new, baby clothes for a Kiwanis service project south of our border. Clothes for kids one month to five years will be gratefully accepted.

Aktion Club – Kirk Wilson reported this is a sub Club to ours now being formed for kids and young adults with developmental disabilities. Notify Kirk or Kathy Haugner if you know of a potential member.

Anthem Club – A new Club is just being formed in Anthem. See Dave Bell regarding any prospective members.

Carefree Brochure – A beautiful color brochure commemorating the town’s history and 25th anniversary is now available. Susan Vanik pointed out that the cost of design and publication of this free brochure was underwritten by our Club and the piece includes a number of references to Kiwanis of Carefree.

PROGRAM
A variety of awards comprised the program for today.

• Kathy Haugner was awarded the prestigious Hixon Award from KI.

• Manny and Peggy Gonzales were recognized with an award for their outstanding Key Club service.

• The New Kiwanian of the Year designation went to Tim Pitel.

• Kiwanian of the Year was awarded to Paula Scully.

• A “Super Worker Bee” award was given to Bruce Lukowiak.

• Pins were distributed for members that brought in one, two and three new members during the past year.

• Committee Chairs of the 40 some Club committees were given Certificates of Recognition.

• Board members were recognized for their service (and enduring 3 hour Board meetings).

• The Executive Committee, consisting of the Officers, was presented with Distinguished Service Award plaques.

• Attendance awards were passed out for the number of years of a combination of perfect attendance at meetings plus volunteer hours on Club projects.

Next Meeting – The program will be induction of officers for the new fiscal year and not to be missed entertainment, provided by the “Good Ol’ Boys” musical ensemble.

September 23, 2009 - Lunch

Another beautiful day in downtown Cave Creek. Sue Fergusson, assisted by others, was our greeter. Jayne Hubbard was our invocator. Don Basta, accompanied by Lloyd Meyer, led us in “God Bless America.” Our Pledge. House committee included several. The science committee meeting earlier included several. The fleas working this afternoon included several. The Pancakes meeting earlier included several. As one (reporter) whose name gets public “thanks” I’d like to thank all those volunteers who work behind the scenes every week and receive no public meeting thanks. Thank you, guys.


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Our 50/50 winners (more accurately our 25/75 winners) were Ted Dimon and John Skarda. Lou Snodgrass gave the good news that no-one seemed to be ill.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PANCAKES: Brian Kunkel and Jim Keller announced that there are many opportunities remaining to help at the Pancake breakfast – lunch set for 10/3 at the Airpark in celebration of the Carefree 25th Anniversary. Got time – many jobs so you can help where help is needed – call Brian at 515- 9999.

GOLF: Howard Dicke reported that last Monday’s golf tournament generated more than $17,000 net proceeds for our Foundation. He, and co-chairs Carroll Vanik, thanked those members who golfed or volunteered to make last Monday’s tournament a success. A field of 90 golfers toured the Desert Forest course.

Also thanks for support of the sponsors listed below. Members are asked to patronize when these local supporters whenever possible.

TITLE SPONSOR – HERITAGE OF CAREFREE

GOLD SPONSOR – SAGEWOOD

SILVER SPONSOR – MASTRO’S STEAKHOUSE

SILVER SPONSOR – MARAVILLA SCOTTSDALE

SILVER SPONSOR – EDWARD JONES INVESTMENTS Carefree

SILVER SPONSOR – CITY SUN TIMES

$25,000 HOLE IN ONE PRIZE and GOODIE BAG – DESERT INTEGRITY INSURANCE – ANTOSH NIRMUL

2009 “ LEGENDS CADILLAC” HOLE IN ONE PRIZE – KEVIN WILSON

ING - GOLF BALLS – BRIAN JONES

STATE FARM INSURANCE - GOODIE BAG – BILL MULINIKS


THANK YOU “TEE SPONSORS”

KARSTEN’S ACE HARDWARE

BAD DONKEY - SUBS, SALADS AND PIZZA

CAREFREE FLOORS

CAREFREE TRAVELER

ENGLISH ROSE TEA ROOM

HAROLD’S CAVE CREEK CORRAL

MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PROPERTIES

SYNERGY WEALTH SOLUTIONS

TOBIAS’ AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALISTS

MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY – Glee Pope

RE-MAX - RON CACINI

FARMERS INSURANCE – KEVIN WILSON

G.W. CUSTOM HOMES – GREG SMITH

Thank you. You’re generous support makes this event possible.

FLEA MARKET: Ted Dimon informed us that more than $1,000 of the last market sales came from costume jewelry. He requests donations of costume jewelry from members, spouses, family members, friends, neighbors and pets.

PILOT SCIENCE PROJECT: The Board approved $8,500. to purchase three pages worth of equipment for a test project in CCUSD.

BABY SHOWER: “Kiwanis Across the Border” requests clothing for children 0 – 5 years old. Thinnk of it as a baby shower. Cash works very well too. Collection in two weeks, Wednesday October 7.

INCOMING GOVERNOR: Ron Smith thanked Herb and Jane Hayde, and members of the club for their support and fine work.

GUESTS

Many guests joined us today including Ron Smith, our incoming Governor; Gail Thiele, wife of Hans; Victoria Batchelor, who will wed Kirk Wilson this New Year; Sylvia Farley; Jackie Beazley; Steve Bebee; Michael Krane; Doug Jones; and Todd Basta, son of Don.

NEW MEMBERS:

Ted and Barbara Hecht were sponsored by Dave Bell and Gary Hayward. They are interested in Health Check and Science Fair. Ted is an MD and Barbara is a PhD. Before going into medicine, Ted majored in foreign languages and, while in the army, spent part of his time as an interpreter in Russian, German and French. Barbara attended Stanford. Both are geneticists. They have taught in France and Australia. They founded the Genetics Center here in the Valley.

Randy Dopita was sponsored by new member Karen Jones. Randy is interested in helping with Kids Christmas, Pancakes and Western Night. She is in the employee benefit business, partnered with Karen, for 11 years. She is retired after 20 years service from the Air Force Reserves, where she was a Chief Master Sergeant (med tech). She is an ASU grad.

Jim Sheperd was sponsored by Matt Dingman and Ray Arnold. He is interested in Science and Kids programs. He is a Canadian snowbird who loves baseball. He has been coming here for 7 – 8 years now. He has joined Kiwanis to meet people and to give back to the community.

Bonnie Wills was sponsored by Seth Jorgensen and Nancy Carpenter. She is interested in the Flea Market, Scholarship and Western Night. Bonnie is a native of NYC who moved here in 1994. She started business here and it grew into “Matchmaker.” She has a daughter attending Hebrew University in Israel and a son at ASU.

PROGRAM

Russ Rosenquist introduced today’s speaker Dr. Morgan Olsen, Exec. V, Treasurer and CFO of ASU. Russ noted that he had served seven years on the Program committee and thanked all the many members who had helped him obtain speakers in that time. He urged us to continue such support to the incoming Chair Carroll Vanik and his committee.

Dr. Olsen opened that his presentation was an update on what ASU is doing to evolve with changing needs of our society. In response to social needs, ASU has developed the concept of the New American University. If follows from the concept of the “Greek University” and the “German University.” He noted that there have been many changes in our society, but relatively flew changes in post graduate education.

The New American University strives to be inclusive rather than exclusive, meeting the needs and goals of increasingly diverse socio-economic students. It focuses on the impact it can make through its students on the world through community connectedness. It continuously strives for excellence. Learn more about this concept at newamericanuniv@asu.edu

ASU is amazingly large. It has 68,000 students spread among its four physical campuses: Tempe (51,000), West, Polytech in the east valley, and Downtown Phoenix where the Walter Cronkite school of journalism and other majors that logically are associated with an urban environment are located. It also has a virtual campus that is expected to play an increasing role in delivering education. For more information about ASU go to asu.edu

ASU is squeezed by the economic meltdown. It has cut staff and put its tenured deans back into the classroom. It must deal with the facts that 48% of AZ children live in low income households; 68% of Hispanic AZ children do so. It has projected its needs to meet successful and sustainable growth, and developed “2020 Visions.” For more about what it is doing go to asuchallenges.com

September 16,2009 - Lunch

Wayne Knops and Herb Engdahl greeted us as we entered the space set up for us by John Skarda, Don Basta, and John Voss. Look for lucky drawing winners Marie Leake and Bruce Farley to welcome you next Wednesday.



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President Dave Bell called us to order and invited Father Dart to offer the Invocation. Rich Saunders then directed our singing of “It’s a Grand Old Flag.” The Pledge of Allegiance followed.

Guests
Our guests (and their hosts) included Carol Whitaker (Nancy Carpenter), David Alsever (Chuck Hoch), scholarship recipient Dane Andrews (Kevin Wilson), Ted and Barbara Hecht (Herb Hayde), Evelyn Holbrook and Kevin Glenn (Elaine Adrian), Bruce and Sylvia Farley (Jim Keller), Peter Royers (Don Basta), Gregory Salazar (Fr. Dart), Sara Fassil (Kathy Haugner).

Southwest Lt. Gov. Donna Yordy brought greetings to the club and congratulated us on our legacy of distinguished service.

Wellness Report
Nancy Carpenter asked us to continue to hold Blaine Keith in our prayers.

Work Weekend at Camp Kiwanis
Anyone interested in giving the weekend of October 16-18 to help spruce up the facilities and grounds at Camp Kiwanis? See Dave for information.

Thank Yous
The club received thank you notes the past week from Cave Creek Unified School District for our fulfilling several Wish List items, from Southwest District Governor Jim Lee for our $90,000 contribution to the Water Project at Camp Kiwanis, and from the YMCA for our $200,000 gift.

Flea Market
Phylliss Henry thanked everyone for the hard work to make the past weekend’s Flea Market successful. Our sale Saturday brought in $15,350.69, bringing the 2008-2009 total sales to $80,089.44. For comparison, the Flea Market’s three previous years (working backwards) were $95,186.19, $87,299.22, and $75,845. Mick Ennis reported that 800 people had passed through the gate by Noon. Good job everyone!

Fore!
Carroll Vanik reminded all golfers of this Monday’s (September 21) Kiwanis Golf Tournament at Desert Forest. Please arrive by 7:30 a.m. for the 8:00 start. There is still room for a few more golfers.

Math Tutors Sought
Paula Scully announced an upcoming training session for prospective math mentors for K – 8th grade students in the Cave Creek Unified School District. The session will be held on October 27 from 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. at the new Holland Community Center at 60th St. and Carefree Highway.

Pancake Breakfast Pre-Sales
Joe DeVito is seeking a few more helpers for pre-sales for the upcoming Pancake Breakfast.

Guest SpeakerDr. Bill DeWalt, President and Director of the Musical Instrument Museum opening in April 2010, gave an overview of the world class museum now under construction at Tatum and Mayo in North Phoenix.


The mission of MIM, according to anthropologist Dr. DeWalt, is “to celebrate the history and diversity of musical instruments from every country in the world and introduce guests to their varied and unique sounds.”

More than 10,000 instruments have been selected for historical, artistic, and cultural significance and will be displayed in the 190,000 squre foot building (4 ¼ acres under roof). Special features include visual as well as auditory introductions to the instruments, a 299 seat state-of-the-art auditorium in which musicians from around the world will showcase their instruments and musicianship, and a restaurant showcasing international cuisine.

September 9, 2009 - Lunch

Another Wednesday, another lunch meeting. Setting up for the meeting were Mick Ennis, Chuck Hoch, Herb Engdahl and John Voss.

Greeters were Max Wyatt and Bill Rintelmann. “Just Bob” Hutson gave the invocation. Some – clearly not all – sang the club song. We were led in the national anthem “The Star Spangled Banner.” We gave the Pledge.



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Ticket winners were Herb Engdahl (who once caught a 120 lbs tuna) and Wayne Knops (who has 15 grandchildren).

Nancy Carpenter reported on wellness of Betty Neal, Ron Ireland and Bill Chester. Ron was with us, looking well.

Guests: Sara Fassil – student at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, learning about our community; Jim Shepard who has his check and application in for membership; Greg Slazer and Bob McBreen’s wife.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Next week our program will be about the new Museum of Musical Instruments that will open at Tatum and Mayo roads.

Pres. Dave is seeking some volunteers to work with other volunteers from other community groups to help identify and provide solutions to children that exhibit “risky behavior.”

Dr. Janet Miller announced that the Black Mountain Elementary School will celebrate Patriot Day on Friday 9/11. An invitation is offered to all who have served as military or civil services to be guests for a catered lunch. Those attending are encouraged to wear service uniform.

Pancakes: Jim Keller announced that lots of volunteers are needed for 10/3 pancake breakfast and lunch – people to set up, cook, clean, tear down, all kinds of things. Need lots of help, contact Jim at 218-766-2162 or Brain Kunkel at 515- 9999. Brian told us that tickets had been mailed to each member. We need to return them or be billed for their costs – so sell, return or eat the expense. JJ DeVito, in charge of pre-sales, is also looking for volunteers – sign up or contact him at 5575-9019.

Phylliss Henry announced the flea market sale this weekend and asked all able-bodied to help set up the yard on Friday.

A salute to Veterans will be held this Friday 9/11 in Carefree from 2 – 5 PM. There will be a concert and a quilt.


PROGRAM

Mick Ennis, a retired NYC fire fighter of 20+ years introduced our guests from the Scottsdale Fire Department.

Chief Willie McDonald spoke first. The Chief came to our area four years ago as an experienced fireman. He took on the challenge of creating the current department for the City of Scottsdale. However, he did not need to reinvent the wheel – about 90% of the staff worked for Rural Metro prior to the new department. They are seasoned, skilled men. Chief McDonald has focused on making the fire department more efficient using technology and politics. Key to improved performance is “Automatic Aid” – a consortium of local cities and towns who send whatever vehicle is closest to a fire/emergency to it without regard for the “jurisdiction.” He has also worked to have fire houses located more rationally given data on population density, penetration of sprinkler systems and other variables that influence probability of fire. Chief McDonald is especially proud of the new fire station that has the highest “green” (environmental) rating in the country, as well as being a functional and attractive building. Rapid response – getting there in 4 minuets or less – is what enables firemen to win more. Once a fire passes the “flash point,” temperatures escalate - making the fight more dangerous, difficult and damaging. In a time period, Scottsdale has lost $9 million in property value to fire, but saved $52 million in collateral damage.

Captain Jason D’Eliso spoke next about plans for a 9/11 celebration. It will be one of the first in the country to add the concept of a “good deed” day of service to the established concept of a day of remembrance. It will be held at the Civic Center Mall. There will be memorial services, remembrance cards of those who perished, a national unity flag as well as 50 state flags displayed, and booths of community services.

Also accompanying these gentlemen was Tom Brock who has been very involved with developing the plans for 9/11.

Best question went to Hans Thiele, who noted that insurance companies benefited from better fire service, so why weren’t they contributing to the cost of maintaining a fire fighting system.

September 2, 2009 - Lunch

A cooling trend in the weather coupled with a warm welcome from our friendly greeters, David Shirey and Bill Rintelmann, put us in a positive frame of mind as we entered Harold’s. Max Link and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and Rev. Shirey provided a thoughtful invocation. Our musical selection was handled by Richard Saunders and his “accomplice” Lloyd Meyer.

Richard Saunders and a guest, Peter Privert, were the lucky drawing winners.





Wellness Report – Nancy Carpenter reported that Blaine Keith recently fell from a ladder and broke several ribs. Ron Ireland is recovering at home from surgery and
Don Parks continues his battle with cancer, having been re-admitted to the hospital. Gene Ragsdale’s companion of 15 years, Alice Bowers, recently passed away.

Guests – Guests were too numerous to list, with over fifteen introduced.
One guest was Bob Kay, President of the Kiwanis Southwest District Foundation. He accepted a $90,000 check from our Club, which was part of the Scully gift. Bob thanked the Club and went on to explain this gift will be used for a new well at Kamp Kiwanis so water is available for the many activities held there for the benefit of youth.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Flea Market – Next market is Sept. 12 and as usual volunteer help is needed for the 11th setup as well as the 12th. The warehouse is bulging at the seams so many treasures will be available for purchase. Among them is a donated personal collection of high end Native American jewelry.

Pancake Breakfast and Lunch – This will be served at Sky Ranch from 8:00 to 3:00 on Oct. 3rd, as part of Carefree’s 25th Anniversary celebration. A large crowd is expected and thus Brian Kunkel and Jim Keller are looking for plenty of volunteer help.

Joe Devito also needs members for selling tickets prior to the event. The dates are Sept. 21, 25 & 28 and Oct. 2 & 3. The times are 9:30-12 at the Town Hall and Post Office.

Desert Foothills YMCA & Community Center – Kathy Haugner announced that tours of the new facility will begin after Sept.21st.

Science Fair – Jim Walborn reminded us that it is that time again to begin preparing for the next Science Fair and I’m sure he is looking for volunteer help.

Award – Our member, Ray Barnes, has been recognized with an award as the Arizona Legislature Leader of the Year.



PROGRAM

Our speaker was Andrei Cherny, author of “The Candy Bombers” the untold story of the Berlin Airlift. He has worked in the White House, was formerly an Arizona state prosecutor and is currently running for the post of Arizona State Treasurer.

The book covers the events of 61 years ago when the U.S. was faced with the Soviets blockading the western section of Berlin and its population of 2.5 million. It tells the story of the airlift that started with a small number of planes, eventually growing to 150 flying around the clock to, against all odds, supply all needs of the city and keep the entire city from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

One pilot began dropping small quantities of candy to hungry German children, with the crowds of children growing to 10,000. This helped change the population’s perception of the U.S. and created some hope for their war torn country. Mr. Cherny concluded by listing several things he learned while researching the book. It demonstrates how one person can make a real difference, the value of human kindness and of service to one another and , above all, that America is a “can do” country.

Next Meeting – The program will be Firefighters 911.

August 26, 2009 - Lunch

We received a warm welcome from our friendly greeters Don Basta et.al, a welcome respite from the unusually high temps. Max Link and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and Michael Moore provided a thoughtful invocation. Our musical selection was handled by Richard Saunders acappella.
Greg Smith and David Shirey were the lucky drawing winners and will handle the greeter duties next week.






Wellness Report – Nancy Carpenter reported that Blaine Keith recently fell from a ladder and broke several ribs. Fortunately a member and experienced caregiver, Gale Totten, was available to come to the rescue.
Don Parks continues his battle with cancer and would appreciate cards and support.

Guests – Matt Dingman brought Jim Shephard, Dave Bell introduced Larry Wangler, and Nancy Carpenter hosted Bonnie Wills. Bob Hesselgesser brought Dana Gonder and Gary Hayward introduced Bob Gemmill.

New Member Induction – Deborah Adams introduced our newest member, Morgan Keil, who was sponsored by Herb and Jane Hayde. Morgan is a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch and hails from Portland OR. With a 5 handicap, he should be a real asset on someone’s team at our Golf Tournament.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Aktion Club – This is a Kiwanis Club being formed for young adults that are mentally challenged. See Kathy Haugner for details.

“Risky Behavior” Committee – A new committee is investigating such behavior in our community. See Dave Bell for more info.

Flea Market – Next market is Sept. 12 and as usual volunteer help is needed for the 11th setup as well as the 12th.

Pancake Breakfast and Lunch – This will be served at Sky Ranch from 8:00 to 3:00 on Oct. 3, as part of Carefree’s 25th Anniversary celebration. A large crowd is expected and thus Brian Kunkel is looking for plenty of volunteer help.

Joe Devito also needs members for selling tickets prior to the event. The dates are Sept. 21, 25 & 28 and Oct. 2 & 3. The times are 9:30-12 at the Town Hall and Post Office.

New Club – Kathy Haugner announced she is trying to organize a new Club in Anthem.

PROGRAM

Our speaker was Jo Gemmill who is in charge of the Carefree 25th Anniversary celebration on Oct. 3. She mentioned it will recognize the 25th anniversary of the town’s incorporation but also 50 years of history. A brochure, which our Club is underwriting as part of our PR efforts, is being printed to include many photos from that era plus some history of our Club.

On Oct. 3, there will be a display of 20 vintage aircraft at Sky Ranch plus a car show in the parking lot near Bashas. Over 90 cars are expected to be on display. Following these events will be a Cocktail Party in the Amphitheatre. A “Passport for Carefree” is being printed which highlights many of the buildings and structures that are a significant part of the town’s history.

Ms. Gemmill stressed she is striving to involve the entire community in the events, recognize merchants and long time businesses, and community non-profit organizations. Most of all, her committee wants to “celebrate the good things”.

Next Meeting – The program will be Andrei Cherny, author of the book “The Candy Bombers”, the untold story of the post WWII Berlin Airlift.

August 12, 2009 - Lunch

Kathy Haugner and Elaine Adrian greeted us as we entered the space set up for us by Max Link, John Skarda, Don Basta, and Nancy Carpenter. Look for lucky drawing winners Ed Knight and David Shirey to welcome you next Wednesday.





President Dave Bell called us to order and invited Ted Dimon to offer the Invocation. Ray Arnold then directed our a cappella singing of The Club Song and “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” The Pledge of Allegiance followed.

Guests
Our guests (and their hosts) included Morgan Kiel (Herb Hayde), Bonnie Wills (Seth Jorgensen), and scholarship recipient Jessica Lehr (Elaine Adrian) who presented the club with a set of acryllic paintings of our club seal and the sundial.

Wellness Report
Nancy Carpenter sent greeting cards throughout the dining area to be signed and sent to the members and friends of our club who need our thoughts and prayers. They include: Betty Neal, Nancy Totten, Bill Chester, John Voss, Lou Snodgrass, Bob McBreen, Joan Dimon, Sherman Agins, Don Parks, Mickey Rosenquist, and Martha Keith.

District Convention
Southwest District Convention is to be held August 21-22 in Laughlin, NV. For registration information, go to http://www.kiwanis-southwest.org/.

Desert Ridge Club
President Dave Bell announced the success of the new Desert Ridge Kiwanis Club’s recent golf tournament ($3,000) and was pleased as well to announce the club’s assisting in the formation of a new Key Club at Crestview College Preparatory School.

1,2,3… You Are the Key
Nancy Carpenter received a silver key for her sponsorship of two new members recently. Bill Rintelmann also received a key for his sponsoring Wayne Fulcher.

American Legion Aux. Fundraiser
Post #34, 6272 E. Cave Creek Rd, is hosting an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner on August 25 from 5-8 p.m. The post has adopted AZ National Guard 285th Aviation Batallion. 262 soldiers will be deployed on October 6. All funds raised (after expenses) will go toward a send-off BBQ in September for the troops and their families plus additional gestures of support to follow their deployment.

Guest Speakers
Mark Lauch, science teacher at Cactus Shadows High School, introduced the club to the emerging agricultural science called Aquaponics. This innovative, ecologically-friendly technology combines fish and plants in a recirculating system whereby nutrients from fish excrement serve as nutrients for the raising of vegetables in a soilless environment. Tilapia are the fish most often raised in this agribusiness with lettuce, cucumbers, basil, okra, and tomatoes among the vegetables harvested from the “float beds” adjoining the fish aquariums. Mr. Lauch is currently applying for a grant that would allow the high school to develop its own aquaponics system.

Hans Thiele followed Mr. Lau with an “Our Gang” remembrance of his childhood in Germany during and after the Second World War. His memories included the drone of aircraft in the night sky and the sound of artillery fire during the war as well as the scarcity of food and staples at the war’s conclusion. His story continued with the telling of his family’s purchasing steerage to the United States, his courageous and enterprising mother’s sewing money and jewelry into the hem of her clothing in order to ease the family’s new beginning in this country, and a personal interpretation of the trajectories his native country and adopted nation have taken during his lifetime.

August 5, 2009 - Lunch

A warm welcome from our friendly greeters Jim Walborn and Burt Lundquist provided a welcome respite from the unusually high temps. Max Link and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and Ray Arnold provided his usual thoughtful invocation. Our musical selections were handled by Lloyd Meyer and Richard Saunders. The SW District Key Club Governor, Amber Porter, was visiting from New Mexico and led us in the pledge.





Joe Gilleland and Elaine Adrian (again) were the lucky drawing winners and will handle the greeter duties next week.

Wellness Report – Nancy Carpenter reported that Bill Chester is recovering from a knee replacement and Bob McBreen is recuperating from surgery. Don Parks continues his battle with cancer and would appreciate cards and support. John Voss is another member with medical issues.

Guests – Gerry Samos brought his wife Bobbie, Seth Jorgensen hosted Bonnie Wills and Herb Hayde introduced Morgan Keil and John Lorge. Bob Hesselgesser hosted Hope Ozer and scholarship recipient Jessica Befort was the guest of Richard Saunders.
Key Club members were well represented with Lt. Governor Ariana Caraffa, and Pinnacle members President Michelle Lim, Treasurer Catt Lovins and Editor Emma Frey.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Golf Tournament - Bob Kroyer reported that the Club’s golf tournament, coming up on September 21st, is progressing fairly well with obtaining sponsors and items for the silent auction. However we now need to fill out the field of golfers and members and guests were asked to submit their registration form to Bob, Howard Dicke or Carroll Vanik. Bob also noted that the August edition of the City Sun Times contained an article on the tournament and the Publisher, Hope Ozer, is donating additional advertising space.

PROGRAM

The speaker was John Hall, a retired U.S Foreign Service Officer. He stated that the Foreign Service has 6,000 employees, out of 4 million total federal employees, that support 300 embassies and consulates through out the world. Mr. Hall stressed that the Foreign Service depends on people to accomplish its mission versus hardware and tangible things. Thus a critical skill is the ability to learn a foreign language and officers are not sent to a foreign post until they have a reasonable command of the language spoken in that locale.

Our speaker made some observations regarding U.S. Foreign Aid, which is an important tool of foreign affairs. There are two “pots”, the smaller of the two being funds for economic development and humanitarian projects. The other is military assistance. A good deal of the foreign aid ends up coming back to the U.S. to purchase goods and services, which is particularly true with the second “pot”.

In response to a question, Mr. Hall commented that President Obama is approaching foreign affairs from a different starting point than previous administrations. He is trying to be more willing to talk to, listen and consult with foreign governments rather than just doing what we, as a country, want to do when we want to do it. He believes other countries are still trying to assess the President’s approach.

Next Meeting – The program will be Our Gang, with Wayne Fulcher and Hans Thiele presenting.

July 29, 2009 - Lunch

Our greeters today were Jacquie Goodspeed and Chuck Hoch, with some others rotating through. Our house committee was Max Link and his merry band of men. Richard Saunders, accompanied by Lloyd Meyer, led us in “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” Susan Vanik – filling in for absent David Bell – led us in the Pledge. Wayne (not Ray) Knops gave the invocation. We all gave thanks for air conditioning. Out ticket winners were Lloyd Dill and Blaine Keith – see them greeting next week.




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Next week our speaker will be John Hall who will talk about the US Foreign Service.

Kiwanis Carefree Financials - Please note that the club financial statements have been posted on the members only area of our website under the announcements section. Thank you Bob Swan for your efforts here.

Wellness experienced a remarkable growth rate in “Get Well” cards – eight were circulated today as Blaine Keith and Nancy Carpenter reported on various members. John Voss had back surgery; Cheryl Duncan- Dudgeon (former member and honorary member) is not well; Bill Chester had his right knee replaced; Don Parks is very weak following his treatments for cancer and not taking calls; Bob McBreen had a stroke and is recovering but not taking calls; Betty (Mrs. Pat) Neal is being operated on for cancer; and Amy (not Mrs. Gary) Hayward is ill.

Megan Befort, former President of CSHS Key Club, now in fourth year of Kiwanis scholarship came and thanked us again for all our support.

Special New Member Induction: Heidi Befort was inducted by Nancy Carpenter. Heidi is special because both of her daughters received 4-year Kiwanis scholarship and she “wants to give back.” She is also special because she has already been giving back. As a teacher in CCUSD Black Mountain Elementary School, she has led K-Kids for the last two years and is also leading the Terrific Kids program for Kiwanis. And her K-Kids raised more money than the Builders Club and the Key Club so – welcome Heidi.

PROGRAM

Elaine Adrian introduced today’s speakers David Karsten and Susan O’Donnell. Dave is the incoming President of the new Desert Ridge Kiwanis Club. Professionally he is the owner of three Ace hardware stores including the one right here in Carefree. Elaine made the point that Ace people are local small business owners, as well as operators – not simply franchisers of a chain. Dave is actively involved the Ace Hardware “tour de kids” that raises funds and awareness for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. Susan is involved with fund raising for Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Dave talked about the experience of riding bicycles across large spans of our country – one of two legs from Chicago to Atlanta - in groups to help raise funds and awareness for the children’s hospitals. It is certainly a spectacular event with perhaps 65 bicyclists riding through small towns and to children’s hospitals with police escorts. But it becomes meaningful when the children experience and appreciate that there are others who truly care about them and that makes them feel important. Dave has been doing it for six years and will keep one doing it. In the past five years, the “tour” has raised $30,000 for Phoenix Children’s Hospital – what we raise locally stays local. To learn more or to donate on line, you can go to www.kidsmiracles.org/karsten.

Susan spoke about Phoenix Children’s Hospital – about the 17 million children treated, where the money goes, about the current lack of capacity to serve the demand that has led to the current campaign to raise funds for capital expansion. The hospital is a nationally renowned pediatric campus, but a good deal of the money is spent on making it feel not like a hospital. Kids are in the hallways in wagons and on electric scooters – with crash helmets, have playrooms, school room, library and many other amenities that health insurance and/or government support does not cover. Since the patients can’t go out on fieldtrips, fieldtrips come in: recently San Diego Zoo flew penguins in to wander the halls and entertain the patients. For more information go to http://www.phoenixchildrens.com/

Thanks to Kirk Wilson, you can find pictures to our new member mixer at the link below:
http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n308/eknox_isgr8/pictures/

Many thanks to photographer Sherman Agins and reporter Michael Moore for contributing to this issue of the Sundial. Great Job!

July 22, 2009 - Lunch

Ray Arnold and George Bowles greeted us as we entered the space set up for us by Max Link, Herb Engdahl, Lloyd Dill, Chuck Hoch, and Nancy Carpenter. Look for lucky drawing winners Herb Engdahl and Glenn Hanf to welcome you next Wednesday.



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President Dave Bell called us to order and invited Phyllis Strupp to offer the Invocation. Rich Saunders then directed our singing of The National Anthem accompanied by Lloyd Meyer. The Pledge of Allegiance followed.

Guests
Our guests (and their hosts) included Doug Rause (George Bowles), John Lorge (Herb Hayde), and Jean Glass (Jacquie Goodspeed).

Wellness Report
Nancy Carpenter asked us to keep Nancy Totten in our prayers and gave thanks that Tom and Laura Ensign are both in improved health. Blaine Keith reported on Don Parks’ recent chemotherapy. Dave Bell invited prayers for Patrick Neal’s wife, Betty.

Thank You
Cactus Shadows High School Drama Teacher Linda Garvin sent a note of gratitude to the club for our contributing funds toward the Drama Club’s recent trip to a Thespian Convention in Lincoln, NE. Funds helped with on-site transportation of the 14 youth who attended.

Guest Speaker
President Dave Bell introduced our guest speaker, PetSmart Charities Vice President Susana Della Maddalena. Sue heads the 501(c)(3) sponsored by the Arizona-based company whose aim it is to address the homeless pet overpopulation problem across the country. The Vision of PetSmart Charities: “A lifelong, loving home for every pet.”

“The need is great,” our guest announced. 6-8 million pets enter shelters each year, 50-60% of which are euthanized. A leading funder of animal welfare organizations across the USA and Canada ($80 million since inception in 1994), PetSmart Charities provides spaying and neutering, adoption (4 million adoptions last year), emergency relief (caring for animals following natural disasters), and education. Funds are raised through in-store donations, special events, employee campaigns, direct mail and e-mail, only 13% of which is used for administration. Visit on-line at PetSmartCharities.org.

Many thanks to photographer Alan Haugner and reporter David Shirey. You guys are great!

July 15, 2009 - Lunch

With record setting temperatures, we received a warm welcome to match from our friendly greeters Bob Hesselgesser and Richard Deely. Max Link and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and Gene Ragsdale gave his thoughtful invocation. Our musical selections were handled a cappella by Richard Saunders.

Ray Arnold and George Bowles were the lucky drawing winners and will handle the greeter duties next week.

Wellness Report – Nancy Carpenter reported that Blaine Keith returned to Mayo for some testing. Don Parks continues his battle with cancer and would appreciate cards and support.

Guests – Max Link brought his wife Sarah Smithey Link, Ed Knight hosted Bert Waterhouse and Richard Saunders introduced two current and former students that have benefited from our scholarships, Michael Cronin and Sara Pages.

New Member – Deborah Adams inducted our newest member, Bob Morenzoni. Bob is married with three children and is Manager of the M&I Bank branch on Westland Dr.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Member Mixer – Kirk Wilson reminded us to RSVP for the Mixer to be held, thankfully indoors, at the Red Horse Saloon on July 25th.
Award – The A.G. Terry Shaffer Award from Kiwanis International recognizes special people dedicated to serving Key Clubs in our community. Our Club chose to make this award to Manny and Peggy Gonzales, in recognition of their outstanding service to Key Clubs sponsored by our Club.

Key Clubs – Manny reported on the International Key Club convention he and Peggy attended, and that it will be held in Phoenix in two years. Kathy Haugner’s grandson, Alex, was a delegate and spoke of what it meant to him to attend.

Fundraising – Andy Tobias was thanked for his efforts in servicing and selling two used vehicles. Net proceeds realized by the Club were $2,500.

PROGRAM

Today’s program featured Brian Mueller, CEO of Grand Canyon University (GCU). This 60 year old institution is the only private traditional Christian university in Arizona and occupies a 95 acre campus at 35th Avenue and Camelback. They expect 1,700 students on campus this fall plus 30,000 participating in their on-line educational courses.

The University offers BA, Masters and Doctorate degrees in education, health care, business and various liberal arts majors. Mr. Mueller related that the school was struggling financially several years ago but then became a public company and began the on-line learning, which has brought the school to a healthy financial condition. He pointed out that Arizona taxpayers subsidize, to the tune of $7,500 per year, students attending the state universities whereas GSU does not use taxpayer funds for their operations. GSU students typically pay $8-9,000 net tuition per year, which is less than competing schools. The ratio of those seeking higher education at GCU is 63% female and 37% male, which is a trend at some other schools as well.

Mr. Mueller was thanked for the $2,500 GSU scholarship that they awarded at this year’s Science Fair and indications are they plan to repeat that again next year.

Next Meeting – The program will be Ms.Maddalo, with some dog friends, discussing the philanthropic organization PetSmart Charities.

July 8, 2009 - Lunch

No doubt summertime has hit Cave Creek, but thanks to Harold's Corral and our House Committee members of Max Link, Herb Engdahl, Chuck Hoch and John Skarda, we were able to enjoy a nice cool lunch indoors. Thanks also to Jon Loffman who was there to greet us with a smile and a "Hello" as we came in the door. We also want to thank Jacquie Goodspeed and Lloyd Meyers leading us through My Country `tis of Thee, and to David Shirey for his thoughtful invocation. We look forward to seeing Bob Hesselgesser and Dick Thiele greeting us next week.



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An additional thanks to Vice President Susan Vanik for filling in for Dave Bell.

WELLNESS REPORT:
Lou Snodgrass was happy to report that, to her knowledge, everyone was doing well.

GUESTS:
Robert Bledsoe, guest of Bob Hesselgesser, attended today and informed us about the new Carefree Theater Company at the Carefree Resort Opera House. The debut season is opening with AIn My Humble Opinion,@ a play that exposes the life of the late proprietor of Durant=s, the Valley=s legendary steak house. Dates and times are July 9 thru 11 and July 16 thru 18 at 8:00pm. Call 480-575-6678 for reservations.

INDUCTIONS:

Deborah Adams proudly inducted our newest member, Wayne Fulcher. Wayne was sponsored by Lloyd Meyer and Bill Rentelman. Prior to moving to Carefree in 2002 and serving as Mayor of Carefree, Wayne served in the Navy, attended Graduate School at Thunderbird, lived in Paradise Valley where he owned his own business, which he sold in 2007.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Golf Tournament: Bob Kroyer reminded everyone about the Annual Golf Tournament scheduled for September 21. He provided a list of some of the current sponsors and indicated we could never have enough sponsors. Please contact Howard Dicke with sponsor contacts and/or questions.

Fire Insurance for Carefree Residents: Carroll Vanik provided some very interesting information regarding saving money on your homeowner's insurance. If you live within five miles of a fire station with a favorable AISO Protection Class (Carefree Rural Metro is currently a class 3), then you could save a substantial amount on your insurance coverage. He recommended calling your insurance agent for more information.

PROGRAM:

Elaine Adrian introduced this week's guest speakers, Suzanne Johnson and Judy Bruce, with the Cave Creek Film & Arts Festival. Suzanne spoke first telling us a little history of the festival, which began on a hot summer night four years ago at the Goatsucker Saloon with a total of 12 local filmmakers showing their talent. It has since become a full-fledged Arizona-based film and arts festival, founded by a group of like-minded A Creekers which is expertly and enthusiastically helmed by Judy Bruce.

Judy passionately talked about the festival itself, as well as arts as a whole, and how proud they were to be part of an event that involves the entire community. She stated the festival is a multi-disciplinary, statewide competition that has captured the hearts and minds of our community and currently has over 420 applicants from all over the State. Local merchants are also involved by participating in the Coyote Card, which, by just visiting these businesses, can make you eligible for great prizes being awarded on at the “Taste of Cave Creek” on September 24, 2009 at Frontier Town.

The Cave Creek Film & Arts Festival is being held from Thursday, July 9th thru Saturday, July 18th. Please call 480-298-9432 for more information, or visit their website at CaveCreekFilmAndArtsFestival.com.

Next week's scheduled speaker is the CEO of Grand Canyon University.

STAY COOL!

Thanks to Janie French and Joe Devito for contributing to this issue of the Sundial as reporter and photographer respectively.

July 1, 2009 - Lunch

Great greeters Joe DeVito and Ed Knight met us with smiles. The house was set-up by Nancy Carpenter, Lloyd Dill, Mick Ennis, Max Link and Chuck Hoch. Kirk Wilson gave the invocation.




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Next week our topic will be the Cave Creek Film Festival.

A very special new member induction was performed by very new member – inducted only a few weeks ago – Jennifer Phillips. She inducted Lauren Evansmeyer, who graduated from CSHS with honors and where she was President of Key Club. She then attended U of AZ, where she was active in Circle K. She majored in microbiology and graduated Sum Cum Laude. She will apply to medical schools for fall 2010. This interim year she will work for the 501-c-3 “Beads of Courage.”

New Member Mixer will be held Friday July 24 at the Red Dog Saloon at the Carefree Resort between 5:30 – 7:30 PM. New members come for free; tenured members pay $15 which covers lots of nice munchies. Cash bar. Past presidents and chairmen are urged to attend.

A call was made for volunteers to work on the Sundial newsletter. More reporters and more digital photographers are needed. Also someone with computer skills that can work on the blog would be welcome. Contact Dave Bell or any reporter or photographer if interested.

PROGRAM

Today’s speaker Irma Turtle was introduced by Russ Rosenquist. Irma, a Cave Creek resident, is the founder of Turtle Tours and TurtleWill. Turtlewill – the topic – is a 501-c–3 dedicated to helping nomadic tribes in north Africa. Irma and her work have been featured news stories, web casts and TV series.

“TurtleWill” is the name derived from the response to the question “Who will help these people.” It has been operating for more than a decade and medically treated more than 64,000 people – countless lives have been saved. 35 deep clean water wells have been dug and rehabilitated. 1350 nomadic children in 27 remote schools are support with dormitories, meals, teachers, and school supplies. 102 food, sewing and handicrafts cooperatives have been funded.

Irma ran a DVD that told it all by showing the various services and the people served. Funds used for all these projects come from private donors. Although the need is great, funds go very far in north Africa. For example, 940 nomadic children were vaccinated in Mali in 2009 at a cost of only $2/child.

For more information go to http://www.turtlewill.org/

June 24, 2009 - Lunch

Hans Thiele, Bob Hesselgesser and Jim Shaw greeted us as we entered the space set up for us by Bob McBreen, John Skarda, Ralph Pipp, and Herb Engdahl. Look for lucky drawing winners Ed Knight and Joe DeVito to welcome you next Wednesday.





President Dave Bell called us to order and invited Fr. Steven Dart to offer the Invocation. Rich Saunders then directed our singing of The National Anthem accompanied by Lloyd Meyer. The Pledge of Allegiance followed.

Guests
Our guests (and their hosts) included Pete Fredriksen (Dave Bell), Scott Bennion (Fr. Dart), Kiwanis Scholarship recipient Jeff Gilbert (Bruce Lukowiak) and Wayne Fulcher (Lloyd Meyer and Bill Rintelmann).

Wellness Report
Lou Snodgrass asked us to keep Nancy Totten in our prayers and gave thanks for Blaine Keith’s presence.

Announcements
Bronze Key Award
Jacquie Goodspeed received the Bronze Key in recognition of her sponsoring a recent new member.

Board Highlights
President Dave Bell reported on the Board’s approval of a plan by which to allocate monies anticipated being received from the Scully Trust.

The Club will receive 55% of the gift and will use it to increase the number of our scholarship recipients as well as the dollar amount of their scholarships. Additional money will be directed to our Funds Request and Science Fair Committees to expand the scope of their excellent work in the community.

The remaining 45% of the funds will be divided up between three non-profits in our community:

The Foothills Food Bank proposes using their 10% of the anticipated gift to create a scholarship for a local collegiate social work student to work part-time at the Food Bank and to purchase a cargo van for the pick-up and transportation of food items.

The Caring Corps will direct their 20% of the gift toward the purchase of two (2) new vans to transport clients and to invest in their capacity to meet the needs of their 400+ clients and equal number of volunteers through the next decade.

The Foothills Community Foundation anticipates utilizing 15% of the gift funds to address a variety of community needs at the soon-to-be-completed Holland Community Center including addiciton intervention, networking, and educational enrichment.

Golf Tournament
Bob Kroyer asked all golfers to put the Monday, September 21, Carefree Kiwanis Golf Tournament on the calendar. The annual event to be held once again at Desert Forest Country Club welcomes donations of gifts for a silent auction as well as tee sponsors. Please contact Bob Kroyer or Howard Dicke to participate or contribute.

New Key Club
President Bell announced a new Key Club to be sponsored by the Desert Ridge Club at the new Crescent View College Preparatory High School in the Paradise Valley School District.

Aktion Club In Formation
Aktion Club is a Kiwanis Club for special needs young adults 21 years of age and up. Kathy Haugner is offering leadership to get this new club up and running. The Community Center at the new YMCA/ PVCC campus is targetted as the meeting place. See Kathy if interested in contributing to this effort.

Southwest District Convention
See President Bell if interested in attending the August 21-22 SW District Convention in Laughlin, NV.

Guest Speaker
Russ Rosenquist introduced our guest speaker, Taser International’s Paige Carter. Ms. Carter heads the Citizen Sales division of Taser. The Scottsdale company began in the early 90s when a friend of the founders was killed in a road rage incident, prompting the Smith brothers to seek a non-lethal option for self-defense.

“Yes,” our guest announced, “citizens can own a Taser” with the same range and power as law enforcement models. She then made an informative presentation touting the superiority of the product to alternative non-lethal weapons such as pepper spray and stun guns (The Taser is the only one effectively employed from a distance of up to 15’), the cost ($350 - $1,000 models), the effect of being “tased” (“Indescribable pain.” She knows, having experienced it as part of her training), how it works (Incapacitates the nervous system for 5 – 30 seconds at a time), and its legality (Legal in 43 states, including Arizona, where no permit is needed to carry one but an identity background check must be done before the weapon is operable).

Ms. Carter closed with a demonstration of a citizen’s model by taking aim at a laser- directed target ten feet away and then firing the twin-barbed probes packing 50,000 volts into the bullseye. There being no other volunteers, the meeting was adjourned at 1:30 p.m.

June 17, 2009 - Lunch

Another beautiful day in our community. We sang our club song and then “America the Beautiful.” We gave the Pledge. Ted Dimon led the invocation. Our greeters were Hans Thiele and Heb Hayde. Our ticket winners were Kevin Wilson and Bob Hesselgesser. Our House Committee had their names missed by the reporter.





Lou Snodgrass reported that Ray Arnold was suffering from Valley Fever, and a card was passed among us for signatures. We were pleased to have Blaine Keith among us for lunch.

Guests

Nancy Carpenter had Justin and Nick who served as honor guard last week. Bill Rintelmann and Lloyd Meyer had Past Mayor of Carefree Wayne Fulcher as a guest with the announcement that he would be joining our membership. Pam DiPietro, Director of the Foothills Foodbank and Resouce Center, was the guest “Just” Bob Hutson. And Cheri Morrison, former waitress at our lunches and former Marine, was the guest of Blaine Keith – she is interning with Glenn Hanf.

President Dave Bell reported that at the last Board meeting, an expenditure (maybe $2,000) was approved for the school back-pack program. We have participated in this joint program with the Soroptimists for years – we do the money and they do the work.

The next Board meeting is this coming Tuesday at 8 AM in the community room of the Harris Bank at the Pedregal. It is open to all to attend.

CCUSD – issues now – will be considered by a discussion group this Saturday 9:30 AM at Desert Foothills Church. CCUSD Supervisor Debbie Burdick will be present. All are welcome. For more information contact Dick Stewart at 488-9659.

Herb Hayde solicited another volunteer for an Interclub meeting with Daisy Mountain – our last chance this year to complete the inner circle. Nancy Carpenter answered his call.

New member George Buehler was inducted today. He is sponsored by Jacquie Goodspeed and Ralph Pipp. His areas of interest are Youth (Key Clubs), Science Fairs and Funds Requests. He grew up in Boston and graduated from Harvard. He was a real estate investor. He has three daughter – two grown and a 15 year old adopted from China. He is very knowledgeable and passionate about wine. He also cares about books and money management.

PROGRAM

Speaker (and member) Dr. Seth Jorgensen was introduced by Ralph Pipp, who briefly explained the topic of sleep apnea was a sleep disorder where one stopped breathing.

Dr. Seth Jorgensen acknowledged a personal bias in this disease since he personally suffers from it. It is the most undiagnosed disease even though 24% of men and 9 % of women suffer from it. Basically, for a variety of reasons, people stop breathing while sleeping because a breath passage closes. These “episodes” can occur hundreds – even thousands – of times each night. Cases have been recorded where the breathing stops for over 6.5 minutes.

The most serious result of sleep apnea is sudden death syndrome – all others pale compared to this. Obviously loss of cognition can also occur. The most common complaint is tiredness throughout the day. (This is dangerous if one is driving – say a “semi” – and naps off at a light. This can happen.) Snoring, high blood pressure and stroke, minor headaches and erectile dysfunction can result.

The procedures to eliminate or at least improve this condition are not usually discussed over lunch and are not reported here. Do your own homework if you really care.

The cases that are diagnosed often happen because the sleep partner “rats out” the possible sufferer. So a significantly higher percentage of men than women get screened and diagnosed.

Perhaps the most actionable part of awareness of this issue – given our average age – is to watch our grandchildren. Kids who hyper act – then crash and sleep – should be checked.

For more information, please contact Seth at 488-9735.

Thanks to Photographer Elaine Adrian and Reporter Michael Moore for making this issue of the Sundial a reality.

June 10, 2009 - Lunch

With temperatures a bit below average, we received a warm welcome from our friendly greeters Bob Hesselgesser and Dave Dennison. Max Link and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and Bob Hutson, complete with his patriotic red shoes, gave his thoughtful invocation. Our musical selections were handled by Lloyd Meyer and Richard Saunders.




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In recognition of Flag Day, Boy Scout Troop 603 served as color guard and then performed a flag folding ceremony with commentary.

Gail Thiele and Herb Hayde were the lucky drawing winners and will handle the greeter duties next week.

Wellness Report – Nancy Carpenter filled in for Lou Snodgrass, who is having some oral surgery. She reported that Don Parks is continuing his chemo and Ray Arnold is hospitalized with pneumonia. Blaine Keith is experiencing some complications from diabetes and Gale Totten’s wife is hospitalized.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Award – The A.G. Terry Shaffer Award from Kiwanis International recognizes special people dedicated to serving Key Clubs in our community. Our Club chose to make this award to Manny and Peggy Gonzales, in recognition of their outstanding service to Key Clubs sponsored by our Club.

New Member Induction – Kathy Haugner inducted someone that is certainly no stranger to our Club. She is Jennifer Phillips who joined Key Club at CCUSD and then Circle K at U of A, holding leadership positions in both. She received one of our scholarships and graduated from U of A with high honors, and is now headed to Law School at USC. Along the way she also found time to become the SW District Governor of Circle K.

Board Meeting – A special Board meeting was recently held to discuss a draft of an Investment Policy for the Foundation, which covered responsibilities for both the Board and the Investment Committee. At the meeting, it was also noted that the Scully gift is progressing through the various legal steps before the funds are disbursed.

PROGRAM – The program was presented by Dr. Marge Ebeling who explained the mission of the WellCare Foundation, which she founded ten years ago. She has recruited a team of medical professionals who donate their time and skills to provide healthcare services to local working single moms and their children who don’t qualify for governmental assistance. These are moms whose income is above the limit to receive free governmental healthcare but not enough for them to afford to purchase health insurance.

Dr. Ebeling pointed out that there are 175,000 single moms is Maricopa County and that one out of four children is without healthcare insurance. WellCare treats the whole person of single moms that qualify for their free services, including their physical, mental and emotional status. They have been quite successful in helping their clients make lifestyle changes to get and stay well.

WellCare utilizes donated space for their clinics in the Valley and, as a non-profit organization, depends on corporate and individual donations as well as grants and fund raisers.

Next Meeting – The program will be Dr. Seth Jorgensen speaking on Sleep Apnea.

Thank you to Photographer Joe Devito and Reporter Howard Dicke for this issue of the Sundial.

June 3, 2009 - Lunch

On behalf of all of us Kiwanians of Carefree, a warm thanks to the house committee for setting up our meeting room and equipment, as well as to Hans Thiele and Dave Dennison for welcoming us at the door. Dave Dennison, in fact, will be greeting us again next week along with Bob Hesselgesser as they were the lucky ticket winners this week. Our appreciation also goes out to Richard Saunders and Lloyd Meyers for assisting us in singing God Bless America, and to Jim Shaw for his invocation.



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WELLNESS REPORT:
Lou Snodgrass was happy to report that everyone continues to be well (two weeks in a row now – let’s keep it going!)

GUESTS:
Our guests today included soon to be official member, George Buehler, sponsored by Jacquie Goodspeed, as well as John Miller, a Kiwanian transplant from Houston, TX, sponsored by Jon Loffmann.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Flag Day, June 14th
President Dave asked everyone to wear red, white and blue to next week’s luncheon to celebrate Flag Day (one week early).

YMCA – Child Watch
The board approved the recommendation of the YMCA to be the sponsor of “Child Watch,” an onsite childcare facility. Kiwanis will also be providing equipment to the Teen Center.

Flea Market
Kirk Wilson enthusiastically thanked the 50 volunteers who helped with last week’s Flea Market, including those new and soon-to-be-new members. He also gave a special thanks to Mick Ennis and Ray Arnold for their ongoing, marvelous job in attending the parking lot. Phyllis Henry reported a total income of $15,401, which included $825 for a scooter donated by Joe DeVito, $500 for a hot tub donated by The Haugner’s, and $463 in costume jewelry. President Dave reported that an additional $1,500 will be added to that amount thanks to Andy Tobias selling a car that had been donated to Kiwanis.

Interclub:
Bud Hover indicated several meeting sites and times for Interclub. Please contact him at 480-471-7218 for further information.

33rd Annual Golf Tournament
Bob Kroyer indicated new golf sign up sheet and sponsor sheets had been printed and are available through Howard Dicke. President Dave added that a special board will be displayed at the tournament in honor of Bill Scully, who dedicated so much of his time and effort to the success of past tournaments.

Anthem Kiwanis Club
A new Kiwanis club is being formed in Anthem called the Young Professionals. See Dave Bell or Andy Tobias for further information.

Thank You
A “thank you” letter was received from Desert Sun Elementary School for the copier donated to them by Kiwanis Flea Market.

Kiwanis Organization
An email was distributed to all members from President Dave Bell last week concerning Kiwanis Foundation tax status. Kiwanis is a foundation, all tax reports have been filed to the IRS, and any donations that you have made to the Foundation are tax deductible. If you would like a copy of the letter, please see Dave Bell.

PROGRAM
Our guest speaker today was Bob Fox who, along with his wife Sam, operate Wild at Heart, Inc. (WAH), an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of Arizona’s native wildlife. Bob brought with him a few members his “family” including: “Roja” a Red-Tailed Hawk; “Falina” a Southern or Mexican Spotted Owl; “Murray” a Western Screech Owl; and “Hoot” a Burrowing Owl. Each of which are permanent residents of WAH due to a disability that would not allow them to be released without harm.

A non-profit 501(c) 3, WAH rescues and rehabilitates injured and/or orphaned birds of prey, relocates displaced raptors, provides public education, and habitat enhancement programs. One such program is the award-winning Burrowing Owl Project, conceived by WAH in 1993, and recognized as one of the most successful conservation and habitat restoration programs anywhere, installing over 4,500 artificial owl burrows statewide..

WAH is a strong proponent of education, taking their non-releasable raptors to schools and other events, and providing innovative opportunities for community involvement especially designed for special needs students and for youths under the age of eighteen.

In addition to the Burrowing Owl Project, WAH is involved with an Endangered Species Recovery Program, Foster Parenting, Corporate Team Building/Community Service and Eagle Scout Projects.

One of Bob and Sam’s desires is to create a rehabilitation/captive breeding center where people can go to sit and relax while learning, experiencing and enjoying the desert wildlife and all it has to offer.

WAH is always looking for volunteers and/or donations as they do not receive any government funding for their work. Donations are tax-deductible and 100% goes to the care of Arizona’s magnificent birds of prey. For more information log on to their website at http://www.mirror-pole.com/ (then select While at Heart). They are located at 31840 N. 45th Street in Cave Creek, and are available for rescue 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They can be reached at 480-595-5047 or by email at foxowl@fastq.com.

Many thanks to photographer Alan Haugner and reporter Janie French for contributing to this issue of the Sundial.

May 27, 2009 - Lunch

It was a warm sunny day at Harold's Corral when we gathered for our weekly meeting. Bill Rintelman and Jim Shaw were there, greeting each of us as we came in from the sun.

The invocation was given by Jayne Hubbard, and we were treated by Ray Arnold to a rendition of taps that included the words, followed by our singing of the National Anthem. Don Parks gave a stirring Memorial Day tribute to our fallen troops by eliciting the symbolism of the empty table tended by the place settings for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corp.



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Lou Snodgrass gave an inspiring wellness report which included nobody. That's right, there are no reports of illness among our members this week.

Guests

Lenny Brown introduced the Notre Dame Prep Key Club. We also met Mark McCullough a student of our speaker Barbara Hatch.

Announcements
Kirk Wilson announced the rescheduling of the Flea Market to May 30th due to the possibility of rain last weekend. Kirk also introduced Tom Klecan from Uncle Tom's Moving who has contributed greatly to our Flea Market through his moving company.

Kiwanis Carefree Board Meeting - President David Bell reported that the board allocated funding for two worthy causes. Our club donated $9,000 to the library to support extended hours on Sunday for the kids reading program. Another $2,000was granted to support the Soroptimist Back to School Book Bags for kids.

Program
Russ Rosenquist introduced our speaker Barbara Hatch. Barbara is a History teacher at Cactus Shadows High School. She is also the advisor for the Arizona Heritage Project (AHP). The AHP is a publication dedicated to the preservation of veteran's stories. The fifth edition is currently underway. Cactus Shadows students who wish to participate in the AHP agree to interview Arizona Veterans and publish those interviews in the AHP. There have been 267 veterans interviewd, and include 143 WWII, 28 Korean War, and 72 Vietnam veterans. Those interviewed include the lower ranking members all the way up to a 3 Star General and a Rear Admiral. Additionally, a number of our fellow Carefree Kiwanians have been included in the publication including Ray Arnold and Ed Knight.

Funding for the AHP began with a grant of $3,000 from SRP in 2003, and includes funds from the Arizona Tax Credit program for schools. Future funding may also include a 501-C3 status.

Our program concluded with a slideshow of veterans then and now (at their interview) and with Q&A session.

Thanks to Photographer Joe Devito and Reporter Tim Pitel for making this issue of the available.

May 20, 2009 - Lunch

Under an overcast sky, with a little welcome precipitation, we received a warm welcome from our friendly greeter Jim Walborn and several helpers. Max Link and crew efficiently prepared our meeting room and David Shirey gave his thoughtful invocation. Our musical selections were handled by Lloyd Meyer and Richard Saunders, leading us in singing songs from the various military services. Veterans were asked to stand for their respective branch.

Bob Herrmann and Bill Rintelmann were the lucky drawing winners and will handle the greeter duties next week.

Wellness Report - Lou Snodgrass reported that Tom Ensign recently had elective hip surgery and is recovering at home. Gene Laibe is in rehab recovering from a fall that broke his hip and would welcome calls and visits at Health South on Shea. The wife of Bob Hesselgesser has some continuing medical issues.

Hosts and Guests – Jacquie Goodspeed hosted Curtis Riggs, and Jill Hall was the guest of Kathleen Westgard.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cactus Shadows Science Fair Awards - Watch Gerry Samos present awards to Cactus Shadows High School students who have excelled at the science fair on more than one occasion.






Flea Market – Kirk Wilson reminded us that the next sale is this Saturday the 23rd and the mezzanine is jam packed with many interesting items awaiting buyers. Volunteer help is always needed for the sale and teardown as well as the setup on Friday afternoon at 2:00.
--Update - Due to the possibility of rain on Saturday the 23rd, the Flea Market has been rescheduled to Saturday May 30th. See you then.

Desert Ridge Club Golf Tournament – The new Club at Desert Ridge is holding their first annual golf tournament on Friday June 5th at Orange Tree. David Bell indicated they are short of golfers and asked any of our members that could participate to contact him.

Junior Achievement – Both Ray Arnold and Jim Walborn were recognized as volunteers helping students participating in the local Junior Achievement chapter.

PROGRAM
Three speakers informed us about the Black Mountain Campus, soon to be completed at 60th St. and Carefree Hwy., which will be occupied by three partner organizations.

Bob Herrmann spoke about the Foothills Community Foundation (FCF), which will manage the 9000sq. foot Community Center. There will be seating for 200 and kitchen facilities that could accommodate 125 for catered meals, making this truly a central meeting place. He commented that FCF is making a concerted effort to reach out and be inclusive to all local non-profits and community partners. Bob also thanked our Club and its members for their support in helping raise the $10.5M to construct the Community Center and YMCA.

Denise Digianfilippo represented Paradise Valley Community College (PVCC) and mentioned that they expect 800 students at this extension site of their main campus, which has 9100 students. They plan to offer both credit and non-credit classes in their 20,000 sq. foot facility being built. The funding came from a $10M bond issue approved several years ago.

The third organization occupying the Black Mountain Campus is the Desert Foothills YMCA, which will occupy 30,000 sq. feet. The manager of this YMCA is Mike Cassidy who stressed it will offer programs for all age groups plus a Child Watch room for small children of adults using the Y facilities. He indicated that they expect to have 1200 members and will start selling memberships this fall.

Mike concluded by stating that the shared values of the total campus for the three organizations are: Health and Wellness, Community Service and Lifelong Learning.

Next Meeting – The program will be Barbara Hatch, teacher at CCUSD, discussing the AZ Heritage Project where military vets share their memories.

Thanks to reporter Howard Dicke and Photographer Alan Haugner for this week's Sundial. Great job guys!

Below is our video from Wednesday's meeting. Enjoy!

May 13, 2009 - Lunch

We were greeted by T.K. Kasler and Carroll Vanik. President Dave Bell was glad to be back from the East Coast where the sun is not so bright and warm. He reminded us that this Saturday was Armed Forces Day. In celebration, our song was “Grand Old Flag,” led by Richard Saunders with Lloyd Meyer on the organ. John Skarda gave the invocation. The House Committee included John Voss, Chuck Hoch, Lloyd Dill, Don Basta and Nancy Carpenter.



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Ticket winners were Jim Walborn, Alan Haugner and Herb Engdahl – two theater tickets donated by someone.

WELLNESS
Nancy Carpenter gave the health report: Blaine Keith and Don Parks were with us today holding their own; Tom Ensign had hip surgery, but his wife Laura is now fully recovered; Lou Snodgrass still has the flu; Sue Fergusson had some pace maker trouble. (An insider reports “Sue Fergusson had an incident with her pacemaker/defibrillator while working at her church on Wed., 5/6. She felt an electrical jolt indicating a problem. She felt very weak and was taken to Mayo Clinic Hospital. They kept her under observation until Sunday, 5/10, and adjusted her medication. She was released on 5/10 and is now doing OK." )


SCHOLARSHIP UPDATE
Among our guests were several scholarship winners who all said thank you. Many could not attend post high school education without our scholarships. This year our scholarship budget increased dramatically with eight 4-year college scholarships at $5,000/year. Scholarships have traditionally been the largest budget item for our Foundation. We have awarded more than $400,000 over the years. Dave Bell reported that he attended the CSHS graduation ceremony this year where about $4 million was awarded in scholarships to our CCUSD students.

HUG AWARDS
Superintendent Debbie Burdick presented three HUG (Helping Us Grow) awards to Kiwanis members Jim Walborn, Elaine Adrian and Paula Scully.

Jim was honored for his wonderful creation and continuing development of the science fair which has grown from 8.5% students participating in 2006 to 52.3% in 2009. Jim constantly supports students and educators – grades K–12 - in their growth in science.

Elaine plays a key role in “Celebration of the Arts” and publishes artZbeat magazine that gives students exposure for their work. She also works on the Community Education website. Finally she has played a significant role in the science committee.

Paula is a retired CCUSD teacher who represents the district in a positive and professional way. She also has played an active role in the development of the science fair, even opening her home to CCUSD administrators and educators to foster collaboration between them and Kiwanians.

SCIENCE UPDATE
To celebrate the end of our 4th successful year for the Kiwanis Community Science Fair, Kiwanis Club of Carefree is announcing a new series of prizes aimed at recognizing repeat winners over the 4-year period. This means if a student has won a Medal in any 2 or more years from 2006 to 2009, they are receiving a certificate to honor that. If they have won a Medal in 3 or more years, they will receive a Cash Prize in addition to the certificate.

We have identified 44 students in 10 different schools who had at least 2 wins from 2006-2009, and 3 of those students won in 3 of the 4 years that the Fair has existed. Three students are Triple Winners.

It is Kiwanis intention to continue this prize series. We strongly want to continue to recognize the consistent quality in science projects that is shown by repeated wins from year to year. We are also researching the best way to provide a public honor roll within the schools to celebrate these winners in a permanent way.

PROGRAM
Jon Coates introduced Barry Goldwater Jr., our speaker today. Jon persuaded Barry to make this 3rd trip to our towns to speak about his ideas and his famous father. Barry has written a book with his good friend from high school days John Dean entitled “Pure Goldwater.” The book is based on 60 years of journals that Barry Goldwater kept about his daily life. Copies – autographed by Barry, Jr. - were available after the meeting.

Barry peppered his comments with many jokes. An early one was “life is like a roll of toilet paper – it goes faster towards the end.” He complimented our Club on its size and many accomplishments, especially helping the children in our community. He noted we should be nice to our children since they will be the ones picking our nursing homes.

Barry offered his philosophical opinions on our current politics. He remarked that his family was noted for being willing to express such opinions and was thankful to live in a country where alternative political points-of-view were tolerated. He believes we are on a downward spiral because we have stopped doing what made us great. Old-fashioned values like hard work replaced with entitlement. Free enterprise burdened with taxation and regulation. His family came from oppression in Poland a few generations ago and went broke several times building a business that served miners and other pioneers.

His father was born in the AZ Territory in 1909 (AZ became a state in 1912). At 40, he ran for Phoenix City Council. Two years later, he was elected to the national Senate while Ike was President. His mother was a very strong influence on him, teaching many things including firing a gun and building camp fires not always included in mother roles. She was a pioneer, the first woman registered as a nurse in the territory. She died at 98.

Barry Jr grew up dreaming of being in business with his father, but his father made a career in politics rather than business. Barry Jr became a stockbroker after college for about ten years. Then he ran for the Senate to represent CA. So he did get to work with his father on projects such as the Privacy Act in 1974.

His wife has recently started a business. There is hope that American citizens can still show initiative.

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Photographer Joe Devito and Reporter Michael Moore contributed to make this issue of the Sundail worthwhile. Thank you!

Below are videos of our speaker.

May 6, 2009 - Lunch

Many thanks to our greeters, Jerry Samos and Phyllis Henry, Max Link and his crew for setting up the room for us, Don Basta for his lovely invocation, and Richard Saunders leading us in God Bless America accompanied by Lloyd Meyers on the organ. We will look forward to Tom Kasler and Carroll Vanik greeting us next week.

An additional thanks to Vice President Susan Vanik for standing in for David Bell this week.



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WELLNESS REPORT: Nancy Carpenter provided the wellness report today for Lou Snodgrass, who is under the weather with the flu. Nancy also stated that John Denaro was out with back problems and it had been reported that Blaine Keith had taken another fall.


GUESTS: Alfie Kraus with the Kiwanis Club of New River attended our meeting today. She wanted to remind everyone of their club’s 13th annual Lobsterfest this Saturday, May 9th from 5-9pm at the Roadrunner Saloon on Black Canyon Hwy. Tickets are $25 in advance ($30 at the door). Call 623-465-5959 for further information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Yearbooks: Ted Dimon announced he still has yearbooks available to anyone who has not yet received one.

33rd Annual Kiwanis Golf Tournament: Bob Kroyer asked everyone to help in this year’s annual golf tournament scheduled for September 21st at Desert Forest Golf Club. He reported we are in need of sponsors, silent auction items and donated items, as well as players. Please see Howard Dicke or Bob Kroyer for further information.

Kiwanis Club of Desert Ridge Golf Tournament: Kathy Haugner reminded everyone of the Desert Ridge club’s golf tournament being held on Friday, June 5th at Orangetree Golf Club. The cost is $95/person. Proceeds will benefit Builder’s Club and K-Club for that chapter.

PROGRAM:
Our speaker today, Dan Subaitis, is the Director of Animal Management at the Phoenix Zoo. Dan grew up in Chicago, where his High School backed up to Brookfield Zoo (home of the first indoor rain forest exhibit) and he began working there at age 17. He attended Northern Illinois University and later earned a Master’s degree from Moorhead in Management of Exotic Animals. Dan and his wife subsequently moved to Kenya where they had two children and spent seven years managing a 65,000 acre private sanctuary located 20km from the equator at an elevation of 6,000 feet.

Dan provided slides of various animals during his presentation, as well as shared some interesting stories pertaining to his work all over the world, including shipping 16 elephants to Japan, his work at Disney World and Universal Studios, as well as training animals for Ringling Brothers. When asked by one of our members, he indicated he has been fortunate not to have sustained any major injuries while working with the wild animals, which he attributes to his 100 percent focus on safety and respect for the animals while being around them. He stated they will always be “wild” animals no matter how tame they may seem.

Thanks to Reporter Janie French and Photographer Michael Moore for contributing to this issue of the Sundial.

April 29, 2009 - Lunch

Karl Nagel and Max Link greeted us as we entered the space set up for us by Max, Herb Engdahl, Chuck Hoch, and company. Look for lucky drawing winners Gerry Samos and Phylliss Henry to welcome you next Wednesday.



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President Dave Bell called us to order and invited Kirk Wilson to offer the Invocation. Ray Arnold then directed our singing of the Club Song and “America the Beautiful” accompanied by Lloyd Meyer. The Pledge of Allegiance followed.

Guests
Our guests included Denise Digianfilippo (Bob Hermann), Ruth Stevens (Hugh), Bill Dicke (Jon Coates), Laura Ensign (Tom).

Announcements

New Members
Lenny Brown welcomed two new members. Jim and Cindy Keller come to us from International Falls, MN. Jim is a Kiwanis Past-President who was in the hospitality industry. Both Jim and Cindy have been actively involved in supporting the mentally disabled and have expressed an interest in Aktion Club. Welcome Jim and Cindy.

Award of Excellence
Herb Hayde received the Gold Key in recognition of his sponsoring three new members this year.

Flea Market Coming
Flea Market Co-Chair Phylliss Henry thanked all Kiwanians for helpful and fruitful referrals. She reminded us that anyone who is downsizing or closing up their AZ home for the summer may donate gently-used items for our upcoming May 23 Flea Market. Pick-up available!
Jon Pearson Send-Off

President Dave Bell invited retiring Carefree Town Administrator Jon Pearson to come forward for a round of applause and expressed appreciation for Jon’s active participation in the club over the past years. We wish him well in his retirement to Fountain Hills.

CCUSD Wish List
Dr. Jana Miller, Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning for the Cave Creek Unified School District, thanked the club for the many ways in which our club fulfills the district teachers’ Wish List by providing materials for both staff and students that are beyond the scope of their budget. Most recently, flash drives were gifted to teachers across the district whose innovative work in the area of technology is superior.

Arizona Musicfest Free Concert
Toby Payne is providing sound for a free concert to be held on Sunday, May 3, 2:30 – 5:00 p.m., at DC Ranch Community Center. The 30-piece MusicaNova Orchestra will highlight the event. The Cactus Shadows High School Jazz Band will open the afternoon’s entertainment.

Board Highlights
President Dave Bell noted three items of interest from the recent Board meeting. Once again, funds will be allocated to Ginny Brooks for her summer work with aspiring young artists in the Cave Creek School District. Dave was also pleased to report the board’s decision to increase the scholarship assistance we are providing to our current college scholarship recipients. Last and not least, the board is taking proactive measures to publicize the array of good work underwritten by our club, yet largely unknown and unreported to the community.

Guest Speaker
Herb Hayde introduced our Guest Speaker, Scottdale Mayor Jim Lane. Mayor Lane, a 36-year resident of Scottsdale, brings a CPA’s experience and business acumen to the position to which he was elected in 2008, the first challenger to defeat a seated incumbent in the city’s history.
Mayor Lane’s platform in running for office included his desire to eliminate waste and inefficiency in government spending, address the City of Scottsdale’s perceived “culture of secrecy” by making council actions more transparent to the public, and empowering boards and commissions.

The Mayor addressed a wide range of issues before the city including their policy for handling of Stimulus Package money, boosting tourism, noise issues, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, bolstering retail sales (Fashion Square), and Skysong. He then fielded several wide-ranging questions before adjournment.

Thanks to reporter David Shirey and photographer Elaine Adrian for making this issue of the Sundial available.