April 17, 2023 - Beers Rotarians Enjoy Worldwide (BREW) Fellowship is one of the newest officially recognized Rotary fellowships. The fellowship was created for Rotarians around the worlds who love to drink and make beer.
BREW was started and organized in 2013 by Past District 5160 Governor Steve Lack, a member of the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill, California USA; Moses Aryee, Past President of the Rotary Club of Accra-West, Ghana and Past District 5440 Governor Martin Limbird of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
BREW GOALS
The goal of BREW is to create the largest fellowship in Rotary. An international community of Rotarians who share a love of beer. We also strive to support efforts and projects to bring clean water to those in thirst since water is the primary ingredient in beer.
Steven gave us a great overview of this fellowship and his presentation can be seen by clicking HERE

 April 10, 2023 - Kyrene Rotary’s OutBound Youth Exchange Student, Jaiden Mehlhorn, is closing in on the end of her year in Denmark. In December Jaiden zoomed into our meeting to give us an up-date on her experiences during her first months on exchange.
Today Jaiden is joining us once again with another update on her activities during her stay in Denmark. 
Last week our next year’s OutBound Student, Denise Hill, attended our meeting. The Club’s strong support for Rotary Youth Exchange pro-vides a life-long experience for youth, building self-confidence and an understanding of other cultures and expanding their horizons world-wide.
Jaiden brought us up to speed on her activities and plans.  Her presentation can be seen by clicking HERE

 April 3, 2023 - Today, Yoshi (an honorary club member) gave us an overview of his trip to Australia.

 

The 38 founding ('charter') members of the Rotary Club of Melbourne were all leaders in their vocations and leading citizens of the city at that time. Over the years, the Club and its members have been instrumental in many landmark initiatives, such as:
• re-establishing the Scouting Movement after their loss of leaders in WWI
• formulating apprenticeship legislation (1927) and later establishing the Apprenticeship Commission in Victoria (1935-36), which became the model for the rest of Australia
• establishing the State Government's Mental Health Commission to sepa-rate the mentally ill from the intellectually handicapped (c. 1947-48)
• sponsoring, with Wesley Mission, the establishment of Lifeline (1963)
• rebuilding the Claremont Homes for the Elderly (1976)
• helping the Salvation Army develop its Crossroads program (1984)
• joining with the Baker Medical Research Institute to establish the Heart Risk Reduction Clinic (1987)
• helping launch Very Special Kids (1985) and Australians Against Child Abuse (1992)
• building an embassy in Canberra for the new nation of Timor Leste (2003)
• providing means for the Donydji Homeland Community in Arnhem Land to grow towards sustainability (2003-14)

One of their members, Sir Angus Mitchell, was the first Australian to become President of Rotary International, in 1948. He was instrumental in bringing Japan back into the Rotary International fold.
Today they are a diverse multi-generational group of (mostly) professional people, some retired, others fully or partly active in the professions. 

 

Yoshi showed us photos of his recent trip to Australia.  His presentation can be see HERE.  NOTE - the sound quality is very poor.

March 20, 2023 - Warriors on the Way is a pilgrimage experience designed for combat Veterans by combat Veterans. Capitalizing on the latest research in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and moral injury care, Veterans join in the tradition of pilgrims who have been walking the Camino de Santiago since the 9th century. Led by Father Steven Rindahl, a retired Army Chaplain, the Warriors on the Way pilgrimage was based on his multiple pilgrimages focused on Veteran healing. Father Steve has multiple advanced degrees, including a Doctor of Ministry, during which he learned much about responding to combat trauma. He is a combat Veteran, having served as a Chaplain in Iraq with the 1st Cavalry Division. He was the developer and instructor of the US Army Chaplain’s Course on providing a ministerial response to moral injury. He used all these experiences to develop Warriors on the Way.
His presentation can be seen by clicking HERE

 March 06, 2023 -