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Lift Up Director David Freseman accepted a check from The Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs and the Ski Town USA Rotary Club representing proceeds from Rotary’s major fund-raiser each year. This year marked the 12th consecutive year for the event, which always raises $10,000 for a local charity.

Past recipients have included the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurses’ Aging Well program, the Rotary Boardwalk Project, Advocates for Battering and Abuse, South Routt Partners and Rocky Mountain Youth Corp.

“This is our major fund-raiser and one of our most popular activities. Lift-Up has also been one of the primary recipients of Rotary funds for years,” Rotary chair for the event Angela Catterson said. The new Lift-Up center was named after Rotarian Don Lufkin. “We couldn’t have found a more deserving charity for this year’s event, particularly in light of the current struggling economy.”

Sponsors of the event included Feldmann Nagel & Associates, Alpine Bank, B& K Distributing, the Holiday Inn, Steamboat Motors and The Tennis Center.

Rotarians Steve Hitchcock, Cam Boyd and Dave Zabel are seen here with Soda Creek Elementary School third-graders showing their very own new dictionaries.

 

Dear Rotary Club: 

Thank you for the dictionaries.  And thank you for the sign language in the dictionaries too!  I like the longest word at the end.  Oh, my favorite is the sea life.  Thanks for telling us all the flags in the dictionary.  Some of us in our class are doing a report from the dictionary too!  I’m wondering if I want to do a report.  I might.  Anyway, thanks for the dictionaries.  I love it!    Sincerely, Veda Marshall, Mrs. Schumacher’s Third Grade Class, Hayden Valley Elementary.    P.S.  Rotary Club Rocks!

Dear Veda:

Thank you for sending us such a nice thank-you note about your brand new Rotary dictionary.  Mr. Cameron Boyd from our club has been bringing dictionaries to third grade kids in Hayden, Oak Creek and Steamboat Springs for several years now.  I’ll bet you’d be surprised to learn how many other Rotarians helped, like Jamie Morgan, Dave Zabel, Steve Hitchcock, Jane Denning, Holly Rogers, Kerry Shea, Jeff Steinke and Chan Coyle helped.  They loved going to third grade classes in Soroco, Strawberry Park, Soda Creek and Hayden to bring kids their own books.  We needed them all to help because we had almost 300 to deliver and they are pretty heavy!  I’m sending you a picture from third-graders at the Soda Creek Elementary School.  We brought them dictionaries too. 

Everybody loves looking at the longest word.  It has 1,909 letters!  We tried to say the word at our Rotary Club and we finally gave up.  Maybe all of you in Mrs. Schumacher’s class can do better.

We all loved your letter, especially with the drawings of the big heart around your name and the American flag.  You probably didn’t need to use your new dictionary to write your letter because there wasn’t a single misspelled word!

Be sure to have fun this year in school, study hard and keep checking out all of those wonderful words in your very own dictionary!

            Mike Forney

            Steamboat Springs Rotary Club

For more than ten years Steamboat Rotarians have supported the Ski Town USA Golf Classic, one of the major fund raisers for the Hospital Foundation of the Yampa Valley.  A portion of the net proceeds have also been allocated to the local Rotary clubs for community grants and other worthwhile causes.

Starting next year, however, the Steamboat Springs and Ski-Town USA Rotary Clubs have agreed to take on more responsibility for the two-day golf and auction event.  Steamboat Springs Club President Mike Forney will chair the event, assisted by morning club Rotarian Jim Swiggert.  “Although Rotary will receive a larger share of the proceeds next year, the Hospital Foundation will still receive substantial revenues from the event,” Forney said.

Nearly 100 volunteers participate in the Golf Classic each year.  In addition to Rotarians, members of the Hospital Foundation board, other foundation volunteers and community members will pitch in to organize more than 200 golfers and some 400 who typically attend the live and silent auction and benefit reception. 

 The event will be organized and directed by a five-person Executive Committee, including, Forney, Swiggert, Yampa Valley Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Karl Gills, Foundation President Marilyn Johnson and Foundation Board chair Diane Tarnoff.

“The real financial success of the event is dependent on the participation of our many sponsors and the results of our live and silent auction,” Forney said.  Sponsors are already being contacted and the search is on for exciting and unusual live auction items, he said. 

Next year’s event will kick off on Thursday, June 18 with golfer registration, followed by two days of golf at Rollingstone Ranch Golf Club and the Catamount Ranch and Club and a gala benefit auction and reception on Friday night, June 19^th. 

Rotary board member Alice Klauzer (l) and past president Sandy Evans Hall greeting golfers at last year’s Ski-Town USA Golf Classic.