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Outgoing President Suzanne Schlicht and Rotarian Mignon Stetman congratulate Jane Denning (far right) on her selection of 2009-2010 Rotarian of the Year for the Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs.

The selection of Jane Denning as Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs Rotarian of the Year was one of the highlights of the club’s annual Changing of the Guard. ceremonies on June 29th at Rex’s American Grill.  It was a double honor, since Denning also was also inducted into the office of  president of the noon club later on that evening.

‘Jane Denning was deeply involved in all aspects of our club over the past year,” according to outgoing president Suzanne Schlicht.  “One of the toughest jobs your president has is singling out one Rotarian from so many of you who have given so much to our club and our community.  But Jane’s contributions this year really stood out,” Schlicht said.

Denning is an escrow officer at Heritage Title.  She began her term as president on July 1.  She has been active in a wide variety of the club’s programs and activities and recently graduated from the Rotary District 5440 Rotary Leadership Institute.  She also attended this year’s Rotary International conference in Montreal.

Scott Marr assumed the position of vice president and president-elect.  Marr owns the Steamboat Springs Holiday Inn and served for several years as club treasurer.  Bill Kennedy, a retired school superintendent from update New York was named treasurer.  Winnie DelliQuadri, a City of Steamboat Springs employee will serve another year as the club’s secretary.

New board members this year include Steamboat Springs School Superintendent Shalee Cunningham, restaurant owner Rex Brice and attorney James Moylan.   Other board members serving the second of their two year terms include Nancy Spillane, Ed Allbright and Angela Catterson.  Suzanne Schlicht will remain on the board this year as past president.

The Steamboat Springs Rotary Interact Club was named the outstanding Rotary youth group in Rotary District 5440 at the recent gathering of some 450 Rotarians from Wyoming, Northern Colorado, Idaho and Nebraska in Casper, Wyoming on June 5^th.

The award was presented during the Rotary district conference at the Casper Events Center. The local Interact Club includes 40 Steamboat Springs High School students who complete at least two community service projects each year.  Interact members were recognized for their work on two projects with seniors at the Doak Walker Care Center, their canned food drives for the Lift-Up Food Bank and for their participation with local Rotarians in delivering holiday gift packages to more than 100 orphan children in Agua Prieta, Mexico.

Members of the Steamboat Springs High School Rotary Interact Club pose with Rotary president Suzanne Schlicht with the top award they won at the Rotary District Conference.

The three-day conference also featured several national keynote speakers including Jason Ryan Dorsey  a prolific author and recognized authority on the “Gen Y” generation, polio survivor and polio eradication activist Ann Lee Hussey, and cowboy ethics author James Owen.

Neither orange traffic cones nor missing street surfaces stopped the Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs from making their rounds once again this year with hefty barrels festooned with brightly colored spring flowers.  187 barrels were delivered by about fifty Rotary volunteers in less than two hours.

Merchants were thrilled to have the flowers delivered this year.  Many feared that Rotary would not come through for the first time in more than ten years.  “The Rotary flower barrels have become a real tradition in Steamboat Springs and we were not about to disappoint,” Lori Elliott, Rotary chair of the event

Rotarians Jeff Steinke and Greg Stetman move one of the heavy flower barrels onto a flatbed trailer for delivery to downtown Steamboat Springs.

said.  Rotary volunteers fill the barrels with fresh flowers, deliver them early in June and pick them up in mid-September.

The City of Steamboat Springs waters the barrels in downtown locations with a small motorized vehicle that also is used to water hanging flower baskets.  “It’s a real community effort to beautify our downtown,” Elliott said.