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Presenting the award to Caroline Chandler is Lyle Gates, Fellow Rotarian and Principal at Catle View High Scholl, Ken Konkel, President of the morning club and Rich Bang, Student of the Month committee Charman.

Caroline is a Senior at Castle View High School. She is a multiple award winner as an academic athlete and has been the Academic Team Champion and was named to the Academic all State first team. She carries a 3.83 GPA.

Caroline is also a four year varsity basketball player, a football manager and trainer, and was part of the track team in 2007.

Caroline plans to attend University of Wyoming or Colorado State University.

Congratulations Caroline!!!!

Jerry Krupp Named Paul Harris Fellow

L to R: Ken Konkel, Jerry Krupp, and Paul Dassel

Jerry Krupp, Rotarian was named as a Paul Harris Fellow in a ceremony at our weekly Rotary meeting. Ken Konkel, Club President and Paul Dassel, Foundation Chair presented this award to Jerry in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world. Congratulations Jerry!!!!

New Rotarians Inducted!!

L to R: Watts, Gordon, Stucy and Konkel

Elaine Stucy, Broker/Owner Stucy Realty and Gordon Allott, Attorney were inducted as new members of the Rotary Club of Castle Rock by Membership Co-Chair, Dave Watts and President Ken Konkel. Please extend a warm welcome to Elaine and Gordon!!!

We did It!!!!

The results of our annual food drive for the Douglas Elbert Task Force food bank are in. The goal was 1,000 pounds of food donated to the food bank by Christmas. As of 12/23/2009, RCCR has donated 1092 lbs of food for a whopping 109% of goal. A special thanks to all of our Rotarians who donated food over the past 17 weeks and helping to make this a Merry Christmas to many of our community members in need.

Club News In Brief..................

Rotarian Exchange Student Returns

Kathryn ("Kat") Jahnigen was a Rotary exchange student to France during the 1996-97 school year. She studied in Rennes, the capitol of Brittany, while living with four generous and welcoming Rotarian host families. The lessons and skills she gained from that study abroad experience were enormous and life-changing, awakening in her a passion for international travel, cross-cultural learning, and service to others. Kat credits the exchange student training and opportunity from the Rotary club for teaching her how to be a positive ambassador/representative of the U.S. in international situations, and nurturing her eagerness to promote understanding between foreign countries.

Most recently, Kat traveled Central America for six months, working as a volunteer for various humanitarian and animal welfare non-profits, while studying Spanish. In August of 2009, she settled in Guatemala to take a job teaching English, but was forced to return to the U.S. for a medical emergency. She's spent the last few months focusing on her physical rehabilitation and encouraging everyone she meets to travel in Central America - where the scenery is beautiful, the people are fascinating, and opportunities abound to help others!

She encourages anyone with questions - about traveling in Central America or international volunteer/donation opportunities - to send her an email, as these are two of her favorite subjects! Kat can be reached at: kjahnigen@lycos.com. Great job, Kat!!

Club Donates Shelter Boxes to Haiti

Last fall, our Rotary Club of Castle Rock donated $1,000 to ShelterBox for natural disaster relief around the world. In the past several weeks when the Haiti crisis unfolded, our club decided to donate another $1,000 to ShelterBox since many of their Shelter Boxes were already being shipped to Haiti. The ShelterBox confirmed that both of our donations purchased two shelter boxes that were sent to Haiti.

The Shelter Box is a tough, green plastic box containing a 10-person tent, and ancillary equipment designed to enable a family of up to 10 people to survive for at least six months. Made to a unique design using high quality materials, the tents are suitable for a wide range of conditions. Other items in the box may include insulated groundsheets, thermal blankets, a multi-fuel stove, cooking equipment, tools, mosquito nets, water containers, etc.

For more information on ShelterBox, go to www.shelterboxusa.org. or call 941-907-6036.

Colorado Boys Ranch Awarded $1,000

The Rotary Club of Castle Rock Foundation, Inc. awarded the Colorado Boys Ranch $1,000 to support its program of mental health treatment and education for at-risk boys between the ages of 10 to 21 from across the United States.

Receiving the donation from Club President, Ken Konkel on behalf of the Colorado Boys Ranch is Jerry Krupp (this is his normal smile), RCCR Rotarian and Board member of the Colorado Boys Ranch. Congratulations!!!

For more information on the Colorado Boys Ranch and its' La Junta, Colorado location, visit their website at www.coloradoboysranch.org.

A Few Good Rotarians

The membership committee, headed by Fred Slick, has launched a new effort to define representative member classifications consistent with the business community and to seek new members who have the humanitarian passion and commitment within those classifications to help make a difference.For more details on joining Rotary click here on Becoming a Member.

Polio Eradication - A Major Rotary Focus

Rotary International has partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further the cause of eradicating polio. Bill Gates, through his foundation has awarded Rotary a $350M grant. In return, Rotary is committed to raise an additional $200M by June 30, 2012. For the complete story click here on Polio Eradication.

Rotary Theme 2009-2010:

The Future of Rotary Is In Your Hands

John Kenny - President, Rotary International
Mike Oldham - District Governor, District 5450
Ken Konkel - President, Castle Rock Rotary

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