At the August 3rd meeting, Community Services Chair, Bill Markell, presented Nicole Bursey, Director of Frisco Family Services the hygiene items we collected for distribution to local teens in need. Thankfully, we received enough items and funds to purchase a 3 month supply for 23 kids! Thank you for your generosity.
This month's Project is for Boys & Girls Club of Collin County, to provide art and project supplies for the children's after-school activities. Please pick up any of the following and bring with you to the meeting:
RYLA: Rotary Youth Leadership Award Camp is an outstanding program supported by our club to support students entering their senior year of high school in a leadership camp. A committee of Rotarians interviewed over 30 young men and women, and selected 2 boys and 2 girls as our club representatives. We also referred 1 young man to Frisco Sunrise Club and he participated through them. It was a challenging task to select among the excellent candidates who applied, and this week we will hear from these young people about their time at RYLA. It's impossible to bottle the enthusiasm (or energy) they have, but it's invigorating to be with them. Come this week and hear what they learned, how they will apply it in the coming year and from a couple of past participants who stepped up as assistant counselors this year.
60 years old! That number sounds unbelievable to me, but my driver’s license says it’s true. With this milestone birthday, I remember a year after we married, when Bryan’s family had a reunion at which I got acquainted with his 70-year-old grandmother. As we walked together and visited, she looked at me (all of 21 years old!) and said, “In my mind I am you; it’s only my body that has changed”. I smiled and nodded, but was thinking, “you’re crazy, because you’re old”. However, with each passing decade, I realize more fully the truth in that statement.
While at the Interact meeting last Saturday, I reflected that it seems like only yesterday that my kids were this age; now my oldest has a son approaching the age for Interact. Where did the time go? I also reflect on the friends scattered across multiple states where I have been privileged to live, the varied careers that led me to own my business; opportunities to travel to dozens of countries across three continents; learning from and serving those less fortunate than myself.
All of which leads me to face this new decade exhilarated as I am free to explore further new horizons I have yet to experience. As President of the Rotary Club of Frisco I am privileged to work with the best and brightest of the second-fastest growing community in the nation—wow! This is an extraordinary assembly of leaders focused on serving our city; my goal is to support and expand those efforts. The best birthday gift to me is the impact of our Club both here and around the world.
