Events

Rotary Club of Sun Lakes Foundation(s) Dinner Party will be held in our regular meeting room at Cottonwood.  The menu and the cost of the dinner party is the same as last year.  ($40 per person).  Please attend this event and bring your partner and friends.  All of the other details can be found by going to the website.  The website is also how you can make your reservation, select your meal option and pay.

Entree options are as follows:

• Chicken: Chicken Marsala with mashed potato and asparagus
• Beef: A generous portion of Pot Roast with mashed potato and asparagus  
• Gluten Free / Vegan: Mushroom Risotto

Use the QR code to register or click on this link to register.

Ray Kimball is a speaker with Voter Choice Arizona and an Arizona team member of Veterans for All Voters. He retired as a career U.S. Army officer with over 20 years of service to the nation, including overseas tours in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and East Africa. Over the course of his career, he served as a helicopter pilot, a history instructor, a strategic advisor, and a White House staffer. His academic credentials include a Bachelors in Russian and German from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Masters Degrees in History and Russian Area Studies from Stanford and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and his Doctorate of Education in Learning Technologies from Pepperdine. He is the Founder and CEO of 42 Educational Games Coaching and Design, a service that helps educators integrate game-based learning into their classrooms.

Meeting will be held at: The Park at Copper Creek, 901 S 94th St, Chandler

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, the dinner menu will be: MUST RSVP BY APRIL 28 to debbaileyaz.gmail.com@clubrunner.email

• Braised chicken enchilada casserole 
• Mexican rice
• Charro beans
• Chips and house salsa

This meeting presentation will provide a better understanding of why our club members support both of these Rotary Foundations.  Additionally, there will be Education Scholarship Awards.

As a reminder, this meeting will be held at Sun Lakes Phase 1 in the Navajo Room from 6:30am to 8:00am.

Dr. Anshu Chanda, will present an update on the Haiti Eye Clinic which is a Global Optometry Eye Care project.

From the Gila River Indian Community, Elder Robert "Bobby" Stone will present some history, language, and dance about the Gila River Indian Community.  Additionally, he provides student  education support for the Casa Blanca Community School.

Our meeting speaker, Beth Bonnes is a Poet and writer. Presentation Topic: "We Don’t Build Anything Alone: Rethinking Independence, Partnership, and Creating Meaningful Moments"

The Rotary International Convention will be hld in Taipei Taiwan in June 2026.  Reservations are $475 per Rotarian through Dec. 15, 2025

Flag Day is celebrated annually on June 14 to commemorate the anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States. It was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. 

The first "American" flag was created in 1775 when the Continental Army was established to fight against the British during the American Revolution, according to HISTORY.com. It consisted of red and white altering stripes and a Union Jack in the corner. Not wanting the new nation's flag to bare a resemblance to the British one, George Washington called for the creation of a new symbol. 

It was resolved during the Second Continental Congress that, "the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation."

As more states entered the Union, additional stars were added. In all, there have been 27 official versions of the flag, according to the Library of Congress.

Dr. Carey Chronis is a practicing Pediatrician and slso a writer.  He will be speaking about his new book: Connection ReTHINK 

Location: Cottonwood P1

Location: CGCC Sun Lakes

Location: Cottonwood P1

Location: Navajo Room at Sun Lakes Country Club

4:30pm Dinner and Fellowship