Highlights

This week:
> Prospect Meadows Program: What's new at the ball fields? https://prospectmeadows.com/
> Give Blood this week! Give Code 2719 when checking in for “Rotary Blood Drive Challenge” (code 2719). Start Here
> Matthew 25 Transform Week - Signup for a half-day or more here https://www.matthew-25.org/housing/transform-week/

Last week: Buy Local! Nikki Wilcox and Metro Economic Alliance connecting businesses to local suppliers. Click Here

July 6 is our Sunrise Rotary year in review and our 2023-2024 year kickoff

Flight to End Polio: Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels flew from Thailand to Malaysia Sunday. Follow and Donate Here or check their Facebook Page.

Program/Speaker suggestions are always welcome. Contact Phil Hershner or email CRSunriseRotary@gmail.com

We hold our weekly meeting at 7am Thursdays at Matthew 25 201 3rd Ave SW. Cedar Rapids. All are welcome!

Our Sunrise 2023-2024
Community Service Project

Our Community Service Project District Grant Request has been submitted!

Families Helping Families!!

$3200 for Families Helping Families backpack event. We will help 'pack the packs' in August!

Half the cost comes from a Rotary Foundation District Grant we apply for in June 2023.
Half the cost comes from our share of the golf fundraising event net proceeds

Funds were requested June 20.

Funds raised at the May 25 Scramble Fore Kids golf event will be supporting the project, if we are selected and approved.

Alvaro Pepe - Argentina Exchange
Youth Exchange Update

Alvaro's parents supported him to take the 'discover America' youth exchange bus trip. West to CA, return through AZ, TX... deep south, Orlando, up the east coast to Philadelphia and then back to Chicago.

He flies to Argentina July 12. 2:51 PM departure from Cedar Rapids. Come to the Airport to say 'goodbye'. Alvaro will then start his second (final!) semester in school at home.

Club Meeting Serving Duties

Each week, two Sunrise Rotarians are needed to support our meetings. See table below.

Can't be there? Just swap dates with another Rotarian on the list.

Date	Greeter/Invocation	Pledge/Drawing Prize
June 29, 2023	Eric Harris	Robert Schell
July 6, 2023	John Henecke	David Stoltenberg
July 13, 2023	Phil Hershner	Ben Stutt
July 20, 2023	Michael Kacher	David VerWoert
July 27, 2023	Nate Kass	Anne Wilson

Flight to End Polio Report

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTS
AND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

CR Gazette front page article April 9: Read or Print PDF

FLY WITH US!
https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

Track their Progress Here: https://flightaware.com/ Enter flight # N732WP

Use this link to Donate and to Track their Flight! Contribute to Rotary Foundation - Polio Fund!

Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flighttoendpolio

Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels are raising awareness for polio eradication by piloting a single engine aircraft all the way around the globe!

Peter and John departed from Cedar Rapids, Iowa May 5, 2023 in a Cessna T210M (single engine) airplane. Along the way, they will attend events and encourage support of ending polio forever throughout the world.

YOU can promote the flight, start conversations, and raise Polio funds for Rotary with friends and strangers!

Rotarians and friends may order a t-shirt to support the flight around the world to end polio . http://endpolionow.itemorder.com/

Rotarians and friends in D6000 and D5970 are promoting awareness and this fundraising effort. Donations will go toward PolioPlus Fund.

Rotary Pribyl Golf
July 21 - August 3 2023

Volunteers are needed! July 31- Aug 3 2023 4 courses.

All Linn County Rotary Clubs organize, fund and volunteer for the annual Pribyl Rotary Golf tournament for youth each August.

Note the last item below: Join the Metro planning committee to help this year, and perhaps step-up and lead it in 2024!

We had a record number of total participants in 2022, and we were only one shy of our record number of female participants.
Live scoring was introduced in 2022, following a complete website redesign in 2020.
Corporate sponsorship for Service Above Self Component continues to be completely subsidized and results in $1,200 being donated to area charities each year.
Because of heat concerns in early August, we also received complimentary bottled water last year from Culligan in Marion for all four days of the tournament.
The cost per golfer comes out to just under $12 – and that includes free golf and range balls at all courses and a Rotary-branded keepsake. It is an incredible value, and it gives us plenty of Rotary and Event visibility through the media, at the golf courses, at area schools and through all the parents and spectators that come out each day to watch the kids.
2023 will be the last year for the committee chairs. Finding new leadership will be essential if the tournament continues beyond this year. Contact Lynette if you are interested!

Scramble Fore Kids Golf Event

Scramble for Kids May 25 was a great event on an ideal-day for golf! 25 foursomes completed their rounds, a great Texas Roadhouse BBQ dinner, and boosted our Silent Auction. The final report will come soon. We enjoyed the company of some FHF families at dinner! Their board worked the even through the day.

The event benefitted and raised awareness of "Families Helping Families" (FHF) serving in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas AND Sunrise Rotary.

Families Helping Families is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Read more here .

A round of golf included included:

Beat the Pro Drive
Hole in One Contest
Chipping Contest
Putting Contest
Prizes
Silent Auction
Texas Roadhouse BBQ Supper

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTS
AND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

FLY WITH US!
https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

The event benefitted and raised awareness of "Families Helping Families" (FHF) serving in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas AND Sunrise Rotary.

Families Helping Families is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Read more here .

A round of golf included included:

Beat the Pro Drive

Hole in One Contest

Chipping Contest

Putting Contest

Prizes

Silent Auction

Texas Roadhouse BBQ Supper

Sponsorships including on-course business signs.

Watch for Event Photos soon on our Cedar Rapids Sunrise Facebook Page and look for Sunrise Rotary Golf to return in May 2024!

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTSAND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

FLY WITH US! https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

The event benefitted and raised awareness of "Families Helping Families" (FHF) serving in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding areas AND Sunrise Rotary.

Families Helping Families is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Read more here.

A round of golf included included:

Beat the Pro Drive

Hole in One Contest

Chipping Contest

Putting Contest

Prizes

Silent Auction

Texas Roadhouse BBQ Supper

Sponsorships including on-course business signs.

Watch for Event Photos soon on our Cedar Rapids Sunrise Facebook Page and look for Sunrise Rotary Golf to return in May 2024!

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTS
AND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

FLY WITH US!
https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

Families Helping Families is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Read more here .