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Four Peaks

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Thursdays at 6:45 AM
Fountain Hills Community Center
13001 N La Montana Drive
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
United States of America
We meet every 2nd and 4th Thursday at the Fountain Hills Community Center
 
Club Holiday Gathering
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Grill at Desert Canyon 
5:30-8:30pm
 
Questions: Contact Nick Proctor or Jeff Stack
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1st Friday
Fellowship Breakfast
 
December 6th
7:00-8:00am
 
Location TBD
hosted by
Scott Sommer, Foundation President, 2020-2022 Past-President
2024-2025 Club  Theme
.People of Action,
Building Community.
 
 Focus
Pollinators, Biophilics, Blue Zone Project and more....
 
P.A.R.T.Y.
Participate to Accomplish and Reach our goals Together, Yes we Can! 

 
 
On November 2nd, Rotarians dedicated their Saturday morning to a strategic Four Peaks Visioning Session. As a result of this collaborative effort, the Committee developed a comprehensive 3-Year Master Plan. This plan serves as a strategic roadmap, outlining a clear action plan with defined goals, initiatives, and activities that the club intends to pursue over the next three years. While the specifics may vary, the structure of a Visioning Session plan typically includes key components aimed at guiding the club's future direction.
 
During the session President Jeff Stack awarded the District 5495 Facilitation Team with the Four Peaks "Presidential Gold Chain" for their dedicated "service above self" contributions they provided to our Visioning Session.  Pictured left to right:  President Jeff Stack, Pam Cohen, DGN Joe Sweeney, Pollyanne Cady, sitting Alan Cady.  Not pictured PDG David Simmer.
Annual July 5th Fountain Park Environment Clean-up Crew!
 
ROTARY WEEK OF SERVICE
Phase I completed Saturday, April 27, 2024
Service beautification project was organized by the Four Peaks Rotary Club. All materials and equipment have been generously donated by Shea Connelly Development.
Check out our video all about Four Peaks Rotary club!  Rotarians in Action, "Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best."
 

Rotary members share a unique passion for taking action to improve their communities and the world. Read these stories to see what happens when Rotarians take action to create lasting change. See members in action at one of annual projects during National Make A Difference day. View here.

2024-2025 Rotary Year Theme Announced; "The Magic of Rotary"

RI President-elect Stephanie Urchick celebrates the magic of Rotary. She says members create that magic with every project completed, every dollar donated, and every new member of Rotary.

Theme Colors by RI 2024-2025 PresidentWatch here

 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 a few Rotarians attend the annual District 5495 Club Leadership Academy at Desert Willow Conference Center in Phoenix, AZ   Sessions including Grants Management training, Rotary International mental health initiatives, scholarships, fundraising and visioning for your club. Incoming District Governor, Michelle Holcomb hosted the day as she rang in the new year's theme, "The Magic of Rotary." 

Rotarians on Thursday, February 29th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. gathered at the Fountain Hills Community Center. Over 200 volunteers are helped to pack meals that are distributed internationally by the Food for Kidz organization.  These meals will be distributed locally to the Extended Hands Food Bank of Fountain Hills, AZ Brainfood, which serves school children in the Valley, Native American Urban Ministry and Native American Connections. 

Healthy Fountain Hills: Four Peaks Rotarains provide Service to the Community!

On Saturday, February 17, 2024 Four Peaks participated with another "Service Above Self" community event at the Fountain Hills Elementary School.  The Passport to Better Health was well attended and attendees had the opportunity to meet and chat with over 24 exhibitors and sponsors relating to your path to better health.  Including, several presentations and demonstrations were onsite to attend.  Pictured:  Tim Taylor, Foundation Treasurer, Julie Ewald, Club President, Bill Pape, our Pssiionate Rotarian! 
 
Four Peaks Rotary table at the Health Fair providing information to attendees on mental health, healthy living and Peace Fellowship Master and Certificate programs now available to apply.    
Healthy Fountain Hills Keynote speaker, Dr. Kristin Swanson is a mathematical oncologist and serves as co-director of the Precision Neurotherapeutics Innovation Program and Director of the Mathematical NeuroOncology Lab at Mayo Clinic. She also holds appointments at Arizona State University and the Translational Genomics Institute. Her team believes "every patient deserves their own equation.
 
On January 24th Four Peaks Rotary participated at the the Town of Fountain Hills Activities and Volunteer Expo.  Attendees had learning and volunteer opportunities, time to gather information, and speak to representatives from many clubs and service organizations in the town.  Not only did the Expo allow residents to find out what the clubs have to offer it allowed clubs an opportunity to learn and meet one another. A FUN afternoon at the Community Center!  (Pictured left to right: Todd Harris, 2022-2023 Past-President, Julie Ewald, 2023-2024 President and Jerry Holtzman, Board of Director member and Community Projects Co-Chair)
  
 
District 5495 Friendship Trophy exchanged from the Four Peaks Rotary to Gilbert Rotary on Thursday, October 5, 2023.
 
What is Friendship Exchange?
Friendship Exchange is an exchange program for Rotary members and friends that allows participants to take turns hosting one another in their clubs or social event.
    On July5th,Four Peaks Rotary Club in Fountain Hills Arizona USA and a few of the Fountain Hills High School students providing Community Service (graduation hours) participated this glorious morning at Fountain Park to assist the town clean-up the grounds from the fabulous Fireworks Display at the Fountain on the 4th! Thank you Rotarians, Students and a few other residents for your dedicated "Service Above Self" time keeping our Fountain Park environment top notch! We had a lovely breakfast at Phil's to end the morning.
     
     
        
     
    On May 6, 2023 the Four Peaks Rotarians held a FUN DAY at their 2nd Annual Kentucky Derby Run for the Roses fundraiser to support the Midwest Rotary Disaster Fund and Rotary Polio Fund.  Special guest appearance by Tender Little Heart ponies who were "making friends, warming hearts, sharing smiles and spreading joy, one tender little heart at a time." This year's event was held at the beautiful Desert Canyon Golf Club.
     
     
    A two-month Community Paint Project calls it a wrap this Father's Day weekend.  To President Todd Harris's "A Team."  a sincere and grateful "thank you", including many other Fountain Hills Community Service Groups, Businesses, Rotarians, Kiwanians, etc who participated in the beautification endeavor for the FHUSD. The Middle School students will be transitioning to the High School location this fall to a fresh new start!  
     
            
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    On Saturday, April 29, 2023 more than 150 Fountain Hills community volunteers showed up to paint 14 Fountain Hills Unified School District (FHUSD) classrooms. Representatives from both Fountain Hills Rotary clubs (Four Peaks Rotary and Fountain Hills Rotary), Noon Kiwanis, Town of Fountain Hills and Town Council, Dark Sky Association, Scottsdale Bible Church, Pelligrini and DeGeorge Partners, and Firerock Country Club, joined school staff, students, Key Club and other Town residents to complete the project. President Todd Harris was the Project Champion leading the efforts to a successful community project.

    To think there are thousands of people living in Arizona without access to basic plumbing and clean, running water is unimaginable. But that is precisely the case for the Navajo Nation, located in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

    In 2019 Jeff Poynter was optimistic that the project fits well with Four Peaks Rotary’s vision. “We’re a club that wants to help as many people as possible. This is a tremendous opportunity for Four Peaks Rotary to step up and really make a difference in many lives.” 

    PROJECT UPDATE click here.

    Alongside Rotary and DigDeep bring a vital commodity to their ancestral homeland RI article  

    DigDeep was able to install nine home water systems to Navajo families in Dilkon before the pandemic brought the project to a halt. Dilkon is a town on the Navajo Nation located in Northeastern Arizona. Below, Rotarian Project Champion, Paul Perreault and 2022-2023 President Todd Harris on location with the DigDeep team.  Future updates coming in Spring of 2023
      
     
     
    Back in 2019, Four Peaks Rotary President-elect Jeff Poynter (left) and Rotary International project coordinator Jim Bissonet shared Rotary’s plan to initiate underground cistern systems to hundreds of homes in the Navajo Nation. Four Peaks Rotary is hopeful of becoming a part of this Rotary International effort to supply clean water and electricity to the Navajo Nation.  
     

    A wonderful evening at FireRock Country Club celebrating the successes of 2022 with fellow Rotarians.  In addition to celebrating the 25th club year, the club also celebrated the year of giving by distributing over a $100,000 to local and global non-profits and people in need.  Congratulations Four Peaks Rotarians, cheers to a prosperous 2023 and next 25 years!  See our FaceBook Reels highlights.
     
     
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    PO Box 18111
    Fountain Hills, AZ  85269
    United States of America
     
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    President-Elect 2024-25
     
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    Four Peaks Rotary Foundation raised over $100,000 for giving in 2022-2023. The funds were distributed amongst Non-Profit organizations within the local Fountain Hills community and around the world. 
     
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