Events

Meg Trubee, a PA from Denver Water, will discuss how Denver Mile High Rotary could partner with Denver Water to increase the Club's visibility within the community.  Program will be at the University Club but also accesibile by Zoom.  Contact us through this website to get the Zoom credentials. 

Eliot Marshall has always been a fighter, partly due to his half-black, half-Jewish heritage. He will share his story of how The Gospel of Fire helped him battle back from the edge of dispair.

This meeting will also be available on Zoom.  Contact us through this website to get the Zoom login information.

Join the World Community Service Committee to get the latest informaiton on the Club's international service.  The meeting is will be on Zoom only.  Contact Audrey Levitt for log-in information. 

Join Denver Mile High Rotary for our monthly Board meeting by Zoom.  Contact Steve Blazek for log-on credentials.  All Cluyb members are welcome.

Tara will be discussing her bestselling book- A Woman's Place is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches and CEOs.  Join us to find out mopre about women in the beer industry. 

The Club will be meeting in person but our speaker will be presenting on Zoom.  Contact us through this website if youi would prefer to attend the meetinb by Zoom.

There will be a Club Foundation meeting on Thursday January 13 by teleconference.  Board members are urged to participate in the vote for revised Foundation Bylaws. All Club members are welcome to join the teleconference.  Contact Tony Vaida, the Foundation President, for the dial-in credentials.

This meeting is also available on Zoom.  Contact the Club through the link on this website home page for log-in information. 

Donna Bryson will join us in person to discuss the struggle to get past racism in South Africa after apartheid.  Her book, It's a Black-White Thing, also looks at parallets with the U.S. civil rights movement. 

This meeting will also be available on Zoom.  Please contact us through the link on our home page to get the log-in information. 

Andy Boian is a well known and influential public affairs consultant. A Denver native, Andy founded dovetail solutions, a full-service firm specializing in media relations, branding, messaging, crisis and issues management, public affairs, digital marketing and social media. In his presentation, Andy will talk about some of the more interesting ways he has skillfully helped clients navigate public relations crises to avoid backlash of some very well known incidents.

This meeting is also available on Zoom. Contact the Club through this website for log-in information.

This meeting will be at the Blanchard Family Winery in downtown Denver.  The location is in the Dairy Block.  The meeting will also be on Zoom from 4pm to 5pm.  An agenda with attachments and Zoom instructions  will follow, 

For those who are interested, we will have a Happy Hour immediately following the meeting. 

Scott Bemis will discuss NewFreedom, a unique program for reintroducing inmates into society with a 95% success rate. The program is based out of Arizona, but they are considering rolling out a similar program in Colorado. Scott will tell us about the program and why it is so unique and so effective as a model to keep those who have served their time out of the prison system for good.

Join us in meeting the Alkosay family through the Afghan Allies Refuge program at Project Worthmore.  There are nine members in the family, and we will meet them, share food and begin to get to know them.  The Club will sponsor the family for a least a year and assist them in meeting the many needs that they will have.  More information can be found on the Club's Home Page.

All Club members are invited to join the World Community Service Committee and catch up on the latest international projects that the Club supports.

Audrey Leavitt will provie more informaation about the meeting location. 

Local Community Service Committee with review current service projects and consider any applications for funding for new activities.  Meeting will be on Zoom; contact Tom Cella for more information.

Thomas Kelly will disciuss ways to maintain your home.  He will be speaking about common things that home inspectors find and ways that homeowners can prevent spending unnecessary money in the future.

This program will also be available on Zoom.  Contact us through this website to get the log-in details.

All Club members are invited to join the Club Foundation Board to find out more about the service projects that the Club supports and our fundraising efforts.

The meeting is by teleconference.  Tony Vaida will send an agenda, financials, and log-in information before the meeting.

Sam will discuss Might Buildings and their efforts to curb climate change by implementing more sustainable construction practices via 3D printing.  Join us for an exciting opportunity to learm avout the advances with 3-D printing.

THe program will be offered on Zoom.  Contact us through this website to get Zoom log-in information.

Mark Rudolph is the son of Chuck Rudolph, one of our Club members.  Mark heads up the team that is monitoring the superfund site cleanup in Silverton and along the Las Animus river environmental site. Mark will be giving us an update on the clean up project and on the process for cleaning the site.

Join the Book Club gatherinf at Tom Gregory's house.  We will discuss The Lincoln HIghway by Amor Towles, who also wrote A Gentleman in Moscow.  Contact Linda Su or Tom for more information.
 

Jennifer Querman, Executive Director of The Butterfly Pavilion, has so much to share about the current programs at the Pavilion.  There are upcoming community volunteer opportunities to pique our interenst.  The Pavilion's global research team heads to Tanzania in February for work that is being done there.  There are also educational initiatives and plans for building a 81,000-square foot facility (nearly three times the size as our current building) to open in 2025 in Broomfield.

Club member Janine Kempfer will discuss the history of discrimination in housing in this country.  Black homeownership is at its lowest point since the 1960’s - when discrimination and segregation was legal. To understand the issues of today, we must understand the history. Janine will shed a light on how housing laws and practices of the past still have an impact on Black homeownership and wealth creation today. She will also discuss what actions are being taken to improve those numbers.

The Club Foundation Board meeting will be on March 24 by teleconference.  Contact Tony Vaida for call-in information.

Suganya has extensive experience addressing cultural issues in the workforce. She is a co-founder of Change Matrix, an female and minority owned small business. She assists agencies in developing their leadership capacity to address health inequities and disparities, conflict management and leadership solutions.  She will share her experience to help the Club become more familiar with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Lieutenant Pace a Rotary Peace Scholar and will talk about how that impacts his approach to police work.  Lt. Pace's  presentation will also be available on Zoom.  Contact the Club through the link on the Home Page.

Ryan Stitt of Denver Water will speak to us about current trends in water demand, sources of water and the future of this very precious resource that is demanded by a wide range of users from residential, agricultural and recreational uses.

At 26.5 miles long, Colfax Avenue is the longest commercial street in the United States, stretching through Aurora, Denver, Lakewood, and Golden.  Jonny Barber is with The Colfax Museum and he's back. As usual, Jonny will be bringing many different stories about the longest street in the nation - things probably none of us know about!

Join us for a special evening enjoying food and wonderful wine locally produced by Blanchard Family Wines.  See the announcement on the home page, with lots of information a link to purchase tickets.

Moore information to follow. 

More information to follow

Cynthia will talk about her experience in hosting an Afghan family in her home.  In late 2021, Cynthia brought an Afghan family into her condominium as a host until the family could find a home of their own. Thus began an odyssey of cultural discovery and self-discovery, each learning from the other. Perhaps the hardest thing she has done, it certainly has proven the most rewarding. Cynthia will relay the story to us of this fascinating experience.

Highschool students from CEC (Early College in Denver) will present how they integrated BrainWise into Dr.Suess stories with 3rd and 4th graders. BrainWise was founded by our very own Pat Gorman Barry.

Note the location of this meeting is Denver Turnverein. 
 

We will have an offsite meeting at the historic the Byron White United States Courthouse.  Completed between 1910 and 1916, with its monumental presence and dramatic public spaces, the courthouse is an excellent example of the Neoclassical architecture that dominated federal building design at the turn of the 20th century. Occupying an entire city block in downtown Denver and standing four stories in height, the building reflects the academic characteristics of the Neoclassical style with its symmetrical design, classical details, and imposing manner. We will also get a complete behind the scenes tour.

Gavin Noble was a volunteer on the Warriors on Cataract float trip with veterans of the armed forces and will be sharing his experience.
 

Note that this meeting will be held at the Tavern at City Park Golf Club.