Our speaker last week was Buckeye Police Chief Larry Hall. The Chief provided us a comprehensive update on the police department as he works to keep up with the growth of our city and continues to build a respected and professional police force.  Amongst the challenges facing the department is hiring and training new officers and serving a large geographical area.  The department recently added a new canine officer. To Chief Hall's relief, this new officer actually seems to like him, as his relationship with previous canines was apparently a bit rocky.  The Chief also spoke about school resource officers, noting that Buckeye typically places its most experienced officers in schools where their myriad skills can be useful if there is ever a crisis situation.  A very interested club asked a number of insightful questions and thanked the chief for building a police department we can be proud to support. 

 

Come join several of your club members at the annual Rotary District 5495 Celebration and Conference on May 5 and 6, 2023.  The conference schedule:

 

May 5:  11:30 am  Conference Opens

May 5:    5:30 pm  Hospitality Suites are open 

May 6:   Conference and Service Project. 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Conference concludes at 8:00 pm

May 7:    Fundraiser for The Rotary Vocational Fund at Arizona Diamondbacks Game

 

The conference will be held at The Renaissance Hotel Phoenix, 101 North First Street, Phoenix (Corner First Street and Adams in downtown Phoenix)

Rotary has arranged a room block with excellent rates and special onsite parking for people attending the conference.

 

For more information, register and make hotel reservations go to the Conference Registration Site.  If you plan to attend sign up soon as the hotel block has a limited number of rooms and expires soon.

 

NOW is the time to sign up for the Verrado Road Clean Up and breakfast afterwards.  The clean up is on Saturday, April 29, 2023, and begins at 7:30 am at the Palo Verde Education Center.  For more information and to RSVP, please click HERE.

 

The Rotary Week of Service Bed Build is scheduled for April 15 at 7:30 am. This project is being held at American Furniture on 99th Avenue south of Top Golf.   Please click HERE for more details and to sign up.

 

Your Verrado Rotary Club and Foundation are soliciting your ideas for project funding for the next Rotary year.  Project funding requests are due by April 15 and will be considered at a joint board meeting in May to set the annual funding budget.  Click here to download the project funding package:  PDF Package   Fillable Word Form