Speaker:Will Roush and Rebeca Mirsky - Wilderness Workshop. The Wilderness Workshop’s mission is to protect and conserve the wilderness and natural resources of the Roaring Fork Watershed, the White River National Forest, and adjacent public lands. The Wilderness Workshop's work includes public lands defense, oil and gas, forests and wildlife, recreation, wilderness, habitat restoration, artist in wilderness and educational programs.
Their “turf” is the 2.3-million-acre White River National Forest, along with over 500,000 acres of nearby federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
The most visited forest in the nation, the White River stretches from the Flat Tops in the north to the Elk Range (stretching from Aspen to Carbondale) in the south, and from Battlement Mesa in the west to the Eisenhower Tunnel in the east. It comprises the headwaters of the Colorado River, and straddles the “spine of the continent,” a major north-south wildlife movement corridor. Most of the BLM lands in this region are administered by the Glenwood Springs Field Office and include noteworthy wildlands outside of Rifle, Carbondale and Eagle.
Guests: No guests this week.
Raffle: Todd Brewer was the lucky winner of the raffle ticket draw, but not so lucky in choosing the winning card. And the pot grows (no, not that pot).
Happy Bucks: Emily Burr was happy that Sam Johnston will be the next Pres-Elect. She was also happy that Simone Porter will perform at Harris Hall; Skip Behrhorst was happy that six of his seven grandchildren were in Aspen to ski with him; John Moore is happy that Karin Teague will speak at this week's meeting; Sean Hathaway was happy about a lot of hockey stuff (lots of wins and tournaments and your editor's pen couldn't keep up) and his program is on fire right now; Rob Ittner is happy to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Cooking School of Aspen - 3,000 people and 150 events have happened in year one; Todd Shaver is happy that Christina King was featured in Sojourner magazine; and Mike Taets told Sam Johnston that the club is so awesome it'll basically run itself, so she shouldn't worry about her Presidential term (famous last words) and he is happy that the Guatemala Literacy Projects trips are so awesome.
John Moore announced that March Happy Bucks will support the Independence Pass Foundation. The IFP is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) foundation based in Aspen. They work with local, state and federal agencies to develop and implement projects that maintain and enhance the ecology and beauty of Independence Pass and improve the recreational opportunities that are available to people of all ages. Our own Heidi Hoffmann is a board member.
Scott Russell announced that Samantha Johnston will be the incoming President-Elect beginning July 1, 2017. Sam thinks she knows what she agreed to. Maybe.
March 9---Aspen News Columnist Panel---Semple, Marolt, Carroll, Gallagher
March 16--Pamela Paresky, PhD---Foundation for Individual rights in Education
March 23--David Houggy---Science Center
March 30--Rabbi Mendel Mintz---Jewish Community Center Chabad of Aspen
Guatemala Literacy Project Celebrates New Educational Center
John Kelleher joined Directors and staff from the Cooperative for Education (CoEd) and fellow Rotarians from the USA and Canada in Antigua City on Feb. 10 to celebrate the inauguration of a new Educational Center.
Since 1996, CoEd has worked to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. A nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati and Guatemala City, CoEd provides sustainable educational resources, training, scholarships and opportunities to indigenous Mayan schoolchildren in Guatemala’s Central and Western Highlands. In 1997, CoEd began working with Rotary International (RI) in what is now called the GLP and this year celebrates the 20th anniversary of that partnership.
The project is supported by nearly 500 Rotary Clubs. Since 1997, the GLP's sustainable programs have been established in 256 impoverished rural communities. There There are over 25,300 students using textbooks at 184 schools. The GLP has also founded 43 self-funding computer centers and62 primary reading programs. The project is working with the goal of ensuring that no child in Guatemala grows up without the gift of both traditional and technological literacy.
Friday, March 10 at 7:30 a.m. at Mountain Chalet in the upstairs meeting room. Breakfast will be served. Important stuff gets discussed, such as what time Jon Kelly will ring the bell in the morning to get all of the misbehaving Rotarians in their seats on time and funding for programs that Rotary supports, such as Create Mentorship Aspen. You won't know if you don't show. And free breakfast.
The Weekly Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Aspen.
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