The 2026 MWRC Spring Olympics event was a great success! There was great food and fellowship. Also, tons of nonperishable food was collected for the food bank. And as usual, the games were highly competitive, yet lots of fun. Here are this year’s medal winners:
Women’s
Men’s
Doubles
Gold
Melody Jackson
Jay Paulus
Jay & Liz Paulus
Silver
Colleen Coons
Andy Bradford
Andy Bradford & Kayla Mudge
Bronze
Liz Paulus
Jim Schmidt
Jim and Roselyn Schmidt
Liz left early, so we had to put stand-ins in the photos.
President Kayla Mudge opened the meeting, Deb Koeneman led the Pledge of Allegiance, and John Pennypacker gave a Thought of the Day.
“Lord, I hate buttermilk.”
And “Lord, I hate lard.”
“And Lord, you know I don’t much care for raw white flour.”
“But Lord, when you mix them all together and bake them, I do love warm, fresh biscuits.”
"So Lord, when things come up that we don’t like,
When life gets hard,
When we don’t understand what you’re saying to us, help us to just relax and wait until you are done mixing.
It will probably be even better than biscuits. Amen”
Within that prayer, there is great wisdom for all when it comes to complicated situations like we are experiencing in the world today. Stay strong, my friends, because our life is being mixed with lots of things that we don’t care for…….. relax and wait until the mixing is done.
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Vocational training teams are groups of professionals who travel to another country, either to learn more about their profession or to teach local professionals more about it.
The Rotary Foundation funds some vocational training teams in our areas of focus through global grants. This training is often carried out in conjunction with a humanitarian project. A team should include at least three people. The team leader needs to be a Rotary member, while the other participants can be members or nonmembers who have experience in the area of focus.
Rotary previously had a program called Group Study Exchange, which promoted international understanding and offered person-to-person opportunities for participants to learn how their vocation was practiced in other countries. It was phased out when we updated our grant model and placed this activity within global grants.
Think about whether you could join a vocational training team, or know a nonmember who could participate.
The newly renamed RLI - Rotary Connections, Sessions 1,2,3 will be held in Anthem on May 30th 2026. The for more information an to register click here.
As Rotarians, we are regularly exposed to opportunities to support various causes with our time, talent and treasure. Sometimes it is hard to sift through all the information and decide where we are going to use our available financial resources.
It would be wonderful if every Mesa West Rotarian would make the following BIG FOUR their Rotary charities of choice and support every one of them every year, we could make a bigger difference than we are making today.
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What did the pirate say when he became an octogenarian? 
