Highlights

Programs:

> July 27: Andy "Caygeon" Junkin, Stubborn.Farm "Working Better with Co-workers and Family"
Alvaro Pepe - our Argentina exchange student arrived safely home!

Flight to End Polio:
- They successfully reached Honolulu from American Samoa flying 16 hours and 49 minutes this past weekend.
  Flight Plan Update:
  Flight To End Polio will be leaving Maui Tuesday, July 25 at 3am (Hawaii Standard Time) and flying to Oakland, California. This will be a 14 or 15 hour flight. The pilots said that the winds are looking good and a mechanic has checked over the plane - all is well.
  They will arrive in Oakland on Tuesday, July 25 around 6pm PDT.
  They will leave Oakland on Wednesday, July 26 and fly to Temecula, California with an expected arrival time of 11am PDT.
  The Rotary Club of Temecula event is from 6-8pm July 26.
  Then they will decide if they fly to Colorado on Thursday or Friday. And then the big homecoming event happens Sunday morning, July 30 in Cedar Rapids! Breakfast 7-11am, Landing expected around 9am.
  As for this Maui to Oakland flight, the pilots again expect that radio frequencies won’t be good over the Pacific - tracking them on flightaware.com (or similar) may be difficult until they get closer to land.
  
  Welcome Home Pancake Breakfast Sunday July 30 7-11am! Click to Read
  Follow and Donate Here or check their Facebook Page.

Pribyl Youth Golf - Sign up here for any day and see great golfers: https://form.jotform.com/200726488993065

Program/Speaker suggestions are always welcome. Contact Phil Hershner or email CRSunriseRotary@gmail.com

We hold our weekly meeting at 7am Thursdays at Matthew 25 201 3rd Ave SW. Cedar Rapids. All are welcome!

Alvaro Pepe - Argentina Exchange
Youth Exchange Update

Alvaro returned from the "discover America" youth exchange bus trip on July 10 and departed for Argentina July 12.

Photos Below:
Sunrise Rotary members with Alvaro: Bruce, Alvaro, Lynette, Mary.

Lynette his last host, 1 Germany August outbound, 2 other students returning this week- Su Japan - Wayne Taiwan, Alvaro, Ethan a just-returned CR student - his sister and his mom.

Globokar host family parents and daughter.

Scott host family kids

...all gave him a great send-off July 12!

Rotary Pribyl Golf
July 21 - August 3 2023

Volunteers are needed! July 31- Aug 3 2023 4 courses.

All Linn County Rotary Clubs organize, fund and volunteer for the annual Pribyl Rotary Golf tournament for youth each August.

Note the last item below: Join the Metro planning committee to help this year, and perhaps step-up and lead it in 2024!

We had a record number of total participants in 2022, and we were only one shy of our record number of female participants.
Live scoring was introduced in 2022, following a complete website redesign in 2020.
Corporate sponsorship for Service Above Self Component continues to be completely subsidized and results in $1,200 being donated to area charities each year.
Because of heat concerns in early August, we also received complimentary bottled water last year from Culligan in Marion for all four days of the tournament.
The cost per golfer comes out to just under $12 – and that includes free golf and range balls at all courses and a Rotary-branded keepsake. It is an incredible value, and it gives us plenty of Rotary and Event visibility through the media, at the golf courses, at area schools and through all the parents and spectators that come out each day to watch the kids.
2023 will be the last year for the committee chairs. Finding new leadership will be essential if the tournament continues beyond this year. Contact Lynette if you are interested!

Club Meeting Serving Duties

Each week, two Sunrise Rotarians are needed to support our meetings. See table below.

Can't be there? Just swap dates with another Rotarian on the list.

Date	Greeter/Invocation	Pledge/Drawing Prize
July 27, 2023	Nate Kass	Anne Wilson
August 3, 2023	Bruce Lindholm	Todd Anderson
August 10, 2023	Lynette Markofski	Clayton Cubbage
August 17, 2023	Theresa Mickelson	Penny Foy
August 24, 2023	David Murray	Douglas Francik
August 31, 2023	Karen Nemecek	Eric Harris

Flight to End Polio Report

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTS
AND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

Welcome Home Pancake Breakfast is set! Click to Read

Cedar Rapids Gazette front page article April 9: Read or Print PDF

FLY WITH US!
https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

Track their Progress Here: https://flightaware.com/ Enter flight # N732WP

Use this link to Donate and to Track their Flight! Contribute to Rotary Foundation - Polio Fund!

Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flighttoendpolio

Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels are raising awareness for polio eradication by piloting a single engine aircraft all the way around the globe!

Peter and John departed from Cedar Rapids, Iowa May 5, 2023 in a Cessna T210M (single engine) airplane. Along the way, they will attend events and encourage support of ending polio forever throughout the world.

YOU can promote the flight, start conversations, and raise Polio funds for Rotary with friends and strangers!

Rotarians and friends in D6000 and D5970 are promoting awareness and this fundraising effort. Donations will go toward PolioPlus Fund.

Flight to End Polio-Pancake Breakfast - website pop.jpg

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTSAND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

FLY WITH US! https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#

ONE ENGINE, TWO PILOTS
AND A 2:1 DONATION MATCH

FLY WITH US!
https://www.flighttoendpolio.com/#