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t's all about good relationships. Good people meeting other good people and talking about good intentions. The setting was one of the summits of the Arizona-México Commission a couple of years ago. This is when Max Rumbaugh and Rene Bermudez met and where Max invited Rene to form part of Scottsdale Sister Cities. Max, a Past President of The Rotary Club of Scottsdale introduced Rene to Dale Gray. Enter Mr. Enrique Franco into the picture, also a regular at the AZ-MX Commission Summit as he represents the government of Sonora in Arizona. Mr. Franco introduced Dale, Max and Rene to Irayda Flores. All five had a meeting of the minds and the idea of starting a Spanish speaking Rotary Club in the Phoenix metro area was born. We call Dale our “Padrino” (Godfather) as he helped prepare all of the documentation to make the club (and the foundation) official. Max also helped by coming to many of our first meetings and showing us the way of Rotary. A huge supporter of this new club has been Mr. Kevin Pitts, but we will call him "Compadre!"
t's all about good relationships. Good people meeting other good people and talking about good intentions. The setting was one of the summits of the Arizona-México Commission a couple of years ago. This is when Max Rumbaugh and Rene Bermudez met and where Max invited Rene to form part of Scottsdale Sister Cities. Max, a Past President of The Rotary Club of Scottsdale introduced Rene to Dale Gray. Enter Mr. Enrique Franco into the picture, also a regular at the AZ-MX Commission Summit as he represents the government of Sonora in Arizona. Mr. Franco introduced Dale, Max and Rene to Irayda Flores. All five had a meeting of the minds and the idea of starting a Spanish speaking Rotary Club in the Phoenix metro area was born. We call Dale our “Padrino” (Godfather) as he helped prepare all of the documentation to make the club (and the foundation) official. Max also helped by coming to many of our first meetings and showing us the way of Rotary. A huge supporter of this new club has been Mr. Kevin Pitts, but we will call him "Compadre!"As of now, the club has been around for about 8 months, we have a board and we are currently working on implementing membership and dues. Our newest addition has been our website using the Club Runner platform: http://clubrotariophx.org/
To date, we have already executed several projects both locally and internationally, here is a list and photos:
- Turkey Drive in Maryvale (Nov2020)
- Food basket delivery in Guaymas, Sonora (May 2020 &ongoing)
- Food basket delivery in Quiriego, Sonora (October2020)
- Food drives in Maryvale (July, August2020)
- Diaper drive for adult nursing home in Hermosillo, Sonora (September2020)
- Food Drive with United Food Bank (September2020)
- Laptop giveaway to students in Tolleson, AZ (March2020)
