Rotary Club of Scottsdale is planning a very important event for Monday, Nov. 8 at the Scottsdale Rotary Park.
Club members will raise and lower 13 flags to honor each of the fallen heroes we lost at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 26.
The ceremony begins at noon and is open to the public.
Each flag will be sent to their families. We will unveil a new plaque on the front wall of Unity Plaza at our park. We wish to invite all active and retired military, and anyone who wishes to join us to honor our military and pay respect to our national heroes.
The club plans to feed everyone who attends. For information, email Richard Signeski, president of the Scottsdale Rotary Foundation at
signeski@yahoo.com.
Scottsdale Rotary Park is an eight-acre oasis in the heart of Gainey Ranch. The park was built by members of the Rotary Club of Scottsdale and then donated to the City of Scottsdale. The park features lighted walking paths, a children's playground, a greenbelt, picnic ramadas, a restroom facility and the world's first plaza designed in the shape of the Rotary symbol.
In 2002 the Rotary Club of Scottsdale added Unity Plaza and the Spirit of Unity Flagpole to Rotary Park. These were a Rotary International Centennial Project in commemoration of RI's 100th Anniversary in 2005.
Today, the Scottsdale Rotary Foundation continues to offer naming opportunities (paver bricks, flags, tree plantings, playground play equipment... at Unity Plaza. For more information, contact the
President of the Scottsdale Rotary Foundation. The Foundation also makes copyrighted plans available to other Rotary clubs interested in building Unity Plazas of their own.
Rotary Plaza is located at 7959 E. Doubletree Ranch Road, Scottsdale, AZ. This is approximately one mile south of Shea Blvd. and one mile east of Scottsdale Road, on the north side of Doubletree Ranch Road at Gainey Ranch Road.
