Events

Local favorites, Hank and Roxanne Boryczki of AZ Trail Travels will provide an update about their business of traveling the world.

The beautiful Rotary Christmas Tree weill be decorated November 3rd for the viewing pleasure of all visitors throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.  Members are welcome to help with decorating and then gather for breakfast at a local diner.

Dennis Haberer has been a member of Scottsdale Sunrise Rotary Club since March, 2002. He has served as their Club Secretary, and served two terms each as Vocational Service Chair and Club President. Dennis has served two terms as Vocational Service Chair for District 5510. Dennis retired in 2006 from a 40-year career in sales and sales management, primarily in the ophthalmic industry.

In 2009, Dennis joined the board of The Rotary Vocational Fund of Arizona (TRVFA). Dennis says, “I am passionate about The Rotary Vocational Fund of Arizona because we are so fortunate in this state to have the opportunity to direct a significant amount of our state tax liability to help educate those less fortunate with vocational skills that will provide financial stability for them and their dependents. Unlike so many charities, TRVFA provides skills for a life time rather than a temporary fix. It is so gratifying to see how so many of our grant recipients use their TRVFA assistance to propel them in their chosen 

John Kavanagh is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 23 since January 14, 2019. He previously served in the Arizona State Senate from 2015 to 2019.

Janet Lennox Moyer, FIALD, COLD, an internationally known lighting designer and recipient of many design awards, lived and worked on the West Coast for nearly 20 years before moving back to the East Coast in 1997. She has judged lighting competitions, been published extensively in magazines, newspapers, and books. She has taught all over the world since serving as teaching assistant for her undergraduate lighting course at Michigan State University. Ms. Moyer’s practice has included interior, commercial, and residential lighting, but her emphasis shifted to landscape lighting in 1983.

Jan taught landscape lighting at UC Berkeley and Rutgers University in the Landscape Continuing Education departments during the 1980s and the 1990s. Jan studied plant identification, plant propagation and pathology, garden design and layout at UC Berkeley, Merritt College, and local Extension courses for years. Jan became interested in plants while in college at Michigan State University, while working in the greenhouses. She developed a cactus and succulent greenhouse and garden on her property in Northern California.

Ginny and her family chose Fountain Hills as their home town in 1983. Born and raised in NY, she followed her parents who had fallen in love with this desert community in the seventies. Her siblings all relocated to AZ, creating a foundation here that spans multiple generations.

Ginny holds a BS in Mathematics from Tufts University. She’s been a banker, a bookkeeper and a part-time teacher, in AZ, VT and NH. She was an AZ Senate staffer and an Assistant Director at the Dept. of Environmental Quality. After retiring from the State, she worked with the US Attorney’s Office as a neighborhood liaison with various partners including law enforcement.

This meeting is a member favorite.  The local MCSO (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office), the Fountain Hills Rural Metro Firefighters, Rio Verde Fire District and McDowell-Yavapai first responders are honored for their brave and selfless acts of heroism.  The award recipients invite their families who proudly watch as their loved ones are honored.

Rotary Club of Fountain Hills Annual Cruise on the Desert Belle 4-8pm, featuring Music, happy hour w/ hors' d'oeuvres, all at a reasonable $18.00/pp. Wine Tasting on board during cruise (not incl in price)