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SUMMARY:Featured Speaker: Doris Colgate - Co-Owner\, President & CEO
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speaker for March 1st Meeting:Doris Colgate\nCo-Owner\, President & CEO\nBefore joining the advertising department of Yachting Magazine in 1967\, Doris had never been on a sailboat. However\, after taking a Learn to Sail course at Steve Colgate’s Offshore Sailing School and then a sailboat racing course run by Steve Colgate\, Doris became hooked on sailing – and Steve Colgate – who she married in 1969. \nDoris joined Offshore Sailing School full-time as its Vice President In 1970\, became President in 1978\, and CEO/President in 2001. The Colgates grew Offshore Sailing School from a one-branch\, two-instructor\, two-boat operation into the industry leader with more than 150\,000 graduates. \nDoris launched the National Women’s Sailing Association to create more awareness of sailing among women and help women build confidence in their sailing skills\, spearheaded You Can Sail Escapes to provide all-women sailing programs\, launched the sailing-mentoring program for at-risk girls AdventureSail\, and established the not-for-profit Women’s Sailing Foundation to enhance the lives of women and girls through education and access to the sport of sailing. \nDoris served the sailing industry as chair of U.S. Sailing’s Commercial Sailing School Committee\, BOAT U.S. National Advisory Council member\, and Sail America’s Board of Directors. \nDoris received the Betty Cook Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award from Boating Magazine\, and the Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award by BOAT U.S./NWSA. The National Sailing Hall of Fame inducted Doris into its ranks in November 2022. \nAlong with her husband Steve\, Doris was honored with the Industry Award for Leadership by the SAIL magazine\, presented the Timothea Larr Trophy in recognition of their outstanding leadership and excellence in sailing education by the U.S. national governing body of sailing\, U.S. Sailing and recognized by The Beaches of Sanibel & Ft. Myers Visitors and Convention Bureau in 2010 with the Junonia Award (its highest honor) for their tremendous commitment & dedication to the Lee County Tourism Industry\, and again in 2013 with the Chrysalis Award for Offshore Sailing School’s contribution to Lee County tourism in the Sales & Marketing category. \nAuthor of SAILING: A Woman’s Guide\, Doris received the 2000 Southam Award for her informative how-to guide for women. Along with husband Steve\, Doris co-authored Fast Track to Cruising in November 2005 and Fast Track to Sailing in 2009. \nOFFSHORE High\, a biography about Doris\, her husband\, Steve and Offshore Sailing School debuted in October 2021. According to acclaimed sailing author Larry Kretschmer\, OFFSHORE High is a biography of sailing pioneers and a fascinating panoramic of the sailing industry during its formative years. \nDoris earned listings in Who’s Who of America\, Who’s Who of American Women\, Who’s Who in the Southeast\, Who’s Who in Education\, and Who’s Who of the World. \nDoris and Steve reside in Ft. Myers\, Florida\, headquarters of their Offshore Sailing School and Colgate 26 enterprises. \nWEEKLY SUNRISE MEETING\nJoin us on Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Fort Myers at Bell Tower Shops\n13051 Bell Tower Drive\, FL\, 33907\nLET US KNOW YOU ARE ATTENDING\nCan’t Make it?\nJoin our Zoom Meeting – 2 Ways to Join\nONEClick on the link to our ZOOM ROOM below. With this method you can join via a desktop computer\, laptop computer\, tablet or phone. If you use a desktop or laptop you can use your regular browser or download the Zoom App for your computer. If you plan to join via a tablet or phone\, you must download the application from your phone provider’s App store. \nSunrise ZOOM RoomTWOClick on the link below and and enter\nMeeting ID: 465 653 4071 \nSunrise ZOOM Room
URL:https://fmsunriserotary.com/event/featured-speaker-doris-colgate-co-owner-president-ceo/
LOCATION:Doubletree at Bell Tower Shops\, 13051 Bell Tower Drive\, Fort Myers\, 33907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wednesday Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fort Myers Sunrise Rotary":MAILTO:rglsurf@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T073000
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DTSTAMP:20260417T060403
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SUMMARY:Featured Speaker: Judie Baker-Basil - Owner
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speaker for March 8th Meeting:Judie Baker-Basil\nOwner\nJudie Baker-Basil moved to Pine Island\, Florida\, in May 2014 with her husband\, Mickey Basil. She owns Basil’s Bottle and Glassworks\, located in Flea masters Flea market. Prior to moving to Florida\, she lived in the Washington\, DC\, area where she co-owned J & F Associates (a safe company). She is a Certified Safe Technician. Other career roles included sales training and opening new branch offices as a Vice­President for WMI\, an international sales company. \nIn 2017 Judie met Shawn Gilstad\, co-founder of Charlotte County Imagination Library (in 2011)\, an affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. This program intrigued Judie\, as she had studied Biology and Special Education at Towson State University and has a passion for child development. Over the next few years\, Judie learned more about the Imagination Library program\, which mails a free book to preschool children every month until they turn 5 years old. \nConversations with Imagination Library program staff in Tennessee gave Judie further encouragement to consider establishing an affiliate to serve the estimated 37\,000 preschool-age children living in Lee County. She worked with an attorney to establish Lee County Imagination Library\, a non-profit organization with 501(c)3 designation and the solicitation permit from the State of Florida in July 2022. Local affiliates of the Imagination Library program have 2 roles -to register the preschool children living in the contracted area and to raise the $26 per child needed annually to pay for the 12 free books to be mailed to each child. The Dollywood Foundation covers the other program expenses at no cost to the affiliates\, such as technology\, marketing materials\, book selection\, and contracts with publishers and other companies responsible for getting the books from publication to mail. \nWEEKLY SUNRISE MEETING\nJoin us on Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Fort Myers at Bell Tower Shops\n13051 Bell Tower Drive\, FL\, 33907\nLET US KNOW YOU ARE ATTENDING\nCan’t Make it?\nJoin our Zoom Meeting – 2 Ways to Join\nONEClick on the link to our ZOOM ROOM below. With this method you can join via a desktop computer\, laptop computer\, tablet or phone. If you use a desktop or laptop you can use your regular browser or download the Zoom App for your computer. If you plan to join via a tablet or phone\, you must download the application from your phone provider’s App store. \nSunrise ZOOM RoomTWOClick on the link below and and enter\nMeeting ID: 465 653 4071 \nSunrise ZOOM Room
URL:https://fmsunriserotary.com/event/featured-speaker-judie-baker-basil-owner/
LOCATION:Doubletree at Bell Tower Shops\, 13051 Bell Tower Drive\, Fort Myers\, 33907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wednesday Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fort Myers Sunrise Rotary":MAILTO:rglsurf@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T073000
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SUMMARY:Featured Speaker: Lucrecia Garcia - Youth Services Chair
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speaker for March 15th Meeting:Lucrecia Garcia\nYouth Services Chair\nLucrecia Garcia was born and raised in Venezuela. She studied Political Science at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV)and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Administration. After working for a couple of years at an Advertising and communications company in Caracas as an information department coordinator\, she decided to move to the USA. \nIn September of 1994\, she landed in Chicago to study English at Concordia University. After a few months\, she continued her English language studies at Truman College. In the summer of 1998\, she moved to Miami\, FL\, where she started and continued practical learning in accounting\, specifically bookkeeping. From 1998 through 2007\, she worked for different companies as Officer Manager and Bookkeeping Clerk. Her two children\, Christopher and Alyssa\, were born in Miami. \nIn 2007 Lucrecia had the opportunity to move to Fort Myers\, where two of her sisters were already living and raising their children. During her first four years in the SWFL area\, she continued to work in the accounting area with a couple of construction companies. In 2012 she had the opportunity to explore another area of work\, this time as a Legal Assistant at Bruno & Prado PLLC\, and was able to learn and work on Personal Injury and Worker Compensation cases\, and sometimes in Family cases. In 2016 the opportunity began to work in the insurance industry and found guidance from the experience of William Garcia\, who is not just a friend but the father of her children. She has been working as a licensed agent for Allied Marketing Group since then. \nIn 2019 she started a new line of work\, acquiring a Liberty Tax franchise in Fort Myers. The office was operative until October 2022\, when she and her business partner decided to close the operations and dedicate more time to health insurance. In the summer of 2017\, she was asked by the parent of her children’s friend if she was interested in being a host family in the Rotary Exchange Student Program. Since then\, she has had a wonderful experience hosting students from other latitudes of the world\, and she also sent her daughter as an exchange student to Japan in 2019. Her daughter was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Fort Myers – Sunrise\, and guided by John Steakley\, her club-sponsored counselor. Last year she was asked by Rotary to be the new Inbound Coordinator for our district. At this moment\, Lucrecia is the proud mom of a Marine and an International student in Sapporo\, Japan. \nWEEKLY SUNRISE MEETING\nJoin us on Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Fort Myers at Bell Tower Shops\n13051 Bell Tower Drive\, FL\, 33907\nLET US KNOW YOU ARE ATTENDING\nCan’t Make it?\nJoin our Zoom Meeting – 2 Ways to Join\nONEClick on the link to our ZOOM ROOM below. With this method you can join via a desktop computer\, laptop computer\, tablet or phone. If you use a desktop or laptop you can use your regular browser or download the Zoom App for your computer. If you plan to join via a tablet or phone\, you must download the application from your phone provider’s App store. \nSunrise ZOOM RoomTWOClick on the link below and and enter\nMeeting ID: 465 653 4071 \nSunrise ZOOM Room
URL:https://fmsunriserotary.com/event/featured-speaker-lucrecia-garcia-youth-services-chair/
LOCATION:Doubletree at Bell Tower Shops\, 13051 Bell Tower Drive\, Fort Myers\, 33907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wednesday Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fort Myers Sunrise Rotary":MAILTO:rglsurf@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T073000
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SUMMARY:Featured Speaker: Bryon Wilfert - Consulate General of Mongolia
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speaker for March 22nd Meeting:Bryon Wilfert\nConsulate General of Mongolia\nBryon Wilfert has Bachelor of Arts\, Bachelor of Education\, and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Toronto and a degree in public administration from St. Lawrence College in Kingston. In addition\, he is an Accredited Municipal Clerk. He taught history and political science at Havergal College in Toronto from 1977 to 1997. \nThe Honourable Bryon Wilfert has served more than ten years as the Chair and other Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group (CJIG) posts. He has contributed significantly to enhancing the relationship and promoting mutual understanding between Japan and Canada through interaction between both countries’ inter-parliamentary groups. In June 2011\, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold and Silver Star\, Japan’s second-highest honor\, by Emperor Akihito to recognize these outstanding contributions officially. \nWEEKLY SUNRISE MEETING\nJoin us on Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Fort Myers at Bell Tower Shops\n13051 Bell Tower Drive\, FL\, 33907\nLET US KNOW YOU ARE ATTENDING\n\nCan’t Make it?\nJoin our Zoom Meeting – 2 Ways to Join\nONEClick on the link to our ZOOM ROOM below. With this method you can join via a desktop computer\, laptop computer\, tablet or phone. If you use a desktop or laptop you can use your regular browser or download the Zoom App for your computer. If you plan to join via a tablet or phone\, you must download the application from your phone provider’s App store. \nSunrise ZOOM RoomTWOClick on the link below and and enter\nMeeting ID: 465 653 4071 \nSunrise ZOOM Room
URL:https://fmsunriserotary.com/event/featured-speaker-bryon-wilfert-consulate-general-of-mongolia/
LOCATION:Doubletree at Bell Tower Shops\, 13051 Bell Tower Drive\, Fort Myers\, 33907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wednesday Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fort Myers Sunrise Rotary":MAILTO:rglsurf@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T073000
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SUMMARY:Featured Speaker: Rob Spicker - Assistant Director
DESCRIPTION:Featured Speaker for March 29th Meeting:Rob Spicker\nAssistant Director\nRob Spicker is the Assistant Director of Media Relations and Public Information for the School District of Lee County. He serves as the primary spokesman for the School District and is involved in all District communication efforts\, social media\, video production\, and community outreach. \nPrior to joining the School District\, Rob was a broadcast journalist for 27 years. He spent 10 years waking up Southwest Florida as the anchor of WINK News This Morning on both WINK-TV and WXCW. Rob helped lead WINK News This Morning to unprecedented ratings success. Rob and his wife have three children and have called Fort Myers home since 2007. He is Board Vice President for the Animal Refuge Center in North Fort Myers\, which is Southwest Florida’s largest no-kill shelter. \nWEEKLY SUNRISE MEETING\nJoin us on Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Fort Myers at Bell Tower Shops\n13051 Bell Tower Drive\, FL\, 33907\nLET US KNOW YOU ARE ATTENDING\nCan’t Make it?\nJoin our Zoom Meeting – 2 Ways to Join\nONEClick on the link to our ZOOM ROOM below. With this method you can join via a desktop computer\, laptop computer\, tablet or phone. If you use a desktop or laptop you can use your regular browser or download the Zoom App for your computer. If you plan to join via a tablet or phone\, you must download the application from your phone provider’s App store. \nSunrise ZOOM RoomTWOClick on the link below and and enter\nMeeting ID: 465 653 4071 \nSunrise ZOOM Room
URL:https://fmsunriserotary.com/event/featured-speaker-rob-spicker-assistant-director/
LOCATION:Doubletree at Bell Tower Shops\, 13051 Bell Tower Drive\, Fort Myers\, 33907\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wednesday Meeting
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