February 20, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode of The Rotary Spark Podcast, we welcome Adam Reese, a dedicated member of the Bricktown Rotary Club. Originally from Gotebo, Oklahoma, Adam’s Rotary journey took off when he earned a scholarship that led him to join the organization in Denton, Texas. His story is one of commitment and community impact, shaped by a strong family legacy in auctioneering and a deep passion for service. Adam shares how his experiences across different Rotary districts have influenced his perspective and how he found a strong connection with the Bricktown Club during the pandemic.
We also explore the far-reaching impact of Rotary’s mission, showcasing service projects that embody the spirit of "service above self." From modernizing a fruit drive fundraiser in North Texas to providing fresh produce for local shelters, Adam highlights the creative ways Rotarians make a difference. The conversation extends beyond the U.S. to Guatemala, where partnerships with local Rotary clubs have helped rebuild schools and construct a collegiate dormitory, proving that service not only transforms communities but also enriches those who give their time and effort.
As Rotary Clubs continue to evolve from traditional meetings to globally connected service hubs, Bricktown Rotary is gearing up for its next international project in Bucerias, Nayarit. This initiative will focus on supporting families and children through education and shelter efforts. Stay engaged with Bricktown Rotary and District 5750 through digital platforms, and be sure to mark your calendar for the upcoming Days of Wine and Rotary event on May 2nd. Join us in making a meaningful impact while strengthening the bonds of service and fellowship.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Welcome to the Rotary Spark Podcast.
I'm your host, Brian Traeger,and today with me I have Adam
Reese from the Bricktown RotaryClub.
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
doing today.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Adam Doing great.
Brian, thanks for having me.
My pleasure.
Thanks for coming on down.
So tell us a little bit aboutyour Rotary history.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I was introduced to Rotary when I was a kid.
Actually, I took piano lessonsfrom a lady that played at the
Rotary Club in Mountain View,Oklahoma, and occasionally she
would have me in as theirentertainment.
Thanks to that, I won theRotary scholarship as I
graduated high school and tookthat along with me.
I then became a full-timeRotarian with my Denton Rotary
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Club in 2008.
From that point.
I've been a constant Rotarian.
I moved back to Oklahoma herein 2020 in the heart of COVID,
and in 21, 22, started clubhopping to find the right club.
I was still a member of myDenton downtown club and joined
the Bricktown Rotary Club, soI've been a road trainer for
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quite some time.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What differences if any, have you experienced
between the two differentdistricts?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You know, district 5790 is where it came from.
We had 91 clubs when we wereactive there and here at 5750,
we've got what?
32 clubs, I believe, that areactive.
I think each Rotary has the samemindset and you find the same
type of people in each room, andthen every Rotary club of
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course has its own persona, soto speak.
So each one is going to be alittle different.
Even in the clubs just withinOklahoma City I found that all
of them had great things tooffer and then you just got to
find the right fit in the rightclub for you and what makes
sense to you.
And if you connect with thosepeople in the room, then great.
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And I walked into the BrooktownRotary Club and I felt like I
connected with everybody in theroom in about 30 seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's great I think for some people it takes a few
clubs For others it'sinstantaneous, so I'm really
happy for you that you were ableto experience that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Do you miss some of the clubs in your old district I
do, but I have the great honorof going back and doing things
for them frequently.
Last year I got called to thegala affair.
They needed an auctioneer and Ihappened to be down there for a
horse show and I saidabsolutely, I'll hop in and do
your auction, for I think it wasa polio auction or something.
(03:04):
And then just this morning Iwas on the phone with past
district governor, marianneMcDuff, there in District 5790.
I was her governor's aide formultiple years leading up to her
governorship and then throughher governor year and then
beyond.
But I'm doing another event forher and a handful of Rotarians
called Didn't Benefit Lee comingup in April.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's very exciting.
So the auctioneer title thatyou've mentioned in the past.
Can you tell us a little bitabout that and some of the work
that you do with nonprofits?
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
My great-grandfather owned a Cadillac Pixelborn, and
then my granddad on the otherside of the fence actually had a
car dealership.
So I've been in and out of theauction since I was a little kid
and my great grandfather prettymuch not six months before he
passed in his hospital bed toldme if you want to put something
in your back pocket to take withyou, always go to auction
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school.
So in high school I thoughtabout that and it was my senior
year, and that fall after Igraduated high school I thought
about that and it was my senioryear and that fall after I
graduated high school I actuallywent to Missouri Auction School
, kansas City, missouri, and Ihave been doing auctions ever
since.
I've done anything from a smallfarm sale to a consignment
auction, all the way up to thebig gala fairs.
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I circled my real auction loveto nonprofits and I did that in
about 1999.
I created Reese Agency, reeseMarketing then it was Reese
Agency now, and I circle my lovearound nonprofits because my
heart gets in the way of mypocketbook and I love to raise
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money.
Give me a microphone on thestage and I'm going to raise
money for any nonprofit that youhave Are there any upcoming
events that you're going to bedoing auctioneer work for?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I do.
I've got an event coming up in.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Denton Texas which is coming soon for the Denton
Benefit League.
I have an event here inOklahoma City that we're going
to do.
Potentially we haven't decidedwhether we're going to have a
live auction or not for Days ofWine and Rotary.
Last year we did have some liveauction items which were nice.
We base our auctions on silentor live based on the amount of
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donations that we get.
So right now we are in thedonation series of planning for
that event.
May 2nd it'll happen and whatwe have to the table is yet to
be known.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And there'll be information tied to the
Bricktown Rotary Club's Facebookas well as the website, and
there'll be additionalinformation tied to podcast
material for anyone who wants todonate and or participate in
any capacity.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Absolutely.
I mean, we rely on all of ourconnections, from all of our
members, and each member reachesout to folks that they do
business with on an annual basisand ask for those easy
donations, whether it's a giftcard or any type of fun event
that perhaps people have ticketsto, of a fun event that perhaps
people have tickets to.
You know, thunder Games arealso very popular here in
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Oklahoma City, and just I meanthe reach is unlimited.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's great to see.
So just to let everyone knowthat might not be aware, I'm in
the same club as Adam.
I recently joined the BricktownRotary Club, so watching him
and everyone else on the boardand everyone that participates
within the club in any way is avery unique experience that I
appreciate.
So thank you for all of yourguidance so far, Adam.
Let us know what else is goingon in the Bricktown Rotary Club.
(06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Brian, I think we're going to put you to work pretty
soon and create a new committeeof sorts and actually maximize
that committee out for socialmedia marketing management and
public relations.
It's something that I don'tthink we've done too great of a
job at, but we're not terribleat either.
For Brooktown Rotary, I cameinto the club in a transition
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period, I guess you could sayand then we have just recently
rewritten our bylaws to coincidewith Rotary International and
kind of getting everything backin order on a timeline that
Rotary sets out for every Rotaryclub.
And getting on those timelinesand getting everything in order
was a challenge in the beginningof course, because change is
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hard for some folks, but I wasraised in Rotary by a group of
Rotary traditionalists is what Ilike to call them.
They are folks that have doneRotary since I was a toddler and
Rotary has been around for somany years because we don't have
to reinvent the wheel, it'salready invented for us and we
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just have to follow theguidelines of Rotary
International.
And then, when we do that, wediscover that, wow, these things
are written on purpose and theyhave a place and they have an
intention about them.
And then, when we follow thatintention, suddenly our Rotary
world becomes simplified and Itake an approach of keep it
simple, stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The rules are already written.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Let's just follow them.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That's great to keep in mind for new members or
prospective members.
Is there any advice that you'dwant to pass out to help anyone
integrate into Rotary?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think the easiest way to really integrate into any
Rotary club is immediatelyvolunteer.
Get involved in whatever seatthat you see fit, whatever
talents you have at the table,Bring them up and say, hey, I
want to volunteer because I haveexperience in XYZ and this, and
the more you can do that andthe more you can speak up,
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there's always a place foranybody in Rotary.
The more you can do that andthe more you can speak up,
there's always a place foranybody in Rotary.
If you look at RotaryInternational and all of the
fellowships and all of thedifferent things that RI offers,
you can just throw a dart on awall full of say anything, any
kind of descriptors, andwherever that dart hits you can
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do a search on RotaryInternational and you're going
to find a fellowship or a groupor something that has those same
like-minded sets.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Rotary Club in North Texas that really was created
out of a lunch group and theyquickly became the largest
Rotary Club of District 5790,amazingly so and they've got a
group of campers that they liketo camp, like three, four times
a year, and there's like 40, 50of them.
Great Family Fair, et cetera.
(09:31):
Anything that you want to do,there's a way to do it through
Rotary, whether it's bourbon andwine, beer, all those types of
fellowships, those are out there.
Those are types of clubs thatare available.
So, just getting involved, andif you have something that you
absolutely adore to do, checkout Rotary International, find
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the fellowship for it, and I betthere's like-minded people
within just Oklahoma City andDistrict 5750 that would have
the same.
One of my most uniqueexperiences in Rotary and
actually let me back that upwhen I first became a Rotarian.
I always say you have a Rotarymembership, but you truly don't
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understand what that means untilyou really become a Rotarian.
And there was a city councilmember that was in our club in
North Texas and he kind of threwme under the fruit bus, as I
like to say, and we did thishuge fruit drive from South
Texas where we brought freshgrapefruit and oranges from
South Texas every winter as abig, huge fundraiser for our
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club.
We sold half a truckload offruit.
It was unbelievable, like asemi-truckload and I was like
sure I'll help you out.
So I digitized the orderingprocess and kind of maximized
our exposure out in thecommunity et cetera, created
some deliveries, got myfraternity involved at UNT to
help deliver and help unloadthose trucks and all those
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things.
And when I truly became aRotarian was when I was
delivering those cases of fruitto the shelters around North
Texas and specifically aroundDenton, and when I walked into
the doors with fresh fruit inhand.
That's something that thoseshelters usually never get.
It's something that those foodbanks usually never get because
they don't have a shelf liferight.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
But the need is there and it's great.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's a great need.
I literally saw the clients inthe lobby salivating at the
looks of the cases of orangesand the cases of fruit and that
was my aha moment when I saidthis is what we do, this is what
it's all about.
It's all about service aboveself.
This is us being a Rotarian Fastforward to 2016-17,.
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I was the governor's aide forour district governor at the
time and I was working with theincoming governor because he
wanted to remove our districtconference and create an
international service project inGuatemala.
Well, everybody thought he hadlost his mind.
We started connecting with aHouston club, a Guatemalan
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Rotarian club Antigua, guatemala, guatemala City.
We worked with three differentRotary clubs in Guatemala and we
worked with multiple Rotaryclubs across North Texas and we
created this internationalservice project.
I had no intention of being inGuatemala, but I was just going
to plan the whole trip.
So I negotiated contracts withthe Guatemalans.
I got us a hotel, I got usrestaurants, I got us places to
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eat, I got us a few tours forfun, and we went down there and
we rebuilt some schools inAntigua, tocal and around
Guatemala City and then, inGuatemala City specifically, we
built an entire dorm out forsome students.
That was a very uniquecollegiate type of dorm and in
the morning the college studentslived on site and they would
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take their classes In theafternoon those same college
students would teach the youngerstudents of Guatemala all the
skill sets that they needed, inwhatever grades that they were
in.
Tremendous, tremendous trip Last.
About six weeks before the tripwas to happen, the governor at
the time said I can't do thistrip without you.
You've got to be boots on theground.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I ended up going to Guatemala and Guatemala City.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We were there for nine days Amazing experience
helping the people of Guatemalaand rebuilding schools that were
in dire need of being rebuiltrepainting, cleaning, doing all
kinds of service projects andthen building out the collegiate
dorm was a tremendousexperience in 2019.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
We had a plan to go to.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Tikal and help the people of Tikal for their
volcanoes and all thedestruction.
However, 2020 happened, sothose plans got put on the shelf
.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's a long way from fresh fruit.
Long way from fresh fruit,right.
So Rotary does all kinds ofthings.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It's really cool that we can do such significant
impacts, whether it's a case offruit or traveling across the
country and helping people inanother country and connecting
with Rotary clubs around theworld.
So as a Rotarian, you have what?
There's 1.2 million Rotariansacross the world and 36,000 plus
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clubs, If my numbers are rightin my head.
You can go anywhere in theworld and find a Rotary club
yeah, yeah.
No, that's.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's a lot to process and I'll always be grateful,
regardless of what mental statethat I'm in, because Rotary has
made my life better, and that'show I know that it works.
It's not even knowing whatRotary was it gave to me which
allows me to continue to giveback, and it's, if anything, not
even knowing what Rotary was itgave to me which allows me to
continue to give back, and it's,if anything, rotary's taught me
how important it is tounconditionally care as much as
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possible, minimize and oreliminate expectations and just
be remain grateful for havingsuch a strong channel to
maintain that momentum of giving.
For sure, for me it's.
It's just I mean again Imention this all the time I
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won't be able to use this excusefor too much longer.
I'm relatively new in rotary.
I'm about a year and a halfgoing on two years in and I
still have a lot to learn, butit really is a space where, as a
Rotarian, I can humble myselfto people that are farther along
than I am, and I can work onmyself.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I can give back to the community and I can become a
much better version of myself,so that I can continue to give
back in more of a pure way, sothat I can continue to give back
in more of a pure way, which is, I mean, I just don't have
words.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's a fantastic opportunity.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Leading by the four-way test of Rotary is a
great way to lead anyorganization.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It doesn't matter whether you're in Rotary or
outside of Rotary or what haveyou.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I have the four-way test on my fridge.
I have the four-way test on mykeychain.
I have the four-way test inevery office that I've ever had
and it's hung brightly and in acentral place where anybody that
walks in the door says what'sthat?
I can say, well, that's RotaryInternational, that's our
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four-way test.
This is what we do and the waywe think, say or do we do
everything by the four-way test.
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill andbetter friendships?
Will it be beneficial to allconcerned?
And imagine a world if weutilized the four-way test in
everything that we think, say ordo?
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I've led sales teams, I'veworked in academia and I've
taught students the four-waytest At the University of North
Texas.
I helped recreate ouruniversity Rotarians and our
Rotaract group there andeverywhere that I've introduced
that everybody has said Wow,that's so impactful.
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One of the most unique thingsthat I think 5790 did and a lot
of districts do this is a rotaryfour-way test competition for
speech competition for youth.
What I would love to seeDistrict 5750 do is a rotary
four-way test competition foryouth, but I would also love to
see them do a rotary four-waytest competition for adults.
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Make those adults go throughthat same process that the youth
have to go through, becausesome of those four-way test
competitors, if you've neverheard them go Google it.
There's going to be tons ofvideos out there with those
kiddos.
They take it in such a way thatyou wouldn't even imagine and
it just blows your mind right,completely blows your mind on
what their thought process is ofthe rotary four-way test being
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just now introduced to it.
Never really been around,rotarians et cetera know nothing
about it.
They take it with you know,eyes wide open and then they say
we can apply this in X, y and Zway in their life.
It's tremendous what thesekiddos think about and what they
do, and I would love to seethat from Rotarians.
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What is your perspective of arotary four-way test?
So perhaps we just make thatchallenge today, mac's coming in
as governor next year.
Let's say, mac, we need to havean adult rotary four-way test
for 5750 and see where we go.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You hear that Mac.
I know you're out therelistening.
This is your challenge.
This is our challenge as arotary district.
I like that a lot so, and Iencourage anyone and everyone
within our district, or someonewho's not in Rotary yet, to come
down to Charleston's inBricktown 530 pm CST every
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single week.
We'll be more than happy towelcome you into the club to
visit.
We'll also, you know, take youto some other clubs and we'd
love to break bread with you100%.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I mean Rotary is on a model that we have to continue
to recruit.
A great boss of mine said to meyears ago if we can't stop them
from going out the back door,how are we going to keep them
from coming in the front door?
So we have to continuouslyrecruit.
Things happen, life gets in theway, all kinds of stuff happens
, but there's a club foreverybody, whether you like
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breakfast, lunch, no, dinner,whatever happy hour.
It's simple.
It's no longer your, as Ialways say, your grandfather's
Rotary Club, because mygrandfather was a Rotarian so
many years ago, and it was thefork and knife club at noon
every week and you were forcedto be there.
Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
No, it's all about engagement.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It's all about doing something.
It's not necessarily aboutshowing up to every meeting
every week.
That's a great thing to dobecause, that's the way we
become true friends andRotarians together and really
work together.
However, it's really more aboutengagement outside of that too.
So there are so manyopportunities, not just within
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whatever club you're a member of, but within any club across the
world.
I try to seek out a clubanytime that I'm on travel, If I
have time to go grab lunch ordinner or breakfast or whatever.
Whenever they're meeting, youcan go find a club across the
country and across the world andI try to reach out to them
because it's a cool experienceto walk in the door and say I am
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a member of XYZ Club and I'dlove to join you for lunch, and
they welcome you with open armsand they appreciate you as a
guest.
There's a flag program of courseyou can take your club's flag
and do a flag exchange.
I did that for fun last yearwith my Denton Rotary Club and
surprised them in the room.
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Of course, by surprising themin the room.
they said well, now that you'rehere, you have to lead our
singing, because we were asinging club and we sang every
lunchtime, lunchtime, and so Iled the song and presented the
flag from Bricktown Rotary andbrought the Denton Rotary Club
flag back for Bricktown Rotary,et cetera, as a flag exchange.
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That's just one of the oldtraditions of Rotary, I guess,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I like that.
You mentioned that there's alot of behind the scenes stuff,
whether it's you know doing apodcast doing website
development, working on projects, working on policy changes,
picking up the phone andembracing a connection with
another district governorthrough, you know, in your
country or maybe in a differentcountry.
You know we have.
We're lucky enough that, eventhough this podcast hasn't been
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around too too long, we've hit,you know, at least like 10 plus.
You know countries throughoutthe world, and that's the power
of Rotary.
It's not I mean, it hassomething to do with technology
and the mix of people and stufflike that.
But without having Rotary as aplatform, I don't think that
would have happened as quickly.
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And there's just there are somany extracurricular activities.
If what I'm learning is, ifyou're willing to put skin in
the game, you're going to beable to engage with other people
that have skin in the game 100%.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, one of the cool things that Bricktown Rotary is
about to do is we're adoptingan international service project
, and these folks, um, I met in2021 and I built a hotel with a
mentor of mine many moons ago inin a little sleepy village
called Bucerias Nayarit, and Iwas down there in 21,.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Uh, staying at the hotel we sold out in 08.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Um but the new owner was uh about to take ownership
of of the hotel so went aheadand rented it and stayed there
with the new ownership and theold owner outgoing had turned
the kitchen the commercialkitchen into basically a soup
kitchen.
I'd met these folks from Canadathat retired to Bucerius in 2019
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, and they brought golf cartsfor golf cart rental because it
was a vibrant community of a lotof transient and vacationers.
2020 happened and they had allthese golf carts and nobody
renting them and they put theirgolf carts into service and they
started serving the people ofBucerias and discovering that
families were home without food.
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They were bringing food to them, also discovered that kids were
home alone without parentsbecause their parents were
having to work to even try topay the bills, et cetera, and
scraping pennies together to doso.
This evolved into what's nowcalled a refuge of hope, where
they are teaching students fromwhere they are, how they are.
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They have 12 and 13 year oldsthat never even knew their ABCs.
They have mothers that were inbad situations and needed out of
their family structure becauseof abuse or cartel or whatever
it may have been.
So they're bringing them intothe fold along with the kids and
giving them a safe space tocome and stay.
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They're expanding and they'rebuilding a four-story building
next door, on the lot next door,which will actually butt up to
the building they own now andthe building now is going to be
a three-story housing unit forfamilies that need housing and
need that time of regrouping andthat support for housing.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And then the four-story building next door is
going to be the new school thatthey're building for the kiddos
of Bucerias.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
That area is beautiful and it's covered in
tourists, et cetera, but youdon't see the true Mexico and
the true need there unless yougo up the hill a little further
east and then you find theRefuge of Hope where they're
doing the greater good.
Bricktown Rotary Club is goingto adopt the Refuge of Hope and
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we invite anybody else thatwants to come and be a part of
that project to do so I took agroup in October down there and
part of our mission there was todo a tour and find out their
need and find out what they'regoing to do and what their plans
were.
I took a ton of photos andspoke at length with the
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families and with the peoplethat run the place, it's a full
501c3.
They have a board of directorsjust like anybody else.
They follow the rules just likeanybody else.
Anybody else, they follow therules just like anybody else,
and then we'll connect with aRotary Club either in Nuevo
Vallarta or Puerto Vallarta,because the Bucerias Rotary Club
is no longer, unfortunately,the Nuevo Vallarta wasn't
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meeting the week that I wasthere.
They meet every other week butwe were there for 10 days and I
just missed them.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So I'm going back again in May and I do have some
rooms available.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
if anybody wants to hop on that trip and come, those
are at my cost.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Thanks to the new owner of the hotel that I helped
build.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
He's giving us all at cost, which is really nice, so
we can come down and do somegreater good, also have some fun
along the way and just get toknow our fellow Rotarians a
little better.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So that trip's coming up in May, so anybody who wants
to hop on board, reach out andit'll be our second step in
creating this internationalservice project, and then we're
going to do an internationalgrant through Rotary.
That's fantastic, and all thechannels tied to the club, as
well as the district, will makethat more of an availability.
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Anyone who wants to reach outto Adam, anyone connected to the
project, will have the abilityto do so.
Thanks for sharing that, adam.
That's fantastic.
So let's see.
I'd like to wrap this up bythanking the Almonte Library
They've been fantastic for thelast 23 to 24 episodes.
Montee Library They've beenfantastic for the last 23 to 24
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episodes.
I'd like to thank RotaryDistrict 5750, as well as Rotary
International and ITSpark forsupporting us in the background
and anyone I haven't thought of.
Sometimes people ororganizations fall between the
cracks.
A lot of people inside andoutside of Rotary have helped me
and others along the way, sothank you for that.
Go ahead and check out ourwebsite, rotary5750.org.
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I believe Brooktown isbrooktownrotaryorg, and both
Rotary, district 5750 as well asBrooktown Rotary can be found
on Facebook.
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further through this tech lens.
I want everyone to have awonderful weekend and thanks
again, Adam, for coming by.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Thanks for having me, Brian.
I appreciate it and don'tforget, May 2nd is.
Brooktown Rotary's Days of Wineand Rotary.
I'll see you there, thank you.
Welcome to the Rotary Spark Podcast.
I'm your host, Brian Traeger,and today with me I have Adam
Reese from the Bricktown RotaryClub.
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
doing today.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Adam Doing great.
Brian, thanks for having me.
My pleasure.
Thanks for coming on down.
So tell us a little bit aboutyour Rotary history.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I was introduced to Rotary when I was a kid.
Actually, I took piano lessonsfrom a lady that played at the
Rotary Club in Mountain View,Oklahoma, and occasionally she
would have me in as theirentertainment.
Thanks to that, I won theRotary scholarship as I
graduated high school and tookthat along with me.
I then became a full-timeRotarian with my Denton Rotary
(01:12):
Club in 2008.
From that point.
I've been a constant Rotarian.
I moved back to Oklahoma herein 2020 in the heart of COVID,
and in 21, 22, started clubhopping to find the right club.
I was still a member of myDenton downtown club and joined
the Bricktown Rotary Club, soI've been a road trainer for
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quite some time.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What differences if any, have you experienced
between the two differentdistricts?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You know, district 5790 is where it came from.
We had 91 clubs when we wereactive there and here at 5750,
we've got what?
32 clubs, I believe, that areactive.
I think each Rotary has the samemindset and you find the same
type of people in each room, andthen every Rotary club of
(02:02):
course has its own persona, soto speak.
So each one is going to be alittle different.
Even in the clubs just withinOklahoma City I found that all
of them had great things tooffer and then you just got to
find the right fit in the rightclub for you and what makes
sense to you.
And if you connect with thosepeople in the room, then great.
(02:23):
And I walked into the BrooktownRotary Club and I felt like I
connected with everybody in theroom in about 30 seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's great I think for some people it takes a few
clubs For others it'sinstantaneous, so I'm really
happy for you that you were ableto experience that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Do you miss some of the clubs in your old district I
do, but I have the great honorof going back and doing things
for them frequently.
Last year I got called to thegala affair.
They needed an auctioneer and Ihappened to be down there for a
horse show and I saidabsolutely, I'll hop in and do
your auction, for I think it wasa polio auction or something.
(03:04):
And then just this morning Iwas on the phone with past
district governor, marianneMcDuff, there in District 5790.
I was her governor's aide formultiple years leading up to her
governorship and then throughher governor year and then
beyond.
But I'm doing another event forher and a handful of Rotarians
called Didn't Benefit Lee comingup in April.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's very exciting.
So the auctioneer title thatyou've mentioned in the past.
Can you tell us a little bitabout that and some of the work
that you do with nonprofits?
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
My great-grandfather owned a Cadillac Pixelborn, and
then my granddad on the otherside of the fence actually had a
car dealership.
So I've been in and out of theauction since I was a little kid
and my great grandfather prettymuch not six months before he
passed in his hospital bed toldme if you want to put something
in your back pocket to take withyou, always go to auction
(03:59):
school.
So in high school I thoughtabout that and it was my senior
year, and that fall after Igraduated high school I thought
about that and it was my senioryear and that fall after I
graduated high school I actuallywent to Missouri Auction School
, kansas City, missouri, and Ihave been doing auctions ever
since.
I've done anything from a smallfarm sale to a consignment
auction, all the way up to thebig gala fairs.
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I circled my real auction loveto nonprofits and I did that in
about 1999.
I created Reese Agency, reeseMarketing then it was Reese
Agency now, and I circle my lovearound nonprofits because my
heart gets in the way of mypocketbook and I love to raise
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money.
Give me a microphone on thestage and I'm going to raise
money for any nonprofit that youhave Are there any upcoming
events that you're going to bedoing auctioneer work for?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I do.
I've got an event coming up in.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Denton Texas which is coming soon for the Denton
Benefit League.
I have an event here inOklahoma City that we're going
to do.
Potentially we haven't decidedwhether we're going to have a
live auction or not for Days ofWine and Rotary.
Last year we did have some liveauction items which were nice.
We base our auctions on silentor live based on the amount of
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donations that we get.
So right now we are in thedonation series of planning for
that event.
May 2nd it'll happen and whatwe have to the table is yet to
be known.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And there'll be information tied to the
Bricktown Rotary Club's Facebookas well as the website, and
there'll be additionalinformation tied to podcast
material for anyone who wants todonate and or participate in
any capacity.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Absolutely.
I mean, we rely on all of ourconnections, from all of our
members, and each member reachesout to folks that they do
business with on an annual basisand ask for those easy
donations, whether it's a giftcard or any type of fun event
that perhaps people have ticketsto, of a fun event that perhaps
people have tickets to.
You know, thunder Games arealso very popular here in
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Oklahoma City, and just I meanthe reach is unlimited.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's great to see.
So just to let everyone knowthat might not be aware, I'm in
the same club as Adam.
I recently joined the BricktownRotary Club, so watching him
and everyone else on the boardand everyone that participates
within the club in any way is avery unique experience that I
appreciate.
So thank you for all of yourguidance so far, Adam.
Let us know what else is goingon in the Bricktown Rotary Club.
(06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Brian, I think we're going to put you to work pretty
soon and create a new committeeof sorts and actually maximize
that committee out for socialmedia marketing management and
public relations.
It's something that I don'tthink we've done too great of a
job at, but we're not terribleat either.
For Brooktown Rotary, I cameinto the club in a transition
(06:59):
period, I guess you could sayand then we have just recently
rewritten our bylaws to coincidewith Rotary International and
kind of getting everything backin order on a timeline that
Rotary sets out for every Rotaryclub.
And getting on those timelinesand getting everything in order
was a challenge in the beginningof course, because change is
(07:22):
hard for some folks, but I wasraised in Rotary by a group of
Rotary traditionalists is what Ilike to call them.
They are folks that have doneRotary since I was a toddler and
Rotary has been around for somany years because we don't have
to reinvent the wheel, it'salready invented for us and we
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just have to follow theguidelines of Rotary
International.
And then, when we do that, wediscover that, wow, these things
are written on purpose and theyhave a place and they have an
intention about them.
And then, when we follow thatintention, suddenly our Rotary
world becomes simplified and Itake an approach of keep it
simple, stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The rules are already written.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Let's just follow them.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That's great to keep in mind for new members or
prospective members.
Is there any advice that you'dwant to pass out to help anyone
integrate into Rotary?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think the easiest way to really integrate into any
Rotary club is immediatelyvolunteer.
Get involved in whatever seatthat you see fit, whatever
talents you have at the table,Bring them up and say, hey, I
want to volunteer because I haveexperience in XYZ and this, and
the more you can do that andthe more you can speak up,
(08:43):
there's always a place foranybody in Rotary.
The more you can do that andthe more you can speak up,
there's always a place foranybody in Rotary.
If you look at RotaryInternational and all of the
fellowships and all of thedifferent things that RI offers,
you can just throw a dart on awall full of say anything, any
kind of descriptors, andwherever that dart hits you can
(09:06):
do a search on RotaryInternational and you're going
to find a fellowship or a groupor something that has those same
like-minded sets.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
There's a.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Rotary Club in North Texas that really was created
out of a lunch group and theyquickly became the largest
Rotary Club of District 5790,amazingly so and they've got a
group of campers that they liketo camp, like three, four times
a year, and there's like 40, 50of them.
Great Family Fair, et cetera.
(09:31):
Anything that you want to do,there's a way to do it through
Rotary, whether it's bourbon andwine, beer, all those types of
fellowships, those are out there.
Those are types of clubs thatare available.
So, just getting involved, andif you have something that you
absolutely adore to do, checkout Rotary International, find
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the fellowship for it, and I betthere's like-minded people
within just Oklahoma City andDistrict 5750 that would have
the same.
One of my most uniqueexperiences in Rotary and
actually let me back that upwhen I first became a Rotarian.
I always say you have a Rotarymembership, but you truly don't
(10:15):
understand what that means untilyou really become a Rotarian.
And there was a city councilmember that was in our club in
North Texas and he kind of threwme under the fruit bus, as I
like to say, and we did thishuge fruit drive from South
Texas where we brought freshgrapefruit and oranges from
South Texas every winter as abig, huge fundraiser for our
(10:37):
club.
We sold half a truckload offruit.
It was unbelievable, like asemi-truckload and I was like
sure I'll help you out.
So I digitized the orderingprocess and kind of maximized
our exposure out in thecommunity et cetera, created
some deliveries, got myfraternity involved at UNT to
help deliver and help unloadthose trucks and all those
(10:58):
things.
And when I truly became aRotarian was when I was
delivering those cases of fruitto the shelters around North
Texas and specifically aroundDenton, and when I walked into
the doors with fresh fruit inhand.
That's something that thoseshelters usually never get.
It's something that those foodbanks usually never get because
they don't have a shelf liferight.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
But the need is there and it's great.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's a great need.
I literally saw the clients inthe lobby salivating at the
looks of the cases of orangesand the cases of fruit and that
was my aha moment when I saidthis is what we do, this is what
it's all about.
It's all about service aboveself.
This is us being a Rotarian Fastforward to 2016-17,.
(11:45):
I was the governor's aide forour district governor at the
time and I was working with theincoming governor because he
wanted to remove our districtconference and create an
international service project inGuatemala.
Well, everybody thought he hadlost his mind.
We started connecting with aHouston club, a Guatemalan
(12:07):
Rotarian club Antigua, guatemala, guatemala City.
We worked with three differentRotary clubs in Guatemala and we
worked with multiple Rotaryclubs across North Texas and we
created this internationalservice project.
I had no intention of being inGuatemala, but I was just going
to plan the whole trip.
So I negotiated contracts withthe Guatemalans.
I got us a hotel, I got usrestaurants, I got us places to
(12:30):
eat, I got us a few tours forfun, and we went down there and
we rebuilt some schools inAntigua, tocal and around
Guatemala City and then, inGuatemala City specifically, we
built an entire dorm out forsome students.
That was a very uniquecollegiate type of dorm and in
the morning the college studentslived on site and they would
(12:54):
take their classes In theafternoon those same college
students would teach the youngerstudents of Guatemala all the
skill sets that they needed, inwhatever grades that they were
in.
Tremendous, tremendous trip Last.
About six weeks before the tripwas to happen, the governor at
the time said I can't do thistrip without you.
You've got to be boots on theground.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I ended up going to Guatemala and Guatemala City.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We were there for nine days Amazing experience
helping the people of Guatemalaand rebuilding schools that were
in dire need of being rebuiltrepainting, cleaning, doing all
kinds of service projects andthen building out the collegiate
dorm was a tremendousexperience in 2019.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
We had a plan to go to.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Tikal and help the people of Tikal for their
volcanoes and all thedestruction.
However, 2020 happened, sothose plans got put on the shelf
.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It's a long way from fresh fruit.
Long way from fresh fruit,right.
So Rotary does all kinds ofthings.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It's really cool that we can do such significant
impacts, whether it's a case offruit or traveling across the
country and helping people inanother country and connecting
with Rotary clubs around theworld.
So as a Rotarian, you have what?
There's 1.2 million Rotariansacross the world and 36,000 plus
(14:17):
clubs, If my numbers are rightin my head.
You can go anywhere in theworld and find a Rotary club
yeah, yeah.
No, that's.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's a lot to process and I'll always be grateful,
regardless of what mental statethat I'm in, because Rotary has
made my life better, and that'show I know that it works.
It's not even knowing whatRotary was it gave to me which
allows me to continue to giveback, and it's, if anything, not
even knowing what Rotary was itgave to me which allows me to
continue to give back, and it's,if anything, rotary's taught me
how important it is tounconditionally care as much as
(14:52):
possible, minimize and oreliminate expectations and just
be remain grateful for havingsuch a strong channel to
maintain that momentum of giving.
For sure, for me it's.
It's just I mean again Imention this all the time I
(15:16):
won't be able to use this excusefor too much longer.
I'm relatively new in rotary.
I'm about a year and a halfgoing on two years in and I
still have a lot to learn, butit really is a space where, as a
Rotarian, I can humble myselfto people that are farther along
than I am, and I can work onmyself.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I can give back to the community and I can become a
much better version of myself,so that I can continue to give
back in more of a pure way, sothat I can continue to give back
in more of a pure way, which is, I mean, I just don't have
words.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It's a fantastic opportunity.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Leading by the four-way test of Rotary is a
great way to lead anyorganization.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It doesn't matter whether you're in Rotary or
outside of Rotary or what haveyou.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I have the four-way test on my fridge.
I have the four-way test on mykeychain.
I have the four-way test inevery office that I've ever had
and it's hung brightly and in acentral place where anybody that
walks in the door says what'sthat?
I can say, well, that's RotaryInternational, that's our
(16:24):
four-way test.
This is what we do and the waywe think, say or do we do
everything by the four-way test.
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill andbetter friendships?
Will it be beneficial to allconcerned?
And imagine a world if weutilized the four-way test in
everything that we think, say ordo?
(16:48):
I've led sales teams, I'veworked in academia and I've
taught students the four-waytest At the University of North
Texas.
I helped recreate ouruniversity Rotarians and our
Rotaract group there andeverywhere that I've introduced
that everybody has said Wow,that's so impactful.
(17:08):
One of the most unique thingsthat I think 5790 did and a lot
of districts do this is a rotaryfour-way test competition for
speech competition for youth.
What I would love to seeDistrict 5750 do is a rotary
four-way test competition foryouth, but I would also love to
see them do a rotary four-waytest competition for adults.
(17:32):
Make those adults go throughthat same process that the youth
have to go through, becausesome of those four-way test
competitors, if you've neverheard them go Google it.
There's going to be tons ofvideos out there with those
kiddos.
They take it in such a way thatyou wouldn't even imagine and
it just blows your mind right,completely blows your mind on
what their thought process is ofthe rotary four-way test being
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just now introduced to it.
Never really been around,rotarians et cetera know nothing
about it.
They take it with you know,eyes wide open and then they say
we can apply this in X, y and Zway in their life.
It's tremendous what thesekiddos think about and what they
do, and I would love to seethat from Rotarians.
(18:18):
What is your perspective of arotary four-way test?
So perhaps we just make thatchallenge today, mac's coming in
as governor next year.
Let's say, mac, we need to havean adult rotary four-way test
for 5750 and see where we go.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You hear that Mac.
I know you're out therelistening.
This is your challenge.
This is our challenge as arotary district.
I like that a lot so, and Iencourage anyone and everyone
within our district, or someonewho's not in Rotary yet, to come
down to Charleston's inBricktown 530 pm CST every
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single week.
We'll be more than happy towelcome you into the club to
visit.
We'll also, you know, take youto some other clubs and we'd
love to break bread with you100%.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I mean Rotary is on a model that we have to continue
to recruit.
A great boss of mine said to meyears ago if we can't stop them
from going out the back door,how are we going to keep them
from coming in the front door?
So we have to continuouslyrecruit.
Things happen, life gets in theway, all kinds of stuff happens
, but there's a club foreverybody, whether you like
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breakfast, lunch, no, dinner,whatever happy hour.
It's simple.
It's no longer your, as Ialways say, your grandfather's
Rotary Club, because mygrandfather was a Rotarian so
many years ago, and it was thefork and knife club at noon
every week and you were forcedto be there.
Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
No, it's all about engagement.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It's all about doing something.
It's not necessarily aboutshowing up to every meeting
every week.
That's a great thing to dobecause, that's the way we
become true friends andRotarians together and really
work together.
However, it's really more aboutengagement outside of that too.
So there are so manyopportunities, not just within
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whatever club you're a member of, but within any club across the
world.
I try to seek out a clubanytime that I'm on travel, If I
have time to go grab lunch ordinner or breakfast or whatever.
Whenever they're meeting, youcan go find a club across the
country and across the world andI try to reach out to them
because it's a cool experienceto walk in the door and say I am
(20:38):
a member of XYZ Club and I'dlove to join you for lunch, and
they welcome you with open armsand they appreciate you as a
guest.
There's a flag program of courseyou can take your club's flag
and do a flag exchange.
I did that for fun last yearwith my Denton Rotary Club and
surprised them in the room.
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Of course, by surprising themin the room.
they said well, now that you'rehere, you have to lead our
singing, because we were asinging club and we sang every
lunchtime, lunchtime, and so Iled the song and presented the
flag from Bricktown Rotary andbrought the Denton Rotary Club
flag back for Bricktown Rotary,et cetera, as a flag exchange.
(21:19):
That's just one of the oldtraditions of Rotary, I guess,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I like that.
You mentioned that there's alot of behind the scenes stuff,
whether it's you know doing apodcast doing website
development, working on projects, working on policy changes,
picking up the phone andembracing a connection with
another district governorthrough, you know, in your
country or maybe in a differentcountry.
You know we have.
We're lucky enough that, eventhough this podcast hasn't been
(21:48):
around too too long, we've hit,you know, at least like 10 plus.
You know countries throughoutthe world, and that's the power
of Rotary.
It's not I mean, it hassomething to do with technology
and the mix of people and stufflike that.
But without having Rotary as aplatform, I don't think that
would have happened as quickly.
(22:08):
And there's just there are somany extracurricular activities.
If what I'm learning is, ifyou're willing to put skin in
the game, you're going to beable to engage with other people
that have skin in the game 100%.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, one of the cool things that Bricktown Rotary is
about to do is we're adoptingan international service project
, and these folks, um, I met in2021 and I built a hotel with a
mentor of mine many moons ago inin a little sleepy village
called Bucerias Nayarit, and Iwas down there in 21,.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Uh, staying at the hotel we sold out in 08.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Um but the new owner was uh about to take ownership
of of the hotel so went aheadand rented it and stayed there
with the new ownership and theold owner outgoing had turned
the kitchen the commercialkitchen into basically a soup
kitchen.
I'd met these folks from Canadathat retired to Bucerius in 2019
(23:04):
, and they brought golf cartsfor golf cart rental because it
was a vibrant community of a lotof transient and vacationers.
2020 happened and they had allthese golf carts and nobody
renting them and they put theirgolf carts into service and they
started serving the people ofBucerias and discovering that
families were home without food.
(23:25):
They were bringing food to them, also discovered that kids were
home alone without parentsbecause their parents were
having to work to even try topay the bills, et cetera, and
scraping pennies together to doso.
This evolved into what's nowcalled a refuge of hope, where
they are teaching students fromwhere they are, how they are.
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They have 12 and 13 year oldsthat never even knew their ABCs.
They have mothers that were inbad situations and needed out of
their family structure becauseof abuse or cartel or whatever
it may have been.
So they're bringing them intothe fold along with the kids and
giving them a safe space tocome and stay.
(24:09):
They're expanding and they'rebuilding a four-story building
next door, on the lot next door,which will actually butt up to
the building they own now andthe building now is going to be
a three-story housing unit forfamilies that need housing and
need that time of regrouping andthat support for housing.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And then the four-story building next door is
going to be the new school thatthey're building for the kiddos
of Bucerias.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
That area is beautiful and it's covered in
tourists, et cetera, but youdon't see the true Mexico and
the true need there unless yougo up the hill a little further
east and then you find theRefuge of Hope where they're
doing the greater good.
Bricktown Rotary Club is goingto adopt the Refuge of Hope and
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we invite anybody else thatwants to come and be a part of
that project to do so I took agroup in October down there and
part of our mission there was todo a tour and find out their
need and find out what they'regoing to do and what their plans
were.
I took a ton of photos andspoke at length with the
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families and with the peoplethat run the place, it's a full
501c3.
They have a board of directorsjust like anybody else.
They follow the rules just likeanybody else.
Anybody else, they follow therules just like anybody else,
and then we'll connect with aRotary Club either in Nuevo
Vallarta or Puerto Vallarta,because the Bucerias Rotary Club
is no longer, unfortunately,the Nuevo Vallarta wasn't
(25:40):
meeting the week that I wasthere.
They meet every other week butwe were there for 10 days and I
just missed them.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So I'm going back again in May and I do have some
rooms available.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
if anybody wants to hop on that trip and come, those
are at my cost.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Thanks to the new owner of the hotel that I helped
build.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
He's giving us all at cost, which is really nice, so
we can come down and do somegreater good, also have some fun
along the way and just get toknow our fellow Rotarians a
little better.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So that trip's coming up in May, so anybody who wants
to hop on board, reach out andit'll be our second step in
creating this internationalservice project, and then we're
going to do an internationalgrant through Rotary.
That's fantastic, and all thechannels tied to the club, as
well as the district, will makethat more of an availability.
(26:31):
Anyone who wants to reach outto Adam, anyone connected to the
project, will have the abilityto do so.
Thanks for sharing that, adam.
That's fantastic.
So let's see.
I'd like to wrap this up bythanking the Almonte Library
They've been fantastic for thelast 23 to 24 episodes.
Montee Library They've beenfantastic for the last 23 to 24
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episodes.
I'd like to thank RotaryDistrict 5750, as well as Rotary
International and ITSpark forsupporting us in the background
and anyone I haven't thought of.
Sometimes people ororganizations fall between the
cracks.
A lot of people inside andoutside of Rotary have helped me
and others along the way, sothank you for that.
Go ahead and check out ourwebsite, rotary5750.org.
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I believe Brooktown isbrooktownrotaryorg, and both
Rotary, district 5750 as well asBrooktown Rotary can be found
on Facebook.
Feel free to follow.
Send us some messages,subscribe to this podcast,
really connect with us in anyway that you want to.
There's no pressure.
Obviously, we'd love to hearfrom you and connect with you
(27:40):
further through this tech lens.
I want everyone to have awonderful weekend and thanks
again, Adam, for coming by.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Thanks for having me, Brian.
I appreciate it and don'tforget, May 2nd is.
Brooktown Rotary's Days of Wineand Rotary.
I'll see you there, thank you.
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