Addison Midday Rotary - Newsletter - Archive (Nov 30, 2009)

Rebecca Rasor is a native Texan, who earner her Bacheolor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M niversity and began her career as an Engineer Assistant with the City of Dallas Water Utilites Department at the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant. Rebecca has worked for the Water Utilites Department for 15 years and is now the Director of the Trinity River Corridor Project.

The Trinity River Corridor Project was presented the the voters of Dallas in 1998 in the form of a $246 million dollar bond program, to do what had been talked about for almost 100 years - transfom one of Dallas' greatest natural resources, the Trinity River, into the City's centerpiece of activity and development. Included in this program were the establishment of flood protection, recreational amenities, transporation improvements and environmental restoration/mitigation. Voters approved this plan in May 1998, and thus began on of the largest public works projects ever undertaken by the City of Dallas - the Trinity River Corridor Project.

Daniel Merrill told us about starting a Not for Sale Campaign Club at Jesuit. The club helps to promote the end human trafficking and slavery. Daniel brought us a lot of information about of human trafficking in Dallas, as well as Texas and the country in general. It is a very worthy cause that he has taken on.

Raffle: Every Week!

Show me the money! We will have a “BIG JACKPOT” raffle drawing every week. Here are the rules.

- The drawing will be held every week after the speaker concludes. Tickets can be bought up to that time. $1 for 1 ticket, $5 gets 6 tickets.

- A ticket will be drawn at the end of the meeting.

- But the weekly winner, will not automatically get the jackpot. To ensure we have a BIG JACKPOT, we then ask the winner to draw the “winning card” from a standard deck of 52 cards. If they pull the “winning card”, they get the BIG JACKPOT.

- How do we determine the “winning card”? After the jackpot is won, we will draw one card from a standard deck of 52 cards. That card becomes the “winning card.” It is reinserted into the deck.

- If a non-winning card is drawn by the weekly drawing winner, that card is discarded. This means the odds of drawing the “winning card” will improve every week as the BIG JACKPOT grows.

- The jackpot is rolled over every week until the “winning card” is drawn.

- The value of the BIG JACKPOT will be reported in the newsletter.

- Half of the winning pot goes to the Addison Midday Rotary Foundation.