Alice's Corner 2/19

My sincerest apologies to our madam president elect Maeve Johnson.  I think somewhere in computer land is my article for that week.

Maeve was joined by our student of the month. 

The Marana Rotary Club Student of the Month from MCAT was Makenna McAlpine. She was accompanied by her parents, Kevin and Laurie. Makenna came to MCAT in the fall of 2012.  She quickly completed many graduation requirements and will be finished with high school in March.  Makenna wants to go into cosmotology after high school.

What a lovely bubbly lady.  We look forward to seeing some good things coming her way.

Maeve shared with us her life previous to becoming a financial advisor.

Her brilliant economic forecast had to be chucked as the projector did not cooperate with her power point presentation.

She  was a flight attendant at the time Coffee, Tea or Me was published.  She was one of the good girls.  But still it must have been a fun time in the airline era.  She flew in and out of Las Vegas so much she does not like the city.  While in New York she attended numerous Broadway shows.  She liked that part.

Her education led her to become an elementary school teacher working with gifted children.

She moved to Tucson where she went to work with Edward Jones.  

Her philosophy is when a door closes there is an open window.

Economy wise she feels we on our way to financial recovery.

This week we had Vincent Nitido CEO and general manager of TRICO Electric Cooperative.  He gave us the bad news as well as the good news.  There is a rate increase in the future.  There are over 40,000 electric members surrounding the city of Tucson.  Bad news..EPA rules require $200 million in power plant changes.  TRICO buys from a plant in Benson, AZ which is coal fired.  Good news... some conversion to natural gas is planned and some power comes from solar power (about 4%)  Over all there may be an increase of 15% to TRICO members, more bad news.

Randy Brooks told us about the upcoming Peace Conference.  We needed two representatives in order to qualify for our Presidential Citation.  George Rigney and Jane Howell volunteered to represent the club.  Thanks guys.

It was announced that the 50/50  rules will be changing. Suelee will be bringing the new rules to the next meeting.

Maeve asked for volunteers to help with the Founder's Day activities.  The board is examining how the club will participate.