Please try to arrive at 7:15 AM for time to network and socializing that way you can order your breakfast and the program can start at roughfully 7:55 AM. Thank You!
DATES TO REMEMBER
Vote November 2nd.
Flag Partner Appreciation Breakfast - 1-12-22.
Dark for Thanksgiving - 11-24-21.
Club Christmas Party - 12-5-21.
Dark for Christmas - 12-22-21.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY...
November 03, 2014
One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, on the site of the Twin TowersOne World Trade Center officially opens in Manhattan on November 3, 2014. The new tower, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, replaced the Twin Towers and surrounding complex, which were destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
As the city and the nation reeled from the attacks, which set into motion the series of U.S-led military operations dubbed the War on Terror, it was decided that the Twin Towers should be replaced by new office buildings, parks, a museum, and a memorial to those who died. In 2002, after cleanup and recovery efforts had concluded, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced a competition to find the chief architect of the new structure. Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect then in charge of a studio in Berlin, won and became the site’s master planner. In reality, however, a number of people and entities, including then-Governor George Pataki, leaseholder Larry Silverstein, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, wrestled over what would happen to the space commonly referred to as “Ground Zero.”
The initial plans for the site were steeped in post-9/11 patriotic sentiment. Libeskind designed an asymmetrical tower that evoked the Statue of Liberty and stood at the same height as the original World Trade Center, topped with a spire rising to 1,776 feet. Pataki dubbed it the “Freedom Tower,” a name that became commonplace but had largely faded from the use by the time One World Trade Center opened.
November is 'Foundation Month'.
PROGRAM THIS WEEK
Verdin Company Post Clock Proposal
The Sunrise Rotary Club and the Sunrise Foundation have researched to find a project to fund and implement in McKinney to identify us as the 'City of Flags.'
A project has been discovered that would possibly recognize this theme. The Verdin Company, specializing in clock towers, has possible solutions to review based on our search.
Member Chuck Koehler will present the proposal on behave of the Board.
Click on the Board minutes to review project details...remember the Secretary sometimes puts erroneous material in the minutes. If you find any, he will give you a free club lottery ticket.
The next Board meeting is on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, beginning at 6:31 PM. If you have not sent in your report to Chuck, please do so by Monday 11/08/2021.
The Sunrise Rotary Club and the Sunrise Foundation have researched to find a project to fund and implement in McKinney to identify us as the
