Alan Ashbaugh - Five Avenues of Service Award Honoree 2013-2014
Last years winner, Chuck Rutenberg, announced the recipient of this award. This Rotarian has been an active contributor to the Rotary Club of Fort Collins since his induction in 2003. He is a Past President, and you see his handiwork in both the online and print versions of our weekly club bulletin, the Rotogear. You will find him wherever there is a Rotary project, whether it is a Saturday morning cleaning up our 2-mile stretch of highway 14, Merit Badge University, or a water project in Guatemala...
He has served with almost every committee in the club at one time or another, but his real passion is international service – particularly clean water. He has demonstrated his creativity and resourcefulness in bringing together other Rotary clubs and outside sources of funding for a variety of water projects. He uses every district conference and assembly as an opportunity to get more Rotarians and their clubs involved in “doing good for the world.”
His ability to leverage a few thousand dollars into tens of thousands of dollars in funding is truly amazing, as is his understanding about how to maximize the funds available through The Rotary Foundation.
Apparently he believes the admonition that you get only one chance to say “no” in Rotary – when someone asks you to join…because he keeps saying, “Yes.” His most recent undertaking is serving as chair of this year’s Rotary Peach Festival.
Please help me in congratulating this year’s “Five Avenues of Service” award winner, Alan Ashbaugh.