Life Skills

July 15, 2025, 11:13 a.m. – Jennette Bill Email

Life Skills Day:  Can we meet with you to further plan this event?  Being the first one, there are alot of decisions to be made…What are the priority classes we want to offer? Class sizes?  How many classes are we going to offer for each set of kids (Senior high schoolers and then middle school?)?  I have attached a first start at options using what the Phoenix Rotary Club did as a basis.

July 17, 2025, 1:01 p.m. – Holly Johnson Email

Hi all,
We had a great meeting.  It was wonderful to have so many visitors. It is amazing to see all the many activities we are involved in. Please see attached for the report write up.

August 9, 2025, 2:17 p.m. – Jennette Bill Email

Hey, Dave.  I’m looking at my notes from the meeting with Heather Isom about the Skills Day. I am trying to remember what we decided…
I know we decided to just do it for 165 middle school and that you would be the lead.  We moved the date, right?  I wrote down Mar 6 and Feb 27.  Did we decide on one or the other?
The Career Day…did we decide to skip it this year?

August 9, 2025, 2:35 p.m. – Dave Potter Email

Hi Jennette. I don’t remember being picked for the lead for skills day, but I can do that if that’s what you want. I think we were going to skip the career day so that we had time to get feedback and digest the learnings from the skills day and then plan to run both in 2026. I certainly don’t want March 6 for skills day as that’s Paula’s birthday, so Feb 27 is the date I want so long as everyone else thinks that’s okay.
Have we conducted a skills day before or anything like it? If so, I’d like to know who was involved so I can pick their brains. Do you think that’s in Clubrunner somewhere?

August 9, 2025, 3:01 p.m. – Jennette Bill Email

Dave  If you have the will to lead on this project, we will stand with you and make it happen!  You certainly had great ideas…such as doing it for a smaller group this year…a test group, so to speak.  And February 27 sounds fine to me.  Especially if we don’t do the Career Day.
A group of us heard about a Skills Day that was held in Phoenix when we were at district conference.  We were modeling this one after the Phoenix one that was held on a weekend in a park.  We are fortunate that our school is willing to let us hold it during school hours, on campus.

The person who presented and organized it was Angela Lopez

August 11, 2025, 10:02 a.m. – Jennette Bill Email

Good morning.  Tomorrow is our monthly Youth Services Team Meeting…8AM at my house (20 Coburn Court). Please find an agenda and minutes from the last meeting attached.  We’ll want to be sure that we are prepared for the youth oriented program that we are presenting on Thursday, August. 21.  

August 12, 2025, 1:46 p.m. – Jennette Bill Email

Hello, Angela. Fellow AG Jennette, here. We were so taken with the presentation you did at district conference about your Life Sills Day that you did with Phoenix 100, that we are in the process of planning an in-school one here in Sedona.  This year, we will be starting with just the middle school students, expanding next year to the high school. We can see your web site and the classes you offered.  A question…what would you say are the top 5 lessons that you learned or would do differently?  Are you offering the day of activities again this year?

August 16, 2025, 11:45 a.m. – Jennette Bill Email

FYI…got this in a zoom Youth zoom meeting this morning.

August 17, 2025, 6:21 p.m. – Angela Lopez Email

Hi Jeanette and company,
I’m excited to hear you’re going to do an in-school Life Skills day!
Phoenix 100 is doing one this year on Saturday 15 November and Mesa West is doing one out by them on 1 November. You’re all welcome at either to get a sense of the day!
I think doing this event at a school is already eliminating our biggest challenge which is getting kids to show up at a park on a Saturday.  I think doing it at a middle school is eliminating another challenge we have which is modifying schedules and class content for different ages. 
A lesson I learned from being a teacher: if you can do something in 15 minutes, they’ll (hopefully) be able to do it in an hour. Particularly important for super hands-on classes like making pasta and sewing. I’m not sure I have lessons that would pertain to you doing this in a school but I’d have a lot of questions which I’ll write here if it helps you coordinate with the school:

August 18, 2:28 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Jennette & David (Angela removed from CC) – Let’s see what input we get from Heather on Thursday. I have some questions for Angela (they taught sewing and pasta making in a park?!?), but they can wait until we get a little further along. Sometime in September would be fine.

When we are together with Heather, in addition to course content/topics, I suggest that we discuss the facility for each of the planned classes, as this could impact the content and/or way each is delivered. For example, are we thinking classrooms with projectors? Should speakers prepare presentations?
Anyhow, this is just some food for thought.
At a high level, I’d suggest an agenda (mental… not formalized) of:

1. How did the school year start for Heather? How did she solve the teacher shortages she was facing?
2. Have her talk about what she did to get student input and what came of these efforts.
3. Based on what she has seen so far (from our discussions and what came of #2 above), Is Heather forming some opinions or desires on how this event ought to take shape? Is there anything materially different from what we discussed previously?
4. Discussion about whether a prescriptive agenda by grade makes sense, or whether we should have a ‘menu’ and students indicate their top 5 choices (of which they will get 3).
5. Narrow down the list, as appropriate, to classes that we can then go about getting people to come and teach. This will be our homework.

September 7, 2025, 1:15 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Jennette, Dave, Brad, attached is the Pareto of the Jr. High student responses to the skills day interest survey from a couple weeks ago. Highlighted in green are the top 16. 

Any thoughts on this data so far? There seem to be a few themes, which is fine. I do wonder how we would go about delivering some of the desired content (e.g. how to start a podcast), as well as the right way to present some topics to a young audience (e.g. how to invest in the stock market).
Good progress so far!

September 8, 2025, 4:50 p.m. – Dave Potter Email

I used ChatGPT to generate lesson plans for the 16 most popular subjects from the survey, just to see what it would generate. I’m not suggesting we should use what it produced but think it might be useful when discussing possible lesson contents.

Generated Lesson Plans

• Starting a Small Business
• Cake Decorating
• Earning Extra Money
• Cooking/Baking Basics
• Fashion
• Jewelry Making
• Investing in the Stock Market
• Video Editing
• First Aid Basics
• Decorating
• Starting a Podcast
• Sports Skills Clinic
• Volunteering & Service Projects
• Digital Art & Design
• Sports Fitness & Conditioning
• Study Skills & Test Prep

September 9, 2025, 5:35 p.m. – Dave Potter Email

Hi Heather! Dave Potter here from Sedona Village Rotary. Thank you for the ranked list of skills that you gave us. I used ChatGPT to generate lesson plans and student handouts for the top 16 skills. I’ve attached a zip file of what ChatGPT generated. I am interested in what you think of the plans and what, if any, role they could play moving forward. We are looking to you for our next step.  You had mentioned giving the teachers first dibs on teaching classes that interested them.  We are happy to help with what is left. We didn’t set up a next meeting.  Let us know if there is anything you would like for us to do at this point and if and when you would suggest meeting next. 

October 16, 2025, 7:09 p.m. – Jennette Bill Email

I had Joseph Giddens from the Red Rock News reach out today asking if there was any news about the Life Skills classes.  I told him we would let him know when there was something.

October 16, 2025, 8:33 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

My thought on the training material is that while we need to first get agreement on what the classes are and which classes Heather’s staff will handle, seeing some examples of what others have used for Life Skills Days might be helpful for structuring our sessions. So I’d say yes, we should take a look at it (though not send it to Heather just yet). 

October 17, 2025, 8:34 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Good Morning Heather,
Happy Friday! It has been a little while since we have discussed the Life Skills Day (planned for Feb 27, 2026) and thought you might want to pick back up.
On September 1st, you shared the student survey results with us. The Skills day Preliminary Survey file has the complete detail, and below is a list of just the top 16 subjects voted on by the students.

While ultimately we are working toward 10 classes running in parallel, we likely need a longer menu for students to choose from as not every class will be completely subscribed across all time slots.
A few questions for you:

1. Does the list of topics below look good to you, or would you like to make changes? We’re happy to regenerate the top-16 list if more data came in after 9/1. You might want to look at the Skills Day Preliminary Survey as well, in case there are subjects you’d like to add/remove from the list (the menu need not be 16). Now is a good time to make changes before moving forward.
   
2. Would you please give us an idea of which subjects your staff members might like to present? When we met, you mentioned wanting to canvas them for their interest and availability on 2/27/2026. We are then happy to go about looking for folks to present on the remaining topics. At this point, it would be helpful for us to know which subjects you for sure don’t have a presenter for. That would allow us to get to work.

FYI, we have also started taking some initial steps towards outlining lesson plans for these topics. Happy to share those at the appropriate time.

We’re excited to be part of putting this together with you, Heather, and we’re looking forward to your input. February will be upon us in short order, and there is much to do beforehand. Let us know if you’d like to meet via Zoom or face-to-face to discuss and we can make that happen.

October 17, 2025, 9:35 a.m. – Heather Isom Email

Thank you, I will share this with our middle school counselor and meet with her to gather her thoughts as well. I will get back to you next week. 

November 5, 8:12 a.m. – Brad Parker Email

We have successfully located a company we like to do our background checks – SafeScreener. They have a good track record and have a special program for small non-profit organizations like ourselves that make it affordable for our club – generally $21 per background check. I did my background check yesterday, and as expected, it only took 1 day to for the results to come back.

I would like you to do yours today, if possible. If you click on the link below it will take you to an introductory screen with a message from the club.It will also ask for your email and then start your application process. You will need to put in your ss# and recent addresses. You will also be asked to review and sign a number of documents – mostly stating your rights and protections. Once you finish the application – about 5-10 minutes – you are done. At that point I get an email saying someone is in the queue. I then have to review the application and manually release it for the background check to begin.

November 5, 11:47 a.m. – Brad Parker Email

Paul,
Please clarify for me the process point we are at now.
Here is what I am not clear about:
1. Are we planning to settle on 16 subjects next and then would we be sending those 16 to the students to choose from? Or maybe offer more than 10, but less than 16?
2. However, in the end we only plan to do 10 subjects with each student getting to attend 3 different ones.
So, I am not clear how we get from 1 to 2.

November 5, 2025, 2:14 p.m. – Paul Bowles email

Hi Brad, (++Jennette & David P.)
All good questions and points below. Here is my thinking based on the discussions had so far:

• 1. Yes, we had discussed with Heather getting down to 16 (ish) subjects based on the student survey completed. The pareto sent previously was the 1st pass at the ‘list of 16’. Recognizing that Heather might want to review and/or modify the list, we sent it to her for approval. Also, she had mentioned that some of her staff might want to teach a class and she wanted to canvas them for their availability and desire to do so.
• 2. Then the list of ~16 (certainly more than 10) would be sent to the students again for them to rank order their top choices. I suggest we ask for their top 5 (1st choice, 2nd choice, etc.), even though they will only be able to fit 3 in the schedule.
• 3. Ultimately, there would be 10 parallel sessions (10 physical rooms), but based on interest and scheduling, it might be better to have one room split with subject #1 for 2 sessions and subject #2 for 1 session (as an example for lower-interest topics). I think we want to give ourselves a bit of flexibility on scheduling, as this could be a fairly involved exercise (not quite sure how to do it efficiently yet). This is why I think in #2 above we ask for their ‘ranked top 5’, despite there only being 3 sessions offered.

All of the above being said, Heather mentioned via email that she wanted to get the input from her student counselor. She (Heather) has invited Marylin Largen to tomorrow’s meeting. I can’t find Marylin on LinkedIn, but I assume that she is Heather’s student counselor.

So… in terms of a game plan for tomorrow’s meeting, here’s what I propose:

Nov 5, 2025, 2:51 p.m. – Brad Parker Email

I would recommend we keep it a little simpler. Particularly since this is our first go around with this. In your point 3, you present the possibility of offering a popular subject in multiple rooms at the same time. This means we would need an additional presenter for one of the classes. I would like to avoid that. It also seems to me that if we are going to ask them to choose their top five, then we should only offer 12 possible subjects. This would guarantee that at least 3 of their choices would be offered when we settle at 10.

Nov 5, 2025, 3:51 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

I like the idea of simplifying things as much as possible, though keep in mind that Heather felt pretty strongly that class size should be no more than 10, which means that only 30 students would be able to enroll over the course of the 3 sessions offered (assuming no duplicate parallel sessions). Maybe we could flex this to 33 or 36 students, but if 50 choose the same session that would probably be too many to accommodate. Reviewing the Pareto, there were 6 classes that received 50+ votes, and that was starting with a pretty long list of topics to choose from.

So while we could guarantee that at least 3 of their choices would be offered… we couldn’t guarantee that there would be room in those classes for them. Perhaps a good question for Heather is: “Is it okay if a student participates in only 2 of the sessions?” I’m not sure what they’d do for the remaining one, but maybe Heather will have a solution for this. All of this being said, we don’t know how the data will shake out, and I’m sure that Heather will have an opinion. It’s good to talk through the issues in advance though so that we understand them.

Nov 5, 2025, 4:27 p.m. – Brad Parker Email

A couple of thoughts that we may throw out tomorrow or down the road as things unfold:

• 1. She may think it ok that popular subjects allow up to 15 students (I would not want to allow more than 15)
• 2. If there is one or two super popular subjects we could offer them twice while cutting down the final number of subjects. For example, if one subject had 60 students list it as their first choice, then offer it twice concurrently (so 6 sessions and 2 presenters), but then only run 8 other subjects. If there is such a skew, then some subject (s) are not going to be chosen much.

Nov 6, 2025, 3:35 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Below is what I’m proposing we send over to Heather & Marylin based on our meeting today. Let me know what you think. I think we all agree that we want to get this into her hands sooner rather than later. Jennette – Note that I tagged you to reach out to Jessica to see if they had some folks with fingerprint clearance who could help.

Hi Heather & Marylin,
Thanks for your time on Thursday to discuss Life Skills Day for the middle school. This email is to capture minutes from our meeting, as well as next steps.

November 8, 6:03 a.m. – Brad Parker Email

I think what you have worked up here is totally awesome!! I have only one hesitancy. In the initial survey Starting a Small Business and Earning Extra Money received, respectfully, the most and third most votes from the students. For good reasons we decided to combine them into one class. However, I think the class description really only covers making extra money as a middle schooler, and does not address how to start a small business in a more traditional sense which I think many students are also interested in. In the end, Heather and Marilyn may know best. Anyway, here is my thought for the class description.

Earning Extra Cash and Starting a Small Business

Learn how to take your great idea or hobby and turn it into hustle, explore ways to make money, and get smart about savings. Want to take it to the next level? Explore start-ups, marketing, and basic business management. This session is all about taking your passion and building financial independence and having fun while doing it.

November 8, 6:14 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Brad – Good point. I’ll make your proposed change to that course description and send it to Heather & team shortly.

November 14, 3:25 p.m. – Marilyn Largen Email

Paul, Thank you so much for your email! I wanted to let everyone know that I put together the form for the students to fill out and will be assigning it next week.  I think I should have all of the information back and organized before Thanksgiving Break.

November 16, 6:14 p.m. – Holly Johnson Email

Please see the attached meeting minutes.  If there are corrections, please let me know.

Excerpt from meeting minutes:
C. Life Skills Day for Middle School Students (around 165) – Feb. 27, 2026 – Paul Bowles, David
Potter, Brad Parker
● They met with Heather Isom and an administrator from the Jr High.
● They will poll students on possible presentations and then recruit instructors. Instructors will
need to be certified and finger printed or have staff present
● There will be 10 classes to choose from.

November 25, 8:25 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Hi Marilyn,
Hope all is well and that the students are giving us some good input to base a class schedule on. If it would be helpful, I’d be happy to make myself available for a 1:1 video conference either today or tomorrow to discuss how the data is looking, even if it isn’t complete at this point. No worries if not, but I wanted to put that out there… don’t hesitate to take me up on it.
I did speak with Denny Preisser from the American Red Cross, and he is on board with teaching some sort of a class and perhaps engaging some students from NAU in the process. FYI, he is a retired middle school teacher and has a valid fingerprint background check.

November 26, 11:05 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Hi Marilyn, So I have looked at the data and the bottom line is that I think we can work with it to get going. As you pointed out, some students had multiple “1st choice” selections for a given category. While not ideal, we can safely assume that any of their 1st choices are more desirable outcomes than any option they didn’t select. I’m happy to take you through the spreadsheet details if you’re interested, but here is what I’m seeing so far.

**Please let me know your availability for a quick call next week to discuss.**

Total responses: 144

Duplicate responses: 15 (students that submitted information more than once… i.e. multiple rows of data for the same student)

(note that I didn’t notice the duplicate responses until the very end, while it will change the data, the overall number is relatively small so it shouldn’t change the outcome too much)

Next Steps

• I suggest that you and I talk early next week to discuss the data.
• Then we bring the whole group together (in person, or online if that’s faster) to review and agree on the actual class lineup.

December 15, 11:00 a.m. – Team Meeting Email

The rough agenda for this meeting is:

1. Go over student data and align on class plan.
2. Go through each class offering and determine game plan for recruiting instructor(s).

Prior to this meeting…

1. Marilyn will sit down with those students on Monday / Tuesday (12/8 – 12/9) who either didn’t fill out the form or did so incorrectly and have them (re)submit their choices. For reference, they should have a 1^st and 2^nd choice from Category A and a 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd choice from Category B. (though if they want an ‘extra’ choice or two, we can work with that).
2. Paul will take the resulting data on Wednesday / Thursday (12/10 – 12/11) and come up with a draft class plan & schedule (to be reviewed by the group in step #1 above).

December 16, 2025, 8:45 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Thanks for a productive meeting yesterday! This email captures action items and minutes from our meeting.

Life Skills Day
Date: 2/27/2026
Time: 11:30-2:30pm
Format: 3x 50-minute sessions, with short breaks between
Location: RRJHS

December 18, 2:34 p.m. – Dave Potter Email

I’ve attached a zip file of the corrected plans and workbooks. 
One lesson I learned is that it is best to ask ChatGPT to generate docs for a single subject. It appears to have some sort of resource constraint on work done for a single prompt. I’m wondering if it’s related to the type of account I have. If you have a top tier account I’d be interested to know if ChatGPT generates a more detailed output for you for any of the prompts in the zip.

December 19, 2025, 8:46 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Please see my updates below in red. I wanted to put a bow on my action items before leaving town this Sunday (back 1/1/26). Marilyn / Heather / Jennette – Would you please provide similar updates when you have contacted the people you were reaching out to?

January 14, 2026, 6:28 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Here is the proposed agenda for tomorrow’s meeting via Google Meet at 12:30pm. Please be on camera if possible. My email below from 12/19 in red is the most recent update on the speakers – Heather, Marilyn, Jennette we’ll need confirmations on your items tomorrow. Hopefully you have already contacted each of the individuals and have agreement from them to participate.

1. All – Review class offering and speaker plans for each class. Establish fall-back plans as required.
2. Marilyn – Confirm status of student surveys. All good or still more to do?
3. Heather / Marilyn – What are we thinking in terms of rooms? At least one speaker has asked whether he will be able to present via computer during the event.
4. All – Other items for discussion (feel free to email me before the meeting or bring up here).
5. Next Meeting – I suggest no later than two weeks out (end of January) given proximity to the event.

January 16, 2026, 8:15 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

6 weeks and counting! Below are the minutes from yesterday’s meeting. Note the follow-up actions as 7 of the 12 sessions are AT RISK for lack of a confirmed speaker. Yikes, we have work to do!
Please share updates with the team ASAP as we need to build contingency plans before our next meeting.

January 16, 2026, 12:50 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Update on the following class:

Sports Readiness – Conditioning / Fitness / Skills Development

• Paul’s neighbor, Larry Betz (owner of Prepared not Paranoid) would be interested in leading this class during Life Skills Day. He had two requests though:
  1. Students will not be allowed to be on their cell phones (and there would be someone – not him – in the room policing this),
  2. He could invite his social media person to report out on the activity.

Heather / Marilyn please confirm this is okay.
For #1, I’d expect this to be a general request across the board, and Larry just happens to be the first person to ask.
For #2, it’s reasonable to assume that volunteers coming from outside will have businesses that they would want to promote. Are there parameters we could put around this to walk the line between privacy and publicity? I’d expect the same to apply to the Red Rock News when they come to the event.

January 20, 7:49 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Below is a list of the entire planned course lineup, together with the descriptions students were provided. Highlighted in yellow are those courses for which, as of now, we do not have a confirmed instructor. If you have ideas for folks that might be a good fit, please let me know and I will bring it to the working group for discussion. Keep in mind that the Life Skills Day team is actively working to sign up instructors, so this status is fluid.

January 21, 2026, 9:48 a.m. – Jennette Bill Email

Paul, so that you can take the yellow off a few things…

Brad Parker will do the Earning money/starting a small business class
Clark’s Market (organized by our Kevin Fry) will do the cookie/cake decorating class
Decorating a room is by Thai Greenfield who works for Blackmarr Furniture
I have a good lead on the Fashion topic.
I am going to my third lead on the volunteer topic…the lady who does the Sedona Wish List
I will make an effort today to hunt down the video editing person who I haven’t heard back from.

January 22, 2026, 9:18 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Thanks for your continued work on finalizing our class staffing plan. We have a number of updates from our 1/15 meeting, and these are summarized in the attached table below (pasted as a picture to preserve formatting).
Note that this table is in reverse chronological order. The most recent status is closest to the class name. The initials of the committee member that is the ‘lead’ on the relationship is also in the cell.
We are looking better than just one week ago! Jennette is working on the three remaining open classes. If anyone else has ideas for instructors for these classes, please offer them here.
My assumption is that the person whose initials are in the cell in question is the lead contact for that person, and will handle sending along the lesson plans prepared by Dave Potter, if needed by the instructor.

January 22, 2026, 12:10 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Below is the email that I just sent to Larry Betz, who is confirmed to teach the Sports Readiness class. I’m sending it your way in case you’d like to use it as a template with those folks for which you are the lead contact. Attached to this email (not the one sent to Larry), is the list of course names & descriptions shared with the students, as well as the sample lesson plans put together by Dave Potter. You should be able to extract the pieces you need to tailor your message to the instructor in question.

Heather – I’ll handle the outreach to Jennifer Garrett as I have also spoken directly with her. I’ll CC you & Jennette on the email I send to her shortly.

February 4, 2026, 9:34 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

In terms of agenda for today’s meeting (12:30pm on Google Meet), I propose the following:

• Current class status (unchanged from 1/22)
  • Review classes with confirmed instructors – lead committee member in question
    • Discuss options for classes without confirmed instructors (with focus on Video Editing and Fashion in particular)
• Contingency plans if we can’t find an instructor (I think we should just cancel the class and offer one… or two… fewer options)
• Day-of logistics
• Communication plan as we get closer to the event.

February 6, 2026, 4:30 p.m. – Paul Bowles email

Team – 3 weeks and counting! Great discussion on Wednesday. See below for details and status w/ updates since our last meeting.

February 12, 2026, 3:15 p.m. Paula Bowles Email

Going into tomorrow’s Google Meet meeting (with 2 weeks to go!), our Fashion class is still without an instructor, but we have a plan for Volunteering (see 2/4 meeting minutes below this email). Here is a proposed agenda:

This promises to be a great event! Workshop topics include:

• Cake decorating,
• Goal setting and leadership,
• Health and wellness,
• Conflict resolution,
• Video editing and digital skills,
• Sports conditioning,
• And many more skills and life-focused sessions.

February 17, 2026, 1:45 p.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Life Skills Day Presenters,
Friendly reminder to respond with your technology and/or facility needs by this Thursday, 2/19 so that the school can plan accordingly (thanks if you have already done so). Please note that you will not be able to connect your laptop directly to any presentation screens in the school. Any presentations or other such content will need to be emailed to Marilyn / myself in advance and loaded on a school computer for use during Life Skills Day.

February 20, 2026, 11:12 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

One week to go! Below are the number of students registered by class & session. Note that I increased the max from 15 to 16 because we are only offering 11 rather than 12 classes.
@Heather Isom – FYI, I haven’t heard back from Tom Swaninger (Conflict Resolution). I’m guessing that you’re not particularly concerned, but you may have better luck reaching him if you have any doubt.

February 20, 2026, 2:19 p.m. Jennette Bill Email

I have Carol Hess partnering with me on the volunteering class.  PowerPoint and activities are almost done. In my space, I will need for the kids to be able to sit in groups of 3 to 4 around a table, please.  So, 4 tables will be needed.  I will bring all the supplies.

February 26, 8:59 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

Life Skills Day Presenters,
We are all looking forward to a great event tomorrow! This email has a few last reminders for you (strategically placed at the top of your Inbox):

1. Attached to this email is the agenda for the day, as well as the map showing the lot you should park in.
2. Please plan to be there by 11am, unless you have already made other arrangements. I should be onsite by 10:30am.
3. When you arrive, register at the main office. You’ll receive a packet with everything you need (facility map, name tag, contact numbers, etc.) and a member of the Student Council will then escort you to your room.
4. After your last class, please come back to the conference room across from the office where you checked in for a group photo.
5. My mobile number is below. Feel free to use it day-of should anything come up.

February 27, 2026 – document prepared by Marilyn Largen

February 28, 2026, 7:50 a.m. – Paul Bowles Email

A *huge* thanks to everyone for a very successful Life Skills Day yesterday at the Sedona Red Rock Junior High School! Your participation was key to bringing this program to life.

Here is a link to a Google Drive folder where you can download pics and one video that I took during the event. Note that this link will only be alive for about a week so that I can reclaim my cloud storage. 

I’d love to see any content (pics / videos / social media posts) of your own, so please forward them to me.