Weekly News – Aug 13, 2025

Aug 13, 2025

Hello Everyone,

Our speaker Thursday is Kyle Rhodes-President/CEO Pesco-a family owned company with over 50-years’ experience in manufacturing high quality equipment for the natural gas and oil industries. They are the largest privately held manufacturing firms in San Juan County, and one of the largest in New Mexico. PESCO designs, manufactures, and services production equipment for use throughout the United States, primarily in the Rocky Mountain region and Texas. They currently have over 420 employees operating in over 115,00 Sq. Ft. of manufacturing space operating on over 60 acres of land. 

Last week’s speaker was Rick Burns, aka Tom Nance!

Tick spoke to us about the Karadah Project–For almost a decade, LTC (retired) Rick Burns was in and out of Army deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. During and in between those deployments, Rick felt once the military withdrew, there would still be a lot more work to be done in these countries. The people he worked with who believed in our U.S. mission and at great personal risk, worked closely with us, deserved our best efforts, he believes. That inspired the founding of Karadah Project Int’l, a nonprofit supporting internally displaced women and children in the countries where he served. 

Fun Summer Social!
Mark your calendars for our Summer Social at Summer Jakino’s home (5511 Country Club Dr) on Saturday, August 16 at 6pm. The theme is Red, White, and Blue. Please RSVP  Summer at summerjakino@yahoo.com so we can plan the food.

Dining with the Dead tickets are almost gone.  If you know someone planning on attending, encourage them to get tickets asap as we will sell out early!  Only maybe 20 tickets left.

Alyssa Begay, owner of Bluehorse Realty NM,  was inducted as Kiwanis newest member last week.  Welcome Alyssa! We are so happy to have you rejoin us.

Kathy Hogan, incoming President, stated that we did not have any visitors last week. It’s great to have a friend join us to hear our interesting speakers.

The Chamber Business After Hours is Thursday from 5 to 7 PM at Hutton Broadcasting offices. It’s always a fun time so come and join us and meet new friends and business associates.  See details below.

2025 Southwest District Convention: August 21-24. In the following link you can register and pay for the convention and meals. The convention is held at the Don Laughlin Riverside Resort & Casino. Use the convention discount code C/KIW25 to get the best rates..  Rio del Sol has been invited to present the Don’t Meth With Us program at the Convention with plans for the program to become a South West District program.

https://k25.site.kiwanis.org/southwest-district-convention-2025/

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