Bulletin for January 13-19, 2012

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Stan Miller, Provo Airport General Manager Steve Gleason, and Rick Hood.
Upcoming Provo Rotary Luncheon Meetings and Events

January 19: Ann Swenson, Jim Murphy, and others from the Hale Center Theater Orem will provide a program about their upcoming season.
January 26: President Cecil O. Samuelson will speak about BYU.
February 2: Matthew H. Connors, CPA, Senior Manager at the Salt Lake City based forensic accounting firm Rocky Mountain Advisory. Topic:  Avoiding Ponzi Schemes.

February 9: Judge Kay A. Lindsay, Judge of the Juvenile Court for the Fourth Judicial District, serving Wasatch, Utah, Juab and Millard Counties.

February 16: Gordon D. Brown, President, Provo Missionary Training Center: The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

February 23: Clark G. Gilbert, President and CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media, Salt Lake City.



Report of the Weekly Luncheon Meeting held December 8, 2011


Today's meeting was held at the Provo Airport in the hangar for the Utah Valley University Aviation Sciences. President Steve Densley conducted. Vaughn Park offered an invocation
     Guests: Allen Ash, Assistant District Governor, attended. Robert Redd iintroduced his wife Mary.
     Scott Miller reported that the Utah Valley United Way provided Christmas for 5,000 people. Twenty-five of those Christmases were provided by members of the Provo Rotary Club.
     Andy Anderson is recovering from surgery and was in attendance today.

Steve Gleason
     Vic Ludlow introduced Steve Gleason, General Manager of the Provo Municipal Airport for the past twelve years. He gave some interesting information about it.
     With more than 175,000 operations (take-offs and landings) per year it is the 2nd busiest airport in Utah. Many charter operations including the BYU football charters have been using the Provo airport for more than ten years.
     The airport got a control tower completed in 2005 at a cost of $2.5 million. Radar service was added in September 2011 for the first time.

Jill Moon and Strat Wendelboe
     Fixed-base operator Million Air, owned by fellow Provo Rotarian Larry Mendenhall, operates the airport's newest facility, a TSA operated secure terminal which hosts daily round-trip flights from Provo to Denver by Frontier Airlines. This daily service began June 21, 2011. It began with 35-40% of capacity and now averages 80% full flights. In 2011 more than 15,000 commercial customers flew in and out of the Provo airport. More flights are expected to be added in the near future. When there are three regularly scheduled commercial flights daily Provo will build a dedicated terminal.

Mario Markides
     Steve Gleason introduced Mario Markides who operates the UVU flight school, the largest flight training operation in the Western US and third-largest in the US, with currently 2,500 students.
     After the presentations Rotarians were given a tour of the new TSA passenter flight operations building.

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