Rotary International President: William B. Boyd Rotary District 5160 Governor: Candice Pierce Durham Rotary President: Andy Farrar _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	March 6, 2007	The Next 2007 Harvest Festival Committee will be held at 7:00 am on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway.   The  2007 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 16, 2007.

 

2007                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
M a r c h
					1	2	3
	4	5	6 Meeting 6pm Sister Mary and her humanitarian project in Peru (Jim Edwards)	7	8	9	10
	11	12	13 Meeting 6pm (Steve Greenwood)	14	15 Harvest Festival Committee Meeting 7:00am at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway	16	17
	18	19	20 Meeting 6pm David Jessen's China Trip (A) Steve Greenwood (Stephen Plume)	21	22	23	24
	25	26	27 Meeting 6pm David Little, editor, Chico Enterprise - Record (Joe Nock)	28	29	30	31
A p r i l	1	2 (B) David Jessen	3 Meeting 6pm A.M. “Corky” Rey, MD for a discussion of Butte County Search and Rescue (B) Penny Chennel (B) Mike Wacker (Daryl Polk)	4	5	6 (B) Norm Larson	7
	8 (A) Penny Chennel	9	10 Meeting 6pm Vance Parker on "The Blue Angels" (Bruce Norlie/Jim Kirks)	11	12	13	14
	15	16	17 Meeting 6pm Durham School District (Penny Chennel)	18	19 Harvest Festival Committee Meeting 7:00am at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway	20	21 (B) Mike Crump
	22	23	24 Meeting 6pm Bruce Enyeart of Butte College (Clint Goss)	25 (A) Daryl Polk	26	27	28
	29	30

 

President Andy called the meeting to order.  Jim Kirks gave the invocation and Dianne Farrar led the pledge.    Jane Ziad’s Durham Girl Scout troop were here at the beginning of the meeting to sell Girl Scout Cookies.

Missed Meetings This is a new feature, at the request of President Andy, to assist members in keeping up their attendance.  The following members need to make up this week’s meeting: No list this week.  But if you missed see below for makeups.   Make-ups can be had within two weeks of the meeting at: Monday: Oroville, The Depot, 12 Noon; Orland, Kountry Kitchen, 12 Noon. Tuesday: Oroville, The Depot, 7:00am; Chico, Elks Club, 12 Noon. Wednesday: Marysville, Elks Club, 12 Noon. Thursday: Chico Sunrise, Canyon Oaks Country Club, 6:45 a.m.; Gridley, Memorial Hall, 12:15 p.m.; Paradise, Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Rd, 12:15 p,.m.; South Yuba Linda, Eagles Nest, 7:00 a.m.; Willows, Franco's, 12:15 p.m. Friday: Yuba City, The Refuge, 12:15 p.m. E-Clubs: http://www.rotaryeclubsouthwest.org; http://rotaryeclub34.org/; http://www.rotaryeclubny1.com/; http://www.rotaryeclub7890.org/

 

FUTURE MEETINGS:

March 13th:   Steve Greenwood will present Andy Famino the owner of Famino’s Family Market (formerly Holiday Market in Durham).   March 20th:  ?????????   March 27th:   Joe Nock  will present David Little, editor of the Chico ER   April 3rd:  Daryl Polk   April 10th:  Jim Kirks/Bruce Norlie will Vance Parker on "The Blue Angels"   April 17th:  Penny Chennel   April 24th:  Clint Goss

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Pres. Andy asked Jim Edwards, Daryl Polk, Jim Patterson and Bill Apger to introduce visiting Rotarians.  Jim introduced Walt Schafer of the Chico Club.  Bill introduced Fran Peace and Mike Moran also of the Chico Club.  Members at Daryl’s and Jim’s tables paid $1 each.

 

Steve Greenwood introduce guest Dianne Farrar, who is reportedly related to some member of the Club.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

THE NEXT MEETING

 

Steve Plume has moved up to March 13^th and will present Andy Famino the new owner of Famino’s Family Market who will talk about his experiences in taking over the former Holiday Market in Durham.

 

 

 

HARVEST FESTIVAL

 

 

 

The next monthly meeting of the Harvest Festival Committee will be on Thursday, March 15, 2007.  THAT IS NEXT THURSDAY!  The meeting will be at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway, at 7:00 a.m.  All committee chairpersons must be present.

District Family Fun Day

 

The District Family Fun Day will include a visit to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Suisun City.  The District has asked for each club to donate to a raffle.  Tom Vanella will obtain a case of 4 pound cans at a reasonable price.  When it is, is still a mystery.  There still is no information on the Fun Day on the District’s web page.

International Convention

 

In spite of President Andy’s understandable disagreement with the mayor of Salt Lake City, we must announce that the Rotary International Convention will be Sunday 06/17/07 09:00am - Wednesday 06/20/07 09:00pm in Salt Lake City.  The Rotary convention, often compared to a mini-United Nations conference, will attract Rotary club members from around the world to the state-of-the-art Salt Palace Convention Center. Rotary conventions held in the United States typically draw about 25,000 registrants.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

Pres. Andy was having so much trouble finding something the recognize some member for that Steve Greenwood volunteered to be recognized  early for his anniversary, which is later in the month.  He contributed $25 for his 25 years of marriage.

 

President Andy noted that Kent Jackson had hardly be recognized at all this year.  Kent said that was because all he has been doing was taking care of people.  Andy talked him into contributing $100 for the year.  Kent demanded that the bell be rung.  President Andy confessed that he had left the bell in his other car and contributed $10 for not having the bell.

 

PROGRAM

 

Jim Edwards introduced Sr. Marie Moran.  Sr. Moran and  Rosie Santian rent a house on Norm Larson’s Troxel orchard.  Sr. Moran was born in Ireland and after the meeting she and Chico Club member Mike Moran were comparing notes.  She told of her years in Columbia, where she initially met Rosie, a native of Columbia.  Later they met again in Chico, where Marie was updating her nursing skills at Enloe and Rosie was taking courses at Chico State.   While here they were asked to take care of Jim Edward’s parents during their final years.  They have remained in Chico providing that kind of care to others.  With the money they earn and money we have given them they return to Columbia every year and provide assistance to people in need there.  Marie also supports a number of Columbian children in high school and college.  This has been our International Project for several years.

 

Must  Be Present To Win Drawing

 

The cage was misplaced and Clint could not find it, so there was no drawing this week.

 

(The following is from Bill Hollingshead, Polio Eradication Chairman, 2007/2008 & 2006/2007 Rotary District 5160 and Davis Rotary - Davis, CA)

"2007 - Year of Polio Awareness" Resolution Passed in the U.S. House and Senate

 (Washington, DC)—Representative Steve Rothman (D-NJ), a polio survivor, secured a victory for America's children and polio survivors in response to concern about the global resurgence of polio. H.Res.526, Rothman's resolution to designate October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007 as the "Year of Polio Awareness," passed unanimously in the House of Representatives. The resolution also recognizes the need to vaccinate every child in America against polio. Rep. Rothman's bill passed the U.S. Senate later in a companion bill co-sponsored by Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ).

"While many Americans believe that Polio has been eradicated worldwide, that is simply not true. Thousands of new cases were reported, including six in the United States. That is why I am fighting to bring national attention to the rise in polio cases and to ensure that parents understand the importance of vaccinating our own children against this still-present and paralyzing virus," said Rothman.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that 10% of U.S. children under three, which is about one million toddlers, are not vaccinated against Polio.

"I hope that the passage of this resolution will accomplish our goal of raising awareness of the importance of having every child vaccinated against polio, and will have the effect of allowing doctors to understand this post-polio sequelae syndrome, which is that after someone has lived a whole lifetime with polio, they then suffer a series of additional complications: chronic overwhelming fatigue, joint pain, and chronic pain of a variety of natures".

With the rise in international travel and the resurgence of polio abroad, health officials are concerned about an outbreak in the United States.

Dr. Richard Bruno, internationally-recognized polio expert and director of The Post-Polio Institute at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, posed the following question: "Since the poliovirus can be carried silently by people who show no symptoms, what happens if a polio-infected child lands in a densely-populated city like New York, where an estimated 23,000 toddlers are unvaccinated? Answer: America's next polio epidemic."

Just a personal note:  My sister-in-law suffers from the post-polio sequelae syndrome discussed above.  She contracted polio as a teenager, while she and Cindy slept in the same bed.  Cindy was quarantined for a period of time, but never got polio.  Charlie was an RN working in a hospital most of her adult life, but returning weakness in her legs forced her to retire.  Her ability to walk is now severely limited.

 

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