Rotary International

President:

William B. Boyd

Rotary District 5160 Governor:

Candice Pierce

Durham Rotary President: Andy Farrar

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Rowel Editor: Phil Price

 

 

 

 

May 8, 2007

The Next 2007 Harvest Festival Committee will be held at 7:00 am on Thursday, May 17, 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
y
    1
Meeting 6pm
Gary Briley on Future of Energy
(Kent Jackson)		 2 3 4 5
6 7
(B) Tom Knowles		 8
Meeting 6pm
 Richard Carpenter who modifies vans for accessibility
(Glenn Pullian)		 9
(A) Bill Apger		 10
(B) Phil Price		 11 12
13
(B) James Edward		 14 15
Meeting 6pm
Casey Sohnrey on the proposed  remodeling of Durham Veterans Memorial Hall
(Jim Paterson)		 16 17
¡@		 18 19
20 21
(B) Kent Jackson		 22
Meeting 6pm
Annual Hot Dog picnic at Durham Park
(Jen Liu/Roy Ellis)		 23 24
 Harvest Festival Committee Meeting
7:00am at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway		 25
(A) Joe Nock		 26
27
(B) Glenn Pullian		 28 29
 No Meeting
Dark after Memorial Day		 30 31    
J
u
n
e		           1 2
3 4 5
 Meeting 6pm
 Club Assembly (Celebration of Goals)
(Andy Farrar/Daryl Polk)		 6
 		 7 8 9
10
(A) Norm Larson		 11 12
 Meeting 6pm
 Carnitas Feed at the Durham Park.
(Roy Ellis/Norm Larson)		 13
(B) Kent Jackson		 14 15
(B) Dan Davis
(A) Bruce Norlie		 16
17 18 19
 Meeting 6pm
 Supervisor Jane Dolan
(Todd Kimmelshue)		 20
(B) Andy Farrar		 21 22 23
24 25 26
 Meeting 6pm
Demotion of Andy
(A) Jim Edwards
(A) Jim Kirks
(Bill Apger)		 27 28 29 30

 

 

President Andy opened the meeting and I assume called on some member to give the invocation and another member to lead the flag salute.

 

 

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:

 

May 15th:  Jim Patterson will present Casey Sohnrey speaking about the remodeling project at Memorial Hall.

 

May 22nd:   Jen Liu and Roy Ellis will present a Hot ‘Dog Picnic at Durham park with Interact, Camp Royal students and Students of the Month.  Invite your spouse or significant other.

 

May 29th:  NO MEETING.

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

I haven’t a clue who the visiting Rotarians were or who introduced them.  Same thing regarding guests. 

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

 

 

HARVEST FESTIVAL

 

 

 

The next monthly meeting of the Harvest Festival Committee will be on Thursday, May 24, 2007.  The meeting will be at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway, at 7:00 a.m.  All committee chairpersons must be present.

 

THE NEXT MEETING

 

Jim Patterson will present Casey Sohnrey speaking about the remodeling project at Memorial Hall.

 

Rotary Foundation Fundraiser in Redding

 

This elegant affair entitled “Moonlight On The River” will be held on the Sun Dial Bridge and Turtle Bay Arboretum, in Redding, on Saturday, June 30, 2007, beginning at 6:30 p.m.  You will be sipping champagne while strolling on the Sundial bridge and having dinner in the garden patio, as the sun is setting and the moon is rising overhead.  It will be put on by the Redding and Anderson Clubs jointly.  It will include a gourmet dinner, part 2 of the raffle ticket drawing, silent auction, music and much more.  The price will be $125 per person or $1500 fpr a table of 8.  Reservation details will be forthcoming soon!  For more information contact Marlene Woodard, Event Coordinator at 244-4320 or office@aplannedaffair.net.

 

Joint Club Social Event of Chico Rotary and Chico Sunrise Rotary Clubs

 

Monday, May 21, 2007 at 1:00 pm with a shotgun start, at Canyon Oaks Country Club.  $90 for green fees, cart, range balls, prizes and Pasta Night Dinner following Golf (BBQ hamburger lunch included).  $25 for dinner only.  Call Ray Block – 879-4228 or Hugh Mattingly – 895-7552.

 

International Convention

 

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

 

None tonight, that I know about, but I assume Bill Apger was recognized for his anniversary.  Our new member’s birthday was yesterday, and I assume Tom Knowles was recognized for it.  Your editor’s birthday was this week too, but we will get to that later. 

 

PROGRAM

 

I assume that Glenn Pulliam and/or Jim Patterson did present Richard Carpenter who talked about modification of vans for accessibility.

 

 

Must  Be Present To Win Drawing

 

Some member was or was not present to win the drawing. 

 

ROTARY EDUCATION

 

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I am not here and this Rowel was actually done in April and finished May 2nd.  So, as I usually do this time of year we will finish this one with a little Rotary education.  So be educated.  The following is from the Rotary International web site.

 

 

Ask RI President Bill Boy

 

During the past 20 years, we’ve made a lot of progress against polio. Now, there are so many other terrible diseases that affect far more people than polio does. In fact, polio is almost eradicated, so why doesn’t Rotary International focus on another disease?

Bill Boyd

Put simply, the job is not finished, and Rotary keeps its promises. We promised the children of the world that they would grow up in a world without polio and that their children would not have to face the threat of that dreaded disease. If we are to fulfill this promise, we need to stay focused until there is no more wild poliovirus.

We all realize that children around the world are unfairly faced with myriad threats to their well-being. It is truly heartbreaking to see a child suffering from any disease that could have been prevented.

Though great progress has been made toward a polio-free world, we cannot turn our attention away now. Because current funding levels for polio immunization campaigns cannot be sustained indefinitely, cases would increase dramatically. Failure to eradicate polio would result in an estimated 10 million paralyzed children in the next 40 years and would negate the world’s US$5.3 billion investment in the initiative.

The only way to protect every child from polio is to eradicate this crippling and potentially fatal disease completely. The strategies and tools are known, and health experts agree that the challenges to stopping the spread of polio can be met. Rotary was the first organization to have the vision of a polio-free world, so we need to sustain our commitment to creating a world with one less threat for every child.

And further information about Polio Plus from the Rotary International Web Site.

Despite tremendous progress in reducing the incidence of polio, it still exists. Polio will continue to threaten children everywhere as long as it exists somewhere. In this age of global travel, a new outbreak of polio might only be a plane ride away.

Did you know that . . .

  • Polio is a highly infectious disease that primarily affects children under the age of three and can cause paralysis within hours.
  • Before eradication efforts began in 1988, polio paralyzed more than 1,000 children a day, which totaled about 350,000 children annually. The incidence of polio has since declined by more than 99 percent.
  • Vaccinations easily can stave off polio. Vaccinations have prevented an estimated 500,000 children per year from contracting polio. A child can be protected against polio for as little as 60 cents (US) worth of vaccine.
  • Only four countries are still polio endemic — an all-time low: Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
  • Rotary International is the spearheading member of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and is the largest private sector donor. It has contributed more than US$600 million to the polio eradication activities in 122 countries. In addition, tens of thousands of Rotarians have partnered with their national ministries of health, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and with health providers at the grassroots level in thousands of communities.

A polio-free world is within our grasp. Join Rotary’s effort to end this crippling disease. Learn more about Rotary's ongoing effort to eradicate polio and how you can help through contributions to PolioPlus and PolioPlus Partners.

The PolioPlus Division of The Rotary Foundation supports Rotarians' efforts to achieve Rotary International's and its Foundation's goal of the certification of the eradication of the wild poliovirus. This support includes the provision of quality education and information to promote the efforts of Rotarians directly involved in polio eradication activities, and the membership at large; facilitation of interaction, particularly between Rotarians in polio free and polio affected countries, collaboration with Rotary’s partners in the Polio Eradication Initiative, and grants to Rotarians and partner organizations

 

The Rotary International web site is: www.rotary.org

District 5160 is: www.rotary5160.org

The Durham Rotary Club site is:  www.durhamrotary.org

The Rowel Editor may be contacted at pbhlaw@sunset.net
Note:  If any of you have anything to place into the Rowel fax it to Phil at 343 7251 or  E-mail it to "pbhlaw@sunset.net", before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

 

 

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