Rotary International

President:

Wilfrid J. Wilkinson

Rotary District 5160 Governor:

Stan Smalley

Durham Rotary President: Daryl Polk

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Rowel Editor: Phil Price

July 24, 2007

The Next 2007 Harvest Festival Committee will be held at 7:00 am on Thursday, August 16, 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
J u l y
	1	2	3 No Meeting Dark 4th of July Holiday	4	5	6 (B) Tod Kimmelshue	7
	8	9	10 Meeting 6pm Pat Furr on Computers for Classrooms (Jim Kirks)	6 ¡@	7	8	9
	10 ¡@	11	17 Meeting 6pm Cabaret by CSUC’s Court Theatre with Chico Rotary Club`(Roy Ellis)`	13 ¡@	14	15 ¡@	16
	17	18	24 Meeting 6pm `Angora Fire at Tahoe` (Bill Apger)	20 ¡@	21	22	23
	24	25	31 Meeting 6pm Visit of District Governor, Stan Smalley.	¡@	¡@	¡@	¡@
A u g u s t	¡@	¡@	¡@	1	2	3	4 (B) K. R. Robertson
	5	6	7 Meeting 6pm Butte County Sheriff's K-9 team (Bruce Miller)	8 (B) Chris Hatch (A) Glenn Pulliam	9	10	11
	12	13	14 Meeting 6pm Richard Fields on Pacific Legal Foundation (Andy Farrar)	15	16	17 (A) Andy Farrar	18
	19	20	21 Meeting 6pm West Nile Virus." -Dr. Lundberg from Butte County Department of Public Health. (Andy Farrar)	22 (B) Daryl Polk	23	24 (A) Dave Mulqueeney	25
	26	27 (B) Steve Greenwood	28 Meeting 6pm TBD (B) Dave Mulqueeney (Roy Ellis)	29	30	31	¡@

President Daryl opened the meeting. He told me who did the pledge and invocation, but I didn’t write in on the notes form. However, on another piece of paper I have the names Jim and Steve written down, so I am guessing that Steve Greenwood did the pledge and Jim Patterson did the invocation.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

July 31^st: Visit of District Governor, Stan Smalley.

August 7^th: Bruce Miller will present this program.

August 14^th: Andy Farrar will present Richard Fields with a program on the Pacific Legal Foundation.

August 21^st: Andy Farrar will present a speaker from Butte County Public Health speaking on the West Nile Virus.

August 28^th: Mike Wacker

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

Steve Greenwood, Jim Edwards, Tod Kimmelshue and K. R. Robertson were asked to introduce visiting Rotarians. K. R. had none, but the table escaped a $1 assessment, each. Visiting Rotarians introduced were Rich Powell, of the Chico Sunrise Club, Dale Wilcox of the Carpinteria Club, and Todd Shelton and Mike Moran of the Chico Club.

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CATHY LIU

Dear friends,

It has been a week since I first updated you on Cathy’s condition. Her physical appearance has improved remarkably since last Saturday. The swollen on her head and face have receded and she looks more like her old self now. Her ICP, the number that indicates her brain pressure has been down and stayed in an acceptable range. Her condition had improved to a point that her doctors took her off sedative completely earlier this week. Cathy opened her eyes partially although unfocused the day after all sedatives were off. I swore her eyes were tracking my movements when I move my head closer to her and spoke into her left ear. She even squeezed my hand a couple of times when I asked her to. The attending nurse told me that these are most likely her reflexes but I still take them as encouraging signs.

Cathy was soon put back on sedation to reduce her brain activities as she is fighting a high fever and low oxygen level in her brain. Her brain oxygen level fluctuates despite three procedures to dilate the arteries in her brain to increase blood flow and oxygen supply to her brain. Neurosurgeons suspect that the monitor they placed in her head has reached the end of its usefulness. They suspect that particular monitor is not giving them the right readings on her oxygen level and temperature since the readings from her other vital signs remained reasonable. We were told that surgeons will replace it with a new one as soon as her condition can tolerate the procedure, may be this evening.

One of Cathy’s mentor, a senior fellow at UCDMC that Cathy did her cancer research for while she was an undergraduate student in UC Davis, came visit yesterday and told me something like the following:

Patient’s condition fluctuates daily, there are ups and downs, there are hills and valleys. But one can draw a straight line between the starting point and the end point. If the line trends up, it is good!

Pam and I believe Cathy’s condition is trending up.

Thank you for your kindness and your prayers.

Grace, Pam and Jen

HARVEST FESTIVAL

The next monthly meeting of the Harvest Festival Committee will be on Thursday, August 16, 2007. The meeting will be at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway, at 7:00 a.m. All committee chairpersons must be present.

Harvest Festival Sponsorships

These are the sponsors we have as of today,

C & C Storage

Certified Security Systems

Durham Pump

Feather Falls Casino

Price and Brown

State Farm Insurance

Joe Stricker, DDS

The Door Company

Whittmeier Ford

We have $3500 in Sponsorships. Well below the $10,000 - $11,000 we usually get. Please make every effort this week to make some calls. The deadline is August 1.

Thanks for your help,

Steven L. Greenwood

In is important that you immediately contact the sponsors you are responsible for and get them signed up. See the sponsor list, Steve sent to all of you. We have a deadline for printing the T-Shirts. PLEASE DO IT NOW!

Rotary Club of Durham Foundation – Annual Meeting

The regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation which was adjourned, for lack of a quorum, from July 10^th to July 24^th was held. The Trustees attending were Daryl Polk, Steve Plume, Phil Price, Roy Ellis and Dar Meyer. Absent were Glenn Pulliam and Penny Chennel.

The only item of business required to be conducted was the election of the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees for the year beginning July 1, 2007. Nominations were opened. Roy Ellis was nominated. In the absence of other nominations, nominations were closed upon vote of the trustees, thereby electing Roy Ellis as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees.

Following his election there was a discussion of taking steps to develop an endowment fund for the Foundation. We will obtain a speaker, who is available from the District, on this subject for a program. However, a quorum of the Board of Trustees was not present.

The meeting was then closed.

RECOGNITIONS

Tot Kimmelshue was recognized for his birthday and for some missed meeting in the amount of $50, which he volunteered.

Jim Edwards contributed $47 for his anniversary.

Norm Larson, Bill Apger, Roy Ellis and Jim Edward each contributed $20 for attending the Comanchi Ride this year. It was on the Stump Ranch near Domingo Springs (that is up out of Chester) on the old Red Bluff road.

Must Be Present To Win Drawing

Jane Ziad was not present to win.

PROGRAM

Bill Apger presented a very interesting program about the recent Angora fire at South Lake Tahoe, with a slide show and digital photos on his computer (he couldn’t find the club’s digital projector). I thought it interesting that the following article was in the Sacramento Bee the next morning about the governors of California and Nevada announcing the creation of a commission that will propose new rules to avoid disasters like the Angora blaze. I have a copy, if anyone is interested. I was going to copy the article here, but I wasn’t sure whether that might violate the Bee’s copy write, since this ends up on the Web. If anyone is interested I can email it to you.

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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