Rotary International President: Wilfrid J. Wilkinson Rotary District 5160 Governor: Stan Smalley Durham Rotary President: Daryl Polk _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	July 31, 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.  Dan Davis lead the pledge and Jim Edwards offered the invocation in which he recognized the presence of District Governor Stan Smalley.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

August 7th:  Bruce Miller will present the Butte County Sheriff’s K-9 team.   August 14th:  Andy Farrar will present Richard Fields with a program on the Pacific Legal Foundation.   August 21st:   Andy Farrar will present a speaker from Butte County Public Health speaking on the West Nile Virus.   August 28th:   Mike Wacker   January 29th:  Dar Meyer will present  Kim Schafer, daughter of Walt Schafer.

 

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Steve Greenwood, Roy Ellis and Mike Wacker were asked to introduce visiting Rotarians.  Visiting Rotarians introduced were Mark Stuenkel, Bill Bono and Stan Thompson of the Chico Club.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

CATHY LIU

July 28, 2007

Dear friends,

 

We are showered by your kindness, well wishes and prayers in the last three weeks and I believe your prayers have been answered.

 

Despite a few minor setbacks, we have nothing but good news to report.  Neurosurgeon team removed Cathy’s ventricle catheter and staples on Monday then, brain monitor on Tuesday as they believed that they have her brain pressure, oxygen and temperature under control.  Intervention Radiology team did the last Transcranial Doppler scan on Cathy on Wednesday, evaluated the result then declared vasospasm is no longer a concern.  On Thursday, Cathy underwent a MRI scan on her neck.  Medical teams knew Cathy does not have a bone fracture in her neck by earlier X-Rays and CT scans but they wanted to make sure that there are no soft tissue and ligament injuries.  They wanted to do that earlier but was prevented by the monitor in her brain as it is a device with metallic components.  All these activities happened while medical teams were weaning her away from reliance on medicine and oxygen support.  She stayed calm and strong and had probably the best 3 consecutive days of her hospital stay so far.

 

Cathy was completely off medicine at 6:00am this morning (Friday, July 27) with the exception of a maintenance IV line and a respirator on standby.  Her eyes were partially open and were tracking movements on people around her.  Her left hand started playing a squeeze ball we brought for her and her left leg started kicking.  She is full of life.   Her pulmonary team monitored her all morning then decided to remove her breathing tube around 12 at noon.  I refrained myself from doing a back flip with joy in her room as this breathing tube is probably the single most irritable object as far as Cathy is concerned.  She struggled for about two hours after the removal of this tube to overcome the irritation in her throat and started breathing calmly before falling back to sleep.

 

Her other attending neurosurgeon came visit her around 3:00pm this afternoon and commented how good she looks without those breathing tubes and would look even better without the collar around her neck.  I told him that the Radiology team told me this morning that they can not rule out the ligament damage around her neck after studying her MRI image taken yesterday.  This attending neurosurgeon, an older gentleman with a thick west European accent said ¡§Is that so? let me check it out right now!¡¨ and proceeded to the central nurses¡¦ station in a brisk pace.  He spent about 10 minutes there, called the chief residence over.  They discussed for about a minute then came over and told me that there is nothing wrong with what radiologist found in the back of Cathy’s neck.  It is probably something swollen caused by laying in bed too long.  He signed an order, gave it to Cathy’s attending nurse and the collar was off in 2 minutes.

 

Today is exactly 3 weeks to the date Cathy was hit by a car.  So many good things have happened today and have happened so fast.  I set here trying to figure out what do all these means but decided that this is too much for me and I can only attribute all the positives to your kindness, your well wishes 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

 

Steven L. Greenwood reported that we are behind in getting all the sponsors signed up.  He will be emailing the list remaining to be contacted.  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!

 

District 5160 Foundation Day

 

Rotary Foundation Day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Saturday, October 6, 2007. Includes Keynote Address by Past RI President Rajendra K. Saboo (1991-92), Silent Auction, and more.  Park Opens Early, at 8:30 am, for Rotarians and Guests for Special Foundation Program including Rotary Project Exhibits.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

Roy Ellis auctioned the Grinder.  Before doing so, he reported the Comanchi Ride, the construction of his Butte meadows cabin and 2 step daughter’s gradutated.  At first the auction didn’t elicit any bids after Jim Edwards opened at $50.00.  Apparently, no one is doing anything in August.  So it was agreed that it would cover August and September.  The bidding then became spirited.  Dar offered $60 which was raised by Tom Vanella to $70.  Jim Kirks got in the mix with a bid of $110 which Tom raised to $120.  It went to Tom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The program was the visit of District Governor Stan Smalley.  Stan is a member of the San Ramon Club.  He was here with his wife Marsha.  Stan discussed many things going on this Rotary year.  In October will be the Rotary Foundation Day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Saturday on October 6, 2007 (see announcement above).  He mentioned that with District 9220 representing Madagascar and five other island countries in the Western Indian Ocean, we have an incredible GSE team coming our way in March & April of next year.  The visit will extend 4-5 weeks. The Madagascar team will arrive the last week of March, and depart after the District Conference. Our outbound Team will accompany them home to Madagascar on April 28. You are encouraged to come and meet both teams at the District 5160 Conference in Sacramento on April 25 and 26, 2008.  Speaking of which he indicated that the Rotary District 5160 Annual Conference to be held at the Radisson Hotel in Sacramento on April 24 thru 26, 2008.

Stan is challenging each member to do one new thing.  He is also challenging each club to also do one new thing.

 

He also discussed the Paul Harris Society (PHS) which is a new level of recognition of Rotarians and friends who contribute $1,000 or more each fiscal year to the Rotary Foundation's humanitarian, educational, and cultural programs.  He indicated that the $100 sustaining membership is not the equivalent of the value of $100 at the time it was first adopted.  He suggests that members at least consider $200 per year.

 

He noted that Rotary International’s plan to completely irradiate polio by 2005 was blocked by the government of Nigeria and Muslim belief that it was a plan to kill their children.  These problems have now been overcome and Polio Plus is still on its way to completing the irradiation of polio.

 

 

Must  Be Present To Win Drawing

 

Dar Meyer was present to win.

 

Editorial:   I was embarrassed that our District Governor had to put up with the noise from the Butte Creek Country Club members in the next room.  It has been bad enough since they started their “Pasta Night” but this time they set up table just behind the dividers and were loudly talking just behind District Governor Stan Smalley.  As President Daryl knows, because I expressed myself to him on the way out, I left the meeting angry.  I still am!   THIS HAS TO STOP!   My opinion is that the Butte Creek Country Club has to move their event to another night or move us to Wednesday (assuming they do not have an event on that day) or we move elsewhere.

 

 

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

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