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Rotary
International President:
Wilfrid J. Wilkinson Rotary District 5160 Governor:
Stan
Smalley
Durham Rotary President: Daryl Polk
_____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price |
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The Next 2008 Harvest Festival Committee will be held in February 2008 at the Italian Cottage on the Skyway. The 2008 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008. |
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2007 Calendar for Durham Rotary |
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4 No Meeting Labor Day Holiday |
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9 (A) Chris Hatch |
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11 Meeting 6pm Harvest Festival Preparation at the Durham Park. |
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16 All Day The Harvest Festival. All must attend. (B) Jim Kirks |
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18 No meeting (the Harvest Festival was the meeting of record). |
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25 Meeting 6pm Harvest Festival Club Assembly (B) Stephen Plume |
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2 Meeting 6pm Butte County Solid Waste Landfill site on Neal Road off Hwy 99E (Dan Davis) (B) Dar Meyer |
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9 No Meeting Columbus day travel day (A) Mike Wacker |
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11 (A) Bruce Miller |
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15 (A) Roy Ellis |
16 Meeting 6pm Anthony Watts on Global Warming (Mike Wacker) |
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22 Meeting 6pm Monday Night Football at Mountain Mike’s. The Paradise Club will visit. |
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30 Meeting 6pm Chido Children's Choir (Chris Hatch) |
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| President Daryl Polk
opened the meeting back at BCCC for the first time this month. He asked Dan Davis to lead the Pledge of
Allegiance, which he did. Jim Patterson
then gave the invocation including thanks for good weather and good help to
produce a very successful Harvest Festival. |
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FUTURE
MEETINGS: |
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October 2nd:
Dan Davis at the Dump.
October 9th:
No Meeting. Columbus Day travel
day.
October 16th:
Roy Ellis
October 22nd (Monday):
Monday Night Football at Mountain
Mike’s. The Paradise Club will visit.
October 30th:
Chris Hatch
January 29th:
Dar Meyer will present
Kim Schafer,
daughter of Walt Schafer.
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Sorry about the delay
in last week’s Rowel. It was done last Friday morning, but
the number of photographs (mine and Kent’s) of the Harvest Festival in it,
apparently was more than current email technology could handle. It wasn’t until I had time to break it into 5
parts and email it to Jen in 5 separate emails last night,
that he could get it, put it back together, and publish it.
VISITING
ROTARIANS & GUESTS
Dan
Davis, Roy Ellis, Mike Wacker and Tom Knowles were
asked to introduce the visiting Rotarians.
Introduced
were Jim Rosendahl and Al Lotspeich
of the
Tom
introduced Joe Hubbard as a guest.
REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:
District 5160 Foundation Day
Rotary
Foundation Day at
RECOGNITIONS
Chris Hatch celebrated
his 40th Anniversary and was recognized in the amount of $40.00
Jim Kirks paid
$10.00 for his birthday, without a song.
Steve Plume was
having his birthday today and wanted a song from the whole club, which he got
and contributed $7.00.
Mike Crump was assessed $40 for closing the Hagen Lane crossing of the railroad track interfering with Norm Larson’s operations.
PROGRAM
The Program was a Club Assembly on the Harvest
Festival. Steve Greenwood led the
discussion. First he called on Dan Davis
who gave his preliminary estimate of the income. He indicated that it appears that we grossed
between $37,000 and $40,000 and will likely net over $20,000 for the first
time.
Dan stated that we sold
756 breakfasts, 718 tri-tip lunches, and 366 chicken dinners, all of which
represent an increase.
Dan also discuss the
cashier station operations. There was
always a long line, but the kitchen probably could not serve faster so a third
cashier would probably not help. It was propose splitting the two cashiers next
year and allow room for people to get around people that cannot decide what
they want.
Steve Plume and Tom
Knowles discussed parking. It went
pretty well but they had suggestions for some improvements next year.
It was suggested that we
can raise the beer prices next year.
It was noted that we,
with our limited membership, could not have done it without the help of the
Interact Club, the Durham Swim Team, the Boy Scouts, the Durham High School Cheerleaders (who soldover $1,000 in Raffle tickets before the
Festival). Dan has about $2,000 in
checks to deliver to the groups that helped.
I could not have handled
the condiments table at lunch without the help of several Interact
members. One also was need to work in
the Kitchen and another the parking.
All in all, the Harvest
Festival ran smother this year and was the most successful yet.
The following were the
winners of the raffle:
1st Wendy Oceguedy - $500.00
2nd Stan Potoski - $250.00
3rd Brian Dowdy - $250.00
Must Be Present To Win Drawing
None this week. Clint was
missing and the meeting was late concluding so we didn’t want to wait for
someone else to find it.
Cathy Liu Update from Jen
Dear
friends, Tuesday,
September 25th, 2007
Cathy reached another
significant milestone today. She is
discharged from UCD Med. Center this morning and she walked out of the hospital
by herself with us by her side.
We have leased a two bedroom
duplex next to UCD Med. Center. This
place is quiet and is about 7 minutes walk for Pam or me to the main
hospital. Here is Cathy’s new address:
Cathy Liu
3773
Miller Way
Sacramento,
CA 95817
Cathy’s immediate needs on
rehabilitation are transferred to a program called Rehab. Without Walls. It is a program that provides therapeutic
treatments in patient’s own home. Many
people believe patients with neurological rehabilitation
needs do better in a normalized surrounding.
It is a costly program and was not covered by her insurance policy. Cathy was offered the possibility of this
program earlier by the management of Internal Medicine department at UCD Med.
Center. They worked very hard in the
last few weeks to include this new program into Cathy’s insurance policy and it
finally materialized yesterday, the day before Cathy is discharged. We were told that there will be an evaluation
in about 6 weeks to see if Cathy’s can be transitioned to UCDMC’s
outpatient rehab. program for the long haul.
Cathy
needs 24 hour supervision for the near future.
Her main challenges are her right arm and her speech. We were taught by her speech pathologist the
following:
- Face her when we speak to
her so that she can read our lips to make it easier for her,
- Slow down our speech just a
bit but not too slow as Cathy is still an intelligent adult and does not
want to be treated as a child
- Encourage her to use full
sentences when speaking so that she doesn’t become an one word speaker
- Cathy knows what she wants
to say but may express it differently.
We need to evaluate the context in order to derive and confirm what
she really meant. For example,
Cathy wanted me to “turn off the light” one night when we were leaving and
it took us awhile to figure out that she really meant for us to “close the
door”. We figured this one out
because the light is already turned off and the light switch is right by
the door.
We left the hospital with
some degree of ambivalence. We felt we
were passengers in a bus in the past.
All Cathy’s needs are monitored and taken care of while she is in the
hospital. We were just there for the
ride. And now, we are driving
ourselves. We know where we want to be
but it is a far away place we have never been before. However, we believe with your support and
prayer, we will reach the destination and it will be a worthwhile journey.
Jen, Pam, Cathy and Grace
P. S. Cathy read this update and added her own name
next to Pam by herself.
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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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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. |
