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

 

 

May 6, 2008

  

The  2008 Harvest Festival will be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008.

2008                          Calendar for Durham Rotary
 

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Meeting
Janet Brinson will speak on the Chico Unified School District budget.
(Glen Pulliam)		 2
(B) Dave Jessen		 3
(B) Mike Wacker		 4 5
6
(B) Norm Larson		 7 8
Meeting
 North Valley Health Education Foundation
(Dar Meyer)		 9 10 11 12
13 14 15
Meeting
Brian Shul - Retired SR71 Pilot
(Daryl Polk)		 16 17 18 19
20 21
(B) Mike Crump		 22
Meeting
John Anderson of New Urban Builders who will speak about the Meriam Park Project and Planning Issues
(Tom Knowles)		 23 24 25
(A) Daryl Pole		 26
27 28
 		 29
Meeting
Margot Harry to speak on "Northern California Land Trust"
(Dave Mulqueeney)		 30      
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4 5 6
Meeting
Chuck Cabral to give us a tour at the newest huller in operation in the Durham area…..the address for the huller is 9051 Aguas Frias Rd, Chico, CA…..  Will discuss where we can eat
(Daryl Polk)		 7 8 9
(A) Bill Apger		 10
(B) Phil Price
11 12 13
Meeting
 Texas Hold’em Poker tournament
(Ged Andrusaitis)
(B) Jim Edwards		 14 15 16 17
18 19 20
Meeting
Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park with Interact, Camp Royal and Students of the Month
(Roy Ellis)
(A) Steve Greenwood		 21
(B) Kent Jackson		 22 23 24
25
(A) Joe Nock		 26 27
No Meeting
Day after Memorial Day
(B) Glenn Pulliam		 38 29 30 31

 

  President Daryl opened the meeting at the BCCC, I assume.  I also assume that he asked some member to lead the pledge and that that member did.  Jim Patterson probably offered the invocation, but Daryl might have surprised us by asking Dar, Andy or some other member to do it.  Anyway, I am sure it was done.

FUTURE MEETINGS:

 

May 13th:   Ged Andrusaitis will hold a Texas Hold’em Poker tournament.

 

May 20th:  Roy Ellis – Hot Dog Picnic at the Durham Park with Interact, Camp Royal and Students of the Month.

 

May 27th:  Day after Memorial Day- No meeting

 

June  3rd :  Carnitas Feed.

 

June 10th : Club Assembly with the President Elect.

 

June 17th :  Bill Apger will present “Steve Bertagna Uncensored.”

 

June 24th:  Demotion.

 

 

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

I haven’t a clue, since I wasn’t there and it wouldn’t done any good to ask Jim Kirks to take notes and report it to me, because it was here to put any such reported information in the Rowel.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Ged Andrusaitis will hold a Texas Hold’em Poker tournament.    The tournament will be conducted like the World Series of poker conducted in Las Vegas.  Everyone will get a free buy-in of chips.  There will be no limit, but if you loose all your chips you are out.

 

  It should be an exciting meeting.  Sorry I am missing it.

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

CLUB BYLAWS

 

Now that K. R. is back, it is the time to report to him your comments about the Bylaws he distributed in December, which you have, I am sure, reviewed as he asked.  We cannot find the Bylaws for the Club and need to adopt new ones.  Speaking of K.R., Jim reports that he is getting some use of his hands back.

 

 

 

HARVEST FESTIVAL

 

 

 

At the April 22nd meeting Steve Greenwood passed around Durham Rotary 2008 Harvest Festival Sponsorship Forms with a list of the sponsorship levels list.  Get the forms to all the sponsors you know of.  Steve wants the forms back by early July so we can get the T-Shirts ordered and the lists of sponsors printed.

 

PROGRAM

 

I assume that Daryl Polk took you all out on a tour of the newest huller operation in Durham at 9051 Aguas Frias Rd. and that you found your way there.

 

 

ROTARY EDUCATION

 

As you could tell above, I am not here.  So this and the next Rowel are my annual Rotary education issues.  The purpose is to reeducate long time Rotarians and to educate new Rotarians.  The following are articles from the Rotary International web site.  (copyrighted by Rotary International).

 

WHAT IS ROTARY?

 

Rotary International is a volunteer organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service, and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotary club members belonging to more than 32,000 Rotary clubs in nearly 170 countries.

Founded in Chicago in 1905, Rotary celebrated 100 years of service in 2005. The Rotary Foundation has awarded more than US$1.6 billion in grants, which are administered at the local level.

 

What is the purpose of Rotary?

Rotary clubs exist to improve communities locally and around the world. Rotary also encourages high ethical standards in business and professions. Rotary clubs work to advance international understanding by partnering with clubs in other countries.

 

What do Rotary clubs do?

Rotary clubs address critical issues in communities worldwide. Examples of Rotary’s focus areas include:

 

Polio Eradication - In 1985, Rotary International created PolioPlus – a program to immunize all the world’s children against polio. To date, the PolioPlus program has contributed more than US$620 million to the protection of more than two billion children in 122 countries. These funds are providing much needed polio vaccine, operational support, medical personnel, laboratory equipment and educational materials for health workers and parents.

With its community-based network worldwide, Rotary is the volunteer arm of the global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. Rotary volunteers assist in vaccine delivery, social mobilization and logistical help in cooperation with the national health ministries, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

Peace - In an effort to educate tomorrow’s peacemakers and ambassadors, Rotary launched the Rotary Centers for International Studies in 2002 at seven prestigious universities worldwide. The program provides master’s-level education in conflict resolution to groups of 60 Rotary World Peace Scholars chosen annually.

 

International Education - Rotary is the world’s largest privately-funded source of international scholarships. Each year, about 1,000 university students receive Rotary scholarships to study abroad. Rotary clubs also coordinate a high school-age student exchange program that sends nearly 8,000 students abroad for three months to a year.

 

Humanitarian Projects - Rotary clubs initiate thousands of humanitarian projects every year. These projects address problems that create instability and trigger conflicts --hunger, poverty, poor health, and illiteracy.

 

Literacy - Rotary clubs are engaged in the fight against illiteracy worldwide. A cumulative language encounter program in Thailand dramatically reduced school failure and was adopted by the Thai government for all the nation’s schools.

 

Water Management - Recognizing the importance of clean water, many Rotary clubs help to install wells and develop water treatment and distribution systems to increase access to fresh drinking water for communities in need, especially in developing countries.

 

 

 

Fact Sheet - PolioPlus

 

CONTACT: Vivan Fiore at (847) 866-3234 or

Vivian.Fiore@rotary.org

 

Polio

Poliomyelitis (polio) is a crippling and potentially fatal disease that still threatens children in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The poliovirus invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but mainly affects children under five years of age.

 

PolioPlus

In 1985, Rotary International created PolioPlus – a program to immunize all the world’s children against polio. To date, Rotary has contributed US$633 million and countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than two billion children in 122 countries. These efforts are providing much needed polio vaccine, operational support, medical personnel, laboratory equipment and educational materials for health workers and parents. In addition, Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor governments to contribute over US$3 billion to the effort. That amount, combined with direct funds from Rotary, is more than half the money needed for the entire global polio eradication program.

 

Global Polio Eradication Initiative

With its community-based network worldwide, Rotary is the volunteer arm and top private sector contributor to a global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. Since its launch in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative - spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF - has reduced the incidence of polio by more than 99 percent. At the time, more than 125 countries were polio-endemic, and

more than 350,000 children were paralysed by the disease each year.

 

Polio Today

Today, endemic wild poliovirus has been eliminated from all but four countries in the world (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan), and 2,000 cases were reported worldwide in 2006. Though great progress has been made, challenges remain. Overall, the quality of immunization campaigns must be improved, and more funding is critically needed as the GPEI is facing a funding gap of US$415 million for 2007-08. In response, high-level representatives from governments, donors and international agencies, recently endorsed a final plan with clear milestones over the next 24-months to tackle these and other challenges to a polio-free world.

 

Rotarians in Action

Besides raising funds, over one million men and women of Rotary have donated their time and personal resources to help immunize nearly 2 billion children during mass immunization campaigns throughout the world. Rotarians prepare and distribute different types of mass communication tools to get the message to people cut off from the mainstream by conflict, geography or poverty. Rotarians also recruit fellow volunteers, assist with transporting the vaccine, administer the vaccine to children and provide other logistical support.

 

Lasting Legacy

The savings of polio eradication are potentially as high as US$ 1.5 billion per year - funds that could be used to address other public health priorities. The savings in human suffering will be immeasurable

 

 

 

Membership Teams


Mike Wacker reported that Team One has accumulated 13 points while the remaining teams have only 1 point each.

 

 Team One - Captain Roy Ellis. Members, Dar Meyer, Dan Davis, Steve Plume, Norm Larson, Jim Patterson, Dave Mulqueeney, and Glenn Pulliam.

Team Two - Captain Tod Kimmelshue. Members Steve Greenwood, Bruce Miller, Clint Goss, Daryl Polk, Dave Jessen and Joe Nock.

Team Three - Captain Mike Wacker. Members Chris Hatch, Jen Liu, Kent , Jackson, Mike Crump, Jim Edwards, Jim Kirks and KR Robertson.

Team Four - Captain Jane Ziad. Members Bill Apger, Phil Price, Tom Knowles, Tom Vanella, Andy Farrar, and Bruce Norlie.

 

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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