Rotary International President: John Kenny Rotary District 5160 Governor: Earl Kilmer Durham Rotary President: Mike Crump _____________ Rowel Editor: Phil Price
	January 5, 2010	The  2010 Harvest Festival  will be held in September 19, 2010

This was the Christmas Party.  President Mike called the meeting to order.  Dave Davey led the pledge of allegiance.  Jim Patterson gave the invocation.  That was the end of formalities.

 

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FUTURE MEETINGS:

January Program Chair: Daryle Polk   January 12th:  Glenn Pulliam will present Allen Harthorn speaking about the salmon population in Butte Creek.   January 18th:  No Meeting   January 23rd:  CRAB FEED   January 26th:  No Meeting.   February Program Chair:  Ryan Sutton   February 2nd :  Tom Vanella   February 9th:  Mike Wacker   February 16th:  No Meeting   February 23rd:  Roy Ellis

President Mike called the meeting to order.  Clint Goss led the pledge of allegiance.  Jim Patterson gave the invocation. 

 

VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

 

Glenn Pulliam introduced Robert Olea of the Lake Tahoe Club.  After Dan identified the Red Badge laying on the table as his, Glenn also introduced Red Badge member Dan Driscoll

 

Kent Jackson reported that there were no visiting Rotarians or Guests at his table.

 

Daryl Polk introduced Floyd Miller, Red Badge member.

 

Steve Greenwood introduced Darren Stratton and George Walker of the Chico Club, who were here to present the program for the night.

 

NEXT MEETING

 

Glenn Pulliam will present Allen Harthorn speaking about the salmon population in Butte Creek

 

REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Crab Feed

The Crab Feed will be January 23, 2010.   Roy Ellis previously passed out Crab Feed tickets to members.  They are yours.  You will be billed for them.  The extras are for you to bring guests.  Or you can sell them if you aren’t going to use.  If you have not received your tickets, contact Roy.  You will still be billed for them, so you might as well get them.   Work assignments will be passed out next week.

 

Camp Royal Program Needs a Chairperson

 

Roy Ellis  needs a member to take over the Camp Royal Program.  He indicates that the interviews come at the same time as he is dealing with the scholarship interviews an he can no longer do both.  If you are interested call Roy.

 

RECOGNITIONS

 

President Mike  recognized Dan Driscoll, in the amount of $5, for not wearing his Red Badge and confusing Glenn Pulliam. 

 

Jim Patterson was recognized for wearing an Ohio State T-Shirt and hat.  For that he contributed $18 (it had something to do with minutes in or not in possession).  Then the subject of his anniversary last month came up.  Jim was upset about it not being mentioned at the Christmas Party.  It still cost him $45 for 45 years of marriage.  Lastly, Jim mentioned being mentioned in a newspaper article.  He contributed an additional $1.  All of that got him to and past Bell Ringer status, so he rang the Bell.  Yes, President Mike had found it again.

 

President Mike recognized Phil Price for not having a picture of him in the Christmas Party Rowel.  Particularly since there was a good picture of Roy published.  It cost Phil $10.  Sorry President Mike, it just depends on who was more photogenic at the time.  Also, on where I happened to be with the camera.
 

It turned out that the bottle of wine in the centerpiece was not the one the District Governor had given President Mike and which he is supposed to bring to the convention in June.  President Mike contended that he had bid on that one, under false pretenses.  President Mike sold it back to Dave Mulqueeney for $30.  Dave said he had found it in the storage room, but it was apparently one given by a prior District Governor to a Prior President.

 

 

Dave Jessen auctioned the Grinder for January.  Steve Plume got it for $60, before someone pointed out to him that there was only one more meeting in January.

 

PROGRAM

 

Phil Price presented Captain Darren Stratton of the Chico Salvation Army Corp.  He was accompanied by George Walker, who has long been a supporter of the Salvation Army in Chico.  I had made arrangements for the program through George, who I have known for years.  Captain Stratton spoke about the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Program and the facility where it operates in Chico.  The Facility is named after George Walker because he has been pushing the development of the program in Chico for about 20 years.  Captain Stratton also showed two videos about the program with testimonials by two graduates of the programs who are program successes.  Captain Stratton also offered to host one of our club meetings at the facility and give us a tour.

 

Must be Present to Win” Drawing

 

Dan Davis was present to win the drawing of that name.

 

From Rotary International:

Not your typical Interact club

By Arnold R. Grahl 
Rotary International News -- 15 December, 2009 

 

Top: Virginia Barr, (left) liaison to the Interact Club of Communities-in-Schools at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, and club adviser Andy Broughton (far right), with members of the club on a park service project. Bottom: Quantavis and Delsean work on improving the park. Photos courtesy of Andy Broughton

 

Members of the Interact Club of Communities-in-Schools at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, USA, have one of the most unusual meeting places.

 

The club convenes inside the juvenile correctional facility in Columbia and is composed of youth offenders who are participating in the facility's Communities in Schools curriculum.

 

The Interact club was launched by the Rotary Club of Lake Murray-Irmo in November 2006.

 

"We asked the club if they would be willing to support such an Interact club," says Virginia Barr, president of the Lake Murray-Irmo club and director of the Office of Community Justice at the Department of Juvenile Justice. The Rotarians already had a track record of service projects with the  department.

 

"There were a lot of questions at first," Barr acknowledges, "but also a lot of support. Bernie Riedel, who was then our district governor, was 100 percent behind the idea and pushed for it. The director of the agency also strongly supported the notion." Ultimately, the club obtained all the necessary approvals.

 

The Interact club has some unique rules. Offenders who want to join must maintain a certain level of behavior or be removed from membership, Barr says. They can, however, be reinstated if they reform.

 

Because of these requirements, and because some members may be serving a short sentence, membership tends to be more fluid than a typical club. Barr says the club selects new officers every three months. "We want them all to have a chance at leadership."

 

Barr and Andy Broughton, another employee of the Department of Juvenile Justice who serves as adviser, attend the club's meetings. Once a year, Lake Murray-Irmo Rotarians are also invited to take part inside the center. Some offenders are occasionally allowed to come speak to the Rotary club.

 

Barr said Interact's mission fits nicely with the goals of the Juvenile Justice Department. "What we are trying to do is create a new normal for them, a sense of normalcy," she says. "Interact provides a lot of what they are trying to teach them. The goal is for them to not just be a law-abiding citizen, but a productive, contributing citizen."

 

The Interact club recently had a chance to tell the world its story by participating in Rotary International's first Interact video contest. The club's video, "Giving Back Through Interact," took the grand prize of being featured in Interactive.

 

"They came up with the idea for and all the material in the video," says Barr. "They said, 'What we need to do is show the transformation.' It took guts for them to take that approach. Some of them have hard stories to tell.

 

"This video showed us just how much of an impact we have made," she adds.

 

The Interact club has also had another success story. The Rotarians began a mentoring program that matches an offender with a Rotarian. One of the first arrangements paired a police chief with an offender who had committed assault and battery with intent to kill. The mentoring relationship has worked out beautifully, and the youth, who served as president of the Interact club, is now attending South Carolina State University, majoring in mathematics on a scholarship from the state. The Rotary club chipped in to cover the student's books and fees.

 

 

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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