RioSaladoRotary

February 14, 2008

Today’s Scheduled Speaker:     Anne Guerrant, the Guerrant Foundation

President – Martha S. O'Connor - Secretary – Bonnie Guilbault  - Treasurer – Dona Eubank

Guests: David Guilbault, Bonnie’s husband

Attendance:    Martie O., Corey B., Eileen S., Kent H., Jan S., Bonnie G., Dona E., Ben E., Patrick deH. Ben E., Ron F.
Invocation: Ben E.    Pledge & 4-Way Test: Martie O.     Happy $: Bonnie

Announcements:  None

The schedule  for February is: 

            Feb. 21 - Ogie Shaw,Executive Director of Community Fitness         
                Leaders;President of Ogie Shaw Fitness
            Feb. 28 – Kimmey (Mi Young Ki)

TRS Board Meeting after regular meeting.  Members are invited to attend as well.

Speaker: Anne Guerrant played tennis on the pro tour for 9 years, ranking as high as #11 in the world.  She played at Wimbledon, the US Open, and all the major tournaments.  Her record includes wins over Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King. In 2005 she and her husband, Terry, visited a micro credit lending program in India.  They were truly inspired by the dignity and ambition of the women entrepreneurs they met. They started the Guerrant Foundation to help women and families improve their lives through tiny loans to start businesses.

One half of the world’s population lives on $2/day.  70% of those 3 billion people in poverty are females. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner along with the Grameen Bank, began loaning small amounts of money to the poorest of the poor of Bangladesh in 1976.  With tiny loans these impoverished people were able to begin to generate an income and break the devastating cycle of poverty.  The Grameen Bank, which Dr. Yunus founded in 1983, has helped 6 million people in Bangladesh lift themselves out of poverty.   Today there are about 3,000 micro finance institutions around the world helping over 100 million people.   The Guerrant Foundation supports Opportunity International and the Grameen Foundation.  If you want to make a donation, please contact Anne or visit the website at http://guerrantfoundation.org or
Call:  (480) 219-6600  or  email:  admin@guerrantfoundation.org

Dona drew the winning ticket, but not “The Queen of Hearts”.  Sorry, Dona.

Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 A.M.

Tempe Rio Salado Rotary February 7, 2008

Today’s Scheduled Speaker:  Michael Sherron, GSE team member
President – Martha S. O'Connor - Secretary – Bonnie Guilbault - Treasurer – Dona Eubank

Guests: Dwayne Knuth, Tempe

South; Clarissa Goldstein, ASU Rotaract; Charlene  Bashore, ASU Rotaract

Attendance: Martie O., Corey B., Goeff P., Eileen S., Kent H., Jan S., Bonnie G., Dona E., Lindsey; Patrick deH. Ben E., Jim L.

Invocation: Ben E. Pledge & 4-Way Test: Kent H. Happy $: all

Announcements:

The schedule  for February is: 
 

Feb. 14 - Anne Guerrant, the Guerrant Foundation

Feb. 21 - Ogie Shaw,Executive Director of Community Fitness 

Leaders;President of Ogie Shaw Fitness

Feb. 28 – Kimmey (Mi Young Ki)

 

Ø Next week is the TRS Board Meeting after regular meeting. Members are invited to attend as well. Remember, it counts as a make-up.

 Patrick de Hahn passed around a list of schools and the poverty level of the students.

 President Martie said that the Aramark Corp. contacted her concerning our interest in running a food stand at the Tempe Diablo Stadium. We would run a beer & hot dog stand. It was felt that if we could join with another Rotary Club, we could manage the time and ‘manpower’ commitment.

 Clarissa & Charlene from the ASU Rotaract club announced that their Annual Silent Auction Fundraiser will benefit the Phoenix Rescue Center this year. It is scheduled for April 18^th at the Old Main Ballroom on the ASU campus. Details will follow.

Please remember that next week's speaker is Anne Guerrant, the Guerrant Foundation, providing micro loans to poor individuals.  Anne is a former professional tennis star.  Bring your guests to hear this presentation and be inspired.

Speaker: GSE team traveled to Japan

and during that time, they were guests at 20-25 Rotary clubs. Though instructed to travel light, Michael noted that they also had to bring gifts, dress clothes, etc. making “light” a relative term. Being in Rotary in

Japan

is quite an honor and very intense. Social & cultural issues and projects were not “advertised”. In the Japanese culture, they do not believe in taking “credit” for altruistic behavior, and did not show Rotary projects. Michael also noted that at every Rotary meeting, there was a Welcoming party, and a Goodbye party. He stated that his favorite experience was being able to discuss political issues and history with the Japanese. Michael is a computer programmer, e-commerce. The cultural exchange was a positive experience for him, and we all appreciate his ability to be such a wonderful ambassador for Rotary and for America

 Corey drew the winning ticket, but not “The Queen of Hearts”. Sorry, Corey.

 Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 A.M.

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Tempe Rio Salado Rotary Club Meeting January 31, 2008

Tempe Rio Salado Weekly
Meeting Notes

Today’s Date:  January 31, 2008

District 5510        2007-2008            

Today’s Scheduled Speaker:     Kimmey (Mi Young Ki)

President – Martha S. O'Connor - Secretary – Bonnie Guilbault  - Treasurer – Dona Eubank

Guests:  Larry Kasperbower, Guam Rotary Club (reported about the new military complex being built with an est. pop. boom of 40,000 troops and the ensuing problems of having an increased infrastructure to accommodate this population increase.)

Attendance: Corey B., Goeff P., Eileen S., Kent H., Jan S., Bonnie G., Dona E., Lindsey; Patrick deH.

.Announcements:

The schedule  for February is: 
                    Feb. 7 -  Michael Sherron, GSE team member
            Feb. 14 - Anne Guerrant, the Guerrant Foundation
            Feb. 21 - Ogie Shaw,Executive Director of Community Fitness         
                Leaders;President of Ogie Shaw Fitness
            Feb. 28 –

Patrick de Hahn announced that there were many books left after the Christmas Santa Project which he will pass out to the younger children at Laird School.  He also showed a long banner of photos of all the children served during the Santa Project.  He also commented on what a small club can do, and the “Power of One”.  Way to go, Santa Patrick, and way to go, Tempe Rio Salado.

Eileen announced that the 2nd phase of the  St. Lucia project has been approved by RI. This project has been turned around to $42,000. This project cost the club $2000.  This 2nd grant will be for air  conditioners.   Special thanks to Eileen for all her hard work.

Speaker:  [ No-Show. President Martie will call to reschedule]

President Martie drew the winning ticket, but not “The Queen of Hearts”.  Sorry, Martie.

Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 A.M.

For the most up to date information about the club and events check out the web site! http://www.riosaladorotary.com/

January 17, 2008

Acting President: Bonnie Guilbault

Guests: Christine Hillstead from Laird School

 
Attendance: Corey B., Goeff P., Eileen S., Kent H., Jan S., Bonnie G., Dona E., Ben E.

 
.Announcements:

 
Ø The schedule  for January is: 

January 24, 2008 MEETING LOCATION CHANGE:

The Boys and Girls Club:  1555 N Bridalwreath St, Tempe AZ ;  Next to lLaird  school , a big red block, enter via the North side , the first parking lot off of Susan  Lane and use the door farthest from Scottsdale Rd. PLEASE PARK ON THE  NORTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING
Breakfast will be served, bagels etc, Meeting starts at 7:00- am. 

Ø Board Meeting following regular club meeting at Boys & Girls Club

  January 31, 2008  Kimmey (Mi Young Ki) 

Ø Eileen passed around a letter of thanks for the materials dent to St. Lucia as well as the program notes from the ceremony held to hand over the donated materials to the participating schools .

Speaker: Tracy Hueber spoke about Heifer International.

Heifer's

Mission

to End Hunger 

Heifer envisions…

A world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet. 

Heifer’s mission is…

To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

  Heifer's strategy is…

To “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.

For more information, go to www.heifer.org

 

 

Dona drew the winning ticket, but not “The Queen of Hearts”. Sorry, Dona.

 
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 A.M.

 
For the most up to date information about the club and events check out the web site! http://www.riosaladorotary.com/

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Weekly meeting

Call to Order: President Martie O’Connor called this meeting to order at 7:05 am.
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Invocation: Lynsie Rigby         Pledge & 4-Way Test: Martie O’Connor   

Happy Dollars:  Passed around.

Announcements

•    Holiday Party was scheduled for December 8 at Eileen Schioppa’s house.  More information will be coming.
•    The club has had three departures:  Terry Mickelson, Sue Strebe, and John Burnside.
•    December 6 2007 Club Assembly meeting
•    December 13, 2007 Intra City Club meeting at Friendship Village with speaker Joe Garagiola. Cost $10.00/person.
Motion: Moved Corey Bruggeman, seconded Ben Eubank.  Corey will contact Joe Garagiola and see if he will sign books if TRS purchases 25 books.  Books can then be available at the meeting and for future fund raising.
•    Eileen Schioppa’s correct e-mail address is reschioppa@yahoo.com.
•    Lynsie Rigby Boy’s and Girls Club:  Saturday, December 8 at 7:00 am will be the $100.00 shopping at Mervyns (Alma School Road and Elliott) with 100 kids. Volunteers are needed. If you can help out please contact Lynsie.
•    ASU is posting the raffle tickets for Jan Snyder.  If you can take extra raffle tickets to raise money please let Dona or Jan know.

TODAY’S SPEAKER:  Today’s Speaker: Kelly K. Damron, author “Tiny Toes: A Couples Journey Through Infertility”.

Kelly Damron is a former Rotarian and is an active volunteer with the “March of Dimes”.  Some facts about infertility. 
•    One in eight (8) couples has infertility problems.
•    Invitro Fertilization is 30% to 50% successful and is expensive. 
•    500,000 premature babies are born each year; premature births are the leading cause of death during the first year.
•    The March of Dimes research discovered that folic acid prevents neural tube deficiencies causing spins bifida.
•    Kelly’s book is available through Amazon. COM.

Adjournment: President Martie O’Connor adjourned the meeting at 8:05 A.M.

Jim Lemon drew the losing 8 of spades, so still no winner in the lottery.  The Queen of hearts is still hiding.  Maybe next week we will have a winner. 

Weekly Meeting October 11, 2007

Guests: Judge John Orr, Michael Sherion, Julie Lemmon, Bonnie Gaulbau

Call to Order: This meeting was called to order at 8:00 am by President Martha O’Connor.

Invocation: Eileen Schioppa  Pledge & 4-way Test: Susan Seats

Announcements: Next Weeks Acting President will be Dr. Ben Eubank.

Ron and Ben will deliver a foundation report next week.

Club members should be looking at finding high school sophomores to send to RYLA April 27-29^th.

Need places for international guests to stay 3-4 days as they come in for a conference at ASU. They are all environmental engineers that deal with water related issues.

Susan Seats announced that she isleaving the club to take care of her father in California.

Patrick announced that there are 14schools with 7000 kids, 4000 military families.

Scottsdale 17 schools are doing a toy drive and 28000 small gift toys and 400 hours of volunteers. This will touch 18,000to 20,000 kids. Has a budget of about $850,000.

Needs: Ice, waste management, pod that can store toys in (50,000 – 60,000). Need a storage area. Need miniature Christmas lights. Need 5 Rotary, 5 Lions and 5 Kiwanis clubs to each get involved for $500. each.

Michael Sherion, on the out bound GSE Team is taking a project along with them, to

Japan

. They are bringing their own individual projects. You can keep up with the GSE's adventures  at http://www.gse5510.blogspot.com/

Bonnie reports that she and Dave went down and visited Father Bill at the Ande House. They are in desperate need of men’s clothing, shoes, back packs, etc.

September 20, 2007 Weekly Meeting

  
District 5510  2007-2008

Today’s Speaker:  Dan Hill Payson Club speaking about RYLA 

President – Martha S. O'Connor - Secretary – Terry Mickelson  - Treasurer – Eileen Schioppa

Board Members:

Community Service: Goeff Pashkowski & Ron Freeman; Vocational Service: Sue Strebe, Eileen Schioppa Club Service: Sylvia Schweihs; International Service: Open; Foundation: John Burnside & Ben Eubank; Family of Rotary: Terry Mickelson, Jim Lemon.

Call to Order: This meeting was called to order at 8:00 am by President Martha O’Connor.

Invocation:  Ron Freeman Pledge & 4-way Test: Kent Hendricks

Announcements:

Our club will be dark on Thursday, September 27^th but will be having a tri-club meeting on Tuesday September 25^th at Noon, Monties. If you can make this let Marti know.

Gary Law sent out a notice that we are required to place$100. per member per year or we do not get funded for the ongoing projects and grants we have in play. After discussion our club decided to pledge the $100. per member per year.

November 10 is the district Training and Foundation Day. Learn about the Rotary Vocational Fund.

Laird Lynsie was inducted as a new member. Lynsie is with the Boys and girls club Youth Development coordinator at the campus near Laird Elementary School.

In the Picture, President O’Connor inducts and Sponsor Jim Lemmon “pins” new member Lynsie.

Dan Hill of the Payson Club is the new RYLA director. Dan is demonstrating why we are getting a bargain at $275. per kid who attend the camp. This was a very high energy and informative. Dan told the club of several success stories and stories of kids breaking through their own mental barriers.

One such story was of a very large young woman who could not get over the climbing wall. Eventually she was pulled to the top by her teammates. Just this last year she became a bone marrow donor and she credits the RYLA program with giving her the courage and understanding to do this.

Groups or teams are created and named after the countries of the exchange students who are attending.

The groups are given a “Major Project” that engages the kids. Applications are due by April 1^st. If we have a kid but no money we they will match us. This year there are changes in the program to get Rotarian’s to get involved and get a better understanding of what happens and how much the kids benefit from the program.

RYLA will be April 24^th – 27^th in Heber Arizona At the Salvation Army's Camp.

Dan Hill choose the card, he drew Cory’s ticket. Cory drew the 9 of clubs. President Martie says Cory is still a winner. The rest of us are not so sure.

Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 A.M.

September 6, 2007 Weekly Meeting

Speaker:  PR Randy Cooney, Broker at Keller Realty

Call to Order:  This meeting was called to order at 8:00 am by President Martha O’Connor.
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Invocation:      Dona Eubank                   Pledge & 4-way Test:  Sheila McGuire
Announcements: Next Weeks speaker will be Donna Rogers from United Food Bank. Dog Days of Summer are upon us! Higher utility bills and kids out of school mean the food budget is being hit hard! Please consider holding a food drive or making a donation to help those in need.

Jim Lemmon announced we need help picking up trash on October 6, 2007 for October fest.
Welcome to Lindsey who has submitted an application for membership.
Friday night we have the Service Above Self award dinner at President Martie’s home.

Rotary Rose Parade float 28th consecutive year. Sharing world literacy. They would like to have all members donate $3. per person. In the past we have sent Jan Snyder made a motion that we send $25. as a club. Dr. Eubank 2nd the motion and the club unanimously approved it.

Randy Cooney, prior to being in Real Estate Randy was a Hippy, clown, teacher and minister.  Nice humorous story about consultants and sheep. (You had to be there to get it.) Motivation VS Inspiration. Pain of discipline or the pain of regret. What would you prefer? When you have a “burning desire” (the goal that we each wrote down to help others) is what we are inspired to achieve. Cards were passed out, one to each person. Every one felt that they could win (the entire deck was made of Aces.

Ace means:

•    Affirm somebody
•    Complement somebody
•    Enable somebody

Randy created a National Unity Flag that has traveled across the country. This weekend the flag will be flown between 2 ladder trucks, Fire trucks will be at Tempe Town Lake. If you have any time this weekend volunteers are needed to help raise and lower it.

Ben drew the losing Card. Ben was a looser. Ben’s football team the Longhorn’s will not repeat. They too will be losers.

Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 8:0 A.M.

Club Meeting July 16, 2007

Call to Order:  This meeting was called to order at 8:00 am by President Martie O’Connor.
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Invocation:  Dr. Ben Eubank

Announcements Our Rotary partner club in VA has sent in their portion of the matching grant for the St. Lucia.

Ben Eubank and Jim Lemmon will be honored for their “Service above Self” Friday September 7, 2007 at Marti O’Connor’s home.

Cory announced that St. Peters Indian mission is building a library/computer center. They are ready for the alarm system to go in. We will need it installed soon as they are making rapid progress on construction. They will have a dedication service the first week in November. The will also want us to install cameras on the properties.  Last October several members donated to install cameras.

Dr Eubank announced that Former member Bill Tonan’s grandchild has passed away. He was less than one week old. Services will be held today, Thursday August 16th at Bethany community church in Tempe.
Next week we do not have a speaker but we will be talking about the club and the projects and fundraiser projects for the coming year.

Our first week of the food drive was very successful! Thanks to all who brought in food. Please remember to keep bring it in as the food banks are very low.

Our speaker, Prafull Karnik Is from the Thames East Rotary Club of India District 3140. 2X past President and current District Chair for matching grants and Chief Advisor of Community Service. Prafull has been a Rotarian for 27 years.

Praful has a “bad habit” of meeting people.  30 Districts in India and district 3140 has 115 clubs. The District Governor really never makes it home as he has Rotary Meetings at all times. The administration of this district is huge.

3 main events: PETS, District SML training for leaders, District conference.  3,500 members in the district and over 2,500 attend. This is where you meet and greet Rotarians and meet the RI president, many local politicians, and even actors from Bollywood. The event is in March and takes place in Bombay.

District Governors visit is an important day as he is the friend, advisor to the club and the members.  District Governor, behind closed doors has a conversation with the Club President to point out weaknesses and what can be done to help the club reach its goals and the districts goals.  All members are expected to attend the district Governors’ meeting. Imagine what visiting 115 meetings and all other events in the district takes! In addition all Indian District Governors’ are required to attend the International convention. Rotary can be a very taxing vocation!

Yesterday was Independence day in India. Each year the Rotary Club of Thane East visit a school they have adopted. There are 70 students that can not hear or speak. On this day, they distribute sweets to the children and talk them on a walk of the local streets.

Water clean air, alternate energy hygiene, etc are all focuses of the Rotary Club of Thane East, district and RI.  Tomorrow through Sunday they have a big medical camp. 300+ million people are illiterate and are at the bottom of the poverty level in India. The Rotary Club of Thane East conducts medical camps. 15 doctors will check patients 300+ community members are pre registered to receive medical care. The camp will be from  8 am to 6 pm. Women, children and senior citizens will be checked for diseases. Similar camps will be conducted 1-2 X  per year. The Rotary Club of Thane East go to rural areas and the 350 Rotarians in the city will effect 1.5 million people.

There is much rain fall but much can not be stored. The Rotary Club of Thane East located 25 sites where they gather the rainfall. In 5 years they have built 12 check dams. 5-6 feet of concrete where water is gathered, filtered and then distributed. They have 12 more sites, 1-2 more will be built this year.

Service Challenge week:  Program is announced to the district, they do different types of programs. In 2 clubs in the area they did 1500 cataract operations. One Dr and his team do the surgery and the club handles the post operation care. This all creates awareness in the community. HIV and hygiene is brought forth in the community. This is just Community service. Of course they have partner clubs; they have RYLA, GSE teams etc. 3-4 clubs get together to conduct RYLA 13-19 age students. They do a lot of career guidance.

Micro-credit financing. They do small loans so people can stand on their own feet by starting a business. Most are $25-100. Many women are using this to start a tailoring or vegetable sales business. There is a scope of doing many things with India. India’s economy is growing at 9.9% annually and of course this fast growth is creating many issues in Government. Polio Plus is being supported as there is 15-20 new cases found each year. For more information please visit http://www.rcte.org   

As a thank you, President Martha O'Connor presented Rotarian Prafull Karnik with a book that he signed and we donated to the Laird Elementary school in his name.

Terry drew the losing 9 of Spades.

Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 8:12 A.M.

Weekly Meeting Guest Speaker Mark Kruzel

Guests:  Jim Van De Venter,

Speaker:  Mark Kruzel

Members present:
Eileen Schioppa, Terry Mickelson, Kent Hendrick, Geoff Pashkowski, Ron Freeman. Corey Bruggman, Jim Lemmon.  Jan Snyder. Shiela Maguire. Patrick De Haan. Susan Seats.

Call to Order:  This meeting was called to order at 8:00 am by acting President Dona Eubank.
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Invocation:      Ron Freeman   
Pledge & 4-way Test:  Kent Hendrick

Announcements
* Ben Eubank collected happy dollars. 
*Martin Baird was fined $80.00 because: (Take your pick) A. Martin has missed tens if not 100’s of meetings since leaving state. B. Perdue football sucks C. Marty’s Paul Harris has not been funded in some time.
* Snyder presented 3 banners to the club from his African trip. Niarobi and 2 from Malawi.
* Dianna Cunningham’s house was flooded. She is in need of packing and moving. Members are invited to participate in cleaning.
* Mark Kruzel. He is going to Notre Dame prep school. Working on his eagle badge. Working with the Friends of the Orphans. Started in grade school working wit Friends of the Orphans. Sponsorship is $30. per month for the  sponsorship of a child. It takes 10 god parents at the cost of $30. per month to keep them there. Mark’s eagle project is to generate awareness for the organization. Mark built 3 sets of book shelves and was given a donation of $500. to buy books. Many more books are needed as the children are sponges for information but there are less than 1 book per child.  Children through 8th grade are housed. At the end of 8th grade the kids are given a year where they give back to the community. This is used to find an idea of what they would like to do and receive training for a vocation. Some will receive scholarship but the cost of a college education in Mexico can be $20,000. per year because the Mexican government does not contribute financially. Mark is a sponsor of a child and has been for a couple of years.  Mark suggests that we sponsor a child who is older. www.friendsoftheorphans.org

* Next week we will have a board meeting.

* Eileen drew the losing card so the Queen of Hearts remains elusive.

* Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 7:58 A.M.