The Rotary Club of
Lebanon, NH, USA
 
Chartered 1923
Enfield Drive-Thru Flu Shot Clinic
&
Food Drive for Enfield Food Pantry   
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Currents
October 17, 2020
 
Editor: Marilyn Bedell and note taker, Bruce Pacht...Thanks for the help!
Upcoming Programs/Speakers
 
 
October 22, 2020 -- Paul Coates, Lebanon's Recreation and Parks Director, and perhaps his wife, Kristen, will be our speaker(s) for our October 22 meeting.  They recently completed a sabbatical trip and will share with us that experience and its relevance to Lebanon. 
 
October 29, 2020 -- Club Business Meeting and Lebanon Charities Bylaw Vote - If you can't attend the meeting, please send you vote to Marilyn Bedell (see email sent earlier in the week) We need at least 28 members to vote to adopt the bylaw changes.
 
November 5, 2020 -- Rotary Foundation Month - Rotary Foundation and Covid 19, Marilyn Bedell
 
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Stories
Special Meeting with Rotary District 7850 -- Joey Coleman
Speaker: Joey Coleman.
Topic: EVER LOSE A CUSTOMER AGAIN.
 
Read more about Joey by clicking here. Joey has worked with Volkswagen, Microsoft,  Whirlpool, Deloitte, NASA, Zappos, Google, John Hancock 
 
 
A post to the link to his presentation will be provided once it is available from District 7850.  
 
Joey shared many thoughts on how we might make our club stronger, and ways to retain members after they decide to join us.
 
Members who joined the webinar:  Ron Bedell, Marilyn Bedell, Joy Gobin, Garlin Hoskin, Bruce Pacht, Steve Whitman and John Yacavone.
Club Updates/Announcements
 
DOODLE POLL WAS SENT — Hoping you can help with a few of our upcoming service projects.
 
From Bruce Bergeron - Community Services Chair
 
Here is run down of the events:
 
Saturday October 3rd    COMPLETED 
 
8:30 am – 9:30 am.  Load clothes we collected 8 weeks ago for Epilogos.  We will meet at Jake’s Coffee Shop at 8:30 and then going to Guaraldi Insurance to pick up rest. (6 volunteers)
                                               
9:30 am – 1 PM.  Deliver clothes to Savers in Manchester NH.  (2-3 volunteers)
 
Saturday October 10th COMPLETED 8:30 am – 1 pm.  Assist with the Drive Thru vaccination event at the Plainfield NH Elementary School.  The Public Health Council of UV is coordinating this event.    (2-4 volunteers)
 
Wednesday October 14th
 
1 pm – 3 pm.  Drive Thru Food Drive at La Salette Shrine Parking lot to benefit Enfield food pantry, managed by Friends of Mascoma.  This project will be in conjunction with the Drive Thru        Vaccination event sponsored by Public Health Council of UV. (6 volunteers)
 
Wednesday October 14th
 
3 pm – 6 pm.  Drive Thru Food Drive at La Salette Shrine Parking lot.  (6 volunteers)
 
Saturday October 24th
 
Boston Lot Trail Maintenance Project. CANCELLED...See below
 
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
 
Help is needed in Bradford, VT.  If you can help from 12-6 PM let Dan Affelt know. (3-5 Volunteers)...I think Ernst Oidtmann is helping in Bradford.  Help keep him company as he helps with injections. 
 
October 31st
 
8:30 – 1 pm.  Assist with the Drive Thru vaccination event at Canaan Elementary (3-5 volunteers) Still time to sign up for our last event in October
 
 
Below is a Doodle link to indicate which events you wish to volunteer for. 
 
  • Vaccines and the Van — Dan Affeldt
 
Three Drive-Thru Flu Vaccine Clinic are  now completed.  Dan Affeldt helped in Orford.  Ron Bedell, John Yacavone, Dan Affeldt, Angela Nelson and Marilyn Bedell helped at Plainfield. Paul Boucher, Tim Guaraldi, Bruce Bergeron, Cindy Jerome, Ron Bedell, Marilyn Bedell, Dan Affeldt, David Crandall and Bruce Pacht.
 
Plainfield
 
Enfield
Enfield — Food Drive  
We collected 67 lbs of groceries and snacks, AND $306 in cash donations for the Enfield Food Pantry!!
 
 
Please sign up to help in Canaan.  
 
Additional Comments from Dan Affeldt:
 
  • Session #1 Saturday, 10/3 at Rivendell Academy in Orford.  We had over 225 people and ran out of vaccine.  Instead of 3 hours, were done in 1 hour, 45 minutes.
  • 2nd year medical students were terrific.  Having the van has expedited carrying out these inoculations
  • Plainfield 10/10:  Plan to have at least 300 doses available.
  • Enfield 10/14 – at the LaSalette Shrine from 2-6 PM, expecting around 600 folks.  In conjunction with the Mascoma Food Bank.  Will attempt to stagger the crowd by giving time windows by the first letter of folks’ last name. IF YOU CAN HELP...PLEASE COME.
  • Bradford 10/21 – Oxbow High School.  Starts 2 PM (show up at noon) NEED VOLUNTEERS
  • Canaan 10/31 in costume or not; estimating 350-400.  Working with Friends of Mascoma Foundation.

  • Million Mask Distribution
A reminder that we have 2,000 disposable mask to distribute to our community.  At this point in time we have committed the following number of masks:
 
Masks
Lebanon Library 400
Child Care Enfield 200
Police 300
Listen 400
Wise 200
Mascoma School District 300
Headrest 200
 

  • In Memory of Don Mitchell, Our Chef at Harvest Hill
Paul Tierney and Marilyn Bedell arranged to have a pitcher engraved at Simon Pearce that will or has been presented to Don Mitchell's Family by Cindy Jerome and Sam Fazio, Director of Food Services at Harvest Hill.  Here is a picture of the pitcher.
 
 
The inscription: 
In Fond Memory
of
Don Mitchell
A True Friend of Rotary.

  • Charities Bylaws Review
Bruce thanked members who reviewed the Charities Bylaws. The goal is to vote on the bylaws at the October 29, 2020 meeting. PLEASE VOTE BY E-MAIL if you can't attend the meeting.  We need a 2/3 of the membership vote or 28 members.
 

 
  • District Treasurer
DG Jamie Milne is looking for a Rotarian to take on the position of treasurer for our Rotary district, Rotary District 7850.  If you are interested in taking this on, let Marilyn Bedell, Ron Bedell or Bruce Pacht know and they can share you contact information with DG Jamie.  We can also give you contact information for our current treasurer, Lynda Carmire, if you want to ask her about the time commitment for this role.
 

  • Bedell Classic Golf Tournament - No official report (but Ron understands we will be happy when we hear the final accounting of the event...stay tuned for details!  Kudos in advance to Bruce Bergeron and the team  that helped make this event a success.)

  • Holiday Party – Ron Bedell
Twenty-two people are indicated that they will go to the holiday party.  Ron will be sending out more information about menu choices in November.
 
Community Service Planned for 2020/2021
 
Drive through Flu Vaccine Clinics 
October 21 - Bradford
October 31 - Caanan
 
Assisting the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley (PHCUV) with drive through flu vaccine clinics.  Helping with traffic coordination.  There will be a food pantry collection in Canaan.
 
Dan Affeldt coordinating this activity (see announcement above)
 
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Listen Food Drives
This fall we are doing this for the food pantry in Enfield & Canaan in conjunction with the Flu Shot Clinics.  Still trying to find a way to do this for Lebanon.
 
 
 
Tim Guaraldi will organize these events.
 
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Working with Cover on a Winterizing Project
Winter 2020/2021 
 
 
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First Grade Reader Distribution
April, May
 
 
Bruce Bergeron will organize this event.
 
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Mascoma River Clean-up &
Rail Trail Clean-up
Summer 2021
 
 
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2020 Holiday Service Projects
 
 
Listen Holiday Basket Helpers Gift Card Purchases.  We can't be on site for basket review this year.  Donations will only be gift card this year.  members will be asked to donate gift cards.  Send either cash donations of gift card donations to Angela Nelson.
 
Working with our Interactors 2019 (the good old days)
 
Community Dinner Set-up on December 24, 2020...though this may not be able to happen.
 
Picture from the Valley News
 
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Club Social Event
 
HOLIDAY DINNER AT THE QUECHEE INN
+/- Our Famous Yankee Swap
 
Email sent to club members about the plan for this dinner with social distancing. Twenty-two people plan to attend.  Menu choice to go out in November.
 
Keep or Swap?
 
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Rotary International News

Rotaractors promote diversity, equity, and inclusion

Posted on 

A screenshot of the video Big West Rotaract created for the 2020 Rotaract Post Convention.

By Janel Breen, member of the Rotary Club of Cupertino and Rotaract Club of Silicon Valley, General Secretary of Big West Rotaract Multi-District Informational Organization

Let’s play a game. I’m American. What assumptions have you just made about me? My parents are Filipino immigrants. How have those assumptions now changed? 

Without realizing it, we make assumptions of people on the little we actually know about them. Everyone has some prejudicial beliefs. It’s how society taught us to think. After all, how did societies like mine define lighter skin as the universal truth for “beautiful”? But we CAN change it. We CAN confront these beliefs if we are intentional about it, but we can’t get defensive. We have to accept that our understanding of the world is changing and to do better with our new knowledge.

My personal journey with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) began a few years ago as mandatory work training (before this, I didn’t think I needed any training). I learned about “unconscious bias” and became uncomfortable with the idea that I could unknowingly and unintentionally hurt someone else’s experience.

I started to learn as much as I could about DEI and how to be an ally – using my privileges which include, but are not limited to, being born in the country I live in and claiming “American” as my nationality, identifying with the same gender written on my birth certificate, and receiving a private high school and college education –  to help others that may be oppressed or marginalized. But my progress was slow and completely internal.

Then, the video of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, made headlines around the world. With it, came a much louder call for racial justice and for everyone to do better. At Big West Rotaract MDIO (BWR), we spent hours creating our own Black Lives Matter statement because we wanted to create actionable and lasting change within our own organization, making commitments that we intend to keep. 

Our statement was just the beginning of the work we plan to do. We have hosted monthly open forums where Rotarians and Rotaractors can talk about addressing systemic racism in our communities and clubs, added a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) forum to our big events for our BIPOC community to talk about their experiences, included a DEI session as part of our leadership training, and created a committee tasked with creating resources for Rotaractors to address DEI in their clubs and districts. 

We knew this critical topic was bigger than just Big West Rotaract, but how could we reach Rotaractors all over the world? In late 2019, Alia Ali, member of the Rotaract Club of Surrey-Newton, Canada, and I had already applied to co-host a training at the Rotaract Preconvention about how to be an ally and by early June 2020 as tensions grew around the world, we realized that training was more important than we could ever have imagined. As the world went virtual, including the first-ever virtual Rotaract Postconvention, we knew we had a unique opportunity to share our message about addressing DEI within Rotary for anyone to watch on-demand. 

We still have a lot of work to do – in our clubs, in our communities, and in ourselves. In reality, the work will never be done and we should embrace the opportunity for continual growth. Although we train on DEI specifically and intentionally, DEI in practice should be part of everything we do including our conversations when we conduct any kind of business within or outside of Rotary. Additionally, the people who attend DEI trainings are typically the individuals who have already begun their own DEI journeys. How do we get the person who doesn’t think there’s a problem to care about DEI? How do we keep working towards change long after the hashtags stop trending on social media?

We do the work that needs to be done and never stop. We commit to practicing this work, day in and day out, within ourselves and through our external commitments, behind the scenes and out in public.

Learn more about Rotary’s position on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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