Currents 
August 29, 2024
Scribe and Editor: Marilyn Bedell
 

Rotary Club of Lebanon's Annual Brewfest

August 31, 2024, 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM

It's Wrap!  With over 1,000 brew lovers attending!

 

Pre-event:

One of the most popular destinations during Brew Fest

At the peak the lines were about 50 deep...wow...the beer effect!

Learning the proper protocols for serving 

Getting beer from the truck

Patiently waiting for beer from the truck

More waiting for beer/brews

During the event:

Registration with John and Bruce 

More registration with Christian and Marion

Angela Counting Registrations >1,000

Jane Mason helping with registration

 

 

 

A few pictures of our serves, our fellow Rotarians, friends of Rotary, Rotary Club of Hanover, NH and some of our Brewers

Past District Governor Mike Carrier, Rotary Club of Plymouth

& 

I must mention the MANY staff from Jakes! We couldn't do this event without their help!

 

Keeping watch over our exits

Our Gatekeepers

It Takes a Village to Put on Brew Fest1

The end:

Only a small portion of our garbage. Again thanks to Bruce Bergeron and Jakes for dealing with all our garbage!

Bruce Bergeron at WORK!

How many miles did you walk?

Our Fearless Leader:

Brew Fest Chair Phil Rentz

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Welcome to another issue of our weekly bulletin!
Find out who our upcoming speakers are,
what we covered during the last weekly meeting,
and learn more about Lebanon Rotary and our projects.
Stories
Program for August 29, 2024 - Michele DiSterano, Care Manager for FCP Live-In
Michelle DiStefano provided an overview of her organization and then opened the floor to questions.  Here is a summary of her remarks and answers to questions.
 
Michelle DiStefano
 
About us:  We are a live-in only non-medical home care that has been in business for over 25 years.  Our service is for people who want to remain in their home. Our service is an alternative to assisted living or long term care and is much more affordable than traditional 24/7 hourly home care.  Our service pairs well with a Visiting Nurse Service or Hospice for patients returning home.  
 
Service area: We service ALL of VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, RI. 
 
Often referrals come from local healthcare hospitals and facilities.
 
They do not accept Medicare or Medicaid, but accept long-term care insurance and self pay.
 
What we do: We provide our clients of any age with a certified insured caregiver who stays with them and assists them in their home.  Our caregivers provide assistance with personal care, medication reminders (they cannot administer medications, but can remind a client that it is time to take a medication), meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, transportation/errands.  We help our clients with post-rehab hospitalization care, hoyer lift care, hospice, alz/dementia care.  
 
Why we are unique: Our clients benefit from having the same live-in caregiver all 7 days of the week.  Our caregivers like to stay with the same client for weeks or even months .  This potentially reduces the clients exposure to Covid-19 by having the same caregiver at all times and not the "revolving door" of hourly caregivers. 
 
Cost:  We have a 2 week minimum and charge $308 per day for this live-in service with auto-withdrawal.  $315/day for check or credit card.  We accept Long Term Care Insurance.
 
Caregivers are certified personal care attendants, home health aides and certified nursing assistants.  They travel for assignments all over New England.  
 
Caregivers are bonded/insured and covered by workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and on payroll with taxes matched as required by law.
 
All Caregivers undergo extensive background checks.
 
Emergency triage is available 24/7 for clients, families, caregivers and healthcare providers.
 
Assignments are for a minimum of 2 weeks. Clients must provide a bedroom, and a place for the caregiver to hang/store their clothing and a few belongings.  In addition, they must buy groceries to cover meals for the client and caregiver.
 
Michelle's role is to do the initial intake and complete a home safety evaluation prior to placing a caregiver to make sure this is a suitable arrangement for the client and the caregiver.
 
The service may be an alternative to going to an assisted living facility.
Meeting Recap for August 22, 2024
  • President Ernst Oidtmann called the meeting to order.  
  • Dean Cashman led us in reciting the 4-Way Test.
  • Ernst Oidtmann played and we sang our Rotary Welcome Song, and I've Been Working on the Brew Fest (a take on I've Been Working on the Railroad).
  • Ernst Oidtmann welcomed our speaker, Michele Di Stefano, and WRJ Rotarian George Wentz
  • No one joined us via WebEx
  • Ernst Oidtmann shared his thought of the day. He reflected on the identification of case of polio identified in Gaza.  The news outlets have reported that a humanitarian pause is being negotiated by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.  In addition to Rotary, the GPEI includes WHO, UNICEF, CDC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a variety of governments, and others around the world.
  • Then it was  time for our buffet lunch.
  • After lunch, John Yacavone introduced our speaker, Michele DiStefano, the Care Coordinator for FCP Live-In.  See story above.
  • Bill Secord presented the books given to the Kilton Library children's collection in honor Michele DiStefano, 
A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes (Author), Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator), Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
In this moving account of loss, a boy takes a walk in the woods and makes a discovery that changes his understanding of his father.

A week after the funeral
I stare in the morning mirror
Angry that my father’s eyes
Stare back at me.

Confused and distraught after the death of his father, a boy opens an envelope he left behind and is surprised to find a map of the woods beyond their house, with one spot marked in bright red. But why? The woods had been something they shared together, why would his father want him to go alone?

Slowly, his mind settles as he sets off through the spaces he once explored with his dad, passing familiar beech and black oak trees, flitting Carolina wrens, and a garter snake they named Sal. When he reaches the spot marked on the map, he finds pages upon pages of drawings of woodland creatures, made by his father when he was his age. What he sees shows him a side of his dad he never knew, and something even deeper for them to share together. His dad knew what he really needed was a walk in the woods.

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes and the Caldecott Award winning illustrator Jerry Pinkney spent the early days of the pandemic emailing back and forth and talking about collaborating on a book, with Jerry sharing all of the pictures he took of the woods around his house. From this, they conjured a story of a boy’s struggle with grief, and all the things he sees and feels on a walk through the forest.

Jerry sadly passed away in the fall of 2021, but not before he delivered tight pencil sketches of the forests he loved. When his son Brian took on the task of completing the illustrations, he found himself connecting with his father in a whole new way, his experience mirroring that of the boy in the book. The result is a simultaneously touching and deeply authentic story about the ways shared pastimes keep us close to those we’ve lost.
 
Announcements
  • Brew Fest: At the time of the writing the newsletter, Brew Fest is completed.  See photos above.
  • Upper Valley Business Alliance — YOU'RE INVITED!
Coffee & Connections at UVBA
September 6, 2024
08:00 AM EDT
Fees/Admission
FREE
 
Location
Kilton Public Library
80 Main Street
West Lebanon, NH
  • From Will Koppenheffer: Pocket Park Volunteers Needed for Saturday, September 14 from 9-11 AM
    • Pocket Park By Goss Logan’s Office
    • 4-5 volunteers needed (Phil Bush and Mila Dela Pena plan to be there)
    • Saturday, September 14, 2024, 9-11 AM
    • Bring your preferred weeding tool(s) and edging tools, if you have one.
    • You can park some cars in the Goss Logan parking lot, or you can park in the lower parking lot behind River Valley College and walk over via the tunnel.  The park is just to right after you exit the tunnel.
  • Take Flight:  
Take Flight Update from Tuesday, Aug. 20 and Wednesday, Aug. 21: Volunteer mentor training
 
About two dozen volunteer mentors took part in a two-day training program at Lebanon (N.H.) High School to get ready for the school’s new ‘Take Flight’ student plane-building program.
 
Led by Dan Weyant of partner Tango Flight, the training program gave school faculty and volunteers hands-on experience in techniques used to assemble an all-metal two-seat Van’s Aircraft RV-12iS.
 
Participants worked together to practice-build a vertical stabilizer—the fancy term of the aircraft’s tail. When the build starts next month, volunteers will mentor students in the workshop; it’s expected to take two years for the first aircraft to be completed.
 
The two-day training program was the first time the high school’s “hangar” (a renovated three-bay garage) was put to use.
 
The student plane-building program, funded by grants as well as donations from businesses and individuals, is a partnership between the Lebanon School District, Tango Flight, and the non-profit Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, and Tango Flight.
 
 
​​Happy Dollars 
  • Hamilton, Bermuda Rotarian Jimmy Brock has been visiting the Upper Valley for the month of August. Appointments at DHMC have kept him from our meetings.  Jimmy reported that he is delighted that after a brief hospital stay, he is feeling like he has new spark plugs, points and new tires.  He is feeling back to his "old self".  He will head back to Bermuda early next week.
Beverley and Jimmy Brock
  • Marion Steiner let us know her daughter has headed back to college for her last year prior to entering a doctoral program for physical therapy.
  • Bruce Pacht reported on a Barbershop event at Eastman were they performed for over 200 people who sang along as they performed.
  • Joshua Smith was delighted to report that the FCC inspection of his Radio towers when VERY well.  Inspector told him his towers are the cleanest he had seen.  The next inspection will be in 4 years.
  • Dean Cashman thanked Bruce Bergeron of taking his son to the BMW Certified Drivers Program. His son came home feeling more confident about his driving skills.
  • Hank Clarke went to the Styrofoam collection in WRJ.  275 cars brought Styrofoam.  Filling multiple trucks that would be taken to the densifier.  The countdown is on for Carols surgery to take care of her synovial cyst that has kept her in pain for many days.
  • Tim Guaraldi reported that his wife Anna found 40 racks that we will use at Brew Fest to keep cans from falling over in to the ice water bath.  Anna will now be a happy volunteer!
  • Ron Michaud reported that Paul Tierney has had some health and mobility challenges and finally making progress.
  • George Wentz let us know he will be a Great Grandfather in early September.  His Granddaughter in-law (member of the Bethel Rotary Club) is still in search of a name.  Ideas are welcome.
George Wentz
  • Marilyn Bedell was delighted that Jimmy Brock and his wife Beverley were able to join us today.
 
Queen of Hearts
  • Jimm Brock pulled the four of Hearts  The hunt for the Queen of Hearts continues.
Car Wash
 
  •  Phil Bush won the car wash.
Upcoming Speakers
 
Coming in September, 2024
  • September 5  Phoebe VanScoy-Giessier, Special Olympics
  • September 12 District Governor Kelly Drew
  • September 19 Lisa Bozogan, Waypoint Family Resource Center
  • September 26 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Coming in October, 2024
  • October 3        Melanie McDonough Chief Innovation Officer, City of Lebanon.
  • October 10      Rob Stenger co-owner Simple Energy
  • October 17      Nicole-Food Burley, City of Lebanon Historian
  • October 24      Tamira Martel, Governor’s Institute of Vermont
  • October 31      Steve Fine Melanoma Cancer Foundation (webex)
Attendance
 
Bill Babineau, Marilyn Bedell, Ron Bedell, Bruce Bergeron, Phil Bush, Dean Cashman, Dave Clarenbach, Hank Clarke, Dave Crandall, Jim Damren, Mila Dela Pena, Tim Guaraldi, Ahmad Haidari, Will Koppenheffer, Christian MacDonald, Ron Michaud, Ernst Oidtmann, Bruce Pacht, Bill Secord, Josh Smith, Marion Steiner, Richard Wallace, Steve Whitman, Cal Wolfe, John Yacavone
 
Guest: Michelle DiStefano, Care Manager FCP Live In; Hamilton, Bermuda Rotarian Jimmy Brock and Beverley Brock: WRJ Rotarian George Wentz 
 
*No one joined by WebEx
Standing Meetings
 
Membership Meetings: To Be Announced
Contact: Ron Michaud
 
Youth Services: Second Wednesday of the month at Noon
Contact:  Christian MacDonald
 
Charities: Third Wednesday of the month at 1:00 PM
Contact:  Bruce Pacht
 
Board Meeting:  4th Tuesday of every month at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Contact:  David Crandall
 
Golf:  2025 schedule to be announced
 
Brew Fest:  202 Schedule to be announced
Other Events and Service Projects
 
2025 Rotary International Convention
 

Join us in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for the 2025 Rotary International Convention!

Register before December 15, 2024 to receive the preferred rate of $525! 
 
District 5360 is excited to welcome the world to the Rotary International Convention!
 
Prepare to be captivated by Calgary’s vibrant culture, embraced by warm hospitality, and inspired by the spirit of Rotary as we gather in this iconic destination.
  • Calgary is Canada's third most diverse city – over 240 ethnic origins and 165 languages spoken.
  • It is home of the famous Calgary Stampede, founded in 1912
  • You will be only one one-hour drive from the iconic Canadian Rockies (but you can see them from Calgary!)
 
Rotary News
 
From the World Health Organization:  GAZA
 

WASH conditions in IDP sites in Al Mawasi area, South of Gaza
Picture from WHO Webpage

Humanitarian pauses vital for critical polio vaccination campaign 

16 August 2024 
Statement
 
Jerusalem/Cairo/Amman
 

Two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are expected to be launched at the end of August and September 2024 across the Gaza Strip to prevent the spread of circulating variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2).  

WHO and UNICEF request all parties to the conflict to implement humanitarian pauses in the Gaza Strip for seven days to allow for two rounds of vaccination campaigns to take place. These pauses in fighting would allow children and families to safely reach health facilities and community outreach workers to get to children who cannot access health facilities for polio vaccination. Without the humanitarian pauses, the delivery of the campaign will not be possible. 

During each round of the campaign, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and partners, will provide two drops of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to more than 640 000 children under ten years of age.  Read More
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