Rotary Rig for February 3, 2020 (Feb 03, 2020)

Meeting Recap from January 27, 2020

The Casper Rotary Club

This week's meeting will be held: Monday, February 3, 2020

at the Nicolaysen Art Museum

400 E Collins Dr,

Casper, WY 82601

Greeters: Chastidy Greenwood and Carley Applegate

Inspiration: Jim Ruble

Program: Our program will be about the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility State Historic Site.

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Rotary Club of Casper WY

Meeting Summary

01/27/2020

President John Griffith called the meeting to order promptly at 12:24, with the ring of the bell and welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.

Inspiration, Pledge, 4-Way Test:

Genevieve Lynch

Greeters:

Edis Allen and Peaches Lynch were our greeters today and Peaches introduced the members who brought guests:

Our visiting Rotarians today are, Lesha Thorvaldson and Dan Foote ( 5 Trails Club);
Liz Becher introduced Bob King (Census 2020);
Michael Howe introduced Paul Quist (BHE);
Kendra Ziler introduced Kayla Semien (Events Center);
Eric Easton introduced Chris Tobin (Midwest School Principal), Kristi Depoorter (Counselor Midwest School), Ed Sheridan and Daphne Vaughn (Family of SOM);
Susan Griffith introduced Becca Tripp and Katherine (Students);

Song and Merriment:

Gary Pehrson led us in singing Home on the Range;

Family of Rotary:

President John Griffith let us know that Bobbie Barrasso’s (John’s wife) mom passed away so keep them in your thoughts.

Rotarians of the Week:

Erin Helms nominated the following for their participation and help with the Chamber Crab Feed; Mike Howe, Casey Allison, and Phillip Rael for being there, John and Lauren Griffith for their bar, Mike Stepp for the gift basket, and Kyle Gamroth for being the emcee.

President John nominated Mike Lougee, Lisa Scroggins, Lori Klatt, and Leah Reeb-Varela for all of their work with the new member orientation.

Announcements:

President John reminded us of the Five Trails beer and wine fund raiser coming up on February 7^th. Also we are starting the search for some 7^th graders to participate in Young RYLA and Juniors or Seniors for RYLA for this summer. They will send out an email with more information.

Steve Loftin said that next week will be the week for volunteers at the Food Bank of the Rockies.

Chastidy Greenwood let us know that on the table are sheets for volunteers showing what areas they need help with. Please sign up for what you can help with. They also are going to make magnets for vehicles as well as vinyl for windows so sign up if you would like one, mark which you would like, and if you have an old magnet sign please get them to her so that the dates can be updated. She needs a vice-chair for sales, please let her know if you can help.

President John announced that we have the 4-way test scholarships for graduating seniors and they have extended the deadline to February 21^st so if you know any seniors encourage them to apply. Also on the tables and on the back table are comment cards.

Student of the Month:

Today we had two SOMs, Sheridan Vaughn from Midwest, and Brooklyn Gunn from Roosevelt HS. Two great young ladies with bright futures ahead of them.

Membership:

Nothing this week.

Program (2020 Census):

President Elect Lisa Scroggins, introduced our speaker today, Tammi Hanshaw, partnership specialist at the Census Bureau of Casper. Tammi introduced her colleague who works with her to work with organizations in Wyoming to get their help with the Census that is coming up this year. They then introduced all of their volunteers and the complete count committee members who have been working with them since 2018, Liz Becher, Committee Chair, the Mascot, Buzzbee also was there, Karen Dowell, Dennis Gazdiewich, Jim Beck, Tim Monroe, Lisa Scroggins, Sabrina Foreman, and Bob King. She then passed the mic to Bob King who did a trivia contest and handed out prizes. After the trivia he showed us page from the now available 1940 census that he pulled purely at random from the Cheyenne Census ward three page 302. It was for a family in Cheyenne, the Marlon T Kurtz family with his wife Lois and three children one of whom was Martha who was five years old and hadn’t yet started school. This Martha just happened to be our very own Martha Rakestraw, what a great coincidence.

Tammi then talked about the 2020 census and what it involves. She said that the census is mandated by the constitution to be done every ten years. One of the reasons is for the apportionment of seats in the House of representatives, to determine whether a state will gain or lose a seat for the next ten years. Another reason is the distribution of funding from federal tax money which is based on the population in each area. The Federal Government has $675B to distribute to the states each year and so the population determines how much of that money we get to fund our state and local governments and local programs. A George Washington University professor, Andrew Reamer, conducted a study based on Census data from 2010 about the funding local governments get based on their population counts. There are 55 federal programs that receive funding based on population and each person in Wyoming counted for about $1500/year in these programs, so we need to make sure we count everyone. The Complete Count Committee has done great work raising awareness, with community activities and working with businesses to help get the word out throughout the state. They are motivating people to respond and also are educating them to understand that the information is private and protected by law. They do not release any identifiable information within 72 years of the census. They only release statistical facts but no personal information. In the 2010 census we had a severe undercount of the 0-5 years old population so they are making sure to educate parents that they need to properly report all household members. This will be the first year that people will be able to respond to the questions online, via any mobile device in 13 different languages. This will save the taxpayers money. You can also respond via telephone and also the traditional paper format. Then after the end of July they will have representatives going door to door for those who have not responded by then. They also have a system set up for group quarters such as homeless shelters or nursing homes, prisons, honor farms, and the like. They will work with the administrators to get them counted the way they want them to whether via paper or having a rep go there etc. The homeless will be counted in several ways, soup kitchens, other services, and outdoor locations. March 12^th is when the self-report starts with online, phone, and paper self-reporting. Census day is April 1^st and we will see some events around Casper, and if you want to organize an event for your clients to come and complete the survey, they can help with that. They will have all of the data collected by August and by the end of 2020 the data will be sent to the White House. To find out mire you can go to 2020census.gov, you can also follow their social media pages and send those out to your followers to get the word out. They also have systems at the schools for the teachers to help get the word out. If you want to share on social media you can use #2020census. They also are hiring all over the State for $17.50/hour for various positions, full-time or part-time. Please contact them for more information and for them to assist you plan an event. March 12^th is when the first emails go out to encourage people to go online to answer the 9 easy questions. You are only allowed to submit your information one time so there will be no duplication or miscounting. The online is very heavily encrypted and the call-in people are under oath to not share any of the information. In May if you have not yet responded you will see a census employee show up at your door to take your information. Every person that resides in the U.S. gets counted and there are no citizenship questions on the census as per the Supreme Court. The information is tied to the specific residence address so any PO Box will have to self-report or wait until someone comes by. For people who do not have a fixed residence but will stay at different family or friends homes they should be counted with the household where they reside on April 1^st. She said that the residency rules are about 8 pages long so if you run into a situation you can call and ask.

President John Griffith concluded the meeting at 1:17, PE Lisa Scroggins let us know that next week, we will be at The Nic. Our program will be about the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility State Historic Site.

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Rotary Tidbits

From the Rotarian

How to tell fact from fiction and trust the news again

Journalist Dan Mac Guill was working at his home office in Maryland last August when he got a news tip from a colleague: A photo of a Democratic congresswoman was circulating on Twitter. It appeared to show her at a press conference amid a group of armed terrorists. She was smiling.

The Twitter replies ranged from skepticism (“This is verifiable as a real photograph?”) to condemnation (“The enemy is here”) to something in between (“I blew it up. … If it is photoshop they did an amazing job”). Many comments were too hate-filled to bear repeating.

The reactions caught Mac Guill’s attention right away. “If you see people who seem to genuinely believe that a sitting member of Congress is or has been a terrorist, then that’s worth pursuing,” he says.

Mac Guill, who works for the fact-checking website Snopes, suspected that this was yet another digital misinformation attack against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who has been a frequent target of online trolls since she became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, in 2018. Just the previous week, in fact, Snopes had debunked a photo caption that falsely claimed that Omar had attended a “jihad academy.” The photo, which appears to show a woman in a headscarf holding a rifle, was taken before Omar was born. But that didn’t stop it from gaining traction on social media.

Though Mac Guill was pretty sure the newer image was also a fake, he knew it would require research to settle the matter. “You can’t always make the assumption that what’s obvious to you is obvious to everybody else,” he says. “Especially if people have certain biases that they might not even be conscious of, they might look at that image and say, ‘Well, look at it; it’s clearly her, and she’s been caught.’ And then you have somebody else saying, ‘She’s a sitting member of Congress. There’s no way this is real.’ People approach this content from different starting points.”

So he got to work.

Read the rest of this story online at https://www.rotary.org/en/how-to-tell-fact-from-fiction-and-trust-the-news-again.

50 Things Every Rotarian Should Know About Rotary

(by Steve Garret, District Governor 1994-1995)
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34 - ROTARY YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS (RYLA)
Each summer thousands of young people are selected to attend Rotary-sponsored leadership camps or seminars in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, France, Argentina, Korea and numerous other countries. In an informal out-of-doors atmosphere, 50 to 75 outstanding young men and/or women spend a week in a challenging program of discussions, inspirational addresses, leadership training and social activities designed to enhance personal development, leadership skills and good citizenship. The official name of this activity is the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program (RYLA), although the event is occasionally referred to as Camp Royal, Camp Enterprise, Youth Leaders Seminars, Youth Conferences or other terms.
The RYLA program began in Australia in 1959, when young people throughout the state of Queensland were selected to meet with Princess Alexandra, the young cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. The Rotarians of Brisbane, who hosted the participants, were impressed with the quality of the young leaders. It was decided to bring youth leaders together each year for a week of social, cultural and educational activities. The RYLA program gradually grew throughout all the Rotary districts of Australia and New Zealand. In 1971, the RI Board of Directors adopted RYLA as an official program of Rotary International.

35 - ROTARY AND THE UNITED NATIONS
During and after World War II, Rotarians became increasingly involved in promoting international understanding. In 1945, 49 Rotary members served in 29 delegations to the United Nations Charter Conference. Rotary still actively participates in UN conferences by sending observers to major meetings and promoting the United Nations in Rotary publications. Rotary International's relationship with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) dates back to a 1943 London Rotary conference that promoted international cultural and educational exchanges. Attended by ministers of education and observers from around the world, and chaired by a past president of RI, the conference was an impetus to the establishment of UNESCO in 1946.

36 - INTERACT
Interact, the Rotary youth program, was launched by the RI Board of Directors in 1962. The first Interact club was established by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Florida. Interact clubs provide opportunities for boys and girls of secondary school age to work together in a world fellowship of service and international understanding. The term, Interact, is derived from "inter" for international, and "act" for action. Every Interact club must be sponsored and supervised by a Rotary club and must plan annual projects of service to its school, community and in the world.
Today there are over 7,200 Interact clubs with more than 155,000 members in 88 countries. "Interactors" develop skills in leadership and attain practical experience in conducting service projects, thereby learning the satisfaction that comes from serving others. A major goal of Interact is to provide opportunities for young people to create greater understanding and goodwill with youth throughout the world.

37 - ROTARACT
After the success of Interact clubs for high school-age youth in the early 1960s, the RI board created Rotaract in 1968. The new organization was designed to promote responsible citizenship and leadership potential in clubs of young men and women, aged 18 to 30. The first Rotaract club was chartered by the Charlotte North Rotary Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1994 there were more than 149,000 members in more than 6,500 Rotaract clubs in 107 countries.
Rotaract clubs emphasize the importance of individual responsibility as the basis of personal success and community involvement. Each club sponsors an annual project to promote high ethical standards in one's business and professional life. Rotaract also provides opportunities leading to greater international understanding and goodwill. Rotaractors enjoy many social activities as well as programs to improve their community. A Rotaract club can exist only when continuously sponsored, guided and counseled by a Rotary club. The programs of Rotaract are built around the motto "Fellowship Through Service."