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Rotary Club
of Lancaster
Founded 1915 ~ Club #5346 ~ District #7390
Volume 115 | Issue 35 February 17, 2021
"Campbell Plowden, Amazon Community Ecology Center" - Zoom Mtg
Empowering artisans, conserving forests and strengthening communities in the Peruvian Amazon
Campbell Plowden has spent his life supporting conservation and human dignity. He completed his undergraduate work in Biology and Environmental Studies at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He spent most of the next 13 years working on the “save the whales” campaign with Greenpeace, the Humane Society of the United States and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). He transitioned to the “save the rainforest” movement in 1985 by founding the Tropical Ecosystem Research and Rescue Alliance (TERRA International) and helped lead the Greenpeace Tropical Forest Campaign through 1992. He earned a PhD in Ecology from Penn State Univ. in 2001 based on his studies of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with the Tembé Indians in the Brazilian Amazon. He did investigations and advocacy work with Amazon Watch and EIA on the Camisea Gas Project in Peru, the tiger bone trade in Indonesia and illegal logging in Honduras.
Dr. Plowden founded the Center for Amazon Community Ecology (CACE) in 2006 to promote forest conservation and sustainable development with forest-based communities in the Amazon region. The Center conducts research on the ecology and sustainable harvest of NTFPs and helps people from 18 native and campesino communities in the northern Peruvian Amazon to make and market innovative fair-trade handicrafts, improve the management of plants used to make crafts, and empower artisan associations. Dr. Plowden is a Quaker who has helped facilitate Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshops in both state and federal prisons since 2002 and has integrated AVP principles and techniques into his work with native communities to strengthen their communication, cooperation and conflict resolution skills. For most of 2020, CACE refocused its efforts to provide food, medicine and other relief supplies to its partner communities in Peru suffering from the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Campbell Plowden has been working to promote forest conservation of tropical forests and empower its traditional communities for 35 years. He will briefly describe the causes, consequences and range of approaches to halt deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. He will then describe how and why the Center for Amazon Community aims to create sustainable livelihoods for families, conserve forests and strengthen traditional communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Dr. Plowden will share how CACE empowers artisans by helping them to create innovative fair-trade handcrafts, increase the supply of plants used to make crafts, better market their crafts to tourists and wholesale buyers, and improve health, education, cooperation and conservation in their communities. CACE suspended its regular programs between March and November to deliver food and medicines to its partner communities to help them cope with the COVID pandemic. Dr. Plowden will conclude his talk by presenting three specific ways interested people can support these efforts.
Links for next week's program:
Dr. Campbell Plowden, Founder/President/Treasurer/Executive Director:
Clockwise: President Ben, Jamie Alton, Rebecca Theriaque, Lisa Lewis, Dan Cooper, and the speaker, Dr. Janice Hamby, Rear Admiral (Retired). The patriotic song was America.
Announcements
Board Election
Board Election is upcoming for three available seats. Within the next several days, you will be receiving biographies and ballots for the members who will be running. These will be sent via email and/or snail mail. In order to count the votes in a timely manner, we ask that you return the ballots to Kathy Hainley before February 25. Election day results will be March 3, 2021.
A special thank you to the candidates who have graciously accepted becoming a choice on the ballot. The candidates are Incumbent Alicia Moranz (up for re-election), Jason Asbell, Gil Bixler, Kaitlyn Blosser, Jenn DeWalt, Josh McManness and Rakesh Popli.
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Table Talk time is Noon till 12:15
Something that has been missing since the beginning of the pandemic are the highly connected conversations around the tables over lunch at our regular meetings. Starting at next week’s meeting we will begin having “Table Talk” time from noon till 12:15. The way that it will work is that when you log into the meeting you will be greeted by Kathy, Ben and Rob. You will then move into a breakout “room” with 6-8 other Rotarians and guests. Each week we will have a primer question for the groups to consider to get the conversation started. During the “Table Talk” please be generous in your sharing and in your listening. Make sure that everyone in the group is included in the conversation. Remember that this is weird for everyone, so please go out of your way to make people feel welcome. We tried this out at our holiday party with good results and learned a thing or two to make it even better. The good news is that all you have to do is show up. There isn’t even a button that you need to push. Please join us at noon this week.
Thank you
Robert Gallagher
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Refugee Center and Community School Citizenship Program
Many of you have volunteered in the past with our Rotary Citizenship Program to help adult English Learners practice for their upcoming Citizenship test. This year, much like our Secret Angel Project, things will look a bit different because all of our Citizenship classes are being taught remotely via Zoom. Beginning on February 3rd, Rotarians will have the opportunity to join our Citizenship classes remotely via Zoom to help students practice their citizenship interview questions. Both morning and evening options to volunteer are available. There will be a volunteer process, training, and procedure that will be rolled out to you via email soon and during upcoming club announcements. For the morning, volunteers will be able to assist on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM- 11:00 AM. For the evening class, volunteers will be able to assist on Thursdays from 6:00 PM-7:00 PM. Please stay tuned for more information regarding how you can volunteer to help our students become U.S. citizens, and start thinking now about whether or not you’d like to volunteer in this exciting program.
Thank you,
Josh McManness and the Rotary Refugee Center and Community School Committee
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Let's All Sing Again!
In 2021 we resumed singing a patriotic song to open each of our meetings. We’ll also sing a group song the first Wednesday of each month and the Birthday Song when birthdays are recognized.
Singing is good for the soul! Yet we’ve had little or no opportunity the last nine months to croon, let alone bellow, except in the shower. So turn up your headphones or speakers and sing heartily. Jamie and I will provide piano accompaniment so you’ll have some support. It may be awkward at first to sing on Zoom, and it won’t be like singing at the Farm and Home Center, but it will give us a chance to stretch our vocal chords and diaphragms.
Let’s have some fun!
John Saeger, for the Music Committee
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Thanks to all who have paid their dues!
Kathy sent out our dues invoices on December 31, 2020. As usual, make your check payable to Rotary Club of Lancaster and mail to
Rotary Club of Lancaster
P O Box 1387
Lancaster, PA 17608
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Amazon Smile Contributes to Rotary Club of Lancaster
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Birthdays
Mike O’Day Feb 1
Bob Roschel Feb 3
Mark DeBord Feb 4
Joshua Knapp Feb 7
Becca Theriaque Feb 7
Don Roseman Feb 8
Beth Trout Feb 9
Harry Flick Feb 11
Lisa Lewis Feb 18
Don Banzhof Feb 24
John McGrann Feb 27
Joys & Concerns
Joy from John Herr: John Herr and Diane Koken celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary and the birth of their granddaughter this past weekend in Brooklyn.
Joy from Rob Gallagher: Rob Gallagher has a joy today that he just purchased Neighbors magazine that serves the residents of Bent Creek. The magazine has been in print for the past 7 years. He is super excited about it.
All Rotarians – especially committee chairs – are encouraged to help keep our new Club Calendar full and updated with the great things that our Club is doing in the community. Please submit any items you would like added to Kathy by e-mailing her atRotaryClubofLancaster@gmail.com. Examples include the schedule of McCaskey Mentoring Sessions, Committee Meetings, Power Packs or Salvation Army Bell Ringing. If it’s happening, let’s get it on the Calendar for all to see! Your help will keep us all updated with what’s going on within the Club AND will showcase our very active Club to the Lancaster Community and to prospective members. The Club Calendar is available atwww.LancasterRotary.org
Campbell Plowden has spent his life supporting conservation and human dignity. He completed his undergraduate work in Biology and Environmental Studies at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He spent most of the next 13 years working on the “save the whales” campaign with Greenpeace, the Humane Society of the United States and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). He transitioned to the “save the rainforest” movement in 1985 by founding the Tropical Ecosystem Research and Rescue Alliance (TERRA International) and helped lead the Greenpeace Tropical Forest Campaign through 1992. He earned a PhD in Ecology from Penn State Univ. in 2001 based on his studies of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with the Tembé Indians in the Brazilian Amazon. He did investigations and advocacy work with Amazon Watch and EIA on the Camisea Gas Project in Peru, the tiger bone trade in Indonesia and illegal logging in Honduras. 
Many of you have volunteered in the past with our Rotary Citizenship Program to help adult English Learners practice for their upcoming Citizenship test. This year, much like our Secret Angel Project, things will look a bit different because all of our Citizenship classes are being taught remotely via Zoom. Beginning on February 3rd, Rotarians will have the opportunity to join our Citizenship classes remotely via Zoom to help students practice their citizenship interview questions. Both morning and evening options to volunteer are available. There will be a volunteer process, training, and procedure that will be rolled out to you via email soon and during upcoming club announcements. For the morning, volunteers will be able to assist on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM- 11:00 AM. For the evening class, volunteers will be able to assist on Thursdays from 6:00 PM-7:00 PM. Please stay tuned for more information regarding how you can volunteer to help our students become U.S. citizens, and start thinking now about whether or not you’d like to volunteer in this exciting program. 
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