Lake Report (Oct 27, 2020)

Posted by James Monroe on Oct 26, 2020

Our online meetings will start at 7:30. You will be able to join the meetings starting at about 7:20. We are using the Zoom online meeting platform. Click this link to join the meeting. Guests are always welcome.

The featured speaker at this week's meeting is Tom Clendening, General Manager of KSER, Snohomish County's Independent Public Radio station. KSER started out 20 years ago when a group of local citizens succeeded in bringing non-commercial, listener-supported public radio to our area. Radio broadcasting is still a valuable and viable way to get information to the people. We can't always be watching the hundreds of channels that television now offers nor can we be monitoring our so-called "smart" phones" all day long. Radio provides us with news, information, music and so much more. Who remembers listening to theater on the radio when you were young? Do you recall how your imagination filled in the visual aspects of the story? So, don't discount radio broadcasting as a by-gone way of communication. Speaking of area, do you know where KSER's broadcast tower is?

Continue to live by and exemplify the Rotary Four Way Test-

Is it the Truth?

Is it Fair to All Concerned?

Will it Build Goodwill and Better Friendships?

Will it Be Beneficial to all Concerned?

PHOTO CONTEST: You are encouraged to participate in this. Be the first person to correctly identify from where the photo at the top of this bulletin and at the top of our website was taken from by 7:30 am Friday, October 23rd. Look carefully! Send your guess to the Editor.

Rapid Develeopment Program - IPA Cinthia Damaris Santos

Posted by Gary O'Rielly on Oct 27, 2020

Another amazing and fantastic presentation for our members and guests. This time by Cinthia Damaris Santos, Manager of the Rapid Development (RD) Program for IPA in Copan Honduras. Pictured above is Cinthia followed by numerous screen shots from her presentation.

A bit about Cinthia. She had recently graduated college when a member of the Club in Copan Ruinas told her father that they were looking for a person to work for IPA managing some projects and they would prefer a bilingual person graduated from Mayatan so her father immediately though of Cinthia. And what a gem that IPA has in Copan managing the RD program.

The RD program has had 30 years of success in other countries. There are a number of Drivers involved in the program.

Driver 1 - Human: Train new entrepreneurs with life skills. Social: Change “Poverty as a destiny” Financial: Encourage the participation of savings and credit groups.
Driver 2 - Income; Objective: New enterprising people with life skills that they can be able to manage and improve their income through a business. Activity: Training, support and follow up. 20 business were started 4 of them were improved in RD1. 6 new business were started in 2019 in RD2 and we expect more.
-Driver 3 - Health: Training on basic health attention during 6-8 months. Activity: Provide basic health attention in the community using a primary kit for emergencies and primary medicine for common illness.
Driver 4 - Food and Agriculture Improve diets and agriculture techniques to. Activity: Silo programs, use of fertilizer, irrigation system and soil conservation. Training of nutrition, home gardens. Encourage families to maintain home gardens.
Driver 5 - Education Improve education in communities through IPA Education programs. ** More children enrolled in school. Adopt a School; Adopt a Dream opening a middle school in case there is none; Student health fund; Mobile library and school furniture.
Driver 6 - Infrastructure. Better community access, power, water and housing. Activities: Improve in priority order the community, building a middle school, connecting to power, new roads if government don’t support. Improve housing: first entrepreneur must show success to get a house improvement.

Cinthia outlined all of the basics about of the IPA program in the six Drivers. It's a great program and the reason for the success is the area is very safe commented Marty Peace from the Rotary Club of La Conner and a member of the IPA group who gave us a presentation recently. Marty and Peter Martin are going to Copan for ten days in November. Tracy talked about the need for Adopt-A-Student program as well as our Club Adopting a School. Many questions followed this really outstanding and very engaging program. Our Club is represented on IPA by Tracy, Kristin, Angie and Ilene.

Cinthia said that what she really likes to see is how IPA members and community people share which is a Foundation where the donor and the people who receive the help get to know each other and share. People feel connected the same as she does.

Quote of the Week - Who Said It?

“Everything we do opens another opportunity for someone, somewhere.”