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This Week's Meeting
The featured speaker at this week's meeting is Amber Lindamood, the Performance Improvement Project Manager for Hand in Hand, an organization that supports children and families in crisis through the foundational Christian teachings of respect, unconditional love and compassion. They exist to foster hope and opportunity for children and families in crisis by providing services focused on protection, provision and permanence.
 
Members: Keep working on getting sponsors for this year's Cork & Kegs. We want to secure them so they can be added to the tickets and other promotional materials.
 
Thank you to those that have signed up to sponsor the weekly breakfast. Please look ahead to late February and beyond to sign up for a meeting. Partnering with another member can help. Contact Club Services Chair Jim Haugen for more information.
 
PHOTO CONTEST: 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, January 31st. Send your guess to the Editor.
The Big Question: Have you had that Conversation?
Eve Stern, BSN, MS, LME suggest each of us "Start the Conversation" about End of Life Planning which was a real thought provoking presentation at last Friday's meeting. The presentation starts with the End of Life Facts Today.  During the last two months of life, $56 billion is being spent. And 87% care plans are not available at the scene of an emergency. Plus, 25% of Medicare recipients spend more than the total value of their assets on out of pocket health care expenses in the last 5 years of life.  A 2000 study found that costs were 35,7% lower for patients who had formal end-of-life discussions involving medical caregivers and family compared with those who had not.
 
Some of the facts.  Death rate hold steady at 100%.  70% of patients die in hospital or institution. 90% of Americans say it's important to communicate what they wish for at end of life. Only 30% are having the conversation ahead of time. 80% of Americans say they want to have the conversation about end of life with their doctor. There is a steady decline in traditional funeral home business. There is a slow, growing number of states with Death with Dignity laws.
 
More than 25% of Americans are not able to make decisions regarding medical treatment at the end of life. Legal documents are critical, but an incomplete component of end of life planning. Various concerns center around whose life will you make better by preparing for the end of yours?  There are several examples of End of Life Planning Tools. They include guidance and questions to complete directives and legal documents; create, compile and safely store documents & videos in a secure electronic vault and share the documents with family, loved ones, advisors and/or providers. 
 
Write the Ending to Your Story. Empower people with last positive legacies without regret; live out your bucket list. Realize years remaining are precious so make the most of them and live the final days more purposely with meaning in the present.  
 
Some of our members asked Eve about the online resources tools mentioned to do their end of life planning. They can be found at Final Roadmap.  Separately, I will send a note about it's one time lifetime membership in a Club email.
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Quote of the Week - Who Said It?

“It is well that there is nothing in Rotary so sacred that it cannot be set aside in favor of things better.”

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Thought of the Week - Who Said It?
"Never doubt that a group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
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Mark Your Calendars!
Community Supper
6 February 2020
 
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Our regular Rotary Club Meetings are at the Lake Stevens School District Educational Service Center lower level Community Room located at 12309 22nd St NE. We start at 7:30 am. There is a robust continental breakfast available beforehand. Visitors are always welcome.
Speakers
Feb 07, 2020
American Cancer Society Road to Recover program
Feb 21, 2020
Meeting at Buzz Inn
Mar 06, 2020
Sherwood
Mar 20, 2020
Snohomish County Regional Growth
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Upcoming Events
Community Supper
Ebenezer Church
Feb 06, 2020
4:30 PM – 7:00 PM
 
Pack 88 Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet
Camp Edward
Feb 29, 2020
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
 
Pack 88 Pinewood Derby
Glenwood Elementary School
Mar 21, 2020 10:00 AM
 
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BREAKFAST SPONSORS
 
Jan 31- Jim Haugen
Feb 7- Jim Steinruck
Feb 14- Scott Smith
Feb 21- Meeting at The Buzz Inn
Feb 28- Amelia Mimura
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