Wendy will be presenting on the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer’s. She has been involved in the elder health care field in our community for 16 years. She has been a volunteer for the Alzheimer’s Association teaching their family classes for the last 14 years and has been serving on the advisory council for the Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging for 12 years.
She began her career as a special education teacher and has worked with those having special needs since her teens. She and her husband, Joe, started a non-medical home care agency, ComForcare Home Care, in 2004. They have four children; three boys and one girl. Her oldest has provided her with the most perfect grandson ever!
In 2009, she was hired off the board of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services to help grow the PACE program, a Medicare/Medicaid funded health program for those over 55 years old. She has also been highly involved with the Senior Resource Council, Senior Law Day, The Colorado Springs Senior Center and has been a board member for the Southern Colorado Case Management Society of America for over a decade.
She owns her own consulting business, AGE Marketing; helping health care agencies, nonprofits and senior related businesses thrive in our community. Wendy is a wealth of information about the available community resources for those in our region needing assistance with aging issues.
Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.
We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.
HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.
OUR IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
The Rotary Foundation reaches mothers and children in need by giving communities the help and training they need to take control of their own maternal and infant health care.
Rotary makes amazing things happen, like:
Mobile prenatal clinics
Haiti has the highest maternal and infant mortality rate of any country in the western hemisphere. Rotary provided a fully equipped medical Jeep to volunteers and midwives to reach mothers and children in remote areas.
Cancer screening
Rotarians provided a mobile cancer screening unit and awareness trainings around Chennai, India, where there is a high mortality rate of women with breast and cervical cancer due to late diagnosis.
Preventing injuries and deaths
Rotary members launched a $3 million, five-year pilot to save lives of mothers and children during home deliveries in Nigeria. Since 2005, they’ve also repaired 1,500 obstetric fistulas — 500 more than their initial goal — restoring dignity and hope to vulnerable mothers.
THANK YOU! To those who participated inRecycle Beyond the Bag for TREX!
So far our club has recycled 9.675 lbs.
If you have dropped off any recycling to your local King Soopers please let Samantha Chapman know at samanthac@sentinelsoffreedom.org
A Big Thank You to the 4 Rotarians who volunteered for the Great American Clean Up in honor of Earth Day on Saturday, April 24th!
If you volunteered but didn’t let Samantha know, please share how many hours and if you brought any guests along.
Pikes Peak United Way is asking for volunteers to help community members use computers/scanners to apply for the Eviction Protection Program. The details of when/where volunteering will take place are TBD, but will most likely be the 1st – 2nd week of May in the evening/weekend hours. At this time we are just asking for Rotarians interested in POSSIBLY volunteering to sign-up on clubrunner to allow us to give their name and contact information to PPUW. PPUW will reach out to schedule volunteers once details are finalized.
Sign up to volunteer with Pikes PeakHabitat for Humanity for May 21st or 22nd – Encourage a fellow Rotarian, spouse, significant other, or friend to join you as we help build homes for families in your community! https://portal.clubrunner.ca/3250/Event/pikes-peak-habitat-for-humanity
International Committee is working on some great projects!
- Joint Project with Denver Mile High Club Uganda mental health is approved and in motion!
- CSF approved $500 for Ashesi University project in Ghana. Distract Grant request submitted. Looking to get other local clubs to partner with us.
- Colorado Haiti Project is continuing on their agriculture project and has changed their name to Locally Haiti.
- We are drafting a request for the Practical Education Network (PEN) in Ghana for funding to help with the transition to online learning because of covid. We get to hear from PEN's CEO & Founder, Heather Beem THIS WEEKas one of our speakers!
Onward and upward, Jordan Davis - International Committee Director
Are you missing seeing your other Rotarians in person? Feel free to join Jordan Davis and Kay Rendleman with some of your other fellow Rotarians on Fridays over at Sportivos inside the Antlers hotel. Arrive starting at 11:30 for socially distanced socializing and bring your laptops and headphones to participate in the meeting on Zoom at 12:15! Questions? Contact Jordan or Kay.
This past week, I was working with my business coach. She had a questionnaire for me that was part of finding my "brand." One of the questions was "What is your favorite animal and list 3 words or phrases for why" I actually had to think about this for a while.
I used to use a similar question with my students when I was teaching them interview skills under the section BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING. I asked them "if you could BE any animal, what would it be and most importantly, why?" I received some hilarious answers such as "I wanna be a cheetah! Cuz they're so fast!" Another young man said he wanted to be a cat. When I asked him why he responded with "Cuz they just lay around all the time." While I didn't think that answer would be helpful in an interview, I applauded his honesty.
But I digress..."What is my favorite animal and why?" So I thought about all of the animals I like and finally found my answer. "My favorite animal is a giraffe." The reasons were easy. They are graceful, they have no natural enemies once they reach adulthood, and they have a very gifted perspective. Then I had to choose just one of my answers to list as being important to my brand.
Well, I'm not at all graceful. (We should start a pool now on how many times I trip or fall on the stairs leading up to the podium during my presidency. And that would have happened even before my legs got banged up. Gracefulness has never been my strong suit.)
The fact that giraffes don't attack and they are not normally attacked makes me think of how fearless that would make a person. Fearlessness would not describe my brand though because nothing attached to me would be fearless.
I do love the way that giraffes can see up above everything. Their perspective is far and wide. That definitely describes my brand. I want to see beyond what's right in front of me. I also hope to see problems before they get to me. And maybe that perspective can help me to help others as they are struggling.
This exercise gave me some valuable insight! But again I ask you - what is YOUR favorite animal and most importantly, WHY?
If you have bulletin announcements, please email the EXACT WORDING of your announcement to KSaltmarshVoss@yahoo.com by Wednesday at 5 pm. I don't write your announcements but I do make them nice 'n' fancy!
As you're doing your shopping online, did you know that you can support our Rotary Club with every Amazon purchase? Here’s how:
Go to smile.amazon.com (not amazon.com). Amazon Smile is the same company, same account, same password, but the Amazon Smile program gives one half of one percent of every purchase to charity. No, it’s not a lot, but it’s also not nuthin’ (to be exact: about $150 for the Club so far). So again, go to smile.amazon.com
Sign into your Amazon account as you normally would
On the very top left of the page, next to the AmazonSmile logo, are three horizontal bars. Click there for the drop-down menu.
Scroll ALL the way down to “Your AmazonSmile”; it should be the last option right before “Sign Out”; Click on “Your AmazonSmile”
On the right side of the page, click on the “change charity” box under Your current charity (Note: If you are currently supporting another charity, that’s awesome! These instructions are for those who are not doing so. Also, if you have not previously selected a charity, your default option will be St. Judge Children’s Research Hospital.)
Type in Community Service Fund of the Rotary Club of Colorado Springs; click Select
That’s it. You’re all set. Just remember to go to Smile.Amazon.com when you shop from now on.
