Welcome to another issue of our biweekly bulletin! Find out who our upcoming speakers are, what we covered during the last weekly meeting, and our up coming events and fundraisers!
WELCOME to Francescos!
Roberta called the meeting to order at 12:18pm
Flag Salute - Gloria Gounsellor
Invocation - Sandy Bosque
Song - Rosie Grant
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS - By Roberta Farber
Updates
Dan , Fundraising Co-chair announces the Windcreek Bus trip on Oct 3rd. It will be $45 a person and the bus will leave at 10am sharp outside of Dan's office.
Gloria
Sandy, Camaraderie Committee Chair, says that Racetrack, Broadway play, BAPs temple, Grounds for Sculpture, Bronx Zoo, American Dream Wheel - all ideas that Sandy is looking into for club member moral.
Community Service Committee Chair John Susani:
August 11th we will be stuffing bag packs for the Circle Ave even
Dictionaries will be set up by Bonnie Miele for distribution
Halloween Trunk or Treat is on the 19th/26th - date TBD
Donations for Thanksgiving - please start shopping
Our next Rotary lunch meeting will be Aug 6th.
Please be there at 12.15pm. $30 per person - Please bring a friend!! (For our known meeting schedule, scroll to the end or click here https://portal.clubrunner.ca/3496/speakers)
St. Joseph's Community Heath Needs
Cloris Bustamante and her staff Lisa (Clinical Director, Urban and Community Health)
She says St. Joseph's is one of the most visited emergency rooms i the US. They also have the most visitors who are not insured. All the donations go to support this. They are more than Southern Passaic County - they have spread out into Bergen and Morris. They are opening an office in Ringwood.
Cloris tells the club about prescriptions that may not be covered. She explains about diabetes diagnosis and that people need to change their lifestyle choices or there are consequences. Children are even developing this. Cloris does research and shares within the community why they need to get healthy.
Every year she has to do a community health needs assessment. This tells her what are the common illnesses that effect the community and how they can help the community heal. It is all encompassing - Mental, Cancer, Nutrition and Respiratory etc. They want to reach entire families from teaching the kids in school to the parents that cook. Cloris educates the primary care providers as well.
She explains we need more research on Mental Health so that there is a screening to determine what chemicals are not balanced in the brain. High Blood pressure is also a problem when you can have a tiny heart pump and people need more exercise to make sure blood is pumping.
Cloris recommends that you watch additional sugars and drink a lot of water.
St. Joseph's offers free preventative medicine for people who are under insured and not insured. They still have people coming into the emergency room with Stage 4 cancer because they are not going in for their screening.
St. Joe’s have seven affinity groups that they promote for different religions and disabilities. She stresses that you go to one of the outpatient pharmacies to make sure you are healthy.
Total people in attendance - 16 Rotarians and three guests as reported
Quote of the Day / Happy Dollars
Quote of the Day:
W.C. Handy' - "Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it
Happy Dollars collected - Roberta collected $84!!
50/50 with the Cards - Colleen wins! - She picked between $15 or a shot at the card - she decided to try for the Ace of Spades and lost. The ticket chance goes to Gloria to pick a card. She losses as well.
The Great Falls Pantry - requesting donations of Non-Perishable foods.
With almost 27,000 military veterans living in Paterson alone, many of them living under tight financial constraints, this pantry was just what they needed.
Located at 160 Ward Street in Paterson, NJ, the pantry will be open the 3rd Saturday of every month from 9-11 am. Veterans will need to bring proof of service and a tax return in order to shop. Currently, the pantry holds a variety of dry goods and the organizers plan to hold fundraisers in the future to continue to keep the pantry stocked for our vets!
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We are thinking for all of our members, family and friends who are suffering an illness or other adversities especially
ROTARIAN CODE OF CONDUCT
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1. Act with integrity and high ethical standards in my personal and professional life
2. Deal fairly with others and treat them and their occupations with respect
3. Use my professional skills through Rotary to: mentor young people, help those with special needs, and improve people’s quality of life in my community and in the world
4. Avoid behaviour that reflects adversely on Rotary or other Rotarians.
5. Help maintain a harassment-free environment in Rotary meetings, events, and activities, report any suspected harassment, and help ensure non-retaliation to those individuals that report harassment
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