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Program 4-7-2021
Rotarian Mary Vegh introduced Ethan Hunt from the new International Soccer Academy of America (ISAA) in Mishawaka.  Ethan has a Master’s in Sport Management, Johan Cruyff Institute and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (did a traditional 2-year program in one year).
 
He has a BA in Sport Management from Bethel University, Cum Laude, was named Bethel University Kinesiology Student of the Year 2017-18, and Bethel University Servant-Leader of the Year 2018-19.  Ethan holds a United Soccer Coaches National Coaching Diploma. He spent 3 years as Bethel University’s Men’s Soccer Student Manager and two years coaching soccer at Marian High School, prior to founding ISAA in 2020 and to opening in the Fall of 2021.
 
Ethan stated that ISAA is a private high school directed toward soccer players, located at 205 W. Edison Road. Students attend both school and soccer in the same environment with the goal to elevate their game to attend college as a soccer player.  Learning inside the classroom will include a mindfulness class based on curriculum developed by Bethel Professor Rachel Lindvall and Erin McLeod a world class goalie.  The academy will have a 12:1 student to teacher ratio with added tutoring. Friday’s will be project day and without a lot of homework outside the classroom.  Two teachers have been hired from Marian and one for Montessori.  Classes will start at 9:30 with soccer play at 5:00.  There will also be prep classes for ACT, SAT, and essay writing required.
 
It is a private school with no state funding and the tuition is based on 10% of a combined household salary.  ISAA will not compete with local high schools, instead will play with regional and national clubs and in tournaments.  For admission their soccer skills will be accessed by attending games they are playing in.  There will be 5 teams with no more than 18 on a team that will play by skills not age.
 
As he has traveled around the world, Ethan stated it is the most popular sport worldwide that everyone can play, all it takes is a ball, 2 sticks, and a field. ISAA will take on England’s organizational structure and hopes to host students from around the world. He said you have to see our facility to believe it and invited everyone to take a tour.  We have a league partner from a youth academy in Spain coming in next week. 
Soccer training will start on July 26th and the first class will start on August 16th.  There are 11 students from 14 to 18 years of age enrolled for this year, with the goal of 54.  For questions about the Academy call 574.402.0100.
 
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FELLOW ROTARIANS...
South Bend Rotarian's were together strong on the screen for the 55rd Zoom.   President Larry presided.
 
INVOCATION: Paul Szrom, reminded us that is it Cinco de Mayo Day and the Grump Out Day so we should lighten up our stress, and laugh, and do something selfless for others.  Render our service to others to make our community a better place.  Make someone smile today.
 
VISITORS & GUESTS: no visiting Rotarians today, Simon Springer’s visiting daughter Dacsi.
 
SGT. Stephen Keilman thanked Tom Hall for being his sponsor and the great news of being LIVE at CC next week. 
 
FINES:  Shawn Todd’s zoom best background at Crystal Lake best background at crystal lake in a camping vest.  Larry joining at camp.  Dave Shock’s loving dog licking.
QUIZ was won by A-M, N-Z’s PAY UP! 
PSA’S: Vivian Sallie’s daughter walks with MBA from the Kelly School of business this weekend.  Dan Vukmirovich’s daughter Anna degree from IU Bloomington in physical therapy.
Doug Elder’s new program approach these last couple of weeks as a committee of one but could use help to find a new Chair with a committee of more. Little Black Dress kudos to Debie Coble and Anne Feferman.
QUIZ was won by A-M, N-Z’s PAY UP! 
 
HAPPY BUCKS:  Bob Shreiner ‘s wife Kathy is an elementary teacher and was Awarded Teacher of the Year PHM School District. The hardest teaching year of her career as she was virtual for the whole year. Katendi Kanema earned her Nurse Practitioner.  
 
$$$ You can use the fast and easy Fine Payment method online for FINES, PSA’s, and HAPPY BUCKS. See Fine payment directions below.  http://rotarysbfines.org
 
$$$ You can use the fast and easy Fine Payment method online for FINES, PSA’s, and HAPPY BUCKS. See Fine payment directions below.  http://rotarysbfines.org
WEBSITE UPDATE
Website Near Completion! 
All members to complete a simple task; login to ClubRunner to update all of your contact information, being sure it is current and correct.  Type in Homepage, go to Membership, type in First Name.Last Name.3964
. If you forgot your Password click on Forget Password.  Go to My ClubRunner, My Profile.  This will be password protected.  If any questions or concerns email Bill Coleman or Mary Mathews. The Website developers are also asking for you to send any “cool” Rotary photos you might have. 
ROTARY FINE PAYMENTS
EASY FINE PAYMENTS...            
The super easy Fine Payment Method launched through SQUARE!  You can pay from your computer or cell phones.  This will eliminate linking problems and monies will go to offset Club expense. A demonstration with a Google video; hit dollar, put name in, send code, hit Next, and sign in as new person.. 
Keep Calm and Pay your Fines...  
http://rotarysbfines.org. 
 PROGRAM-3-25-2021
 
Rotarian Doug Elder introduced Anne Gooch and Nicole McKee.  Founded by two best friends who share a love of food and fitness, The WHOLEsome Package is a meal prep company that makes “fast food for healthy people”.  Our business model is different from any other and designed to make healthy and whole food just as available as the unhealthy fast food that is currently available today.  Our passion for clean, nutritious, and delicious food is derived from life experiences that trust us into a world of realization that health is wealth.
 
Nicole said that WHOLEsome started when her Dad was diagnosed with cancer, giving her time to reflect how food had a lot to do with our quality of life.  She began with healthy and organic foods that are rid of nontoxic chemicals. Nicole had been kick-boxing for 7 years and started running classes where she met Anna. We connected and would go for a bite to eat. 
 
Anna’s journey started with the birth of her premature son who went to Riley’s Children Hospital, having 12 different head surgeries. He had been given Pedia Care and looking at the label noted it had lots of sugar.  I searched Google to find the effects of sugar on babies.  Bought food books and used a Vitamic Blender to heal the body from the inside out.  He has been a miracle child coming out of this.  Nicole and I meet people who have been eating processed food which was not “real food” as your body can only work so long as a filter.
 
The WHOLEsome Package’s business model is evolving. We took our first big step into a storefront at the corner of Mishawaka Avenue and Main Street from being a meal prep company to a holistic resource in the community. 
 
Hours for pick up at the WHOLEsome Café are M-TH 8-5, F 8-3, Sat 9-2. We do home and corporate deliveries on Mondays.  Our target market is educated people who want quality put into the food they eat and the elderly who eat poorly eating. We have a passion for taking foods that are not healthy and making them so; Asian chicken wraps are a top seller, mozzarella bagels, chicken buffalo nuggets made with cauliflower, bacon blue burger, chocolate cookies.
If interested do like us on Facebook: thewholesomepackage.com.
 
FELLOW ROTARIAN'S 
South Bend Rotarian's together for our 12th week on the screen with 80+ of us. 
Let’s welcome next week our new President Larry Davis with enthusiasm and in style with our outside and Zoom meeting.  
 
Diane Bennett thank you for your timely invocation asking us to protect the needy and keep them safe.  Diane also asked to protect us all. and let there Be Still in the world.   
 
FINE FUNDS...
President Debie asked us to tally up the Fines, PSA's, & Happy Dollars before the end of her term, so pay up before June 30th. 
Make your check payable to the SB Rotary Charitable Foundation and send to the SB Rotary Club office at 108 W. Colfax Avenue, South Bend, IN 46601 or if you are downtown you can drop in the door slot and save a stamp.  Most everyone who came to the fabulous Zoom meetings owes at least $10 over the past 12 weeks. 
 
Thanks Sergeant Maria Kaczmarek for your genuine service this year as a terrific Sheriff.
MEETING NOTES
Posted by Nate Levin-Aspenson on Jan 24, 2019
Our very own Amy Hill, new Transpo CEO, was introduced by Rotarian Jill Scicchitano and provided the program today. Telling us more about our local public transportation institution: Transpo. 124 employees (most of them union!), 29 fixed bus routes, and 17 paratransit vans, our local municipally owned transportation company has been serving our community for over 50 years.
 
Recently, they have been modernizing their aging fleet and offering new programs such as the game day express route and free bus rides for K-12 students during the summer. The latter program exceeded their target numbers by over 100 percent!
 
With data indicating that 80% of their riders are transport-dependent, depending on bus routes to reach jobs and medical care. Their paratransit vans are vital for many people with different abilities.
 
Transpo is a vital public utility, and Amy told us about how the ongoing government shutdown is endangering a large chunk of their funding. They have been able to strike creative deals to keep things running so far, but their situation is a potent reminder of the local harm that can come from political brinkmanship in Washington. One wonders if a wall would do as much to help people as providing transportation to jobs and medical care does.
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PROGRAM
 
Rotarian Beth North introduced our speakers, Rotarian TaKisha Jacobs and Loria Perez, who are community gun violence prevention advocates.  Each is a mom; one with four boys, the other with three boys and two girls.  These working moms have been spreading love and bringing awareness to our city’s gun violence.  Together, they founded Connect 2 Be the Change.  Each is the other’s other half.  Bullets 4 Life Indiana counts them as its Director of Community Relations and its Lead Chief Ambassador.  And they are founders and officers of J.U.M.P. [Jumping 4 Jesus].
They are collaborators with several other organizations taking stands and fighting against gun violence.  They volunteer with community leaders, public school systems, and community service centers, working to bridge the gaps between the need and the provision of services to address trauma and mental health.  Together, these braves, driven, committed, smart, women have formed alliances with Reflections Counseling, Mentoring Minds, and Mental Health Alliances of Michiana.  Their outreach youth and young adults aftfected and parents who have lost children to gun violence is genuine.  These women are bound and determined to turn their own loses and pain into a purpose                                                           
April 30, July 4,12, 2017 and May 1, 2020 are dates their sons were shot or died after being  shot.  They know firsthand the motto “a mother’s love never dies”.  These women are bonded in shared grief with all the “angel moms and dads” in our community.  The young people they work with receive extraordinary attention and direction.  They want their fire to be ignited because they see our young people stepping back and thinking, not stepping up and dying.
TaKisha said to grab hold of your child and teach them not to retaliate, but get help and to attend therapy groups. Twice a month the children are taken out of town to teach them not only about our cultures but to learn about other cultures.  Lorie said she is not ready to leave without the fire ignited and is dedicated to Black Lives Matter.  She credited Aaron Nichols and the Civic
Theatre assisting helping these children.    
Connect 2’s mission is to create and maintain a sustainable peer to peer environment, that encourage youth and young adults in our community to seek healing and therapeutic places.  That assist young people to build new and healthy social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Their goal is to decrease senseless violence in our city by exposing youth to different social environments and perspectives. 
Programs are provided for Youth to Young Adults to analyze their personal feelings, learn strategies to reach healthy ways, and demonstrate positive ways to impact their community.
Angel Parents Project provide participation in workshops and attend the getaways and to attend survivor events.  Healing Workshops have them making keychains, bracelet, wreaths, and frames.
To connect on their website; connect2bechange.org 
MEETING NOTES
Posted by Catherine Hostetler on Mar 30, 2017
Fellow Rotarian Heather Goralski introduced Henriette Nyirarukundo Ngenga who  Is a survivor of horrific atrocities against the Tutsi in Rwanda which began in April 1994, but also a walking miracle and author of Carrying Divine.  In May of 2011 she met Kristin Ponce Baker at Granger Community Church who has partnered to write and publish the book.  2014 marked the 20th anniversary of terror of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.  One million lives were lost in 100 days.  Henriette’s friends, family, neighbors- were slaughtered.  Henriette’s story opens eyes to those of us who are blessed to live in this free land. Her deeply rooted joy, faith, and gratitude exude to anyone who takes the time to get to know her, and is a contagious gift to anyone who hears her story.
 
Henriette is now living in South Bend and with her husband and two of her eight children.  She is employed at Notre Dame; and is committed to keeping her promise that if she and her family survived she would tell the world of God’s saving power.  Henriette is hoping that this book will inspire fellow Rwandan’s to return to God and believe.  The title Carrying Divine was inspired by Henrietta’s giving birth to a healthy daughter after surviving the ordeal and named Divine in honor of God’s protection
 CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Posted by David Carr on Jul 06, 2017
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