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The program for September 29th

Meeting for September 29, 2022

Hybrid Meeting (Maybe)

Change of Venue - SCARC - Union Hotel Restaurant - 6:00 PM
280 Mission Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
In Search of the Perfect Hybrid Meeting!

...brought to you by Past President Peter Hoberg and the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Sunrise on Thursday, September 29, 6:00 PM at the Union Hotel Restaurant, 280 Mission Blvd (near Hwy 12), Santa Rosa. $50. An RSVP is required as seating is limited. Please contact —> Pennymillarcpa@gmail.com Seamlessly integrate your live and ZOOM gathering with a minimum of fuss, and a maximum of member, guest, and speaker engagement. SCARC Sonoma County Association of Rotary Clubs

LINK TO VIRTUAL MEETING INFORMATION

The Speaker from September 22, 2022

Court Appointed Special Advocates' Training Coordinator, Cindy Maldonado

Our Guest Speaker for September 22, 2022 was Cindy Maldonado from CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates For Children). Cindy has been CASA’s Training Coordinator for 4 years. She is a proud graduate of Sonoma State University in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies and began her career with CASA as an intern. CASA began in Seattle in 1977 when Judge Soukup felt that there was often insufficient information about children to make life-altering decisions about them. He came up with the idea of bringing in volunteers to learn about the kids, advocate for them, and report about the kids to the court. The community’s response was CASA was overwhelming and now CASA is a national program typically run by the Juvenile Courts.

There are 691,000 children in foster care nationally and 86,599 in California. CASA serves 14,000 of these foster care children in California. Sonoma County’s CASA program was founded by Judge Arnold Rosenfield in 1996. CASA typically has about 150 volunteers serving 160-180 children and sibling groups, although due to Covid-19 the number of caregivers has declined. CASA provides services to children from birth to age 21. CASA’s mission is to serve abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court for protection and rehabilitation services. CASA volunteers are the eyes and ears of the court. They monitor the children’s living situation, serve as friends and a source of support for the children, and give a voice to the children and their concerns. CASA volunteers provide balanced advocacy for the children; they advocate for direct service agencies to provide proper services to the children but do not themselves provide support directly to the children. They regularly meet with CASA supervisors and sometimes go to court to provide judges with reports about the children.

CASA has a specific set of volunteer rules and prohibited activities, all geared towards eliminating conflicts of interest and inappropriate behavior towards the children. CASA currently has a waiting list of 90 children and is actively seeking volunteers. They will have a Fall Training session during the last 2 weeks in October. If you are interested, or know someone who is, RSVP to 707-565-6375 or. tccasa@sonomacasa.org.

Many thanks to Cindy and CASA for the informative and helpful presentation!

Click HERE for Sunrise Rotary presents - CASA with Cindy Maldonado

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week

On a regular basis, our resident photo pro Warren Smith, submits pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.

Thanks for all the great pictures Warren! Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!

Additional photos may be found on the SR Sunrise Facebook Page.
Parks Connect Community

Parks Bring People Together

The photo above is of San Jose California's Rotary Play Park.  An example of extensive community collaboration, it is part of San Jose Rotary's Centennial Project, inspired by club and community advocates to provide innovative lusive play opportunities.

Don't let the funding total frighten you!  It didn't happen overnight.

Our District Grant to provide two special moulded high back swing seats is underway.  Parks Planner, Scott Wilkinson, is coordinating on the city side the location of our project.  In the weeks ahead Assistant Governor, Brian Reed, and Sunrise President, Jack Strange, are canvassing other Area  Clubs for interest in successive projects.  Inspired by San Jose Rotarian, Dan Pulcrano, who seeded our project with a $1,000 challenge, Sunrise has secured a $3600 District 5130 Grant.

With completion slated by May 31, 2023, we are eager to similarly inspire other Rotary, service clubs and advocacy groups to leverage resources and support in enhancing accessible, inclusive play areas.

Contact Rich Randolph for further information.

rjurny@gmail.com

Joke of the Week

Joke of the Week

This week's contribution is from Paul O'Rear:

1.The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.  He acquired his size from too much pi.

2.I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

3.She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4.A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5.No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

6.A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7.A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

8.Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9.A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

10.Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11.Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12.Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

13.I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14.A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

15.The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

16.The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

17.A backward poet writes inverse.

18.In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

19.When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

20.If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine.

21.A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

22.Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'

23.Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

24.Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

25.Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

26.There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

News From "The Rotarian"
Re-emergence of polio underscores the need for eradication
By Arnold R. Grahl
The detection of poliovirus, and even cases of polio, in places where it hasn’t been found for years has demonstrated once again that eradicating a human disease isn’t easy, especially in the final stages.
In recent months, an unvaccinated man in the United States was paralyzed. In the UK, poliovirus was detected in sewage. In Malawi, a child contracted polio. And Mozambique announced its first polio outbreak in 30 years.
But rather than be discouraged, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) remain confident that they are making progress and can achieve their goal of a polio-free world. There are several reasons for this optimism.
A new oral vaccine, which has a substantially lower risk of causing vaccine-derived variant polio, is now available. This makes it less likely that the weakened strain of poliovirus that is used in the vaccine will mutate and spur outbreaks in communities where immunization levels are low, which has occurred in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Moreover, the number of cases of the disease caused by the wild virus has been at historically low levels in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two countries where poliovirus transmission has never been stopped. This presents an opportunity to seize the moment and stop the wild virus forever.
Rotary’s perseverance has played an enormous role in bringing the world to this point. It’s that commitment, coupled with the determination of the other GPEI partners, that is needed to complete the job.
“This year has shown us why we must stay the course on polio eradication,” said Mike McGovern, chair of Rotary’s PolioPlus Committee. “We have an opportunity to make history and need Rotarians to redouble their commitment by raising funds and awareness.”
Rotary members have been at the center of the worldwide effort to eradicate polio for more than three decades. Rotary launched PolioPlus in 1985 and helped found the GPEI in 1988, with the goal of eradicating a human disease for only the second time in history. (The World Health Organization declared the world free of smallpox in 1980.) When the GPEI was founded, wild poliovirus paralyzed hundreds of children every day, with an estimated 350,000 polio cases across more than 125 countries in one year. Since then, cases have plummeted more than 99.9%, sparing more than 20 million people from paralysis.
Through a funding partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary commits US$150 million to fighting polio every year. Rotary members have contributed more than US$2.6 billion and countless volunteer hours to this effort. With the GPEI partners, members engage with communities everywhere to encourage high vaccination rates and help immunize more than 400 million children annually.
As the world gets closer to having zero polio cases that are caused by the wild virus, public health experts say it is more important to track all forms of the virus, wherever they may appear, including in polio-free regions.
They also say that the re-emergence of polio in these places highlights the importance of vaccination as the only form of protection against polio and many other diseases. It draws attention to the work needed to encourage people to get vaccinated at a time when vaccination rates are dropping in some communities. And it reinforces the fact that polio anywhere is a threat everywhere, which underscores the importance of the End Polio Now campaign.
As World Polio Day on 24 October approaches, Rotary urges its members to tell their communities about the importance of vaccination. Global donors and national governments are also expected to announce new pledges to fund the GPEI’s 2022-26 polio eradication strategy. This strategy focuses on greater accountability from national governments about their work to eradicate wild polio and end outbreaks of polio caused by variant poliovirus.
With these kinds of sustained political and financial commitments, the world is still on the path toward an incredible accomplishment: making sure no person is paralyzed by polio ever again.
— 21 September 2022
Rotary Club of Santa Rosa Sunrise - Founded June 30, 1986