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Rotary Weekly Luncheon Place: American Legion Time: Lunch served from 11:30 - 12:00
Cost: $15 Parking: American Legion and the church only.
Billy Jivetti, PhD
Billy Jivetti (PhD) is a native of Kaimosi, Western Kenya. He came to the U.S. to pursue graduate studies and upon completion, he has taught and worked as a researcher in colleges and universities in the U.S. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a training in biology, environmental science, international studies, and rural development. He has been working as research scientist in population studies at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Geospatial Studies. He is an avid runner. He moved to Albuquerque with his family in 2016. Billy is a member of the Rotary Club of Albuquerque.
In 1969, Billy’s mother was working as a community nurse and witnessed first hand maternal-child mortality in this remote village. She saw a vision of a health center where American medical doctors and nurses were treating and helping mothers and children in the community. She never told anyone this dream. In 2002, Billy came to the U.S. for further studies. In 2010, he met a benefactor who gave them seed capital for the health center. It was during ground-breaking ceremony when Mama Rose revealed this dream. It has been 10 years of slow but steady construction challenges and opportunities, that led Billy to join Rotary, for connections to support the project and programs that align with Rotary. Immediate or total catchment area/population = 50,000, close to 150000 catchment population. In this presentation, Billy Jivetti will be discussing how the health center will help improve the health and education of the people in the area through Health & education: preventive health, rural medicine, community health education workers, nutrition, reproductive health, communicable/non-communicable diseases, Water Sanitation/health.
Billy, has just returned from a 3-month visit to western Kenya where he hosted a free medical camp that treated over 200 people, distributed school supplies donated by Pine River Valley Rotary Club of Bayfield, Colorado; and is establishing a Rotary club in Kaimosi – his home town.
Happy Birthday to our founder
Paul Harris was born on April 19, 1868 in Racine, Wisconsin.
This is the 153 anniversary of the birth of the founder of Rotary.
Do something to honor his memory today!
Update by President Jim Whiteneck
Announcements:
As Polio Eradication Week is upon us, I wanted to give a brief history of the disease.
In 1894 the first documented polio outbreak in the United States occurred in Vermont with 18 deaths and 132 cases of permanent paralysis.
In 1905 Swedish physician Dr. Wakeman determined that polio is a contagious disease and spread from person to person– even involving people who show no symptoms.
In 1979 Rotary international began its fight by immunizing 6 million children in the Philippines.
In 1985 Rotary International launched our Polio Plus Campaign with an initial fundraising target of $120 million.
In 1988 the World Health Organization joined Rotary International hoping to eradicate polio. There were an estimated 350,000 cases of polio in 125 countries that year.
By 1994 it was announced that polio was eliminated in the Americas.
In 1995 165 million children in China and India were vaccinated within one week.
In 2000, 550 million children receive the polio vaccine.
In 2011, Rotary further partnered with Bill Gates and Jane Goodall with funding for polio eradication exceeding $1 billion.
By 2014 India and Southeast Asia were declared polio free.
In 2021 Africa was declared polio free.
Last year, there were six total cases of wild polio virus occurring in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
So far this year there has only been one case worldwide!
We are so close to eliminating this disease!
In the meantime, the surveillance and response costs are approximately $100 million per year.
The goal, of course, is to continue monitoring and treating until the disease is conquered.
The Rotary International Disaster Response Fund for Ukraine has, at last measure, gathered $8.8 million in contributions.
These contributions are being rapidly deployed in Ukraine as well as neighboring countries to the west of Ukraine assisting with this humanitarian crisis.
Our Club has been very supportive of these efforts.
Combined efforts are making a worldwide impact.
Congratulations on the terrific work!
April 14, 2022 Meeting Notes
President Jim Whiteneck called the meeting to order.
Madison Casey gave the Invocation
Jim led the Pledge of Allegiance.
We sang “Take Me Out to The Duck Race”.
Guests of Rotarians:
Jim Whiteneck introduced his friend Jim Jonell, who he hopes will join.
Annie Slack introduced her good friend, Linda Bieker, wife of today’s speaker.
Gregg Jurgens introduced Sue Doylen, his friend who is on the board of Upper Thompson that is today’s program.
Bill Smith introduced Dawn Shields who is joining our club.
Jay Harroff brought his wife Jane.
Jim welcomed RJ Lara who is joining our club.
Announcements:
Jim welcomed our members on zoom.
Jim reminded us that April 27 is Rotary International Polio Day.
Rotary Foundation meets today at 1:15 at Quality Inn.
Tara Moenning said the Scholarship Committee will meet briefly here after this meeting.
Tara said Town Cleanup Day is Saturday morning April 30.
Meet at the east side of the Visitors’ Center to get a route to clean and orange trash bags.
We can also get a route assignment and bags at our club meeting April 28.
Work should take 1-1.5 hours; complete by noon for town to pick up bags on roadsides.
Ukraine-Rotary Foundation report
Ron Gordon said our club has raised $17,246, unchanged since last week but we are still accepting donations.
(We are up to $17,706 in donations for the Ukraine Disaster Relief Response per Longley Parker 4/15/22)
Chuck Bonza gave an impressive, detailed list of RI grants by country and organizations and local clubs involved in relief activities.
Jim Jonell brought checks today from Estes Valley Quilters who are selling Ukrainian pot holders and related textile items.
Jay Harroff said his bridge group donated to our club fund.
Bill Solms reported for Nominating Committee that we still need candidates for
Treasurer
Secretary
Club Website
We may have a President Elect candidate
Newer members are welcome to take on these roles.
Michelle Mann directed us to see the Nehemiah Gateway report to donors on our tables.
On page 7 is a good article on our club’s Albania project with them.
Big Duck Beth said
buttons will be available next week.
Posters are ready and in her car for us all to take and post them.
Annie Slack said merchant prize solicitation is winding up.
We have 274 prizes from 104 businesses.
Her goal is 400.
We have an ad for this in EP News tomorrow.
We can get prize forms from her.
Jim recognized
birthday for Jim Austin
Wedding anniversaries for Thompson’s and Sinnott’s
Club anniversaries for Gregg Jurgens (2011) and Carl Robicheaux (2019)
Congratulations and thank you to Mel Rueppel, who received his Paul Harris plus THREE from Annie Slack today!
Mel Rueppel, Anne Slack, Jim Whiteneck
Mel then gave his Sergeant at Arms report.
He will be gone the next few weeks so we need a person to fill in each week.
He quizzed us on
Badge
duck ticket purchase
recognized Longley Parker for being Treasurer of Salud Board for 16 years!
He put in $10 for Longley and challenged us to do the same.
Scott told his joke.
Happy Money:
Carl Robicheaux was happy that Bill Solms was begging instead of him. (referring to officer nominations).
Doug Mann was happy about the Bangladesh Model Village Presentation.
Bill Smith reminded us to be prompt to bus our tables after lunch so the workers would not have to wait.
Jim Austin was happy about the new prospects here today to join our club.
Bill Solms put in his $10 to honor Longley.
Program:
Dennis Gellhaus introduced the program.
We welcomed Upper Thompson Sanitation District to present the District’s function and, issues, and plans on their new facility
Chris Bieker, District Manager
Suzanne Jurgens, Assistant District Manager
Matt Allen, Operations Manager
Steve Ravel, District Engineer.
Suzanne Jurgens, Chris Bieker, Matt Allen
Steve Ravel
Adjournment:
We concluded with the Four Way Test.
Madison Casey, scribe
Welcome To Our New Members
Dawn Shields RJ Lara
Dawn M. Shields was born in Detroit, MI. She graduated from High School and furthered her education through various classes. She ran her own little cleaning company for 5 years, was an Innkeeper for a 25 room B&B and taught 6 seminars on “How to build a great team” for DISC. DISC is an acronym for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. DISC is an assessment tool based on the 1928 DISC Emotional and Behavioral theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston. The tools are designed to predict job performance. It helps you to understand a person a bit better and what job functions they would be better at. Dawn also worked for an IT startup in California.
She and her husband, Ed, have been married for 26 years. They raised five amazing children, two of whom received Rotary Scholarships in North Carolina. They are: Emily, Oliver, Sarah, Zoe and Lily.
They moved to Estes in 2008 and left again in December 2013 for a job opportunity for her husband. She belonged to the Sunrise Club from 2011 to 2013. She and Ed moved back this past July.
Dawn is active with the American Legion, Fine Arts Guild, Estes Park Friends of the Museum. She has a huge passion for education about sex trafficking and seeing children freed. Dawn now works for Allnutt.
RJ Lara was born in Torrington, Wyoming. He discovered his love for American history and material culture while exploring small-town museums in the Rocky Mountain region. He has worked in public history institutions for nearly a decade, holding positions in the curatorial department at the Laramie Plains Museum, collections department at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, development department at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, as a research scholar at the Chester County Historical Society in Pennsylvania, and as a graduate fellow at the Winterthur Museum. At each institution, RJ sought to make history and art accessible to the public through inclusive exhibitions and public programs.
RJ received his BA from the University of Wyoming, majoring in Secondary Education and History with a minor in Museum Studies. After graduating from UW and working for a six-horse hitch harnessmaker, he became deeply committed to studying material culture and American craftspersonship from an earlier period in America’s history. RJ formalized this study by pursuing an MA in American Material Culture from Winterthur and the University of Delaware. His studies focused on the material literacy of early American leather objects—mixing his Western background with Winterthur’s premier collection of objects made or used in America between the 17th and 19th centuries.
RJ Lara joined The Historic Stanley Home Museum & Education Center as Interim Executive Director in May 2020. He is now it’s Executive Director. He married Samantha Lara in 2016.
He is an active member with the Estes Chamber of Commerce, Estes Park Nonprofit Resource Center, the Larimer County Historical Society, Laramie Plains Museum Association of which he is a Board Member and the Rocky Mountain Tool Collectors.
According to club bylaws, if there are no objections within seven days of publication, Dawn Shields and RJ Lara shall be considered elected to membership.
EVICS Bilingual Story Time Project
Family reading book together
In December 2021 The Rotary Club of Estes Park provided EVICS $3,600 from a combination of club project funds, district grant matching funds, and donations from individual club members to launch a Bilingual Story Time Project. Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Success (EVICS) started the program in January and to-date has distributed a total of 400 books and craft kits to the children in the Estes Valley. They are distributing about 100 bilingual story time craft kits each month. The kits include a book, craft kit, laminated feeling chart and tips that help the families start the conversations to help support the child. EVICS has also created socio-emotional backpacks with similar materials which can be checked out by the families. The elementary school has 4 backpacks, the library has 1 and 5 are maintained at EVICS. The books, kits and backpacks have been well received and the kids and their families look forward to receiving the kits each month.
The testimony from one family is provided below: "The socio-emotional development kits supplied by EVICS, for us as a family, is something very important, we work through it together, we share anecdotes and experiences, but above all, each member of our family contributes their opinion on the issues addressed in each kit. One of our favorite topics was “Grateful” because as parents we were able to learn how our oldest daughter understands how to be grateful and what her concept of gratitude is. With this tool we have been able to help her understand that the simple things in life, friends, family, and everything that God has blessed us with is a reason to be thankful and has helped us as parents and as people to be thankful every day, everything we have: the love of our Father God, our daughters, our relatives, our jobs, friends, and co-workers, all those who bless us and that we can also bless and our people at EVICS who accompany us in learning and growth of our daughters".
EVICS is grateful to the Rotary Club of Estes Park for all the support.
Help Wanted at Duck Central
Announcement:
We have moved Duck Central computers to the Lake Estes Room at Ridgeline.
The goal is to erase duck race data from a dozen computers.
Then to prepare displays, keyboards, mice, laser printers for gifting to any Estes Park area organization that can put them to use.
What can’t be reused will need to be recycled.
To allow for this work and help from volunteers, Lee and Sandy Lasson will be maintaining Duck Central Hours Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM.
Duck Central can be used for any in-person meetings to support the Duck Race including staging Race Day supplies or other activities.
To volunteer, call Duck Central 970-235-1721.
Merchant Prize Collection Volunteers
Prize donations are pouring in thanks to all your efforts.
You are so appreciated.
Let's see if we can top 400 prizes.
Spring Clean Up Day
Saturday, April 30, 2022
9 AM
Announcement:
Save the date. Just donate an hour and a half to make our roads/trails/ etc. look so much better.
Tara will bring routes and bags to the meeting on April 28th so people can pick them up there if they prefer.
If you wait until Saturday groups and volunteers are asked to meet at 9 am at the east side of the Visitor’s Center for instructions, route assignments, and distribution of orange bags.
We are working on scholarship evaluations right now
the Awards Ceremony is May 11th and the entire Club is invited to attend.
Greeter Sign Up Schedule
April 21. Karen Thompson April. 28. Phil Moenning May 5. Wayne Newsom May 12. Carl Robicheaux May 19. Scott Robbins May 26. Pete Sumey June 2. Jim Austin June 9. Ben Van der Werf
Do You Know Anyone for RYLA
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
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