CLUB NEWS
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2018-19 President & PDG Talee Crowe
NEW MEMBER INDUCTION! … Membership Chair PP Jeff Kaes was not able to be in attendance to perform one of the most exciting events in the life of Rotary so President Talee Crowe exercised her executive powers and seized the opportunity to induct new members Jacquie Gallo and Tim Swenson with a pres
entation of their red badges and John Palmer with his blue badge and pin! John has duly earned his blue badge and, like Jacquie, has helped out at the Ronald McDonald House, etc. John is busy with the Boy Scouts particularly the upcoming Sports Breakfast (see below). Jacquie has paid dues six months in advance (she wanted to make sure her dues were safely accounted for before Treasurer Susan Aubin steps down) and her mentor will be PP Betsy Jansen! Jacquie's husband, Jon, 
was in the Air Force so they have lived in about 26 different homes. Jon, a former Rotarian himself, passed away in October - our condolences to Jacquie. Jacquie is a retired Deputy Sheriff having served over 10 years for Arapahoe County. It has been about 8 years since Tim left Smoky Hill Rotary and he has spent the last 4 plus years in the construction industry. Tim likes to ride on ATV's, is a gun enthusiast and enjoys traveling. Tim has a granddaughter who likes him which means she isn't old enough to figure him out. $100 has been donated in the name of each new Rotarian to the Rotary Foundation as seed money for future giving to the Foundation!
ROTARY DISTRICT 5450 DISTRICT CONFERENCE … Saturday, April 27th at the Arvada Events Center. For more info or to register go to Rotary5450.org - registration closes midnight April 19. Full Conference fee is $125 per person (9:00 am - 9:00 pm) and there are reduced rates for first time attendees/Rotaract and if you attend the Saturday lunch/program or dinner/program instead of the full day of interactive events. President Talee Crowe would like to see Smoky Hill Rotary highlight the club's fantastic $117,000 Beius Romania hospital project in the Hall of Service. The club has not had a display at a district conference in a number of years.
PROPOSED 2019-2020 BOARD MEMBERS … PE Hugh Radke held up the banner containing incoming RI President Mark Maloney's theme for the 2019-2020 Rotary year … "ROTARY CONNECTS THE WORLD" and announced his proposals for the incoming Smoky Hill Rotary Club board. This is the first of two publicized notices before the slate of nominees goes before the club for a vote.
The following Rotarians are nominated for Smoky Hill Rotary's 2019-2010 Board of Directors:
President: Hugh Radke
President Elect: PP Darryl Harvey
Club Services Chair: PP Terry Remigio
Community Services Chair: PP Darryl Harvey
Editarian: Vacant - TBD
Foundation Chair: Pauline Ayers-Menk
International Services Chair: PP Bev Edwards
Membership Chair: PP Jeff Kaes
Programs Chair: PP Al Horton & Susan Michalakes
Sergeant-at-Arms: PP Paul Urtz
Secretary: PP Betsy Jansen & ("Asst. Sec.") Jacquie Gallo
Treasurer: Vacant - TBD
Vocational Services Chair: Mark Rank
Youth Services Chair: PP Craig Essex
SHR 9th ANNUAL CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT … Golf Tourney Chair PP Gary Frisch presented the redesigned golf tourney brochures and highlighted a few changes including the reduction in the Platinum level sponsorship to $3,000, the other sponsorships remain the same. An new contributor 
level sponsorship ($200-$500) has been added. You are going to be hearing a lot about the August 2, 2019 tournament over the next few months and in Gary's words … "Let's get this thing going!" There are different opportunities for each and every member of the club to participate in our one and only annual fundraiser which funds all the great things we do!
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUILD DAY has been confirmed and scheduled for Saturday, May 4th at a home repair site located at 5015 Fillmore St, Denver, 80216 from 9am to 4:30pm according to PP Al Horton. Volunteer Rotarians must register online at least two weeks in advance (by April 19th) by visiting http://vhub.at/smhrotary. Registering ensures you will accept the waiver, receive information about the day including what to bring, and the location of the project. Habitat has five (5) spots reserved for Smoky Hill - we will be allowed to fill any unfilled spots two weeks before the build day and if we have more volunteers than spots reserved, you will be able to sign up on a waitlist through the link above. No prior construction experience is required!
BOY SCOUTS 2019 SPORTS BREAKFAST is Tuesday, April 9th at the PEPSI Center from 7 to 9am. According to John Palmer, individual seats have opened up for $1,000 per seat and RSVP's need to be in by this Friday, April 5th. Former Denver Bronco Champ Bailey is the speaker. You don't have to fork up $1,000 by Friday, you can make a pledge for it over selected periods of time. There is also a former Denver Nugget coach George Karl preview of the NBA playoffs fundraiser occurring at his home on April 17, 2019 for $3,000. Contact John or go online to get more information or to resister!
SMOKY HILL ROTARVARIETY OF NEWS … Psst … hey, listen up, really, you have to listen to hear this … Prez Talee did not want to publicly broadcast this message so she quietly whispered through the microphone something to the effect that she "has spoken to the owner of the restaurant about the (small) size of the lunch salads and will do so again" … Shhh … and totally related, while you have those reading glasses on to see your salad, look above your name on the address label of The Rota
rian magazine to find you Rotary International membership number! [Update on the salad crisis: Subsequent to our meeting, Talee spoke with the owner about the small salads … unfortunately, it did not go well. The owner said … "We are pasta proud, we ARE the Bent Noodle, we are not a roughage house, if you want large salads, go somewhere else … (followed by Italian expletives !x%?!#x#!)" Good news for Mark Rank, until further notice, we are meeting at My Salad Chop! Lettuce be thankful this is April fools day news!]
THIS WEEK'S THOUGHT … "Optimism is what brings us to Rotary. But Rotary is not a place for those who are only dreamers. It is a place for those with the ability, the capacity, and the compassion for fruitful
service." --- Sam R. Owori, Rotarian
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Dr. Michael Craine, Chief of Health Psychology with the Denver VA and a champion for opioid safety, presented a history of the Opioid Crisis and other interesting facts on opioids. In the United States, 130 people die every day from an opioid everdose. In 2017, about 68% of the more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths involved an opioid and that was 6 times higher than in 1999. Opioids are a drug that comes from the opium poppy or are synthetically made by a drug company. They are depressants which slow down your central nervous system including your breathing. Opioids include heroin, morphine, fentanyl, dilaudid, oxycodone, percocet, codeine, vicodin, Tylenol 3 and Roxicodone, to name a few.
From 1999 to 2017, almost 400,000 people died from an overdose involving an opioid. The opioid epidemic came in 3 waves: Wave 1 in the 1990's showed an increase in deaths from prescription opioids paralleling an increased focus on paid relief and marketing by drug companies; Wave 2 began in 2010 with rapid increases in deaths from heroin, and Wave 3 began in 2013 with significant increases in overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl. Fentanyl and carfentanil are very inexpensive to make. They have been added to illicit drugs like heroin and cocaine and counterfit opioid pills. They look just like prescription opioid pills and can cause death within seconds. Carfentanil is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 time more potent than fentanyl. A 2mg dose of carfentanil will knock out an average size elephant.
In 2017 Health & Human Services declared a public healty emergency and initiated a 5-point strategy: 1. improve access to treatment and recovery services; 2. promote use of overdose-reversing drugs; 3. strengthen our understanding of the epidemic through better public health serveillance; 4. provide support for cutting edge research on pain and addiction and 5. advance better practices for pain management.
There are important distinctions between addiction (loss of control over use of the substance which is called Opioid Use Disorder "OUD" in mild, moderate or severe levels), tolerance (increase amounts of the substance are needed to get the same effect over time) and dependence (absence of the substance from the body causes symptoms of discomfort). Opioid withdrawal is similar to a very bad case of the flu. It is not physically dangerous but can be dangerous due to the psychological response - depression, anxiety, even thoughts of suicide.
Anyone can develop OUD resulting from exposure to the drug, vulnerability and a vulnerable time in your life. OUD is related to changes over time in the central nervous system in response to the drug. The primary reasons for misusing prescription pain relievers are relief from physical pain, feeling good or to get high, relaxing or relieving tension and to get help with sleep. Overdose risk is present for all opioid users not just those with OUD. Overdose rates from prescription opioids significantly increase among people more than 65 years of age and is higher for men than women. Opioid overdoses happen when there are so many opioids or a combination with other depressants in your body that your brain shuts down breathing. Then oxygen can't get to the brain and after a short time the heart stops, which leads to unconciousness, coma, then death.
The risk for overdose increases when there has been a shift in tolerance, drugs/alcohol are mixed, you use it alone, you live in a rural area, the administration of the drug is switched, there are variations in the strength or content of the drug and you have a lower level of physical health.
