Today we honored Vicki Morris with her 3rd Paul Harris Fellow- congratulations, Vicki! She makes automatic monthly withdrawals to the Foundation and when your contributions reach $2K, you receive the Award.
MariVi sold some delicious Peanut Butter cookies today to raise funds towards the RYE Spring East coast trip she wants to go on. The cost is around $3,500. Her exam are going well. We learned she doesn't like being ice-bound entrapment, but does love winning at board games!
Birthdays: Sandi Molski 1.22, Lissa Myhre 1.23, Barb Bortner 1.28, and Abigail Davis-Scienszinski 1.29. Happy birthday to all!!
Laura reminded everyone to check email on meeting days with inclement weather- if we have to cancel (like 1.18) an email notification will be sent. For those without email, call another Member and inquire.
Community Grant applications are being accepted until 2.28. The application is on our home page www.janesvillerotary.org. Pass the word on to any agencies you think would be interested in applying. If you're interested in being on the review committee, contact me or look for an email with details.
Lynn Galbraith WIlson spoke to us today about our local Endowment Fund. Established last year as a way for you to contribute to the legacy and on-going work of our Club, we reached $5,600 of the $10 K goal by year's end. Speak to any Committee or Board member if you have questions on how to contribute.
Mark Lorenz made an announcement about the following event:
Raffle: Robert Smiley won both the daily AND Jackpot drawings today- congratulations! He intends to donate the winnings to the Student Bus Token fund.
Randy Banker , JFD Chief, gave us an overview of our Fire Department. We have 94 personnel, with a daily staffing of 29 on 3 shifts, that operate on a budget of $11,842,000. 5 stations service our area, and a future goal is to have an additional South side station near the airport where there will be significant future need. 53 are Paramedics, and 36 are EMTs. In 2016 demand for EMS and Ambulance services skyrocketed to 8,247 calls. This year they added Paramedic equipment to all Fire Engines to help with response need. While fire incidents are down 35% nationally, fires burn faster and hotter, so they are working with the Red Cross on a Smoke Alarm project in our community. The average response time goal to a fire is 8 minutes or less- smoke detectors are crucial to alerting people inside while they are on the way. Our Department provides many services, such as Dive and Rescue, Hazardous Materials Response Team, a State funded Technical Rescue team, Risk Reductions, and Child Seat programs held regularly. They performed 5049 inspections at area businesses as part of the Prevention Bureau. You will be hearing more about the new shared services initiative with the City of Milton. For more information, visit http://www.ci.janesville.wi.us/departments-services/fire-ems
Meghan Draxler plays Volleyball, participates in Track, and is active in many Clubs, including NHS, SHS, Link Crew. She plans to attend UW Milwaukee and major in Physical Therapy.
Emily Heilman loves to perform in Show Choir and Spotlighters, and is a member in Link, NHS and a few others. She will be attending UW Twin Cities to major in Linguistics.
Sydney Miller is a member of Media and Book Club, Yoga, Forensics, NHS, and SHS. SHe tutors, and loves volunteering. She performs in Marching Band and Cross Country. She intends to attend Marquette or UW Oshkosh and go into Law. She gave special shout outs to her family for all their support.
Joseph Clausen performs in Show Choir, Band, and in musicals. He plays on the Tennis team. He'll be attending Iowa State U for Aerospace Engineering.
The Atlanta Host Organization Committee is offering some good old-fashioned Southern hospitality at the Rotary International Convention from 10 to 14 June. It has planned a wide range of activities featuring everything from good food and music to inspiring tours of local landmarks. If it’s your first convention, these events are chances to meet fellow Rotarians from around the world, and if you’re an experienced convention goer, you can catch up with old friends.
Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron will host Rotarians for a “Strike Out Polio” night at the new SunTrust Park, where you’ll...
When Teguest Yilma helped found the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa Entoto in 2002, she thought polio had already been eradicated from most of the world. But while Ethiopia had been free of the disease, Yilma was shocked to learn that new cases had started cropping up in surrounding countries such as Somalia.
“I was thinking, it’s not possible, we can’t be free if the countries around us are not free,” she says. Yilma, the managing editor of Capital, Ethiopia’s largest English weekly newspaper, has brought a journalist’s skills to the fight against polio. She became vice chair of the Ethiopia...
Battling breast cancer in 2000, Kathryn Smith found comfort pursuing her lifelong interest in Franklin D. Roosevelt. The more she read, the more intrigued she became with the 32nd U.S. president’s private secretary, Marguerite Alice “Missy” LeHand. “I thought, what a fascinating life she had because she was by his side through the polio crisis, establishing the polio rehabilitation center in Warm Springs and then after his return to politics,” she says. Smith, a past president of the Rotary Club of Greater Anderson, S.C., and a longtime newspaper journalist, turned that curiosity into a book...
One of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s earliest memories is of fleeing with his family into the mountains during the Korean War, his village burning behind him. His father and grandfather had to forage for food in the woods; his mother gave birth to his siblings away from anything remotely resembling a health facility. “I have known hunger,” he says. “I have known war, and I have known what it means to be forced to flee conflict.”
The soldiers who came to their rescue were flying the blue flag of the United Nations. The UN provided them with food and their schools with books....
Like a lot of us, I spent much of my childhood riding bikes, but fell out of the habit for a while. Forty years. Then my wife and I moved to New York, where cyclists risk their necks in a daily Thunderdome of cabs, police cars, firetrucks, double-decker buses, messengers on motorbikes, and delivery trucks backing around corners at 20 miles an hour. Not for me! At least not until my 50th birthday, when my metabolic furnace flamed out. Calories started going directly from beer bottle to beer belly. It was time to start exercising. Either that or give up Samuel Adams, and I couldn’t do that to...
