Bulletins - 2010 - 02/10/2010
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Sandee Rugg
President Green greeted everyone and called upon Chris McCain to lead the pledge. Wendy Patrick gave the invocation and Linda Jalving led us in a salute to our flag by singing “It’s A Grand Ole Flag”.
Our Sgt at Arms Scott collected a lot of money that was not given away when Chris McCain, Pete Maguire and Jane Barry all took a clear marble out of the hat. Current stash is $290. Larry Nuffer was fined for the outstanding article that appeared in SDNews. Sandra Schrift was fined for an article she wrote that appeared in the Rotary magazine. Bitches and Brags: Gary Green paid for losing his Super Bowl bet. Rosalie Kramm paid for getting her keys to her Discovery Center. Claire Remillard paid for the Logan Heights Community Center event. Dave Ferguson paid for Melissa Blackburn’s assistance when his newest grandbaby was recently born.
Pete McGuire introduced the guests. Speaker Eden Steele; Maggie Holloway guest of Steve Seligmann; Allison Hooper guest of Karen Green; Verna Griffin Tabor of the San Diego Center for Community Solutions; Steve Laub guest of Sandee Rugg; Grace and Mary Xitco guests of Heather Xitco. Dave, a fellow Rotarian from Minnesota was doing a make up at our club.
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Melissa Blackburn reported that members of the club had donated $6,000 toward the Haiti relief effort.
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Claire also announced we need coordinators for a breakfast we’ll serve at the Senior Center and for a project involving local students.
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The FundRaiser captains reported their current progress on the collection of auction items. There was a lot of laughter as Karen called out the various Disco themed team names and as the captains tried to “one up” each other with their reports. Joe Marshall then reports the status of the fundraiser activities and invited all interested to attend the next meeting at his office to be held Thursday February 18th at 5:30. Chris Jacobs is this year’s auction item collector.
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Jonathan Stone announced there will be a Wine Tasting at the Chapman Collection on February 19th from 6:30 – 8:30 $30 fee. On line registration is available through the member portal.
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Melissa Blackburn reported that we will serve breakfast at this year’s Women’s Resource Fair being held Saturday March 6th.
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Jane Barry announced that May 5th is Vocations Day and our current sites are: Sharp Hospital – Walter Anderson Nursery – Breakfast aboard one of the Naval ships currently docked in San Diego.
Joe Cioken announced this is his last year on the District’s Board as District Manager of Military Affairs. Joe also announced the passing of long time Veteran Village supporter John Smith. He also announced that as part of Tom Sayer’s Fundraising team he is providing a VIP tour for 6 on the Midway.
 Allison Hooper was inducted as a new member by Co-Membership Chair Bonnie Wasserman. An interesting tidbit about Allison – she runs an exercise Boot Camp on the weekends!
 Claire Remillard and Chris Carstens presented a check in the amount of $1000 to Verna Griffin Tabor of the San Diego Center for Community Solutions. This money will be used for hotel vouchers for women in danger.
Sandra Schrift noted that February is World Understanding Month and then introduced our speaker Eden Steele. Ms. Steele is the Founder and Director of Interactions for Peace, a 501c3 whose mission is to provide a seamless system of integrated programs that empower and inspire our youth to discover the peacemakers within themselves and to serve their communities through peaceful interactions. Ms. Steele was the first winner of the District 5340 PeaceMaker Award presented in 2008.
The organization has been operating since 1989 with no staff, depending entirely upon volunteers. There are currently more than 1,000 volunteers working world-wide. The organization is funded through donations and the sales of books and workshops.
This organization has an international presence with groups in the Philippines and Uganda as well as throughout San Diego. One of our own Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars, Wadri Patrick is very involved in this program in Africa.
The organization works with children of all ages to help them develop peace-making skills that will contribute to building a strong foundation for lifelong peaceful interactions. There are four programs, each of which developed for specific age groups. The Primary Peacemakers are pre-schoolers through second grade. The Peace Patrol is for third through sixth graders. The Middle School Mediators are for middle school students and the Bullies Beware! Program is for those in upper grades.
This organization has been recognized as making a direct contribution to continuing, sustaining, and compelling growth towards district-wide student academic achievement and improved API and AYP scores.
This organization helps make problem solving much easier, builds skills and knowledge and teaches “how to” promote peace both at school and in day to day life. This is done by teaching: Self-Awareness and Worth, Cooperation, Communication, Conflict Resolution and integrating Parent and Community Connections.
The following organizations have given well-deserved recognition to this organization: Rotary District 5340, California State School Boards Foundation, San Diego Mediation Center, San Diego County Office of Education/Children’s Hospital and the San Diego Chamber of Commerce.
Interactions for Peace is based in Chula Vista. www.interactionsforpeace.org
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