Bulletins - 2009 - 11/02/2009
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Barry J. Kohn
This Week’s invocation was delivered by Larry Nuffer. Larry did a nice job reading The Serenity Prayer. Bonnie Wasserman led our club in The Pledge of Allegiance followed by “Jingle Bells” conducted by Linda Jalving and Jim Mulvaney.
Sergeant at Arms, Scott Carr, presented the weekly raffle and invited members to share bitches and brags . Melissa Trew picked the lucky black marble and won over $500. She then promptly donated $180 back to the club for the next week's raffle. Chris Jacobs announced December 9, 2009 he is hosting an open house at his Jewelry Store. 10% of the sales will be donated to the Rotary Foundation. He also mentioned that if it rains during New Year’s morning he will return all monies paid by Rotarians who purchased a jewelry item during the open house. Tom Sayer was very happy to announce he lost 60 pounds in one year. He donated $60 to the Rotary Foundation. Thanks Tom. Susan Bleicher bragged Bobbi Spinner- Flack did the Susan Kolman 3 day breast cancer walk 3 years in a row. Larry Nuffer bragged Rosalie Kramm gave a wonderful Social Media presentation and Lucy Killea did a great job filling boxes for the homeless during the Catholic Charities Thanksgiving Homeless Project. Gary Green acknowledged Sandee Rugg's great job in bringing in 5-6 guests during the last few weeks since taking over as the membership chair. Frank Defrancesco brought in his home grown vegetables and requested all donations be given to the Rotary Foundation. Sandra Schrit auctioned off the book Gilbert’s Fable by Jack Gilbert. Proceeds went to the Rotary Foundation.
Guests included Frank Riley and Audrey Coleman guests of Sandee Rugg, David Hughes a returning guest, Melissa Amber Smith guest of Melissa Trew, Kelly a guest of Pete McGuire, Joshua Hamilton a guest of Chris Carstens and there were no visiting Rotarians.
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Jeff Olson announced he was in charge of raising money for underprivileged Tijuana children through Project Responsibility. Members can obtain the names of children to sponsor along with their wish list after the meeting. Alternatively, checks made payable to “Responsibility” can be given to Jeff by December 9, 2009. All gifts need to be turned in by the December 9, 2009 meeting due to a short timeframe to get these back across the border.
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John Adams gave us an update on Youth Services. Youth Services is a youth mentoring program in association with the Downtown YMCA. The Youth Services committee recently had a luncheon with the youth and 5-6 lawyers. A good time was had by all who attended the luncheon. John also announced the Downtown YMCA has a holiday toy drive. You can drop off toys at the Downtown YMCA, located at 500 West Broadway, through December 18, 2009.
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Sandra Schrift announced the upcoming Peace Maker Award. If you know of someone who deserves the Peace Maker Award please forward their information to Sandra.
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Dave Ferguson was happy to announce that the Holes for Heroes event raised over $85,000 for the wounded veterans in 2009 and a total of $275,000 was raised by this event since its inception.
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Chris Carstens was happy to report the Thanksgiving Catholic Charities event filling boxes for the homeless was successful. A good time was had by all the Rotarians who helped out.
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Lynn Hamilton was happy to report that our new President, elect, elect is Scott Carr. Way to go Scott.
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Robyn Bottomley also announced our Rotarian Holiday Party is coming up December 12, 2009. Hope all the Rotarians and their significant others will be able to attend.
 Our speaker was Dr. Daniel L. Gross, Executive Vice President, for Sharp Hospital Acute Healthcare. Dr. Gross spoke about the H1N1 flu. Annually, 200,000 people nationwide are hospitalized by the flu and 36,000 people die. It is believed that the H1N1 virus comes from pigs hence the name swine flu. In fact the flu comes from pigs, humans and birds. The first known case of the swine flu was on February 24, 2009 a 6 month old girl from northern Mexico was diagnosed with the swine flu. On June 11, 2009 the authorities declared a phase 6 pandemic of the swine flu. By July 1, 2009 one million people were infected. On August 25, 2009 the authorities estimated 50% of population would catch swine flu. Hopefully, this will not be the case. In Africa deaths occurring form the swine flu are not being reported which could affect the data.
Dr. Gross asked – is the worse over? He answered only time will tell. He did mention that we are going into the holiday season and we should be very careful when we meet with other people. Dr. Gross mentioned that the H1N1 flu has flu like symptoms, fever, coughing and shortness of breath. An atypical symptom is frequent bowel movements. The testing for the disease is not 100%. The medicine Tamiflu and Relenza decreases the duration of the flu. If you are high risk, obese, diabetic, have other illnesses, then it is recommended you get vaccinated as soon as possible.
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