We had another successful “virtual” meeting of the Carmichael Rotary Club, April 7th, 2020 and this time we had an important guest speaker, Dr. Steve Orkland of the Sacramento Public Health Department. Also, long time member and an honorary member attending from Mississippi, Dennis Moffett ( the vagabond, in his mobile travel home and hunkered down). Esteemed member Dr. Dick Bauer led us in the “pledge” and gave the following well thought out piece of wisdom for the day:
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be
EVENTS CHANGED OR POSTPONED OR CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE (COVID-19) PANDEMIC
♦ "RISE AGAINST HUNGER": IS POSTPONED, TO BE ANNOUNCED.
♦ "ROTARY REBOOT": - Saturday, 4/25 - 3 in 1 Membership, Marketing and Service is CANCELED.
♦ "SPECIAL OLYMPICS BOCCI BALL TOURNAMENT - on Sunday, 4/26 is CANCELED
♦ "DISTRICT AWARDS": ARE POSTPONED BUT THE AWARD PACKAGES NEED TO BE IN PLACE.
♦ "ROTARY CONVENTION": IN HAWAII - CANCELED
♦REAL IS POSTPONED
•Blood is badly needed, stocks are down:You can go toVitalent.orgto find a location to give blood. President Vicky has been there recently and it is done spaced out and in very comfortable surroundings. One location close to us is BloodSource, 11713 Fair Oaks Blvd (916) 722-7119.
► April 14: (Vitual Meeting) Birding in Sacramento - Vivek Tiwari
► April 21: (Virtual Meeting) Joint Replacement Surgery - Holly Haight, M.D.
► April 28: (Virtual Meeting) Carmichael Parks - Mike Blondino
► May 5: Historic Sacramento Cemetery - Robt. La Pierre, M.D.
Steve Orkland, M.D., The Sacramento Public Health Dept.
Dr. Dick Bauer introduced Dr. Steve Orkland. He said that Steve is a former 30 year practicing rheumatologist from the Los Angeles area who now is with the Sacramento Public Health Dept. and also a neighbor of some of our members in Carmichael. Dick said that it was fortuitous for us that we have him to speak to us today considering our present problem with the coronavirus epidemic.
Steve started his talk by stating that Public Health has to do with the science and art of anticipating and preventing disease. He gave a couple of health examples effecting the Sacramento area. In 2017, California Water Control required that lead levels in all schools built before 2010 be tested for high lead levels. It seems there can be a problem where children can eat flaking paint or drinking water from lead in pipes. In 2018, high lead levels were found in Grant High School water pipes and all the pipes were replaced. This is a classic Public Health function. The have found also that in the immigrant population, lead was found in their cosmetics that they had gotten from other countries. Efforts have been made to control this problem.
The capacity of Hospitals are important, a while back during a flu epidemic, ambulances were deluged with patients and only one ambulance was free – this is a public health issue – giving direction to ambulances. Data helps to figure out problems. In 2016 there was a spike in the use of opioids. 40 people over dosed, 10 people died due to respiratory depression, coma, and death. The Public Health Department looked for a cause and stressed prevention. Pills were coming in from Mexico and manufactured in China.
The Public Health Department is concerned about health disparities, children, and obesity prevention. It looks to educate for disease control.
Covid-19 is a new infection that came from animals, in the past AIDs also came from animals, the effective treatment is to get to fight the cause early. When the AIDs virus was once found, containment was possible. Ebola was successfully contained early. One needs to tract down contacts which is not easy to do. The process of mitigation is aimed to slow a bad situation and keep it from getting worse. In California Covid-19, infection was found in Sonoma in February and the victim acquired it from someone else in the community, not from travel. There was no testing then and the cat was out of the bag. It was important to shelter in place and isolation has had an effect.
Steve asked for questions and many came forth – one of his most interesting answers for me was about why California seems to be doing better with the virus than other places like New York City. We have a less dense population, mitigation has been more easily achieved, and so the curve is flatter which will lessen the load on our health care system and now the problem will be how to withdraw from mitigation safely.
It was a great pleasure to have Dr. Orkland speaking to us today and I think he was pleasantly surprised to know (from President Vicky) that, in honor of his presentation, a book will be donated to the Carmichael Library (subsidiary of the Sacramento Library System)
some pics of the meeting below:
Club comedian Greg Herrera showing off sophisticated breathing gear (left) and his own invention using Calvin Klein Underwear Mask (right)-(only $30) I get 20% advertisement fee)
Happy Fines, Somehow Chuck McBride got his old job back from Vicky, he said that he survived his birthday and now is 76 years old ; Dick Bauer has now turned 75 and so RANG THE BELL; JayBoatwright has survived 3 weeks at home (with Vicky) and hasn’t killed her yet – donated $20; Katha and Phil Danz both gave $20 survival pay; Stan Roe gave his $20 pay ‘cause Dennis Moffett joined us in “virtuality”; Hamid Ahmadi donated his survival pay because he is happy for the government’s paycheck program and he is helping by buying “gift cards” which helps small businesses now and you can use them later (good idea!); Karen Munsterman donated because of “Kitty”- a dog?; Alan Gallaway has a birthday on Easter – is 82; George Abraham donated his weekly dinner allotment for our community; Greg Herrera (aka Geronimo) made a funny by displaying his “underwear mask” and RANG THE BELL;Vicky Boatwright gave us the sad news that the Carmichael Rotary Golf Tournament slated for June has been canceled………
BELL RINGERS
DICK BAUER (2); MARK BEIL; KATHA DANZ; PHIL DANZ; ED BUNTING (3); VINCE IOSSO (2); JAY BOATWRIGHT(X3); VICKY BOATWRIGHT (3); GREG HERRERA(2);WALTER MALHOSKI (4); TONY MARQUES; CHARLES McBRIDE;
KAREN MUNSTERMAN; RICH PLATH; STAN ROE
BONG GONGERS
HAMID AHMADI (3); DICK BAUER; MARK BEIL; JAY BOATWRIGHT; VICKY BOATWRIGHT; ED BUNTING (7) ; GREG HERRERA (3); VINCE IOSSO (2); STAN ROE; TONY MARQUES; KAREN MUNSTERMAN; RICH PLATH (2)
EXPLANATION: A BELL RINGER IS SOMEONE WHO DONATES $100 TO THE CLUB IN A GIVEN YEAR; A GONG BONGER IS ONE WHO DONATES AN ADDITIONAL $100 TO THE CLUB FOUNDATION (FOR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC PURPOSE)
RAFFLE
SO there was no Raffle because we need a genius to figure out how we can do the Raffle on an online (Virtual) format. There isn't much money in the kitty anyway. It would be good to get a "virtual" bottle of wine. It might take some time folks....
During the incumbency of President David Thorman,(2013-14) it was decided that instead of giving a particular gift, ie coffee mug, pen etc. to honor our guest speaker each week, we would simply donate a book to the Carmichael Library. So below are many of the books that we have donated in honor of recent speakers.
It is the "gift that keeps of giving" because those who will check out these books from the library will derive many hours of pleasure for years to come, and it enhances learning and literacy. The books are chosen byBertaBoegel, Branch Supervisor, Carmichael Library, subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library.
rboegel@saclibrary.org
BOOK DONATIONS - as of 3-12-20
SPEAKER
TITLE
AUTHOR
BILL DONNOE
"Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern
World and Will Take Us to the Stars"
Andrew
Rader
DAN McKAY
"That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through
the Past, Present, and Future of American's Public Lands"
Mark
Kenyon
JIM QUINNEY
"Hunger: The Oldest Problem"
Martin
Capparros
THOMAS GREEN
"Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization
and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools"
David
Ravitch
BOB
MUTCHLER
"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,
But Nobody Wants to Die"
Bioethics and the transformation of
Health Care in America
Amy
Gutmann
CHUCK
McBRIDE
"Apple Tree: Writers on Their Parents ed."
Lise
Finderburg
GLENN
FONG
"Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes
Thought."
Barbara Tyersky
DAVID THORMAN
"Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve
More by Doing Less"
Michael Hyatt
JACK FROST
"How Change Happens"
Cass Sunstein
KENT KERN
"I Wish for Change: Unleashing the Power of Kids
to Make a Difference"
Kyle Schwartz
MICHAEL HARDING
"The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking
of America"
Margaret O'Hara
PHIL DANZ
"Natural Rivals, John Muir & Clifford Pinchot, Creation of
America's Public Lands"
John Clayton
VIRGINIA STONE
"Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon"
Tucker Malarkey
WAYNE BEIL
"Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence
We can Trust"
Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
BOB DEERING
"Trust First: A True Story
About The Power of Giving People
Second Chances"
Bruce Deel
HAMID AHMADI
"The Power of Human: How our
Shared Humanity Can Help Us
Create A Better World"
Adam Waytz
MICHAEL REINERO
"Blue Print: How DNA
Makes Us Who We Are"
Robert Piomin
RACHAEL TAYLOR
"Outsiders: Five Women Writers
Who Changed the World"
Lyndall Gorden
RAY WARD
"The Second Most Powerful Man in the World:
The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy,
Roosevelt's Chief of Staff"
Phillips Payson O'Brien
DESIREE WILSON
"Children of the Dream"
Richard Rothstein
LIZ BLUM
"Upcycling Outdoors": 20 Creative Garden Projects
Made from Reclaimed Materials
Max McMurdo
PHIL DARKE
"Hike It Baby": 100 Awesome Outdoor Adventures
with Babies & Toddlers
Shanti Hodges
DAVID RADAR
"Revolutionary George Washington at War"
Robert O'Connell
TERRYL SUMMERS
"The Pianist from Syria"
Aeham Ahmad
ALAN GALLAWAY
"Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England"
Liza Picard
JIM QUINNEY
"Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking won't solve our
Problems and What we can do about it"
Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, Sinikka Elliott
MARK MANNIS, M.D.
"How to be Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating
the World of Modern Medicine"
Sana Goldberg, R.N.
MATT ZIMMERLING
"The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained"
D.K. Publishing
MICKEYMcMULLEN
"Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and
"Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit economy is Threatening our Future"
Louise I. Shelley
Jay Boatwright
"What Makes Wine worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime"
Terry Theise
Deputy Lacy Nelson
"The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well being."
Richard Wilkinson
&
Kate Picket
Moses Osono
"The Seasons of my Mother:A Memoir of Love, Family and Flowers."
The Wonderful Mr. Willughby, the first true ornithologist”
Tim Birkhead
Glenn Fong
“The Spy Who Left Behind”
Michael Pullara
Jay Boatwright
“Einsteins Monsters, The Life and Times of Black Holes”
Chris Impy
Jim Thompson
“Barons of the Sea and their race to build the fastest clipper ship”
Steven Ujifusa
Mark Steffens
“A Forever Family; Fostering Change One Child at a Time”
Rob Scheer
Yourbulletin editor just couldn’t help bringing to your notice the relevance of the last six “Book Donations” by Branch Supervisor, Berta Boegel given “in honor of” our recent keynote speakers to the Carmichael Library (Sacramento Public Library) at our Club meetings. Note that Berta has fined tuned the speakers topic to the subject of the book! They are below:
Missy McCall, who talked about “Human Trafficking”, book donated in her name: Under theBirch Tree: A Memoir of Discovering Connections and Finding a Home by Nancy Chadwick.
Mark Urban, who talked about a trip to Ethiopia, book donated in his name: The Pharaoh’sTreasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization by John Gaudet.
Dr. Beverly Wesner-Hoen, who talked about being a part of Rotary Fellowship, book donated Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee’s Book and Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today by Tom Santopietro
Doug Haaland, who talked about his trip to Israel, book donated in his name: Shaya: An Odysseyof Food, My Journey Back to Israel by Alon Shaya.
and 6. Bill Baxter and Rich Plath, who talked about “Fly Fishing” – get this – “On the Fly”: HoboLiterature and Songs 1879-1941 ed. By Iain Mcintyre. How appropriate….
As of June 26, 2017, we have purchased nearly 160 titles in honor of our speakers! Because of the large number of books, we are not showing them all at this time.
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the virus than other places like New York City. We have a less dense population, mitigation has been more easily achieved, and so the curve is flatter which will lessen the load on our health care system and now the problem will be how to withdraw from mitigation safely.
