We had our fourth “virtual” meeting of the Carmichael Rotary Club, April 21st , 2020. President Vicky Boatwright, becoming even more astute at running "virtual meetings", involved esteemed member Geronimo a.k.a. Greg Herrera, who led us in the “pledge” and gave the following thoughts for the day:
EVENTS CHANGED OR POSTPONED OR CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE (COVID-19) PANDEMIC
♦ "RISE AGAINST HUNGER": IS POSTPONED, TO BE ANNOUNCED.
♦ THE CARMICHAEL ANNUAL EASTER SEALS GOLF TOURNAMENT - IS CANCELED
♦ "DISTRICT AWARDS": ARE POSTPONED BUT THE AWARD PACKAGES NEED TO BE IN PLACE. IT WILL POSSIBLY BE A HAWAIIAN THEME BECAUSE THE ROTARIAN CONVENTION WAS CANCELED.
♦ "ROTARY CONVENTION": IN HAWAII - CANCELED
•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. D.G. Ray Ward says that after a bit, Vitalent might want the blood (serum) of those who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, to help others. Right now they very much need "O" type.
• How to help during this crisis. Now Rotary is recommending Volunteer Surge. You can train to speak to patients and seniors who are just released from the hospital to see how they are doing. This will relieve nurse personnel during this busy time. D.G. Ray Ward also says that there is a 30 hour training program to become a nurses assistant. More soon.
► April 28: (Virtual Meeting) Carmichael Parks - Mike Blondino
► May 5: Historic Sacramento Cemetery - Bob La Pierriere, M.D.
We were fortunate to have Bill Tobin as our fourth “virtual” speaker, who is a brother Rotarian from the nearby Club of El Dorado Hills. Bill is an expert on the “Shelter Box” program, a “Shelter Box” ambassador who visually brought with him many slides outlining the program. Some of them are depicted in this bulletin, however I recommend that you go to http://www.shelterboxusa.org to see all the slides in their entirety.
It is amazing to think that just 20 years ago, the Shelter Box, a millennial idea grew, from the goal of helping just 20 families to the large charity it is today, serving 1.5 million people in distress from disasters – and it is paired with Rotary.
Bill said that the idea was to re-establish families by allowing them to live together under Tents and Tarps. Then came the Indian Tsunami in 2004, and Shelter Boxes started helping the surviving victims, 22,000 families, and was put on the World Stage. Then came another big disaster Katrina, the hurricane that annihilated New Orleans in 2005. Shelter Boxes has been involved most every disaster since then. Just to enumerate, Kashmir, Democratic Republic of Congo, earthquake in Haiti, Tohoko earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Syrian refugee crisis, typhoon Haiyan, Philippines, cyclone Winston, Fiji, Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Irma and Maria in the Caribbean, tsunami in Sulawesi, cyclone Ida, Malawi and helping the people displaced in the area of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Camaroon in Africa by Boko Haram. (see pictures at end of this article). In 2019 Shelter Box got it's second Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Bill mentioned that the COVID-19 virus has threatened most displaced people throughout the world. Population density is a problem. Shelter Boxes is helping by:
ENABLING SOCIAL DISTANCING WITH EMERGENCY SHELTER Our tents and shelter items help to move families out of crowded collective centers and into more private spaces where they can limit their exposure to the virus.
IMPROVING ACCESS TO GOOD HYGIENE We are customizing our aid packages in support of good hygiene, supplementing our aid items to include soap and hand-washing basins.
PROMOTING BETTER HEALTH Items like cooking equipment, sleeping mats, and water filters help families stay healthy and reduce the spread of infection during an outbreak.
MODIFYING DISTRIBUTION PRACTICES We have adapted our distribution methods to ensuring we meet the specific COVID-19 recommendations by distributing to smaller groups, encouraging social distancing and using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during distributions.
Shelter Boxes has established Hero Clubs which are Rotary Clubs that contribute $1000 per year, Bronze, $3000 Silver, $5,000, Gold. See application at end of article.
As you can imagine, Shelter Boxes tries to amass a large number of boxes in advance of disasters, because when they happen, the need is immediate – being prepared is essential to success.
President Vicky pleased Bill by announcing that a book, in honor of his presentation will be dedicated to the Carmichael library (subsidiary of the Sacramento Public Library)
Vicky Boatwright, for some reason, took over the “Happy Fines”. Chuck McBride had his 18th wedding anniversary on April 20th, Phil Danz’sbirthday and fittingly, he BONGED THE GONG; Geronimo (Greg Herrera) turned 72 also on April 20th, Phil Danz’sbirthday and fittingly RANG THE BELL; Karen Munsterman generously gave her dinner allotment ($20) just because; WalterMalhoski put thanks in for getting masks for nurses (through his nurse daughter) put in $10; Jay Boatwright put in his allotment in honor of their daughter whom he spent some time with recently and enjoyed; Vicky Boatwright put in her allotment ($20) to go to the wonderful charity “Shelter Boxes” andKatha Danz put in Phil’s and her allotments – ditto ($40); Frank Pease – ditto –double allotment ($40) wow!
Chuck McBride talked about the “Change Bucket” that has several hundred dollars in it and mentioned it will be auctioned off to one member to go to their Paul Harris Fellow…..
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(3);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); CHUCK McBRIDE; 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 (DOUBLE DITTO FROM LAST WEEK) 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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