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September 13, 2018 Meeting Highlights
President Chris Krueger opened the meeting with an invocation offered by Daryl Bethea and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Jeanie Morgan.
 
Guests
Donna Goetzenberger introduced Albie Abrahams and Sheri Collins from First Things First and who would be heard from later in the program.  She also introduced Clem, who was an inbound Rotary Youth Exchange student from Belgium a few years ago.  During her exchange, the Goetzengergers were her host family.
 
Drawings
Darl Andersen was the lucky $5 winner in the weekly attendance drawing.  Chuck Flint explained that the weekly raffle winner would definitely receive $39.00, but might also be the lucky winner of $126 if they were to draw the ace of clubs (which we are).  President Chris's ticket was drawn by Clem, and she did draw the ace of clubs.  Feeling lucky, Chris announced she might use some of her winnings to buy lottery tickets.
 
Buck Board
Because we did not have many guests and Rotarians present were all familiar with the Buck Board, Chuck Flint announced he would simply circulate through the tables to give Rotarians the opportunity to purchase squares on the board with the hope they will be purchasing the square that will result in them going to the next level in Paul Harris Society giving to The Rotary Foundation.
 
Happy Bucks
Chris Krueger was the first to contribute - happy to have won the raffle, and very happy to have recently spent lots of time in Nebraska enjoying her family.  Pam Cohen paid sad dollars as a fellow board member on Gift of Life Arizona, Michael Burke of the Arcadia Rotary Club, had recently passed away.  Bob Jensen contributed $50 to go to the Gift of Hearing Mission.   Bob helped the Dove Mountain club get a $12000 district grant to train Guaymas, Alamos and San Felipe, Mexico volunteers to receive training in basic hearing testing.  Bob explained they would start with a two-day training session during our clinic in Guaymas in November,  which will help us in pursuing a global grant as it begins the first steps to sustainability. The global grant was obtained by the Catalina Tucson club and will provide many aspects of health care in Alamos including some hearing health care. Our club has contributed money for this grant. Darl Andersen paid happy dollars thanking Carolyn Jones for being the young beauty putting up with the old guys at their table.  Jim McGown was back from his summer travels.  It wasn't clear that he was happy to be there, as he would have been out on the lake if he were still on his summer respite.  Don LaBarge was happy to have enjoyed his Rotary adventure in Idaho.  Chuck Flint was happy to announce the Havasu Falls trip had sold out.  Donna Goetzenberger was happy to report they had interviewed another outbound youth exchange candidate the night before.  They are now up to fifteen outbound students for next year.  She also said that the inbound students had traveled to Sedona September 7-9 for to participate in a  campout as well as work at a car wash fundraiser.  Polly Schumacher contributing asking fellow Rotarians to keep the people on the east coast in their thoughts and prayers as they deal with the coming hurricane.  Immanuel Beeson paid happy dollars because, even though his little boy's team lost their game, his son was the only one who scored.  His other son had the opposite experience.  His holder son's team won even though that son did not score. 
 
Program
Donna Goetzenberger introduced the speaker from First Things First, Albie Abrahams, who explained that Albie is not the name on her birth certificate, which is a very long, formal, traditional Spanish name, but the simpler name she has been known as for her entire life.  She was born in Puerto Rico.  In her first home, there was a lot of love, but there was also a lot of conflict.  Her parents divorced when she was five.  At that young age, she had learned some survival skills.  Her fright or flight instinct was very strong, and she learned to be hyper-vigilant.  
 
Albie is the mother of a 10-year-old daughter.  As a social worker, Albie was very aware that 90% of brain development occurs by age 5.  She knew that early nurturing and love would be essential.  She described interacting with her daughter as an infant.  She would talk to her daughter, then remain silent while she allowed her little girl to babble back at her.  When the daughter finished babbling, Albie would talk to her again, then remain silent and repeat the process.  The daughter was learning to engage in conversation before she had a vocabulary.  The earlier one can intervene and optimize a child's exposure to positive nurturing and love, the greater will be the return.  First Things First was created in Arizona ten years ago utilizing Tobacco Tax Revenue.
 
They form partnerships to support communities with a hope of helping children become self-regulated, learn to share, grown in skills to interact with their peers and have good communication skills.  Their family support centers try to help by matching needs with available resources.  The state is divided into twenty-eight regions.  We are in the Gilbert, Mesa, Queen Creek (East Maricopa) region.  There is a regional partnership council with six members.  The council provides volunteer opportunities for citizens to get involved to help make decisions to make most effective use of available assets to meet needs in the community.  Community impact reports are prepared and reviewed regularly to ensure that program goals are being met.
 
Announcements
  • John Pennypacker congratulated Bob Jensen on working toward integrating the use of TRF global grant funds in the work Bob has long supported in Mexico.  When clubs get involved in TRF grants, they are actually putting their own invested dollars to work.  John announced that last year, The Rotary Foundation did not meet their fundraising goal.  They exceeded the goal of raising $315,000,000.  They raised over $400,000,000.  In our zone, Mesa West Rotary Club had the second highest per-member giving, averaging $551.85 per member in 2017-18.  Getting more involved in grant participation enables us to ensure some of the funds we give are used for projects we directly support with our volunteer efforts.
  • Immanuel Beeson said that Salvation Army would work closely with Red Cross in meeting disaster response needs of those impacted by the hurricane.  They will be feeding first responders and he was very proud of the Salvation Army's ability to quickly organize and deploy the resources necessary to make a difference.  He stressed the importance of giving monetary gifts rather than stuff when the emergency is happening.  That way they can quickly respond to actual needs without having volunteers tied up with sorting, storing, and managing mountains of stuff.
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Today's Chuckle
Special Day for Special Smiles Volunteer Opportunity
In partnership with Special Olympics Arizona and the Arizona Dental Foundation, A.T.Still University's Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health is looking for volunteers to help provide limited dental treatment to eligible patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the Rick Workman Advanced Care Clinic on Friday, October 26, 2018.
 
Last year, dental and non-dental volunteers provided dental services valued at $25,000 to over 75 individuals with disabilities.  They are going to do it again this year.
 
Mesa West Rotarians have the opportunity to help as volunteers who will keep their assigned patient company and entertained while waiting for their turn in the dental chair.  There will be games available to play with our new friends.  There are three shifts available for those who wish to volunteer.  Sign-up sheets will be available at our meetings.  Jeanie Morgan will be coordinating the volunteer schedule.  If you wish to volunteer, but cannot be at a meeting, e-mail Jeanie at dgjeanie1@gmail.com.  The available shifts are:
  1. 6:00 to 9:00 AM
  2. 8:30 to 11:30 AM
  3. 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Mai-Ly Duong, a Rotarian who hopes start a Rotaract Club at A.T.Still as well  as transfer her membership to our club soon, is coordinating this event.  Let's show her some strong Rotarian support with this wonderful community service project.
September is Basic Education and Literacy Month
Basic Education and Literacy is one of the six "Areas of Focus" of The Rotary Foundation.  Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.
 
Realizing that getting children into schools isn't enough to solve illiteracy, Rotary shifts to mentoring and coaching teachers.
 
CLICK HERE to read a story featured on the RI Website telling how Rotarians are making a difference with a program which teaches teachers how to integrate critical thinking skills into the process of teaching basic literacy.
Caiu's Wish List
As you all know our club has taken on the opportunity of hosting an exchange student from Ecuador.  Caiu has a great personality with a sense of humor and is fun to be around.  We would really like as many club members as possible to take advantage of the opportunity of getting to meet Caiu by sharing some time with him.  As such I have attached a list of activities that Caiu, Allan Cady, Frank Rosenberg and myself would like to make happen while he is here this school year.  We’ll call it his bucket list.  If you have an interest in sharing one or more of these activities with Caiu, sign up on the list I will bring to Rotary each week.  You could also send me an e-mail.  You can add your own activity – even dinner at your home would be great.
 
  1. Lake Havasu City
  2. Karchner Caverns
  3. Pinetop
  4. Flagstaff
  5. San Diego
  6. Navajo Reservation
  7. Monument Valley
  8. Universal Studios
  9. Snowbowl - Skiing
  10. Desert Museum
  11. Barrett-Jackson Car Show
  12. Arizona Museum of Natural History
  13. Magic Mountain
  14. Arizona Science Center
  15. Phoenix City Library
  16. Musical Instrument Museum
  17. Cardinal Football Game
  18. Suns Basketball Game
  19. Church Experience
  20. Christmas Presentation
  21. Christmas Caroling
  22. Rotaract Meeting - GCU (Allan and Polly Cady already committed)
  23. Interact Meeting - Westwood High School
  24. Hoseback Riding
  25. Hiking
  26. Mesa West Rotary Meeting
  27. Service Projects/Fundraisers
Upcoming Events
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Sep 27, 2018 12:10 PM
 
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Oct 04, 2018 12:10 PM
 
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Oct 11, 2018 12:10 PM
 
Mesa West Rotary Board Meeting
Webinar
Oct 17, 2018
7:30 AM – 9:30 AM
 
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Oct 18, 2018 12:10 PM
 
WORLD POLIO DAY
Oct 24, 2018 11:59 PM
 
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Oct 25, 2018 12:10 PM
 
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Nov 01, 2018 12:10 PM
 
Mesa West Rotary Weekly Meeting
Mesa Hilton
Nov 08, 2018 12:10 PM
 
Rotary District 5495 - Foundation Dinner and Show
Nov 10, 2018
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 
Speakers
Sep 27, 2018
Assistant Governor Visit
Oct 04, 2018
Navajo Water Project
Oct 11, 2018
Official District Governor Visit
Nov 01, 2018
The Rotary Vocational Fund of Arizona
Nov 08, 2018
Interact Ambassador - Crutches for Africa Mission
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Allan Cady
September 16
 
Wendell Jones
September 25
 
Jim McGown
September 30
 
John Benedict
September 30
 
Spouse Birthdays
Allan Cady
September 16
 
Marsha Harvey
September 17
 
Donna DePonte
September 22
 
Anniversaries
Darl Andersen
Kaye Andersen
September 1
 
Keith Deering
Kim Deering
September 15
 
Warren Williamson
Son Hee Williamson
September 30
 
Join Date
Allan Cady
September 1, 2010
8 years
 
Jim McGown
September 2, 1994
24 years
 
Robert Zarling
September 8, 2000
18 years
 
Christy Citterman
September 14, 2017
1 year
 
Ray Smith
September 19, 2000
18 years
 
James Crutcher
September 29, 1998
20 years
 
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Club Service Director
 
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