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OPENING |
Greeters
Steve Larson and Kelly
Odegaard were quick with a handshake
and a smile.
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Darrick Price
offered an inspirational moment.
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Gary Rueter
led the club in the flag salute.
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President Jan
thanked
our greeters, and Johannes for
the always faithful setup.
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VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS |
Gary Eastlund
introduced TODD CASEBEER
of Capital Honda in
McMinnville.
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Al Owen introduced MELANIE
PURVIS, our outbound
exchange student for
2010-11, and her mother
JULIE PURVIS.
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Richard Weed
presented 2008-09
outbound exchange CAITY
BERNARDS, who returned
from Thailand a couple
of months ago,
soon-to-be 2009-10
outbound CHEYENNE
WHISENHUNT and our
current inbound exchange
student from Brazil,
TAMARA BORGES.
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David Pflender
welcomed DUDLEY FROST,
who has recently
transferred to the
morning club, back for a
special presentation.
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Carole Benedict
introduced her husband
ANDY. Next week they'll
both be going to New
York and then on to
France.
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MEMBER RECOGNITION, BRAGS AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Darrick Price
assumed the microphone to the usual
smattering of applause
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Edwina
Castle
celebrates her birthday on Aug. 9th,
claiming that she will then officially
be an antique!
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John Ailstock is celebrating
an anniversary and also had a recent
birthday. He'll bring a check for both
next week
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Richard Weed
proudly acknowledged 26 years of
marriage to his lovely wife Donna.
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Gary Eastlund
recognized his three year anniversary.
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Steve Battaglia reminded the
club that there is one more concert in
the park for the season. It will be this
Tuesday evening at 7 pm, at the Linfield
oak grove, and features a lively salsa
band. He was glad to see more Rotarians
there last week!
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Bruce Huffman
announced that if anyone wanted to hear
his kids sing, they should come out to
the annual Rock of Ages/Valley View Air
Show on Saturday.
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LV Van Blaricom
admitted her talent for running into
inanimate objects recently, and gave a
shout out to True Form Collision Repair.
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Richard Weed took the podium
to share a letter from outbound exchange
student RICKY BODLE, who just arrived in
Chile. RICKY was detained briefly at
customs going into the country for
bringing some filberts, which scared him
a bit! He wrote about the poverty in
Santiago, and how his new host family
showed him off to their friends and
neighbors.
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President Jan
returned
to remind us to dig into our pockets and
fill the red buckets on the tables for
Pennies for Polio. She
mentioned that an upcoming Rotary
meeting on Friday August 28th
is a special thank you luncheon for the
Wine and Art workers and will include a
special welcome to spouses. The club
will need to know if you plan to bring
yours.
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SPECIAL
RECOGNITIONS |
 President
Jan
presented certificates to those with
consecutive perfect attendance records
through Rotary year 2008-09. They
include Molly Walker 7 months
since joining our club, Steve
Battaglia 1 year, Jack Crabtree
1 year, Jeff Long 1 year,
Lee Means 1 year, Carole Benedict
2 years, Bob Mason 2 years,
Russ Rainwater 2 years, Erin
Stephenson 2 years, Dudley Frost
3 years, Chuck Pattishall 4
years , Bob Emrick 6 years,
Jan Hartzell 6 years, Van Keck
6 years, Gary Rueter 6 years,
Maureen Chapman 7 years, Bruce
Dickson 7 years, Dan Gardner
7 years, Richard Weed 7 years,
Ron Benek 8 years, Guy Everingham
9 years, John Larsen 9 years,
Art Bradley 10 years, Lee Vasquez
10 years, Teresa Smith 15
years, Ray Fields 46 years,
and Norm Goss 51 years.
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  Ray
Fields
took the podium to recognize a special
honoree; a Paul Harris Fellow. DUDLEY
FROST was given a certificate, PHF lapel
pin, a medallion and a standing ovation
from the membership for his contribution
of $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International.
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MAIN EVENT |
 Jeff
Sargent stepped to the podium
to introduce our guest speaker DENISE
SWANSON, the Resource Development
Director for the United Way of the
Mid-Willamette Valley, which fully
serves Yamhill County, who appeared
before the club to introduce a new
service now available locally -- 2-1-1.
2-1-1 is
a hotline number and online database the
public can access to get contact
information for social services. It is
available by phone M-F, 8:00 am – 6:00
pm, and online at
www.yamhill211.org.
DENISE
explained that not only are people in
need important clients, but so are the
non-profits that provide services, such
as Yamhill Community Action Partnership
and many others in the area. 2-1-1 helps
reduce the phone call burden on them by
filtering and directing questions to the
proper organizations. United Way has a
new volunteer action center, Hands On
Mid-Willamette Valley, to serve as the
2-1-1 call center.
 2-1-1
also reduced pressure on the 9-1-1
system, as many calls to that number,
especially during and after a disaster,
are social service related.
2-1-1
gathers important data for social
services planning, as it collects the
kind of services the public is seeking
and helps identify gaps in the
community. Quarterly reports will be
posted online so that non-profits and
organizations like Rotary can see where
the needs are and respond to them.
The
service is bi-lingual English and
Spanish, and can provide translation
into many other languages as well.
The
concept for 2-1-1 started at an Atlanta,
Georgia United Way in 1997 and has been
spreading across the country since. It
is available in about 80% of the U.S.
now, but only about 50% of Oregon is
currently served.
The
program is in Yamhill County on a two
year pilot basis, half funded by United
Way and half by the County Commission on
Children and Family Services. The ideal
would be for it to be available 24/7,
but additional funding will be needed.
United Way and the State of Oregon are
seeking federal dollars and private
sector investment to help continue and
expand the service.
What can
we do as Rotarians? 1) Get the word out
about the service – DENISE brought
flyers, info cards and posters to share.
2) Add non-profit services that we are
aware of in the community to the
database. Non-profits need to register
with 2-1-1 so that they can maintain the
accuracy of the system
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CLOSING |
President Jan
thanked our guest, gave her our Rotary pen and
had her sign an Early Reader Program book.
President Jan
closed by offering a random thanks to Ray
Fields for supporting the presentations, and
reminding us that next week's program will be a
presentation about her exchange experience to
Thailand from CAITY BERNARDS.
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Photographs by Molly Walker | Captions by
Jeff Sargent | Edited for the web by
Jeff Sargent and Ray Fields |
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