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Steve Larson greets Todd
Casebeer, Van Keck greets
Governor Nominee
Mike
Caruso. President Jan Hartzell
called the meeting to order at
12:15, and thanked Johannes Goddik
for setting up the room for the weekly
meeting.
Russ
Rainwater
provided the Inspirational Moment, a
brief prayer of thanks for all that we
are blessed with in our lives.
The Pledge of Allegiance was then led by
Gary Rueter.
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VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS |
Kelly McGraw
introduced GINGER EASTLUND, who has
helped considerably with the Wine & Art
Auction over the past several years.
She also spends time helping Crescent
Café with their books.
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Carol Benedict
introduced ANDY BENEDICT, her husband
and frequent guest at club meetings.
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Bob Emrick
welcomed fellow WOW colleagues KATHY
FUNK, SCOTT LAW, and DAROL FUNK
(featured speaker).
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Art Bradley
welcomed CAITY BERNARDS (Rebound
Exchange Student), and MELANIE PURVIS
(2010-11 Outbound Exchange Student).
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Robert Mason
introduced his wife, LINDA MASON.
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Araceli Ortiz
introduced our current Inbound Exchange
Students, AUF SOMBATPIRON and “Chile
Con” CONY ANDREA CAMPBELL.
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Bruce Dickson
welcomed District 5100 Governor-Nominee
MIKE CARUSO, who hails from the Newberg
Club.
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Bruce Huffman
introduced MIKE TARON, who has been a
featured speaker at our club meetings on
two occasions, and who planes to
relocate soon to the country of Brunei
to open a new business.
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MEMBER
RECOGNITION - BRAGS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Russ Rainwater stepped up to
the podium to handle the Member
Recognition portion of the meeting.
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Gary Rueter
was acknowledged for the passing of
another birthday.
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Robert Mason
was recognized for his 45th
wedding anniversary to his wife,
Linda.
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Dave Pfendler
reminded the membership that the
woefully inept Pac-10 Conference has no
team in the Top 40 of any poll, while
his alma mater of Purdue is ranked 4th
in the country. This reporter knows
where Dave will be on February 28th….watching
the big showdown with Michigan State!
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Jeff Sargent
gave a report on the ongoing plans
for the 2010 Wine & Art Auction
(“Uncorked!”). The new website for
the event is up, and can be found at
www.theoregonwineandartauction.org.
Jeff reported that sponsorship
commitments now total more than
$16,000, and he happily announced
that Rosemari Davis of the
Willamette Valley Cancer Foundation
recently pledged $5000 for this
year’s event.
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Bruce Huffman
encouraged everyone to attend the final
weekend performances of “The Fantasticks”,
currently playing at Gallery Theater.
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Art Bradley
announced that he recently spoke to
former Inbound Exchange Student Dori
Jenei
She says “hi” to everyone!
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Dan Corrigan
mentioned that Dr. Peter van Patton, a
local orthopedic surgeon, recently
completed a trip to earthquake-ravaged
Haiti, and returned with the news that
an enormous effort is needed to provide
prosthetic devices for the many victims
who have lost limbs. Dan voiced
the opinion that this is a project we
should get behind.
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Richard Weed
read a letter from CHEYENNE WHISENHUNT,
our current Outbound Exchange Student
who is spending her year in Brazil. See
below for the complete text of
CHEYENNE'S letter and some pictures.
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Van Keck
offered his condolences to the Oregon
Ducks, who are mired in last place in an
already-mediocre Pac 10 conference. His
real
reason for standing, however, was to
call attention to Jim Walker’s
snakeskin boots!
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Ray Fields
came to the podium to display a Rotary
Club banner from Daigo Rotary in Daigo,
Japan, where his son JOSH, a former
Rotary Exchange student to Japan
sponsored by our club 27 years ago and
where he currently lives and teaches
English. During Ray’s last trip
to Japan, he had a McMinnville Rotary
banner to give to the Daigo club, but
left it on his dining room table in
Oregon. So he sent the banner to JOSH
to present to the Daigo Club. For World
Understanding Month, JOSH was asked to
give a presentation to Daigo Rotary. He
was to take the Rotary Club of
McMinnville banner to the Daigo club
during his presentation. He opened his
talk by saying "like father like son",
he had forgotten the banner at home on
his dining room table. JOSH'S
presentation was an observation of the
differences in culture between America
and Japan and also his observations of
changes that have taken place since he
was an exchange student.
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MAIN
EVENT |
 Bob
Emrick
introduced
DAROL FUNK, Recycling Education Coordinator for
Western Oregon Waste. DAROL took the stage,
surrounded by two tables filled with various
glass, paper, cardboard, metal, and plastic
products. For the next twenty minutes, DAROL
provided an overview of those items which can
and cannot (or should not) be recycled.
GLASS: Glass
products should always be recycled separately of
other products. Co-mingling of glass and other
products is a major problem at recycling
centers. Injuries from broken glass account for
a large percentage of the accidents incurred by
recycling personnel. Separate the glass!
 PAPER:
Pretty much any paper item that absorbs water is
a candidate for recycling. This includes
magazines, books, newspaper, mailing envelopes,
discarded mail, and colored paper. Minor
nuisances such as staples do NOT have to be
removed before recycling paper products. One
important piece of advice: Put all shredded
paper in a separate paper bag and staple the
closed, in order to avoid possible spillages and
major messes!
On the “NO”
list for paper: Kleenex and paper towels (due to
health risks), wax paper, paper cups, paper
plates, ream wrappers, and hardbound book
covers, the latter group being poor absorbers of
water.
 CARDBOARD:
The same rule applies to cardboard as to paper.
If it absorbs water, recycle it!
 METAL:
Metal products are okay to recycle. A common
problem is space, as something the size of an
engine block doesn’t fit too well in a recycling
container. If it fits in the container, go
ahead and recycle the metal product, AND you
don’t even have to flatten the soup cans!
PLASTIC: All
plastic bottles, jars, buckets, tubs, or pots
are fine to recycle. Items that are made with
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) should NOT be recycled,
as a toxic dust is created when they are
crushed. Those plastic bags you get at the
store or with your newspaper? Do NOT recycle
them, unless you are sending them to a place
that deals specifically with them. These
plastic bags have a nasty habit of gumming up
machinery when being processed. The same rule
applies to STYROFOAM PRODUCTS. They should only
be recycled at a place that deals specifically
with that product.
 DAROL’S
presentation was very well received, and he
answered a number of questions during and after
the talk. Following the presentation, Jan
Hartzell asked DAROL to sign a book for the
McMinnville Public Library Early Reader
Program.
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MESSAGE
FROM CHEYENNE |
 Oi.
This month was just AMAZING!!! So many
new experiences in such a short time, I
loved it all!!!
I´m still on summer vacation, so I have
been swimming, drinking terere, watching
movies and learning to make candy with
all my friends :) But school starts
again on the 8th of February right
before Carnaval, which I´m so excited
for Carnaval!!! CTG started again, so I
have been practicing dancing there, it´s
so great!!! And I still go to the ranch
when I can :)
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this month I had the wonderful
opportunity to be able to travel with my
family here :) Everything was a little
crazy before we left, with everyone
trying to get ready and another family
went with us too. On the 7th of January
we left. It was a very long drive
though, 3 days in a car, which was 3
days of waking up at hours that should
not even exist and 3 days of not knowing
where I was, but it was all well worth
it!!!! The first night we stayed in
Campo Grande, the next night somewhere I
don´t know. The third day we went to
Paraguay. It was cool there! We all went
to a really big mall there, it was nice
inside, then we headed back to Brazil
:) Then finally the last night we made
it to our beach in Camboriú :) :) It was
wonderful there!!! My family and I
stayed in a beach house, it was neat!
The first day we just walked around the
city and got to know camboriú :) It is
a huge, really cool, with lots of people
city!!! The next day, the BEACH, I
practically ran there, my family was
telling me to slow down. It was so
wonderful, the water is hot, the sun is
wonderful, the people are great, the
bikinis are interesting and I´m not so
white anymore :) :) The next day my
family and I went up in these ball
things
 that
carry you across the ocean to an
island. It was beautiful up there, I
could see the whole city and ocean. We
stopped at the top of the island. It was
incredible there! There was a spot you
could go and just look at the ocean. I
was just staring at its beauty, but my
family thought I was having a heart
attack or something. It was just so
AMAZING, I was in shock!!! We also
walked to a chocolate house on the
island, Delicious!!! Then the ball took
us over to a different beach that was
just BEAUTIFUL!!! We spent the whole day
there, swimming and going to these cool
Brazilian stores!!! And eating delicious
beach food! So for the rest of vacation
we pretty much went to the beach and had
the best time ever!!! I also went on the
banana boat here :) It was so fun!!! It
took us out to part of the ocean and
there were dolphins swimming by us, well
they said you could get off the banana
and I was the first one in the water. It
was absolutely OUTSTANDING!!! There are
no words to describe how wonderful it
was!!! We also went to a really big mall
there. It was cool inside, everything
was decorated in a beach theme and the
mall was huge! So beaches in Brazil are
perfect, hot water, umbrellas with sun
chairs underneath, lots of people,
delicious food and people who walk
around selling cool cheap stuff, so yes,
I could easily live there :) :)
After a week at the beach, it was time
to go to my pai´s brother´s house in
Santa Helena. It is a small little town
with 1 restaurant for entertainment. It
was nice to get to know my pai´s side of
the family though! They are really great
people too!!! I went to their daughter´s
graduation, it was beautiful!!! Other
than that, just went to fiestas there
and got to know the family for a week,
it was nice!!! And I also tried some
Brazilian bowling, that was interesting.
I almost fell over because the ball was
so heavy, but it was lots of fun!!! Then
the long journey back home, very long
journey, but good!!! On the 25th of
January we arrived in Chapadão do Sul!!! I
missed my city!!!
The other night I went to a wedding, it
was gorgeous and the food was
wonderful!!! I also went to my friends
birthday party here. But for now I´m
just dancing, going to the ranch and
enjoying my life in Brazil!!!!
THANK YOU again so much!!! I can´t tell
you how truly unbelievable this
experience has been!!!
Beijos,
Cheyenne
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The Board of Directors has approved
the following for membership::
Ginger Eastlund proposed by
Jan Hartzell for the classification "Volunteer". She will
automatically become a member unless
anyone objects in
writing within ten days of publication of this
notice. Michael Taron proposed by
Bruce Huffman or the classification "Business
Systems Evaluation". He will
automatically become a member unless
anyone objects in
writing within ten days of publication of this
notice.
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Photographs by John Larsen | Captions by
Walt Haight | Edited for the web by
Jeff Sargent and Ray Fields |
