Dr. Nitu Aryal,

St. Joseph's Hospital Physician

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build good will and peace in the world.

"Doing good in the World is more than a motto.  It is our goal, our mission, and our reminder.  It expresses in the clearest terms why we have a Foundation, and it challenges us to reach as far as we can to do the most good possible with everything we have.  Our Foundation exisits to support the good that we can do through Rotary.  It expands our reach, increases our strength, and makes our service more powerful and more effective.  Because of our Foundation we can, very simple, do more of our Rotary work."

2004-2005

President Glenn Estess Sr. 

Maura opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance followed by Adrian Rogier with an opening prayer.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Thank you was received from Del Beckman for continuing to invest in well projects in the memory of Dick.

Mark your calendars for October 21st for a Bonfire at Maura Donnelly's residence.  All participants are encouraged to bring a dish and a guest (spouse and/or potential member).  Drinks will be provided by the club.  If so inclined, Buzz encouraged everyone to dress in Halloween Costumes.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours.  There were 582 hours recorded to date. 

Mark announced that our club will be going to join the Joplin Rotary efforts on November 12th.  Mark your calendars and they will be taking role call soon for interest. 

Go to the website and log your hours or email them to him directly: swconstruct@agtelco.com

Attendance:  55.6%

Guests: Dan Cook, Director of Power and Light (potential Rotarian)

Club Anniversaries: None

Birthdays: Cliff Couch on the 9/25

Anniversaries: Angela Kim anniversary on 22nd, Gordon Smith on the 21st, and Wayne Steiner on 9/24

Make-ups: Adrian Rogier in Petosky, MI.

Let these people know that they were missed this week: Terry Bell, Dave Butler, Cliff Couch, Dave Diaber, Bob Englemann, Larry Essenpries, Angie Fears, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Luke Harris, Lisa Hunsche, James Kemper, Terry Lietschuh, Glenn Meffert, Bob Nagel, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Brad Rench,  Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Bill Shaefer, Randy Schorfheide, Ron Schneider, Art Scheutz, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, Wayne Steiner, and Mike Sutton.

There was $616 in the 50/50 and Jake's table attempted to find the Ace to no avail.  There are 36 cards left in the deck.

Happy Bucks:

• Jake invited everyone out to the Highland Home for their dinner this weekend.
• Carrie gave a promo dollar for Project 480 - you can also receive service hours by signing up for a prayer time slot for 40daysforlife.com/granitecity.
• Holli was happy to have acheived the "longest drive" for the golf tournament in Carlyle for Rotary over the weekend.

Fines: Phil fined those who did not admit or were not wearing a thong today - really below the belt!

PROGRAM: Rick Davidson, "Jamaica Dental Project"

Dr. McCloud is the doctor who is from Jamica and who host the teams who travel the Jamacia.  He went to school on the mountain there where one of the clinics are hosted.

4 Grants totaling $64,000 to this project for the Dental Mission Project and literacy project (there were 7 local clubs, 2 districts, and Rotary International that partnered together to make this happen).  Rotary clubs in Jamacia are also involved in the project and sponsor the school (60x100 concrete block building).

They set up 3 Jamaica Dental Mission & Wellness Centers, 2 in Montego Bay and 1 on top of the mountain.  These clinics are staffed with students from universities, dental and medical staff, international dental professionals, and retired dentists.  All medical personel pay their own way and work 10-11 day.  They provide safe, sanitary environments for their clinics.

In 2010, they saw almost 1339 people (exams, flourieds, sealants, scalings, extractions, fillings).  He stated that there is a lot of sugar cane there and that if they are hungry and do not have a lot of resources they eat sugar cane.

One of the most rewarding parts is that it truly changes a person's life by having a full month of healthy teeth.

He feels that there is sustainability to this project because it falls into so many areas of service and focus areas from Rotary International.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten