Mark Korte

Bill Pierce Memorial Golf Tournament Proceeds 

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. 

President, Maura Donnelly, opened the meeting leading the Pledge of Allegiance followed in prayer by Roland Harris.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

District Assembly this past weekend at Illinois College in Jacksonville.  Kevin reported that he attended many presentations and one particular fundraiser caught his attention called Octoberfest.  He stated that the club's first attempt raised $6000.  He also partcipated in Pinkies for Polio raffle and had his pinkie painted.

Bonfire this Friday at the Donnelly residence (4153 State Route 160, Highland), beginning at 6:30 pm. Have directions for anyone that has RSVP'd or is still going to try to make it. Rotary is providing the refreshments and each member attending is asked to bring an appetizer or dessert for snacking. Also, if you have a comfortable lawn chair to settle in next to the fire.....should be beautiful night for a bonfire! Laura, our FES will also be there.  Everyone is also encouraged to bring a guest!

Chamber's BAH is this Thursday at Scott Credit Union from 5-7.

Monday at 7pm there will be a small lighting ceremony and photo taken at the Grain Elevator as we are participating in End Polio Now Day.  Posters will also be distributed around town to create awareness on Monday.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours.  No new report this week.

Mark will verify Joplin information and report to club next week.

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

Attendance:  50%

Guests: 

Katrina Houdus(Prime Lending), guest of Phil Hardas

Kevin Stallard (retired state trooper), guest of Len Diaber  

Larry Martin (visiting rotarian Silver Creek), guest of Holli Martin

Club Anniversaries: None

Birthdays: Art Schuetz 25th

Anniversaries: None

Make-ups: None

Let these people know that they were missed this week: Dave Butler,  Dave Daiber, Robert Engelmann,  Dan Fieker, Mark Frey, Mike Gould, Robert Hellige, Ron Hesson, Tom Hill, Lisa Hunsche, Linda Jakel, Don Johannes, George Jones, Angela Kim, Brian Knobloch, Terry Lammers, Terry Leitschuh, Glenn Meffert, Armand Miranda, Robert Nagel, David Peters, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Rick Ringwald, Adrian Rogier, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, William Schaefer, Steve Schmitt, Ronald Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Arthur Schuetz, Peggy Sebastian, Michael Sutton, Cletus Widmer.

There was $741 in the 50/50 and visiting Rotarian Larry Marin drew the 9 of Hearts. 

Happy Bucks

• Len is happy because his son, Tim, was officially named Captain of District 4 and is acting Director of District 5 for the state's conservatio police.  His youngest son also just graduated from secrete service academy.
• Larry was happy that they have been able to get a lot of work done on the farm and now for the rain.
• Henry was happy to be alive, to be at Rotary and to listen to chief bell today.

OCTOBER 11TH - PROGRAM: St. Joseph's Athletes Advantage Team

Tina Frank & Amy Summers (Physical Therapists), Erin Hoepfner (Athletic Trainer), Dr. Felix Ungacta (Orthopedic Surgeon)

Thier goal is to empower the athletes by usin sport specific physicals follow standards established by the American College of Sports Medicine. They have Personal Athletic Training Challenge (PATCH) camps use standardized testing equipment to assess your strengths and weaknesses, to focus athletes on their workouts. They make sure that parents, trainers, coaches, athletic directors and family physicians are up-to-date and working in-sync for the athlete's well-being. Athletic conditioning, physical therapy and orthopedic care are all available close to home for easy access. And a basic injury training course for coaches is available through Athletes Advantage.

In expansion of thier services the local AA groups sponsor an Athletic Trainer to work full time serving the local high school.  Erin Hoepfner is Highland High School's trainer.  One of the most common and concerning issues that they face is concussions.  They gave a power point presentation to explain the statistics, factors, signs, evalutaion tools, and return to play guidelines.

Concussion Powerpoint

For more information on their programs and services go to www.athletesadvantage.org.

OCTOBER 18TH - PROGRAM: Chief Terry Bell, Community Update

 
CHIEF BELL & HENRY (WHO HAS SOME BIKER GANG STORIES IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THEM)

Terry stated that they have a 911 operating center that includes Police, Fire, and EMS.  They have a 24/7 Full time Paramedic Service that covers over 200 square miles.  The Fire Department is a volunteer department.  The police department currently staffs 18 officers and 25 total staff.  The average age of an officer is currently under 30.  He sees that the benefit of this is reliability to the people they are serving.  He states that there is a lack of experience and they make up for that with educating them on where to focus their efforts.

Chief stated that overall he has good news to report.  Highland is a safe community with the crime rates down across the board.  He stated that Part 1 crimes (more serious crimes of burglary and robberies are down 20%.  Their solvability is up 20% with 65% of cases being solved.  He stated that their biggest concern is drugs.  Heroin has become one of the top drugs used and is responsible for taking of a few lives in the metro area.  He stated that the current heroine being used on the street is more addictive, cheap, and more concentrated (85%).  They ran a few large busts earlier this year with a lot of warrants.  They traced many of Highland's drugs back to North St. Louis and then back to Afghanistan.  Many of the sellers were not local residents and just moved in to take advantage of Highland youth.  They are moving out now and feeling very unwelcome here.  The city's Part 2 Crimes are up slightly by 5%.  These are DUIs and disorderly conducts.  He credits this to the officers being more proactive and pulling people over more.  He said Part 2 crimes have a 95% solvability.

Upcoming Projects that they are working are on are

1. Possibilities to have 8-10 Cameras around the square and major intersections in order to create "force multiplier," meaning to have more eyes on a scene incase an incident should arise.  These cameras would be used in a security function but instead would be useful to call up if an accident occurred, an alarm was sound off, or a disorderly incident occurred.  This will allow them better to evaluate how to handle a situation or investigate the incident.
2. Later down the road he would like to expand the use of these cameras for local businesses like banks to allow them to respond best when they are needed.
3. The are going to begin a needs assessment for a new facility for all three public service agencies.  They have purchased 10 acres from the Hospital.  This will allow them better access to three major highways in Highland and decrease response time.  They are going to diligent about this process and do not have plans to  move for another 3-5 years.  They are very limited in their space and functionality.  They also want to have a large Community Room in the new facility for the public to use.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten