12/06/2011

Vicki Ellsworth - Huddle House

& YEO Bill Sullivan

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 and followed in prayer by Ron Hesson.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Thank you to everyone who came out to the Christmas parade on Friday and helped to hand out bags.  It was a hit with parents and kiddos!
• Orange Sales are THIS WEEKEND!!!
• Bagging will take place Tuesday night at Oberbeck at 6pm
• Pre-sale delivery will be on Friday morning at 9am: If you can help deliver meet at Oberbecks.
• Friday thru Sunday we will be at WalMart selling oranges, see Angie to sign up!
• A flyer for these orange sales in now available at the club website at www.highlandrotary.org
• We have received a certificate of appreciation from Josh Case for being a gold sponsor for the handicap accessible boat ramp at Silver Lake.
• There will be a board meeting on Thursday morning at 8am at Terra Properties.
• Holli has fantastic Rotary shirts and jackets available for sale to help promote Rotary to the community.  See her for details.
• Reminder that we will NOT have a noon meeting on December 13th!

Extra, Extra, Read all about it - Our club's fellowship event is on December 13th, Tuesday night at the KC Hall with cocktails starting at 6:30.  It will be a JOLLY GOOD TIME, you don't want to miss.  Mark you calendars and come out and enjoy some Popeye's! 

Let Holli know next week if you plan to attend.  Cost is $25/person. (For members, you will receive $9 off your ticket because it was already billed to you for a meeting meal that day!)

RSVP - ASAP if you have not!

Guests: none

Birthdays: Randy Schorfheide on the 1st and Brad Rench on 5th

Anniversaries: none 

Please let these people know that they were missed: Terry Bell, Dave Butler, Dave Diaber, Bob Engelman, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Bret Gruender, Maurice Guztler, Roland Harris, Lisa Huncshe, George Jones, James Kemper, Terry Lammers, Terry Leitschuh, Glen Meffert, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Dave Peters, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Brad Rench, Rick Ringwald, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Eric Schmidt, Steve Schmitt, Ron Schneider, Randy Schorfheide, Art Schutez, and Wayne Steiner.

Reminder that 2011-2012 we will be tracking service hours again to see Rotarian's collective IMPACT.  This year's goal is 7500 hours, to date there are 1098.5 hours recorded. (No new report)

Opportunities to Serve:

1. Orange Bags: Tuesday November 29th @ 6pm at Oberbecks, need help to stuff the bags, GO ASSEMBLY LINES!
2. Orange Sales: Need people to sign up for Dec 2-4.  See Mark for available time slots. 
3. Orange Sales: Angie also needs help of Friday during the day to distribute pre-sale orders.
4. Blood Drive @ National Bank at Highland Wednesday Dec 7th from 10 - 1:30.  To schedule an appointment call 618-659-0542 or log on to www.bloodcenterimpact.org and sponsorcode is 10131. (Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center)

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

There was $943 in the 50/50 with 26 cards left in the deck and the 3 of diamonds was picked.

Phil fined Adrian for poking fun at the fine master and everyone that did not miss him at last weeks meeting.

Happy Bucks

• Jack gave a happy buck for being back and for recovering from back surgery well.  He also gave for his birthday last week.
• Angela Kim gave a promo dollar for the upcoming Library Holiday Dinner on December 4th at the Library with entertainment to follow at First Congregational Church by a SIUE Quartet.  The cost per person is $50 and is an annual fundraiser for the library. 

PROGRAM: Hugh & Paulette, Marion Medical Mission

Hugh & Paulette recently returned from a 6 week trip to Africa where they and other teams put in 2500 wells to help supply clean water and protect residents from disease.

Marion Medical Missons was originally founded by Tom Logan in 1985 to be a Christian, front-line, hand-on, volunteer, nonprofit organization.  Orginally, their travels to Africa (central and northern Malawi, southern Tanzania, and eastern Zambia) were to supply medical services.  He soon discovered that many of their medical problems could be fixed if they had clean water.  The Shallow Well Program was created to help share the love of Christ while providing a sustainable source of safe drinking water.

Volunteers who go to assist in the SWP pay for their own expense ($1000 airfare and $600 expenses in Africa).  They work directly with the locals who will benefit from the well (as many as 150-200 people can be served by a well).  Each well cost $400 to purchase the cement, pipe, and pump.  The locals do the manual work to dig out the well using shovels, buckets and ropes.  They also make the bricks out of clay.

At the dedications of the well they are reminded that the wells are a gift and that they are to be a good steward of the well and are entrusted to maintain it.  They pay an annual $10 fee for maintenence program to help with replacement parts.  They are also to keep the area clean and keep the animals away from the well.  There is a local person trained to perform maintence on the wells and travels from village to village to check on them.  If they pay their fee than MMM can get replacement parts much cheaper than the village could.

Hugh shared that the government does have wells there but that they are not maintained well.  MMM has begun to go back and check older wells to verify that they are in good working order.  Most recently a well from 1999 was checked and is still providing safe water.  Since the beginning they have put in over 16,000 wells.  They are working on a GPS tracking program to help them monitor their wells long term.

For more information or to get involved go to marionmedical.org.

Maura reminded the club that we recently purchased 6 wells for this project and were very glad to help support it.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten