Heart Health

St. Joseph's Hospital

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 Don Johannes.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Our Club is sponsoring the Chamber Business After Hours in honor of Rotary Awarness Month this Thursday January 19, 2012.  We will be setting up at 3:30pm for those able to lend a hand.  BAH is 5-7pm at the Highland Country Club.   THIS IS A MEMBERSHIP DRIVE - Please invite a potential member!
• If you have items for the Schwag basket for BAH that you would like to include, please get to Holli by noon tomorrow at her office at 1001 Main Street, Highland.
• Holli has fantastic Rotary shirts and jackets available for sale to help promote Rotary to the community.  See her for details.
• The Rotary District Newsletter is available if you do not receive an email version.

 THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

MEMBER NEWS

• Rick Ringwald gave a happy buck and thanked everyone for helping and supporting the Optimists Tournament.
• Cliff Couch shared a happy buck that he had proposed to Jan Brinker on Christmas and she said YES!
• Ron shared that his daughter is expecting.

ROTARY BUSINESS

• Angie shared that the club raised a total of $4648 for the Citrus Fundraiser, even with donating the last 3 cases to HACSM.  She said thank you to everyone who participated!
• Kevin announced is 2012 - 2013 board and was approved at the 1/10/12 meeting.  He thanked Adrain for his 18 years of service for as the Foundation Chair.
• President: Kevin DeWaele
• President Elect: Angela Fears
• Treasurer: Bob Luitjohan
• Secretary: Holli Martin
• Sergeant at Arms: Phil Hardas
• Fling: Amy Stephan
• Programs: George Jones
• Membership: Cliff Couch
• Community Service: Mark Frey
• YEO: Jennifer Whitten
• YEC: Maura Donnelly
• Foundation: Terry Lammers
• International: Wayne Steiner
• Vocational Service: Don Johannes
• Chairman of the Board: Maura Donnelly
• What is Vocational Service Chair: He/She encouragers Rotarians to serve other through their vocations and practice high ethical standards that was a part of the initial vision of Paul Harris. 
• James Kemper resigned as Membership Chair and from Rotary. Cliff Couch agreed to start his term as membership chair early to replace James.
• Club received a Thank You from Father Paul for the Stydeck International Well.
• Club received two Thank You notes from Highland Area Christian Services Ministry for partcipating in Adopt-a-family and donating oranges.
• Russ Huffman and Kathleen Huffman passed away late in December.  Russ was an old member of the Highland Rotary.
• Laura, our exchange student, has a home and is staying with the Jeff Menz family.
• Our club will not be participating in the Student Exchange Program next year due to being unable to secure host family interest.  The board will continue to keep this option open and see if interest grows in the future.

Just a reminder to please, please bring a potential member to the BAH and introduce them to all that Rotary has to offer!

Also, we have got an application for Membership from Kelly Korte for the city office.  If you have any comments, please pass them along to Maura!

Guests: None

Birthdays: Mark Korte 1/17, Terry Bell 1/20

Anniversaries: None

Club Anniversaries: None

Make-ups: None

Please let these people know that they were missed: Dave Butler, Dave Diaber, Angie Fears, Ed Ferguson, Dan Fieker, Mike Gould, Bret Gruender, Bob Hellige, Will Holzinger, Lisa Huncshe, George Jones, Terry Lammers, Terry Leitschuh, Glen Meffert, Henry Metzger, Greg Miranda, Bob Nagel, James Rankin, Mark Reaka, Brad Rench, Rick Ringwald, Adrian Rogier, Eunice Rogier, Floyd Rogier, Eric Schmidt, Steve Schmitt, Ron Schneider, Art Schutez, Peggy Sebastian, Gordon Smith, Bill Sullivan, Mike Sutton, and Jennifer Whitten.

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 1225 hours recorded. 

Opportunities to Serve:

1. WELCH PROJECT: January 28, 2012 from 9-4pm.  We have an older lady who is has had a bought of hard times over the last couple of years and needs a little help to get a few neccessities done that she is unable to do herself.  We need 6-10 people and will meet at Mark Frey's workshop at 4164 State Rte 160 at 9am.  Please bring gloves, rakes, hedgers, and chainsaws if you have them.
2. Hard Road Theatre has their winter show and needs help with ticket sales the weekend of January 27-29 and February 3-4.  If you are interested contact Bill Sullivan and help this great community organization!

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

There was $1150 in the 50/50 with Tom Hill drew an 8 of diamonds.

Phil fined Mark for giving him a hard time and to all of those who are not going to attend BAH this week.

Carrie self imposed a fine for missing 2 weeks of flings due to LIFE! 

PROGRAMS REPORTS MISSED:

12/27/11 Josh Case, Eagle Scout Project

Josh Case is the newest Eagle Scout in Highland due to his Silver Lake Ramp project.  He loves to spend time at Silver Lake and wanted everyone eles to be able to enjoy the park fully as well.  So he was inspiried to build a handicap accessible ramp for fishing.  The entire project cost $6000 and included 500 man hours.  He has been working diligently to complete this project for over year as he attempted to raise funds and build partnerships with organizations like Rotary.  He contacted over 50 businesses.  Josh was able to partner with the city and use their dock, but added a path and parking space next to the floating docks.  Our own Mark Frey helped donated a lot of his time and resources to assist Josh with this project.  Kevin DeWaele continues to be involved with the scouts as a scout leader.  Rotary contributed $1000 for this project.

1/3/11 Justin Jefferson - Farming Africa

Justin is from Pocahontas, IL and began his love of farming there.  He desired to take these skills to  Rwanda, African and teach them new farming techniques so that they would have better access to nutrition.  He started a non-profit organization to accomplish this mission.  He currently ownes 2500 acres farms.  The workers are paid $1.50/day which is above average in Rwanda. 

1/10/12 - Mark Latham & Steve Ferguson - HCS Update

Mark shared that there have been more challenges in implementing the fiber services then they had expected.  He stated that the fiber arrived 6 months after they ordered it due to the earthquake in Japan.  They had signed a contracted with Echostar (Dish) to provide the video features and then they pulled out of all contracts.  They worked to secure Avail as the new video service provider.  They had ordered DVR boxes through a company and then the company cut this aspect of development before developing the software.  The city secured Manerva as the new DVR provider.  All this was stated to thank everyone for their patience as they rolled out services to Highland.  Mark stated that their goal was to be in all neighborhoods in the corporate city area by the end of the year.

Steve shared that they now have their redundant line open so that blackouts in service would not occur.  They used AT&T lines through Troy and onto Collinsville.  This is provided to businesses at no additional cost.

Steve distributed information on their different packages, including channels and costs.  They currently have 3 video packages (and 2 add-ons packages) ranging from $26.99 to $73.99/month with over 300 channels available to choose from.  A free DVR box is provided to the resident; competitors currently charge $6-7/month for a box.  System is set up to record up to 4 channels at one time.  Freeze Live TV is also included, giving the resident the ability to pause and rewind the current show being viewed.  If additional boxes are desired there is a $6.95 charge as a box is needed for every TV to receive the same services.

HCS uses the coax or ethernet wires currently installed in your house to run their services.  There are bundle packages available for phone and internet as well.

They are hosting an open house the 2nd Tuesday from 4-7pm over the next 3 months.  They will distribute a raffle ticket for attendance and give away a 47" TV each month.

For more information contact HCS 654-1519.

PROGRAMS REPORTS MISSED:

12/27/11 Josh Case, Eagle Scout Project

Josh Case is the newest Eagle Scout in Highland due to his Silver Lake Ramp project.  He loves to spend time at Silver Lake and wanted everyone else to be able to enjoy the park fully as well.  So he was inspired to build a handicap accessible ramp for fishing.  The entire project cost $6000 and included 500 man hours.  He has been working diligently to complete this project for over year as he attempted to raise funds and build partnerships with organizations like Rotary.  He contacted over 50 businesses.  Josh was able to partner with the city and use their dock, but added a path and parking space next to the floating docks.  Our own Mark Frey helped donated a lot of his time and resources to assist Josh with this project.  Kevin DeWaele continues to be involved with the scouts as a scout leader.  Rotary contributed $1000 for this project.

1/3/11 Justin Jefferson - Farming Africa

Justin is from Pocahontas, IL and began his love of farming there.  He desired to take these skills to  Rwanda, African and teach them new farming techniques so that they would have better access to nutrition.  He started a non-profit organization to accomplish this mission.  He currently owns 2500 acres farms.  The workers are paid $1.50/day which is above average in Rwanda. 

1/10/12 - Mark Latham & Steve Ferguson - HCS Update

Mark shared that there have been more challenges in implementing the fiber services then they had expected.  He stated that the fiber arrived 6 months after they ordered it due to the earthquake in Japan.  They had signed a contracted with Echostar (Dish) to provide the video features and then they pulled out of all contracts.  They worked to secure Avail as the new video service provider.  They had ordered DVR boxes through a company and then the company cut this aspect of development before developing the software.  The city secured Manerva as the new DVR provider.  All this was stated to thank everyone for their patience as they rolled out services to Highland.  Mark stated that their goal was to be in all neighborhoods in the corporate city area by the end of the year.

Steve shared that they now have their redundant line open so that blackouts in service would not occur.  They used AT&T lines through Troy and onto Collinsville.  This is provided to businesses at no additional cost.

Steve distributed information on their different packages, including channels and costs.  They currently have 3 video packages (and 2 add-ons packages) ranging from $26.99 to $73.99/month with over 300 channels available to choose from.  A free DVR box is provided to the resident; competitors currently charge $6-7/month for a box.  System is set up to record up to 4 channels at one time.  Freeze Live TV is also included, giving the resident the ability to pause and rewind the current show being viewed.  If additional boxes are desired there is a $6.95 charge as a box is needed for every TV to receive the same services.

HCS uses the coax or ethernet wires currently installed in your house to run their services.  There are bundle packages available for phone and internet as well.

They are hosting an open house the 2nd Tuesday from 4-7pm over the next 3 months.  They will distribute a raffle ticket for attendance and give away a 47" TV each month.

For more information contact HCS 654-1519.

PROGRAM: Tour of the new St. Joseph's Hospital, Wayne Steiner

St. Joseph's Hospital: Building for Tomorrow

The design for the replacement hospital is created around creating a more accessible and positive environment for patience.  Many of the concepts were derived from the St. Franscin theories of healing and wellness.  They built in a lot of "luxuries" and "comforts" in order to create a more home-like environment that encourages faster healing and wholistic support.  Some of these items include, Wi-Fi access to every room, SKYPE access, cable TV, window views, private rooms,  meditation spaces, Wi-Fi cafe with 24 hour food available, larger gift shop, and community partners located on Main Street.  This hospital will become a destination for all medical needs. 

The upgrades will also assist the medical staff to be able to better perform their jobs by having digital access to a patients entire medical record and having treatment supplies available in each room.  The flow of the hospital also lends itself to more efficient services as each are of service have been put together into departments.

The location of the new hospital will be on the 62 acres across from the High School at the intersection of Troxler and Highway 160.  The design allows for easy access to various entries through multiple and segregated drives.  There will be much needed increase in parking space as well.

Further details and visuals of each aspect of the new hospital are available for viewing. 

The hospital is in the final stages of approval as they have their Certificate of Need hearing coming up shortly.  Wayne stated that never in the state of Illinois has there been a denial for a replacement hospital adding no additional services.

Wayne chairs the hospital friends board and really feels that he is taking part in something that is going to benefit future generations, further economic development, and be something that Highland can truly be proud to call their own.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS -  Jennifer Whitten