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President's Message
A big shout out to all the East Salem Rotarians for their help at the Palm Sunday Brunch! And an even bigger thank you to the spouses, children and friends who helped fill in for absent members! Although we were short handed, we had fun because of our friendships with each other. Nothing to report on how much was brought in, but attendance seemed to be a bit down from last year. The good news is that next year the brunch will NOT be held during spring break!
Our next event is the food drive at the Hayesville Roth's on this Saturday, March 26 between 9:00 and 2:00. We have at least one person signed up for each 1-hour shift -- however, if you can come help out, please do so! We need an additional person on the following shifts:
10:00 - 11:00
1:00 - 2:00
2:00 - 3:00
Don't forget that this Friday is the last day to turn in your donation to Marion Polk Food Share! Fill out the donation card that was mailed to you earlier (or use one of the cards at our club lunch) to donate cash or to record food donations made. If you volunteer at our food drive, that counts also!
Thank you to those members who attended our club assembly last week and to those who completed the survey. We had great discussions about fund raising ideas, membership challenges, and meeting location. Some of the ideas are easy to address (more transparency from board, a guest book to gather email information from guests and speakers) and some have been assigned to specific members to research (fund raising ideas). Overall, people are attracted to our club because of the friendships we develop and the projects we do. However, the big three "dislikes" are apathy, the size of our club/loss of members and fund raising concerns. I don't have the notes from the meeting yet, but will write more in a future newsletter. I'm glad that we have more information for Darlene Taylor to reflect upon for her upcoming presidency.
The International Service Committee is working on gathering medical and fire fighting equipment to send down to Nogales, Mexico, through the Rotary Club there. If you have a contact at a fire department or medical clinic, contact Erik Larson for more information.
For our Rotarians at Work Day this year (April 30), the Community Service Committee has scheduled time to start prepping the garden area at La Placita. Materials to build the raised gardens will be ready in mid-May from CTEC.
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Club News
International Service Committee Seeks Items
Our friends in Nogales are in need of some items for their ambulance and our International Service Committee has adopted helping them meet these needs as our club's project for the year. Many items that are outdated by US Health Department Guidelines are still usable and are a valuable resource to our friends in Nogales. Below is a list of items they are most in need of. If you have friends in the medical services who may have access to any of these items, please ask them if they would be willing to donate any that might be past their expiration date. Backboards (adult, pediatric), a marine rescue basket stretcher, folding stretcher, short extrication devices (head to pelvis) , upper and lower emergency splints, pulse oximeters, 1 or 2 portable oxigen cylinders size D/M15 with regulators, Blood pressure manometers, cuff and stethoscope, automated external difibrilator (AED), Head immobilization devices, EMT Ventilator, cervical immobilization devices. For our personnel anything like turn out gear, SCBA's, helmets, gloves any equipment we can use on our fire truck, hoses, nozzles, heavy rescue equipment, and wildfire gea.,
It's Rotary Food Drive Month
We need people to sign up for our Rotary Food Drive that will be held on Saturday, March 26 between 9:00 and 2:00 at the Hayesville Roth's! If you can sign up for a one-hour shift, please let John King know which hour(s) will work for you. When you email him, please provide your phone number so he can call you if he has questions. Thanks!
Join us at Barrel and Keg on Thursday, April 7 anytime between 5pm and 7pm for a no-host happy hour.
Kiara Ballard is one of the short term students we are sponsoring this year. She is in need of some help with funding for her trip and has set up a gofundme account. If you would be interested in helping her out, please visit the link below to make a contribution.
https://www.gofundme.com/f9jqaqe4 Garage Sale Update  We hope you are starting to gather your items to donate. We will begin collecting the items at club meetings beginning in April. We are in need of a couple of people with pickups who can help us transport items from the Red Lion to Dave Leonard's barn after the club meetings in April. If you are able to help, please let Pat or Karin know. We will be sending around sign ups for other garage sale help at our meetings in March.
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This Week's Program
March 25
Marion County Commissioner, Kevin Cameron
Greeters: Darlene Taylor & Sparky Vaubel
Raffle: Ted Mack
RSVP for lunch by noon on Wednesday
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 Congratulations to Esau Castillo, our March Student of the Month from Blanchet Catholic School.
Esau is a sophomore this year. He is interested in robotics, soccer, guitar, track, drama and tae-kwan-do. He plans to attend MIT when he graduates from high school to major in mechanical engineering. |
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