Lima Municipal Court's Treatment Court is giving addicts the opportunity to change their lives.
Lima Municipal Court's Treatment Court was created to supervise and rehabilitate people charged with misdemeanors who have a substance abuse problem. Judge David Rodabaugh told us that candidates are screened to make sure they meet the qualifications. These include conviction of their third OVI in ten years or a conviction related to their drug or alcohol usage, like theft or possession of drugs. Treatment Court is an intensive but non-adversarial program that works to modify behavior and encourage participants to take responsibility for their actions. The treatment team includes the judges, probation officers, prosecutor, court administrator, defense counsel, law enforcement officers, the treatment court coordinator and social service agencies. They provide supervision, counseling, encouragement and rewards for progress. They also help with things like employment and family issues. There are currently 50 participants in Treatment Court. It takes a year to a year and a half for participants to graduate from the program. Lima Municipal Court also offers a Veterans Court with many of the same goals, but geared specifically to veterans.
Also at Monday's meeting, Tracie Sanchez gave us an update on the Greater Lima Region Park and Amphitheater. Rotary has transferred the land to the city of Lima, and bids for the construction are currently being accepted. The contractor should be selected in February and it is hoped that construction can begin in March with completion at the beginning of 2023. Wannemacher Enterprises presented the Lima Rotary Foundation with a $50,000 check for the amphitheater project. Thanks so much to Andy, Donna and Greg Wannemacher! If you would like to make a donation, contact Tracie or click the Amphitheater button in the menu above.
Lima Rotarians gave generously at Monday's meeting to help the victims of the tornadoes that ravaged Kentucky. We passed the bucket and collected $367 for the relief effort.
Here are the highlights from the January 11th board meeting.
Call to Order Jeff Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald called the meeting together at 11:34 A.M. with the following Board Members present:
Elizabeth Brown-Ellis, Carol Buettner, Andy Farley, Lesley Fry, Joel Mengerink, and Andy Wannemacher. Also, Anne Decker and Secretary Rita Brown were present.
Secretary’s Report Rita Brown
Approval of the December 14, 2021 Board Minutes
Fry made a motion to approve the Minutes of the December 14, 2021 meeting as submitted. Buettner seconded the motion. Board approved.
Attendance report for December, 2021
Three new members joined the club and four members resigned. Membership is down -6 for the year. December attendance was very strong at 48.21% - up by nearly 6% from November 2021 and 16% from December 2020. The year ended with 136 active members and 4 honorary members.
President's Report Jeff Fitzgerald
RI Public Image Officer position
The Board discussed adding an additional officer position to the current club officers. Wannemacher made a motion to name Anne Decker to the position of Public Image Officer. Andy Farley seconded the motion. Board approved.
Mary Aufdenkampe message
District Governor Mary Aufdenkampe requested the Clubs in Zone 30 and 31 send donations for the victims of the Tornados in the Communities in Kentucky. The buckets were passed at the Club Meeting on January 10th and raised $367.The buckets will be passed again at the January 24th Club Meeting. Derek Stemen will work with the Red Cross to ensure the donations are sent to the proper place.
Request from Bill Tobin, Rotary Relations Manager – Member of El Dorado Hills CA Club
Request for Shelter Boxes in Response to Super Typhoon Rai in the Philippines
The Board considered the request and agreed to forward it to the Lima Rotary Foundation for response.
Joint Meeting with the Foundation Board on April 12, 2022
The Rotary Board will hold a joint meeting with the Lima Rotary Foundation on April 12, 2022.At that time, the newly elected members of the Foundation and Rotary Boards will be announced. Candidate selection needs to be completed by the Rotary Board Meeting on March 8th.Brown will share the plan with Demi Burden, President and Scott Cockerell, Secretary of the Lima Rotary Foundation.
Reverse Raffle Planning Update
Fitzgerald has spoken with Cat Sarno regarding the proposed Reverse Raffle for this year. Sarno will manage it again this year and stated preliminary planning is underway.
Social Committee Updates
The next event will be held on January 23, 2022.It will be a brunch at Old City Prime from 11 A.M – 1 P.M. Burden will share more details.
Board Reports Andy Wannemacher and Lesley Fry
Golf Outing is July 20th Rex Perry Memorial
Wannemacher announced that the Rex Perry Memorial Golf Outing will again be held at Hidden Creek Golf Course. The event is scheduled for Wednesday July 20, 2022.Rain date has been set for Wednesday August 24, 2022.Rotary Board Candidates Report – Slate completed by March 8th
Fry indicated the slate of candidates for election to the 3-year term of July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2025, will be completed by the March 8, 2022 Board Meeting.
Rotary International Empowering Girls Initiative
Rotary International has a current Initiative that is focusing on Empowering Girls. Dr. Susan Hubbell shared the information with Fitzgerald and requested that the Club form a local committee to participate. Fitzgerald and Fry will continue conversation with Dr. Hubbell to determine direction and next steps for the Lima Club.
Treasurer’s Report Jeff Fitzgerald
In the absence of Treasurer Dan Best, Fitzgerald reviewed information from the financial reports. The additional expenses are the result of in-person meetings and the cost of meals at the meetings. The Board also discussed the A/R report. Nothing outstanding was noted. Brown-Ellis made a motion to approve the financial reports as submitted. Mengerink seconded the motion. Board approved.
New Business: Rita Brown
Applications –
Todd Benz, Publisher of The Lima News
Dave Trinko, Editor of The Lima News
Brown-Ellis made a motion to approve the applications of Todd Benz and Dave Trinko from The Lima News.Wannemacher seconded the motion.They will be invited to attend the meetings as our guests until their orientation is scheduled. Board approved.
Resignations –
Ann Meiring
Nate Gast
George Diller
Buettner made a motion to approve the resignations with regret. Brown-Ellis seconded the motion. Board approved.
The Club will not meet on January 17, 2022 in observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The Board discussed the new holiday Juneteenth which will be observed on June 20th this year.
Fitzgerald will meet with Abe Ambroza at the VMCC to determine if the VMCC will be open this year in observance of Juneteenth.
Mengerink made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 12:56 P.M. Fry seconded the motion. Board approved.
Please plan to attend this annual event which will be held in person on January 29, 2022 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM at Terra State Community College in Fremont, Ohio.
At One Rotary Summit, you will participate in focused discussions about Membership, Public Image and The Rotary Foundation. Please see attached a flyer for more information. All Rotarians are encouraged to attend!
RSVP now for Rotary District 6600's Foundation Gala on February 12.
February has always been a time of celebration in the Rotary world -- after all, Rotary was founded in February. This year our District is planning a Foundation Gala to celebrate all that is good in Rotary. Please join us on Saturday, February 12, 2022, as we honor all of our donors from the past few years to The Rotary Foundation on Valentine's weekend. This special event will be an evening of festivities highlighted by our special guest speaker Stephanie Urchick, former Rotary Director and Foundation Trustee.
The festivities will begin with a cocktail hour, where we can renew acquaintances and make new ones, followed by a dinner, a special program honoring our donors, and end with an evening of dancing and socializing, and of course, there will be chocolate!
We can't think of a better way to celebrate Rotary and Valentine's Day than with a group of Rotary friends.
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Protecting the environment: spread the word about our new area of focus.
Environment: the Cadre's newest team
The Cadre has a team of 75 Rotarians who have professional expertise that’s relevant to the environment and who are available to assist with project development in that area of focus.
Cadre leaders develop plans to improve collaboration and strengthen our advisory work
By Cadre Vice Chair Carolyn Johnson
Many thanks to all the Cadre technical coordinators for working with their teams to develop thoughtful, actionable plans for this Rotary year. The specific areas that coordinators were asked to focus on were derived from the Cadre’s Long-Term Plan. Their strategies commonly include:
Has your club or district worked with a Cadre member?
We’re collecting examples of the impact that Cadre members make by supporting humanitarian projects during planning and implementation. We would love to hear your story! Send it to us at cadre@rotary.org.
Cadre member spotlight: Dr. John Philip
Dr. John Philip of the Rotary Club of Newbury, England, in District 1090 has a been a Cadre member since 2015 and has reviewed more than a dozen projects in Europe and Africa during that time.
As a Cadre member in the disease prevention and treatment area of focus, I’ve had the opportunity to experience Rotary at its best. I have met busy Rotary members who offered lifesaving health checks to thousands of people, who made sophisticated cancer treatments available to those who could not afford them, and who trained health care workers and invested in infrastructure improvements.
The Rotary Foundation’s global grant model is evaluated every five years. The findings provide the Trustees with critical information about Rotary grants so they can make data-informed decisions about the model. We’re now in the third year of the current cycle. Learn more about the grant model evaluation’s findings from the second year of the cycle.
Rotary-USAID Partnership webinar
In early December, Rotary and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ghana, shared data, learnings and best practices in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) during the Creating A Lasting Change in Ghana: WASH Sustainability and Advocacy webinar.
January is Vocational Service Month. This is an opportunity to think about how your club and district engages fellow Rotary and Rotaract members through their professional skills or vocations, and how they bring Rotary’s ideals into their workplace. In bringing together people from diverse professions and backgrounds, Rotary recognizes the importance of all skills and occupations. In Rotary, your professional life and vocational service can work together. Members have a responsibility to represent their occupations within their club and to exemplify the ideals of Rotary in their workplace.
Rotary members in Switzerland founded Rotarians for the Professional Integration of Youth Refugees (ROBIJ), an apprenticeship program pairing young people who arrived as refugees with local trade businesses looking for skilled workers.
Career mentors connected with professional women from the Chicagoland area to discuss using leadership skills to resolve issues in the workplace and the community during a Rotary-sponsored speed mentoring event in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Rotarian and Youth Exchange alumnus Binish Desai is an innovator and social entrepreneur who creates products from industrial and domestic waste. With the help of his club, the Rotary Club of Vibrant Valsad in Gujarat, India, he formed Women Empowerment Centre, where women learn how to use recyclable waste to make and sell lamps, clocks, and smartphone covers.
This month, consider how you can bring the idea of vocational service to life.
Use your skills to serve a community. Start a project that leverages your area of expertise or support one that’s already being planned. To find inspiration for projects, search Rotary Showcase to see what clubs are doing globally. To find a project to support, attend a Rotary Project Fair to learn about projects looking for international partners and support.
Share your expertise. Join a Rotary group related to your profession to share your knowledge. Your unique skills and professional experience can help increase the impact of projects around the world.
If you have technical expertise in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus or in project planning and implementation, let your district international service chair know. They’ll connect you with local clubs through the District Resource Network so that you can help them develop more effective projects.
If your expertise fits one of the 27 Rotary Action Groups, contact the group’s leaders to get involved. These international teams of Rotary members and friends lend their skills and experiences to help clubs design more sustainable and impactful service projects.
If you have professional skills in Rotary’s areas of focus or financial auditing, apply online to be considered for TRF’s Cadre of Technical Advisors. Use your expertise to advise Rotary members who are planning and working on Rotary Foundation grant projects.
Connect with others. Explore your profession with others by joining one of Rotary’s Fellowships. Find friends outside of your club to expand your international network, engage in common interests, and develop a more global perspective. There are many vocation-related fellowships such as the ones for Editors and Publishers, Educators, Executive Managers, Graphic Designers, Healthcare Professionals, Lawyers, Photographers, Police and Law Enforcement, Quilters and Fiber Artists, and more.
Help young professionals achieve their career goals. Mentor younger members of the Rotary family such as Rotaractors, Interactors, and Rotary Community Corps members and create opportunities for them to develop their professional and leadership skills.
Download the Vocational Service in Action handbook to learn more and to discover ways to share your knowledge through Rotary, advance ethical standards in your workplace, and help others develop professionally.
“If you do not understand someone’s story, how would you understand someone’s pain?” Jurgen Marx (Badenhorst), a photographer from Pretoria, South Africa, has been chronicling people’s emotions during Rotary member-led public health programs to create a conversation about the importance of health since 2004.
“I grew up in South Africa and have always heard about Rotary. When I was a kid, I would always see people from Rotary outside a church or on the streets, distributing food, helping people and I would always wonder who they were. And then, in 2004, I got an opportunity to work with them,” shares Marx.
“Oh! My God! I was in awe of the work Rotary does,” he exclaims. Creativity and empathy, when blended together, have always worked their magic, even in the most difficult times. Jurgen’s idea of capturing a moment or “freezing time” as he describes it, is all about telling an impactful story.
Health is a human right
“I clearly remember the first time I worked with the Rotary Action Group for Family Health and AIDS Prevention (RFHA). We drove to this small town and the volunteers, nurses, doctors, were running around, setting up at the site, doing all the hard work. And I just stood there in the background with my camera, mesmerized, capturing them doing all the groundwork.”
“Health is a human right. No human should wake up in the morning and see their loved ones suffer and wonder how are they going to look after them. RFHA reaches out these people, bringing some hope to their lives,” Marx says.
Storytelling in photography is not so different than storytelling in words. It can be even more impactful as the visuals have the power to capture one’s attention quickly. Trying to find a purpose behind every photo he clicks, Marx says, “Whenever I capture a photo, I think about why I am here, what I am trying to say, and why I want to share this with others.”
“I don’t know how to begin to describe my feelings when I saw mothers accompanied by their little kids, getting checked for HIV, receiving medicines. There was hope on their faces. I feel so grateful that I got this opportunity to walk these streets and capture these beautiful moments. Relating to someone’s pain without walking is their shoes is difficult,” he adds.
Finding solution at the grassroot level
Always looking for those hopeful moments to capture, Marx feels that photographs have a powerful way of telling a story. “There is always a message behind every photo I click, a story. And I want people to feel that emotion when they look at my photographs. There is a reason behind the existence of every image.”
“The reach of RFHA’s work is amazing. You need to understand the problem at the grassroot levels to provide a solution. I have seen CEO Sue and Wilma working tirelessly to help the people find hope from these communities” he adds.
There is despair, sadness, hurt around but there are also moments of hope, love and joy. And these feelings are stronger. Marx’s photographs communicate these stronger emotions. “The joy on the faces of the nurses is beyond measure. You see an HIV positive kid being all smiley and chirpy at these programs, clueless about the harsh realities of life,” he says.
There is nothing more amazing that seeing a kid smile. They are more than their pain and the world needs to see these moments of joy. “These moments are so beautiful and it is made possible only because of the love that RFHA shows towards these people,” explains Marx.
Help us do more
RFHA envisions a society where every individual has the right to a healthy, happy, and dignified life. It is changing communities by bringing free preventative healthcare solutions, vaccinations, counselling and health education to them. Through its signature program, Rotary Family Health Day, RFHA has helped over 2.65 million patients by providing over 11 million free health services.
Spanning from cities to the most rural parts of countries like Africa and India, RFHA dreams of a world where health is within the reach for everyone. Feeling inspired and want to be a part of this change? Get in touch today by visiting www.rfha.org or connect with Sue Paget, CEO, RFHA Inc - +27 (0) 83 456 3923 or email spaget@rfha.org.
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The Rotary Action Group for Family Health and AIDS Prevention (RFHA) is one of Rotary’s 27 Action Groups started and led by Rotary members to bring expertise and resources to support clubs and districts in empowering communities within an area of specialization. Rotary Family Health Days, RFHA’s signature program, promotes healthy living and disease prevention by implementing a massive, annual campaign across parts of Africa and India that provides comprehensive, free health care services to tens of thousands of people in underserved communities.
World Vision released a report last year on the impact of Covid-19, providing the following statistics:
13.6 million more children will suffer from wasting or acute malnutrition by 2022 due to COVID-19 impacts
Children suffering from wasting are 11 times more likely to die from preventable diseases than those that are well-nourished.
The impacts of childhood malnutrition can last a lifetime, harming their ability to learn, earn and reach their full potential as adults, which also has significant economic implications, nationally and globally.
As in-person events slowly return and gathering together becomes possible once again, the Colombia Project Fair accepted the challenge of planning a hybrid fair from 3-5 February in Paipa, Colombia. Join us virtually or in-person to enjoy Colombia’s natural beauty, have fun with local hosts, and participate in international service. We offer engaging cultural events and a tour of the host region, as well as visits to communities that benefit from our clubs’ projects.
Districts 4271 and 4281 in Colombia have been working together for the last seven years to host a project fair that builds lifelong friendships and showcases projects to international visitors. The previous project fairs have resulted in great support for club projects and positive change for our communities. For the 2022 fair, we already have clubs ready to share about 47 projects actively seeking international partners.
Our project fair schedule begins on 3 February with the opening ceremony and friendship banquet. On 4 February, you’ll hear presentations about each of the club projects and end the day with a cultural show. On 5 February, we’ll continue the club project presentations and host a business roundtable before officially closing the fair. For those participating virtually, you’ll hear project presentations, be able to speak directly with host clubs, and enjoy our cultural presentations virtually.
Do not miss our project fair! We look forward to meeting you soon.
A fellow club member is always promoting his company's service to members at every meeting. Your club wants to provide opportunities for business networking because you realize that it is a benefit of Rotary, but some members have been complaining of feeling pressured. What would you do?
Every month, Rotary magazine showcases answers to an ethical question that members might face in their Rotary or Rotaract clubs. Share your suggestions below to be included in a future issue.
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