Week of Apr 1-7

 

April is Maternal & Child Health Month in Rotary.  “Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.” (https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/saving-mothers-and-children)

 

At least 7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, Rotary provides immunizations and antibiotics to babies, improves access to essential medical services, and supports trained health care providers for mothers and their children. These projects ensure sustainability by empowering the local community to take ownership of health care training programs.

 

 

 

Please remember to save Sat. June 12 for our 1-day District 7410 Conference in Wellsboro, PA.  Details should be forthcoming in the near future.

 

 

To help you decide how to celebrate April 7^th, remember that in addition to other designations, today is recognized as National Beer Day, National Coffee Cake Day, and National No Housework Day.  Feel free to chose whichever designation you want to celebrate or even better celebrate all 3.

 

 

One of the world’s oldest prepared beverages, beer possibly dates back to 9500 BC when cereal was first farmed. It is also recorded in the written history of ancient Iraq and ancient Egypt.”  (https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-beer-day-april-7/)

 

 

 

The coffee cake itself does not contain any coffee. They are usually single-layer cakes made in square, rectangle or ring-shaped pans. Coffee cakes are often flavored with cinnamon or other spices, seeds, nuts and fruits, such as blueberries or apples. Typically they have a crumb topping or a glaze drizzle.”  (https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-coffee-cake-day-april-7/)

 

 

 

President Terri Detrick brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM online via Zoom.  Susan Kelly led the Pledge of Allegiance; Dave Wilson gave the invocation and Mary Linden led the recitation of the 4-Way Test.

 

 

Tammi Burke - guest speaker

 

 

 

On April 8th, our lunch meetings will resume at Shadowbrook, which reopened its Restaurant on Apr 1.  Our meetings will continue as hybrid in-person and Zoom meetings.  Lunch will be a sandwich with chips and a choice of their salad, chef or Caesar salad with chicken.

 

 

Pres. Terri suggested members check this week’s Bulletin for a link to view the COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Information on the Chamber Webinar that our very own Gina moderated and participated in.

 

Ann is looking for 10-12 volunteers to help EMA with a vaccine clinic in Wyo Cty on Fri Apr 9. Ann needs names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses by 4 PM Friday Apr 2 to inform Wyo Cty EMA.

 

 

 

Mary Tempest reported that we will install 3 of our newest 4 members at this meeting.

 

 

There will be a Festival Committee meeting on Monday Apr 5 at 6 PM via Zoom.  The link will be sent out on Friday.

 

Ron has talked with the township and they have us down for that date for Lazybrook Park.

 

 

Drug Take Back Posters for the Apr 24 event are available at Welch Insurance 71 E Tioga St Tunkhannock. 

 

Cammie Anderson will put out the Robocall to the parents of the students in TASD and she (CVS) and a hopefully one of her colleagues (Rite Aid) will be also provide info on drug and drug safety at these sites. 

 

Frank was to get the DTB0 slide to the Dietrich and the flyer graphics to the Hope Coalition for their members to distribute to their offices and clients.

 

 

The Website has been fully updated, including with the info on the Apr 24 Drug Take Back. Gina and Sam have put the DTB info on our Facebook pages also.  Please share the DTB postings on our Rotary Facebook pages on your personal Facebook pages.

 

The article on our donation to Equines for Freedom appeared in the Mar 31 Examiner.

 

 

One of the ideas for the District Grant is to help with the Roadside rest area on Route 29.  The Eaton Township supervisors meeting is on Tuesday and she will talk to them about it.

 

 

Pres. Terri Detrick asked everyone to silently say to themselves the 4-Way Test before they go about the rest of their day.

 

President Terri Detrick adjourned the meeting at 1:05 PM.

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Tammi is the Manager of Community Services for the Victims Resource Center (VRC) serving Luzerne, Wyoming and Carbon counties.

 

VRC works at no cost and services provided are confidential for victims of criminal, sexual assault, and domestic assault.  They will also go to the hospital with sexual assault victims in need of help.  They help with and accompany victims to courts, police, lawyers. etc.  They also have a homicide survivor’s group.  She also talks to hospital staff to train on how to handle sexual assault victims.

 

Apr is sexual assault awareness month and she asked everyone to wear teal on Tuesday. Take a photo and send to her.

 

One in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are victims of sexual abuse, but it is usually harder for boys to talk about it.  1 in 4 adult women and 1 in 33 adult men are also victims of sexual assault. Unfortunately, the statistics on sexual assault have not really improved during the last decade.  Only 1 out of 10 assaulted women and only 12% of kids make a report.

 

Kids may not realize what is going on and abusers are very good at threatening and manipulating the kids to keep it quiet.

 

In adults, there is fear of retaliation, not being believed or that they will be blamed.  Society is great at blaming victims as responsible for what happens to them. It can happen to anybody.  Please be supportive of these individuals and tell them that “I believe you”.

 

Only 2-8% of people make false reports across all crime types.  So, please believe them. The consequences to the victim may make them recant their story even if it was true, since the consequences can be very severe (loss of home, foster care, non-belief, etc).

 

Tammi goes and talks to the schools.  Most sex offenders are male (75 out of 100 sex offenders).  She is also trying to get more education for males, so that they can help change attitudes among their friends etc.  Kids are resilient if they have the right help and support through their trauma.

 

Please wear teal and have someone take a photo of you in good light. Send your photos to Tammi for inclusion in their Teal Tuesday.

Tammi reminded the club that the VRC 36th Annual Geranium Sale has begun and is a drive-through event this year. She mentioned that geraniums were the chosen plant for their fundraiser because they are very hardy and are survivors like the victims that they serve. This sale also comes right before Mother’s Day, so they would make a great gift for everyone’s mother.

 

Orders for the beautiful pink or red flowers are being taken now until April 23rd with proceeds benefiting VRC programs and services in Carbon, Luzerne and Wyoming Counties. The donation per plant is $3.75 and can be ordered on their website, or by phone, fax or e-mail.  The pickup date for the geranium drive through in the parking lot of the VRC site in Tunkhannock is May 4.