Contributed by: Tom Seeley / Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary

UPCOMING EVENTS, INFORMATION AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bulletin #2010-1                 Date:  July 9, 2009

PROGRAMS
July 9 – SCC Sailing Protram, Janis Wiles
July 16 – Egypt Trip, Ward Vuillemot
July 23 –  Anyela’s – Jim Nocek
July 30 –  Open
August 6 – Club Assembly
August 13 – Staging a Home for sale, Nancy Shafer
August 20 – DG Fred Cholet Visit
August 27 – Stickley, Streisand & Skaneateles, Marion Krauter!

Suggestions for future programs are always welcome.  Please forward your ideas to Marion at amkrauter@verizon.net.

NEWS & NOTES

Rotary Interview with Jane Goodall
Rotary International News sat down with Dr. Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation, at the 2009 RI Convention in Birmingham, England, to talk about the Roots & Shoots program and working with Rotary. Goodall delivered a keynote address during the fourth plenary session.

RI News: Tell us about the Roots & Shoots program of the Jane Goodall Institute.
Goodall: Roots & Shoots is in 111 countries. It involves young people, from preschool through university. We even have groups with senior citizens and with people in prisons and in refugee camps. They choose three projects to make the world a better place. Firstly, for their own human community, and then for communities in other places — raising funds for tsunami victims, for instance. Secondly, [they choose] a project to help animals, which can be domestic, like volunteering in shelters or raising money for a shelter, or it can be wildlife, such as raising awareness or helping to protect a piece of forest. And thirdly, to protect the environment, or to help the environment. This can be something simple like recycling or collecting trash, or it can be a complex program that runs for several years, such as cleaning a stream, learning about talking to the polluters — not just pulling trash out of the stream but measuring pollution in the water, learning how to write to legislators, and even peaceful demonstration. And we’ve had some amazing success.
RI News: What’s your approach to projects?
Goodall: If you just support health and you’re not concerned about the environment — you can inoculate kids against all kinds of diseases, but if they’re then drinking dirty water and have unhygienic toilets — then you’re wasting your time, aren’t you? We work with women [in projects involving] microcredit, and scholarships to keep girls in school, which means new toilets. Otherwise, they drop out at puberty because it’s unhygienic, and there’s no privacy. I think this holistic view is really important. When we began our TACARE program, which is now involving 24 villages around Gombe, [Tanzania], with outreach to more at the beginning, [they told us], “You must focus. You can’t do health and water and conservation,” but we said that you can’t do just one. There are no other NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] in that part of the world, so we have to find the funds to do it all. And thank goodness we did. It’s now a model. USAID sent 72 of their top field directors to Kigoma to see how we do it.
RI News: What are some ways Rotary and your organization can work together?
Goodall: Our missions are the same: environment, empowering people, better world, peace. I know victims of polio who, for just a small amount of money, their lives would be changed. So we do have a wheelchair project, which is Roots & Shoots [groups] raising money for wheelchairs. If we could extend that to the Rotary youth [programs], and they could help a little bit, we could take that program from Tanzania to other countries where there are so many polio victims crawling about on the floor on hands and knees. It takes so little money. One wheelchair is US$100, locally made. One latrine ranges between $200 and $500, depending on how high up the hillside it is; they’re terribly simple, but that’s keeping girls in school. And as you find all around the world, as women’s education improves, family size tends to drop.
RI News: What’s your message as you travel the world?
Goodall: The main message that we have, for not just the youth but for everyone, is not to forget that every single day you live, you make a difference. You make an impact on the world around you. And, we have a choice. Just think if we got together with Rotary, what a huge difference it could make.

CLUB BUSINESS &
DATES TO REMEMBER

Call to Order; Pledge of Allegiance & Invocation
Introduction of Guests/Visitarians
Happy Dollars & Fines

District Major Events
August 5 – Youth Exchange Welcome Home, Rusty Rail
September 24-27 – District Conference, The Desmond, Albany

Old Business

Committee Reports

Club Administration
President – Tom Seeley
Treasurer – Toni Feldmann
Secretary – John Paddock

Service Projects
Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering
Sea Scouts – John Paddock
Programs – Krauter/Beckwith
Early Act – Tom Seeley
Fire Equipment –

Service Committee – Mark Shafer
Winterfest & Craft Fair – Seeley/Krauter
Membership (& Retention) –
Foundation/Community Recognition
Social Chair –
Sergeant at Arms – Daryle Pickering

New Business/Program
Pennies for Polio
Books for the World
SCC Sailing Program

EVENING CLUB PROGRAMS
TODAY –  Club Assembly
July 16 – The Athenaeum, Cheryl Silvestrini

OFFICERS & DIRECTORS
Officers
President – John Rooney
President-Elect –
Past President – Thomas W. Seeley
Treasurer – Toni Feldman
Sergeant-at-Arms – Daryle Pickering
Secretary – John Paddock
Committee Chairs
Club Service –
Food Pantry – Daryle Pickering
Membership –
Program Chair – Marion Krauter
Rotary Foundation –
Social Chair –
Youth Exchange/RYLA – John Paddock

Members
Sidney Beckwith, Robert Brown, Toni Feldmann, Paul Frickey, Maggie Gilson (visitor), Marion Krauter, John Paddock, Daryle Pickering, John Rooney, Thomas Seeley, Mark Shafer, Paul Torrisi, Rhett Weiss

Exchange Students
Miguel Rodenas (Spain), Charlotte Linden (Germany), Bruno Caetanno Alves de Melo (Brazil)

TRY OUR ROTARY WEBSITES
Our District Website:    http://www.rotary7150.org/
Rotary International:    http://www.rotary.org/
RYLA:      http://www.rotaryryla.com/
Skaneateles Rotary:    http://www.skaneatelesrotary.org/
e-club :      http://www.rotaryeclubny1.com
SUNRISE EDITORS
Thomas W. Seeley
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Fax: 685-2460
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