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BEFORE THE BELL

Important breaking news published just before the bell. Tropical Escape has been rescheduled. It will be held on January 25th at the Santa Rosa Country Club. All of you who couldn’t make it to the October date because it was your cat’s birthday and you already had the cake can now circle your calendar and join the Club for a bigger, better, and more fabulous TROPICAL ESCAPE

AT THE BELL

There was a temporary change of meeting format so that we can honor the veterans on this Veterans Day. Past President Mike Ferguson, presenter of today’s program, rang the meeting to order at 12:15pm on the dot. He then adjourned the meeting so we could enjoy our meal.

At 12:30 Mike rang the meeting back to order. The Honor Guard of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s

Department marched down the center of Memorial Hall towards the front with flags waving to honor the Stars and Stripes. The Honor Guards were: Deputy Steven Dassel, Deputy Rob Dillon, Deputy Josh Seda and Deputy Rich Dunlap

Date: November 8, 2019 Volume: 2019/20—Issue E18-17 Scribe: Tony Given Photog. Robin Maybury Editors: D.Still, P. Dirden, T. Boag, J. Holst, HHPresident 2019/2020: Keller McDonald

Veteran’s Day

Before Karen Daniels, with her beautiful soprano voice was to lead us in the singing of America the Beautiful. Mike gave us a little history of the composer of the song, Katherine Lee Bates. She was a feminist composer and Wellesley professor.

Mike then provided us with the two Thoughts for the Day.

‘’ No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won by making the other poor bastards die for theirs.’’ General George Patton ‘’We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. George Orwell

Mike mentioned that an estimated 22 veterans per day commit suicide and that this is more than twice that of our civilian population and is due primarily due to seeing dead bodies, frequent deployment and post-traumatic stress, feelings of hopelessness and access to firearms.

Future Programs

November 15, 2019 A conversation on Domestic Violence

November 22 2019

Comprehensive Immigration Reform A History Lesson

November 29, 2019

DARK for Thanksgiving

December 6 2019 Analy Choir

December 13, 2019

District Governor Flamson

Events

TROPICAL ESCAPE

JANUARY 25, 2020

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VISITING ROTARIANS & GUESTS

Secretary Jack Dunlap introduced our sole visiting Rotarian, Dentist Dan Bornstein from Santa Rosa.

Bob Hirsch introduced Ed Lewis, a college professor from Davis.

David Schreibman introduced guest of the club Mete Senocak, a software engineer.

Yvette Williams van Aggelen introduced Dave Talbot our outgoing exchange student. Dave is a sophomore at Analy. Brenden Houston introduced his dad, Mo. [See photos in Veterans’ Pictures below.]

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Prez Big Mac said we have rescheduled a new date for our ‘’Tropical Escape’’ fund raiser and it is January 25, 2020—same time and place. We will be having a Tropical Escape ‘’Mini Silent Auction’’ next week. Refer to the email sent out by Ellen Harrington on 11/5 for the items that will be bid on. November is Rotary Foundation Month, make a Paul Harris and/or Polio/Plus contribution and get Foundation raffle tickets—celebrate the great work that the foundation has done. Our goal is $32k for the Foundation and $10k for PolioPlus. We will have the Raffle on December 6. We will have the Ride against polio here in Memorial Hall on November 22 on stationary bikes. All interested in participating see Bob Rogers. To contribute to Rotary District 5130 Disaster Fire Relief Fund, club members and community members can go to rotary5130.org to contribute by credit card, PayPal or check. President Keller mentioned that we got a great big Hola from the Rotary Club of Puerto Vallarta expressing their gratitude that we made it thru the latest firestorms and that we are safe. Jerry Warren mentioned that we had the largest group ever at

Thursday’s Hands on Project at the Redwood Empire Food Bank, and we bagged more than 1200 pounds of pears. Pauline Pellini mentioned that the Interact clubs of Analy, Twin Hills and Brookhaven collected 278 pairs of pairs of socks for distribution by Social Advocates for Youth (SAY). Our kids are learning about ‘’Service Above Self’’.

RECOGNITIONS David Still and his dearly beloved Nan enjoyed a meal at the Monte Rio Community Center on their Nov. 4th anniversary. That will be $5 thank you.

Ken and Nancy Silveira spent their 25th Anniversary on a ten-day trip to Amsterdam and Paris. Ken parted with $5. David Schreibman, on the very meeting day enjoyed his 60th -- looking good for 60 big guy—you don’t look a day over 59. Dave’s family is throwing a big party for him on Saturday Nov 9. Dave parted with $10. Dave mentioned that he spent 3 days in Southern California during the Kincade fire evacuation with family and they ended up doing a lot of babysitting.

Prez Big Mac thanked the Sergeant at Arms crew of Nao Noguchi (Chair), Tom Dilley, Jim Pacatte, Tony Given, Brenden Houston, Linda Johnson, Dick Zimmer and Jeff Boal (song coordinator) for all the work that they do in setting up and breaking down for the meetings etc., President Keller thanked Tom Boag for providing the slide presentation of all the Sebastopol Rotarians that served in the Military. You can see the presentation for yourself in the appendix after

the bell. Pay close attention to the winners of the best mustache awards Rick Wilson and Ron Puccinelli.

RAFFLE

Nao Noguchi, lucky guy that he is, had the winning ticket and lo and behold drew the blackball. Nao donated the $260 winnings to the Rotary Foundation—what a guy.

THE PROGRAM

President Keller passed the podium back to Mike Ferguson and he stepped forward to introduce todays speaker, Branden Bowman. Sergeant Bowman joined the United States Marine Corps in 2012 as a Helicopter Crew Chief and served five years in MCAS New River North Carolina. Sgt Bowman received the highest qualifications of a Crew Chief; Weapons and Tactics instructor, East Coast Crew Chief of the Year and also logged over 1000 flight hours without a mishap earning him an award from Sikorsky Helicopters Inc. As mentioned

earlier by Mike Ferguson, Sgt Bowman discussed the difficulty many soldiers have when they return to civilian life. These difficulties in adaptation have led to an unusually high suicide rate among soldiers. Sgt Bowman talked about a multi-step program to assist these veterans in transitioning back to civilian life. Sgt Bowman has himself reached out for help with the transition and has received it. He has also reached out to others. He spoke of his difficulties, major and minor including a hard time finding a place to live and a lack of a social group to hang out with. He displayed a positive attitude despite the obstacles.

Sgt Bowman now volunteers as Assistant Liaison Representative for the Sonoma County Devil Pups, a youth leadership program.

THE FINAL BELL President Keller McDonald rang the final bell at precisely 1:30 pm.

FUTURE PROGRAMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019 Stephen Zollman, Domestic Violence Sonoma County Domestic Violence Judge Bertoli as well as Analy Graduate, will discuss how Domestic Violence covers many relationships besides husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, partners, siblings, etc. He will also provide an overview of the court process including restraining orders, sentencing options and the role of Family Court Services concerning protection of children. Madeleine Keegan O'Connell, YWCA Executive Director will provide an overview of the causes of domestic violence, the various emotional impacts of domestic violence as well as the possible treatment/prevention programs available to support survivors of domestic violence to report it. NOVEMBER 22, 2019’’ David Still Comprehensive Immigration Reform. A History Lesson Some say we need Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Some say we don’t. Some have no idea what Comprehensive Immigration Reform is. And most people don’t realize that we did this once before. Yes, in 1986 the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) became law. It was a well thought out compromise package that was negotiated by both parties and signed by President Ronald Reagan. The perceived problems were the same then as now – the solutions considered “a balanced approach.” So what went wrong? David Still was head of the adjudications division of the San Francisco INS District in 1986 and was right in the middle of all of it. He will give a history lesson about the valiant attempt to fix a problem and why it went off the rails.