05/18/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair
May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist
May 22: * Community Kitchen
May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.
June Calendar – Bob McCrady, Program Chair
June 1: Anthony Neff – County Engineer
June 1: * First Annual Euchre Tournament
June 8: Ohio Dept of Transportation to talk about electric cars
June 15: Blessings in a Backpack
June 16: * Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club
June 22: Pathways For Success
June 26: * Community Kitchen
June 29: David Crawford – Year in review
*extra events
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Roger Wolfe
- Piano: Ellery Elick
- Song Leader: Dan Fouts. “For They’re Jolly Good Fellows”, “Sing Out A Song of Rotary”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 45 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Poling, McCrady, Fouts, Elick, Canfield, Hedges, R.Wolfe, Dean, Mavis, Palm, Ellis, Schreiner, Liddy, Duvall, C.Chamberlain, Droste, Retanio, D.Wolfe, Radcliff, McIlroy, K.Neff, Montgomery, Weaver, Hafey, McNemar, Daily, Robinson, B.Liggett, Blanton, Lam, Rawlins, Wolford, T.Chamberlain, Ankrom, Fountain, Sneed, Lanman, Riegel, Davis, Mabe, Brown, Hooks, Kramer
- Guests: Warren treated his wife, Janet, to lunch today; Jean Droste introduced Debbie; Dan Dailey’s wife Donna helped us sound wonderful today
- Visiting Rotarians: President Marie Wilbanks & David Smith from Circleville Sunrise
Welcome Dr. Gregory Lam into membership today! Greg lives in Dublin with his family and is the Director of Cardiovascular Services for OhioHealth Berger.
Welcome Grant Davis into membership today as well! Grant is a Teays Valley grad along with an OSU Political Science grad. He is currently Clerk of Courts.
Board meeting highlights from May 16, 2023
- Warren’s induction is 7/6/23. Heidi’s is 7/11/24. DG will do both.
- Dr. Gregory Lam approved as new member
- Discussed membership retention going into the new 2023-24 Rotary year
- “Service Above Self” awardee will be named at upcoming June meeting
- Rob said 2023-24 program chairs are designated. (Speaker calendar is booked through July 27.)
- District speech winner, Julia Weller, will be guest at 6/1 meeting
- Tony C. reported the June 16 golf tournament/scholarship fundraiser is shaping up. Will be contacting a few additional sponsors.
- Euchre tournament/scholarship fundraiser is June 1
- David thanked the scholarship selection committee for its work. In-school presentations will be made this month and recipients will be guests at meetings during June.
- June check presentations:
- Blessings in Backpack – $750 ($250 from Rotary and $500 from anonymous members)
- Pathways for Success – $750 deferred/accrued speaker honorariums
- July check presentations:
- Downtown Christmas decorations, $600
- David/Patty/Rob/Warren will do an annual check-in with Watt Street Tavern management to ensure expectations are being met by all parties, and discuss options that might enhance serving expediency
- Lengthy discussion on the need to explore additional payment options (credit/debit, Venmo, etc.) for lunches. Also can be used for Pumpkin Show booth, payment of dues, golf tournament, etc. A small committee will be formed to investigate and if feasible, initiate the project.
- Warren was approached by District leadership about contributing to a disaster aid trailer that will be used by Grove City Rotary to respond to local and regional disasters. Circleville Rotary will have its name on the trailer. Board voted to approve the requested $500. A representative of the project will be the speaker at a July meeting.
Announcements
- Gary Montgomery announced Monday’s Community Kitchen is at the Presbyterian Church on Main St. 4:00pm -5:00pm.
- Gary also announced Mt. Oval Pioneer Day Camp on July 12th. $15 per child. Please sign up through the Historical Society.
- Casey Liddy announced Sports Physicals are being completed by OhioHealth. See their schedule on line and get your students signed-up.
- Marie Wilbanks, FAME event at Rhodes this Saturday. Free event with food trucks. Come support all the models including a few of our Rotary members.
- Sunrise Rotary is also selling – “It Happened One Pumpkin Show” by Jan Long. $5, $10, or donation. Contact Marie Wilbanks at [email protected] if you would like a book.
- Tony Chamberlain – Friday, June 16th is our golf tournament. Need teams, volunteers and donations. For more information, please contact Tony. All proceeds fund scholarships for high school students going to technical colleges.
- First Annual Euchre Tournament is June 1st! See Karlyn, Stacy or Carly if you can help. Remember, it’s a scholarship fundraiser.
SAA: Gary Montgomery
- National Police appreciation week
- There are 42 test tubes of Thomas Edison’s last breath. (Really Gary?)
- George Washington’s false teeth were NOT made of wood
- Who did not sign the Constitution? Thomas Jefferson (he was in France – remember this fact from the play “Hamilton?”)
Scholarship Drawing: Rob Radcliff was the winner of $33. The jackpot is $1,334 and it continues!
Program: Dr. Gregory Lam, yes, our new member, is also presenting the program today! This is his third time presenting to Noon Rotary.
- Dr. Lam has been practicing in Pickaway county for 14 years
- Cardiometabolic Disease – we now have the first clinic in Central Ohio right here at Berger
- It is the study of breaking the silo of disease treatment to start treatment of all cardiovascular risk factors combined
- Team approach in caring for a patient by including multiple specialists
- Cardiometabolic initiative was ready 5 years ago, then Berger was being bought by OhioHealth which delayed the launch, then COVID hit, which delayed it again
- There are new medicines which help all the risk factors; heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease
- The medicines are expensive and if cost prohibitive, Berger is trying to find ways to help mitigate
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In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.