Tag: 2023

08/31/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

September Calendar – Michelle Blanton, Program Chair

Sept 7 – Ohio Christian University

Sept 11: *Bonus Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 3:30pm

Sept 14: Ohio Health, Casey Liddy

Sept 21: Community Cupboards, Kenneth Tennant

Sept 25: *Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 4:00pm

Sept 28: ArtsAround, Dale Herron

*extra event

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• Presiding:  President Warren Spangler
• Prayer: Warren Searls
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader:  Tom Duvall “In the Good Old Summertime”; “Viva La Rotary”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list) 
• Guests: Ty Ankrom – Susan Metzger was introduced
• Visiting Rotarian: District Governor-Elect Gary Baker, Newark

Announcements

• District Governor-Elect Gary Baker is visiting from Newark Rotary where he has been a member for 35 years
  • He is looking forward to his Governor year and is enjoying running around meeting clubs
  • Gary encourages us to attend the District’s Regional Meeting (RoTalks) Sept. 30th in Lancaster 8:30am-1:15pm. Lunch is included. $30. Topic: Best Practices and Practical Ideas in the areas of Mental Health, Peace and Empowering Girls. Rotary.org for more information and registration
• Sept. 2nd – Nazarene Church 1-4pm for Margaret Remy’s 100th birthday celebration. She is an active member of Sunrise and former county auditor
• Rob Radcliff – sign-up for Pumpkin Show Booth. Only three slots left!!
• Gary Montgomery – Soup Kitchen – Thank you to : Warren, Darryl, Bob Sneed, Bob McCrady, Alice Harker, Gary and Sandy. 125 meals served – the new normal
• Sept. 11th – Bonus soup kitchen 3:30-5pm ‘ish Presbyterian church
• Carly Neff – Wine tasting Miryante Fundraiser 7pm – Sept. 14th – Roadhouse 56. Tickets available. And raffle for quilt

SAA: Bob Sneed – “It’s Good to be King” 

• National Trail Mix Day, National Eat Outside Day
• 1997 – Princess Diana died
• Sports results
• 14,000 pounds of meats donated to local pantries – PCCF
• Downtown Circleville events all weekend
• Once in a Blue Moon – origin of the term – Second Moon of the month
• Need hunting license to buy mouse trap – California
• Tennessee – illegal to drive if you are….asleep

Scholarship Drawing:  Josh Ford (new dad!!) was the winner of $18! The jackpot is $36 – it will continue to grow (just like baby girl Ford).

 Program: Carol Baden – Community Health Advisor for RecoveryOhio.gov

• 988 – Hotline for mental health, suicide prevention, substance abuse crisis. Free and confidential support to Ohioans.
  • July-December 2022 : 8,670 calls per month; 1,453 texts per month; 1,916 chats per month
• On average, 5 Ohioans take their own lives each day
• RecoveryOhio was an initiative Gov. DeWine started as soon as he was inaugurated in 2019. Our own Rob Radcliff sits on the board.
• Goal is to ensure we act aggressively to address substance abuse, mental health and trauma
• Work closely with local law enforcement
• Naloxone.Ohio.gov – website where you can order naloxone for you, someone you know or your organization to hand out. It will be mailed to you, not tracking who is ordering.  Kits cannot be resold, but given away.
• OH Against OD; Beat the Stigma – ad campaigns
• Counterfeit Pill Campaign – campaign about only taking pills from healthcare professionals
• Recovery Within Reach (toolkit put out through commerce department)  – resources for financial advisors so people who think they have to pull all their IRA money out to help a family member can look for other options. How to talk about addiction resources, treatment finder, online training opportunities.
• Workforce Development: recovery friendly employer training modules
  • Partnership between RecoveryOhio and Ohio Job & Family Services, Office of Workforce Transformation and Ohio Chamber
  • 8 video modules ranging from 10-30 minutes
• EnCompass Training: teaches the science of addiction and equips participants with knowledge and tools to address substance use disorders. Carol trained 2500 people in Ohio over 2 years. Now equipping each county with their own trainer
• Emergency Comprehensive Care – when someone presents at an ED with opioid abuse, treatment begins immediately and hand off to treatment facility
  • 2022, six funded health systems developed sustainable policies in 31 emergency departments. Over 16,000 patients have been transitioned to care

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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services

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08/24/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

August Calendar – Ty Ankrom, Program Chair

Aug 28: *Community Kitchen

Aug 31: Jennifer Lloyd – Recovery Ohio

*extra events

September Calendar – Michelle Blanton, Program Chair

Sept 7 – Ohio Christian University

Sept 11: *Bonus Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 3:30pm

Sept 14: Ohio Health, Casey Liddy

Sept 21: Community Cupboards, Kenneth Tennant

Sept 25: *Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 4:00pm

Sept 28: ArtsAround, Dale Herron

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• Presiding:  President Warren Spangler
• Prayer: Norm Wilson
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader:  Tom Duvall “Buckeye Battle Cry”, “R-O-T-A-R-Y”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list)  42 today – Spangler, Poling, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Fouts, Wilson, Canfield, McIlroy, McCrady, R.Wolfe, Riegel, Palm, Ankrom, Ellis, Duvall, Elick, Lambert, D.Wolfe, Reitano, Lam, Schreiner, Liddy, K.Neff, Robinson,McNemar, Maroscher, Radcliff, C.Mullins, Davis, Sneed, I.Webb, D.Webb, Montgomery, Rawlins, Lanman, Beavers, Fountain, Brown, B.Tootle, Hafey, C.Neff, Blanton
• Guests: Earl’s son, Fred was his guest today; Tony Robinson brought his better half, Vickie;  Cole from Schiber’s (and OSU!!)
• Visiting Rotarian: Larry Schieber & Anthony Neff from Sunrise

Announcements

• Rob Radcliff – sign-up for Pumpkin Show Booth. Five slots left on Saturday – REALLY!!
• Greg Lam announced a project his son is championing – to help children in Uganda – the WASH project (water, sanitation, hygiene) through the Luena Foundation. Luena.org :  ‘We hold the simple belief that children everywhere should have the basic human right to a happy, healthy, secure childhood and a future full of promise.’ Greg’s son designed the T-Shirt ($20 with 100% going to the Fundraiser). He will have more shirts next week.
• Thank you from Dan Gilbert for the opportunity to speak to us
• Gary Montgomery Soup Kitchen – Fourth Monday 4:00pm, Presbyterian church
• Carly Neff – Wine tasting Miryante Fundraiser 7pm – Sept. 14th – Roadhouse 56. Tickets available.
• Daryl Wolfe was honored with his PHF +1

SAA: Bob Sneed – “It’s Good to be King” (thank you Burger King)

• Bob Tootle – anniversary #51
• Gerhard’s birthday and his meet his neighbor article! 
• Along with Tom Duvall’s birthday
• Aug. 24th, national waffle day; peach pie day
• John Lambert in the paper again
• There was a Radcliff in the paper, pay $1 Rob, not sure of relation
• Beekeeper’s pay $1 for swarm removal article in paper
• Sam Sneed’s age making him the oldest to make the cut – 67 yrs in PGA championship
• That championship was played at Oakland Hill
• Which of Christopher Columbus’ ships caught fire in 1492 – Santa Maria
• Country that used to execute anyone drinking coffee – Turkey (16th/17th centuries)
• Only First Lady to carry a loaded revolver – Eleanor Roosevelt

Scholarship Drawing:  Joe McNemar was the winner of $18 AND a Rotary mug! The jackpot is $18 and it now starts over….

 Program: Steve Helwagen – OSU Football

• 1986 grad of CHS and OSU
• Steve Helwagen was a writer for the Circleville Herald
• Now works at Bucknuts.com – started there for the 2003 season
• 27 different states travelled to covere events
• There is never enough about OSU sports in general
• Bucknuts.com – focus on Football and Basketball and the recruiting of high school students
• Next Saturday is the start of the season at Indiana. (OSU hasn’t lost to them since 1987)
• So many changes in student athletics – NIL; transfer portal; Big 10 adding UCLA, Oregon, Washington, USC so the Big 10 will have 18 teams
• OSU cleared over $20million last year (8 home football games)
• There is going to be a human toll of traveling cross-country, not just students, but coaches and support staff
• 1993 – now. OSU consistently top 10 finishes, NFL draft picks, etc.
• 6 of top 40 high school students signed already for OSU football
• Texas and Oklahoma going to SEC. Cincinnati going to Big 12.
• This season: a lot of promise. Georgia lost a lot of guys to NFL. OSU well positioned to have a great year
• Big question is who will be QB…
• Every practice is filmed with 8 different camera’s
• If there is a depth problem, you go into the portal and grab players
• This is the last year with East vs. West in Big Ten. Will be top 2 teams
• At Wisconsin, Luke Fickell taking over there. Will be a night game.
• Any work on Gene Smith’s position? Just hired President Carter from Nebraska, so thought is he would have a say in the position.
• ESPN couldn’t afford to bid since they have lost so many members. FOX/CBS/NBC moving forward will split the coverage 

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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services

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08/17/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

August Calendar – Ty Ankrom, Program Chair

Aug 24: Steve Helwagen – OSU Football

Aug 28: *Community Kitchen

Aug 31: Jennifer Lloyd – Recovery Ohio

*extra events

September Calendar – Michelle Blanton, Program Chair

Sept 7 – Ohio Christian University

Sept 11: *Bonus Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 3:30pm

Sept 14: Ohio Health, Casey Liddy

Sept 21: Community Cupboards, Kenneth Tennant

Sept 25: *Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 4:00pm

Sept 28: ArtsAround, Dale Herron

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• Presiding:  President Warren Spangler
• Prayer: Michael Whitten
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader:  Tom Duvall selected “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, “We’re Rotary” 
• Attending: (Drexel has official list)  48 today – Spangler, Poling, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Fouts, Wilson, Canfield, Ellis, Palm, Mavis, McCrady, Riegel, Searls, Duvall, Beavers, Elick, Lambert, Ankrom, Whitten, Ford, Schreiner, White, D.Wolfe, B.Liggett, Reitano, Koch, I.Webb, Rothe, Rawlins, Foster, C.Chamberlain, D.Webb, Horning, Lanman, McCrady, E.Liggett, T.Chamberlain, Lam, Johnson, Weaver, Fountain, C.Mullins, Dean, B.Tootle, Brown, Radcliff, Hafey, Montgomery
• Visiting Rotarian: Larry Schieber from Sunrise introduced Carl Messy, intern from OSU Pharmacy school at Schieber’s; 
• Guests: Steven Collins from Circleville Herald; Daughter of our speaker was also with us; Dick Hendricks from Gahanna introduced by Warner Searls

Induction: We welcomed Josh Ford into membership today! He is a grad of OCU with a Masters of Arts in Theology. It was at OCU were he met his wife of 8 1/2 yrs, Brittany. He currently works as the night auditor at Circleville’s Hampton Inn. He is President of the Ted Lewis Museum, Secretary of Roundtown Conservancy and sings in the Circleville Men’s Barbershop Chorus. He and Brittany will welcome a baby girl any day!

Announcements

• Rob Radcliff – sign-up for Pumpkin Show Booth has already started! It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year, please help out. You can help prep or clean up afterward too!
• Thank you’s are rolling in: Blessings in a Backpack – our $750 donation helped make up 150 weekend food bags; Disaster Aid USA thanks us for helping stock their trailer; Mr. Branden Martin, scholarship winner, thanks us for the scholarship to attend OSU ATI. You will remember he wants to farm his grandparents farm and give back to the community after he gets his degree.
• Board meeting last Tuesday, voted to continue our donation of $300 to Pickaway County Youth Leadership

SAA: Fred Mavis

• National Roller Coater Day and National Joke Day
• Sheriff had his picture in paper that costs you $1
• Heidi White in the paper – running for Logan Elm school board $1
• ‘73 class of CHS part of the big reunion at Rotarian Bill Richards farm – all the pictures look like it was fun – Dave Webb, pay $1
• Atomic Credit Union – John Lambert pay $1 – your ads are everywhere
• Daryl Wolfe – good news in the paper, thanks, it will cost you $1
• Darlene Weaver – good article about first sidewalks – anyone part of the Historical Society, pay $1
• History quiz too

Scholarship Drawing:  Rob Radcliff was the winner of $29. The jackpot is $1,758 and he wins!!!!! (Money is going toward his Paul Harris Fellow.)

 Program: Dan Gilbert

• Graduate of Univ of Cincinnati 
• Teacher, counselor, coach, Scioto County, Wheelersburg HS
• Sandy Koufax from Brooklyn, New York was on the same basketball team at Univ of Cincinnati with Dan
• Sandy and Dan decided to try out for baseball team as freshman, Dan was the only one able to catch Sandy’s pitches
• Dan Gilbert was the catcher for Sandy Koufax in 1954 season (Koufax only season at Cincinnati) 
• Koufax returned to Cincinnati in 2000 for a dinner for baseball coach
• Dan Gilbert was the starting catcher for 4 years in Univ. Cincinnati
• Sandy had 362 strike outs in one season, which is still the record
• Sandy had a record of 47 complete games pitched

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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services

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08/10/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

August Calendar – Ty Ankrom, Program Chair

Aug 17: Dan Gilbert – Baseball

Aug 24: Steve Helwagen – OSU Football

Aug 28: *Community Kitchen

Aug 31: Jennifer Lloyd – Recovery Ohio

*extra events

September Calendar – Michelle Blanton, Program Chair

Sept 7 – Ohio Christian University

Sept 11: *Bonus Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 3:30pm

Sept 14: Ohio Health, Casey Liddy

Sept 21: Community Cupboards, Kenneth Tennant

Sept 25: *Community Kitchen. Presbyterian Church 4:00pm

Sept 28: ArtsAround, Dale Herron

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• Presiding:  President Warren Spangler
• Prayer: Joe McNemar
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader:  John Lambert “Sing Rotarians”, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list)  45 today – Spangler, Poling, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Fouts, Wilson, Lambert, Canfield, Riegel, T.Tootle, R.Wolfe, McCrady, Searls, Ankrom, K.Neff, Palm, Ellis, C.Chamberlain, Duvall, Sneed, C.Mullins, Schreiner, Rothe, Dailey, D.Wolfe, Reitano, Simmons, McNemar, Montgomery, Elick, Horning, Droste, Young, I.Webb, Rawlins, D.Webb, Fountian, C.Neff, Justinger, Brown, White, Radcliff, Koch, T.Chamberlain, Kramer
• Visiting Rotarian: John Lambert introduced from Jackson, Brandon McGee
• Guests: Ty Ankrom introduced Carly Brewster, Pastor at Emmitt Chapel Church; Karlyn Neff introduced Carl Messy, intern from OSU Pharmacy school at Schieber’s.

Announcements

• Rob Radcliff – sign-up for Pumpkin Show Booth has already started! It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year, please help out. You can help prep or clean up afterward too!
• Inspiration Station Thank you note – less than $100,000 to their goal so they can start construction. If you know of anyone interested in donating to help make the goal – contact PCCF
• Aug. 15th – board mtg
• Jayme Fountain – Foundation goal this year $6,300. We are already 12% there. Don’t forget the 125 club, donating $100 to the foundation and $25 to polio plus.

SAA: Bob Sneed. “I’m Bob doing Bob Things” – without his hat 🙁

• Birthdays/Anniversaries
• Aug 10th. National Book Lovers Day and National Lazy Day
• Dispatch reported: people in a good mood are willing to donate. Are you in a good mood today?!
• High School sports – anyone who played pay $1. Time goes by fast.

Scholarship Drawing: Warren Spangler was the winner of $20+. The jackpot is $1,700+ and it continues!

 Program: Maggie Simmons – Pickaway Addiction Action Coalition (PAAC)

• Maggie is returning to the State House next week and leaving PAAC
• Two schools took survey for grades 7th, 9th, 11th
• Self reported and sent to Parent Student Institute to analyze the data to find those results that should be kicked out
• Can compare to numbers from 2019
• Core Measures
  • Past 30 day use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, RX drugs
  • Perception of risk using the above
  • Perception of parental disapproval
  • Perception of peer disapproval
• Did you smoke/drink/use marijuana/prescription drug in past 30 days?
  • 3.6% cigarettes; 16% alcohol ; 7.7% marijuana; 1.7% prescription drugs
• 12.5% using nicotine vaping
• Teens think vaping is safer than cigarettes and don’t feel parental disapproval to stop
• Perception of peer disapproval is 82.6% of RX 
• Used nicotine vaping over three times the rate that they smoked cigarettes and felt vaping was less harmful
• Wright State did a national comparison – with our local data compared to city’s similar to us
  • Our teen’s alcohol use is almost doubled the national average
• Schools do have their results

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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services

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08/03/2023

Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor

August Calendar – Ty Ankrom, Program Chair

Aug 10: Maggie Simmons – PAAC – Community Input

Aug 17: Sarah Walsh – Cook Center for Human Connections

Aug 24: Steve Helwagen – OSU Football

Aug 28: *Community Kitchen

Aug 31: Jennifer Lloyd – Recovery Ohio

*extra events

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• Presiding:  President Warren Spangler
• Prayer: Gary Montgomery
• Piano: Ellery Elick
• Song Leader:  Tom Duvall “I’m waiting on the railroad”, “R-O-T-A-R-Y”
• Attending: (Drexel has official list)  43 today – Spangler, Poling, Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Beavers, C.Chamberlain, Hafey, M.Rhoads, Elick, Fouts, Canfield, Wilson, Duvall, Droste, Colburn, Lambert, Dean, White, C.Neff, Horning, Ankrom, Young, Rothe, Koch, Sneed, Weaver, Robinson, Palm, Montgomery, Mavis, Schreiner, T.Tootle, Brown, McNemar, T.Chamberlain, D.Webb, Rawlins, B.Tootle, Riegel, R.Wolfe, McCrady, K.Neff, Radcliff
• Guests: Law enforcement from Pickaway Sheriff, Harrison Township Fire, Ashville Police, Pickaway Township Fire, State Highway Patrol; Vickie Robinson accompanied her husband
• Visiting Rotarian: from Hilliard – Charlie Hedges

Induction: Josh Koch – born in Escanaba, Michigan and graduated from Chillicothe High School and Ohio University. Worked with Chillicothe Radio and is now with US Bank. Welcome Josh!

Approved for membership: Josh Ford has been approved for membership by the board. Josh is night auditor for the Hampton Inn here in Circleville. He is also President of the Ted Lewis Museum Board. He and his wife, Brittany are expecting their first child in September.

Announcements

• Honor Flight cards for Paul Vance – finishing this week
• Rob Radcliff – sign-up for Pumpkin Show Booth has already started! Don’t wait, sign-up today for the biggest fundraiser of the year.

SAA: Bob Sneed. “I’m Bob doing Bob things” – Great Hat!!!

• National Watermelon Day
• New booths at the Ohio State Fair – have you visited?
• Bob Tootle – great round of golf
• Ty Ankrom retired
• Who attended the old Logan Elm high school? – it’s gone

Scholarship Drawing: Fred Mavis was the winner of $28. The jackpot is $1,700 and it continues!

 Program: Commander Dennis Lowe – South Central Ohio Major Crimes Unit

• Major Crimes Unit – based out of Fairfield County
• Support Fairfield, Pickaway, Hocking, Athens
• 10 sworn and 3 civilian personnel
• Blending outreach – supply side of narcotics along with users of the drugs
• Project F.O.R.T. (Fairfield County Overdose Response Team)- engage with people using, show them options for treatment instead of an arrest
  • 529 F.O.R.T. Engagements this year
  • Distributed more than 2,000 Naloxone kits this year
  • Partner with PARS in Pickaway 
  • Looking for long term solution for the addict
• Program started in Ohio and is now being rolled out country wide
• Task force is run by grants. Now have 8 grants funding $1.25 million annually
• 2021 – Task force of the year in the state of Ohio
• 2022 – Deflection program was named top in the state
• 2018-2022:
  • 1710 search warrants executed
  • Indicted 293 individuals 
  • Mandatory sentences of 8-15 yrs
• Task force involved with electronic data exploitation. Nothing you post or write is ever really deleted.
• Poly drug use – combinations of drugs – is what is happening now
• Cocaine making strong comeback
• THC concentrates are very difficult to police
• America is largest user of illegal drugs in the world
• Synthetics are going to take over plant based organic drugs. Cheaper to produce.

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In appreciation for the speaker today, a donation will be made to the Foster Care Program of Pickaway County through Jobs and Family Services