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This Week at Centerville Rotary 
January 12, 2017
 
Our newest member, Robert Hendrix, shown second from right, is inducted into the club.
Welcome Robert, a possible cousin of the singing Hendrix.... He is standing next to our club
president Ron Hollenbeck and his sponsor Ann Blackburn in the left of the picture. PDG
Harvey Smith, who inducts our new members, is at the right.
Speakers
Jan 19, 2017
State of City Update- Centerville
Jan 26, 2017
"Drive for Smiles" Program
Feb 02, 2017
Eye Health & Safety - Prevent Blindness Organization
Feb 09, 2017
Graceworks Lutheran Services
Feb 16, 2017
State of the Township - Washington Township
Mar 02, 2017
4 Way Test Speech Contestants
Mar 09, 2017
Dayton Foundation
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Bulletin Editor
Kitty Ullmer
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Boyd Preston
January 6
 
Jack Workman
January 10
 
Spouse Birthdays
Maureen Perez
January 14
 
Alex Webb
January 31
 
Anniversaries
John Callander
Bev Callander
January 15
 
Join Date
Dick Hoback
January 1, 1974
43 years
 
Donald K. Gerhardt
January 1, 1974
43 years
 
Frank Perez
January 1, 1999
18 years
 
Jim Hester
January 1, 1997
20 years
 
John J. Beals
January 1, 1993
24 years
 
Rick L. Terhune
January 1, 1993
24 years
 
Sally D. Beals
January 1, 1993
24 years
 
Jeffrey Senney
January 5, 2004
13 years
 
Bridge Herzog
January 7, 2016
1 year
 
Boyd Preston
January 9, 2014
3 years
 
Edward Flohre
January 13, 2000
17 years
 
John Callander
January 13, 1999
18 years
 
Arnie Biondo
January 15, 2015
2 years
 
Dan Johnson
January 17, 2013
4 years
 
Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
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Rotary's Theme for 2016-17
 
The GREETERS​​​: ​​​​
 
01/19/2017 Kim Senft-Paras and Jack Durnbaugh
01/26/2017 Robert Hendrix and Bridge Herzog
02/02/2017 Mark Febus and Sara McGarvey
02/09/2017 Butch Spencer and Robert Hendrix 
 
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.

01/12/2017
 
The greeters at the next meeting will be Kim Senft-Paras and Jack Durnbaugh   
 
The guests at the meeting included: Elizabeth Kimbler of American Home Shield, a Home warranty company, and Anna Marie Schuck, originally from Germany, of GMC Vitamin Store. They are seen in the picture below, with Anna Marie on left. Our speaker and his colleagues are shown below in a picture, and our new member is shown in the picture above.
 
 
 
The Centerville Rotary Club met at noon at the Clubhouse at Yankee Trace Golf Course. President Ron Hollenbeck led the Pledge of Allegiance, Harvey Smith gave the prayer, and Drew Carter led the singing of God Bless America, to the satisfaction of all.
 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
 
President Ron Hollenbeck began the meeting by noting that the District Conference will be held this year at the Marriott in Mason, on April 28-29, with the golf outing April 28. The silent auction will also be included, and Dick Hoback said he will gladly take charge of helping to get the wine barrow together. It was a bit hit last year and brought high bid. 
 
Ron noted that thank you notes from grateful recipients of the Adopt-a-Family Christmas gifts were being passed around. A thank you note was also received from the Habitat family for the information books the club gives to help the new residents with their household. 
 
Ron said anyone with service project ideas for the 2017-18 year should let him know so we might add them to ones we have been doing to get grant money to aid us in our projects. 
 
Ron noted that Boyd Preston has been absent due to the fact that he had a knee replacement on his birthday last Thursday and is recuperating from that and since he cannot drive, has to let his wife drive, and that evidently isn't as fun as him driving. 
 
Ron then called up our new inductee, Robert Hendrix, to become a member of the club, and PDG Harvey Smith reminded all that he is not only joining our club, but the more than a million Rotary members world wide in his service above self. He reminded us all that only two countries now still have not eradicated polio, namely, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that together with the World Health Organization and the help of Bill Gates, over 1 billion dollars has been spent on the elimination of polio.
 
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PDG Harvey Smith is seen here congratulating new member Robert Hendrix.
 
Rob said he is originally from Cincinnati and attended Miami University and got his law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. For 17 years her as an assistant prosecuting attorney and now he is in private practice in Xenia, where he has worked for the past ten years. Last October his 
family moved to Centerville. He said he lost his wife of 22 years last year and now is making a new beginning and hopes to get involved in giving back to the community.
 
HAPPY BUCKS: Past Club President Brad Thorp stood in as Sgt.-at-Arms for Erich Eggers. He is seen in the picture below:

 
Brad collected Happy Bucks to benefit Homefull, which helps clients get jobs and places to live.
 
Ron Hollenbeck started off the donations with the announcement of the arrival of his second granddaughter in California. Peachy said he was just glad to be here, and our new inductee, Rob Hendrix gave for being in Rotary. Joyce Young gave a dollar for Rob and Chuck King gave for being out sick last week.
 
Drew Carter, our singing Rotarian, gave $10 for announcing an upcoming Musica concert, this one on Feb. 11, a good time to take the spouse out for a Valentine's dinner, he said. It's at Mills Park Hotel in Yellow Springs. He mentioned $50, but check with Drew on the details.
 
Dale Berry gave for just being Happy and Gerry Eastabrooks said something about giving $5, and Lee Hieronymus asked Butch Spencer to put in something for him, but their words didn't waft this way. Raj Grandhi gave for being happy to be back home and Jim Briggs said something about the IRS and that it meant he won't be broke until Tues. Jeff Senney and Dick Hoback were Happy and Deb Dulaney gave for Homefull. Dan Stewart said his daughter Mallory is now old enough to drive and also got 98 percent on the the school's GSAT test.
 
PDG Sivaji Subramaniam gave for being back from Europe where he visited his sister in Vienna and then his sister in London. He went to the posh London Rotary meeting at an expensive hotel, where the meal cost 35 pounds, and the dress was formal, he said. His sister was the first woman president of the club.
 
Dan Johnson gave for Ann Blackburn's great job at getting new members for the club. He said she's already on track to break her record for getting new members last year. Bob Fry was back and gave to note that he ran into past member Bill Reber recently. Ann said she had an I.O.U. for the club for missing a few meetings recently and our guests Anna Marie Schuck and Elizabeth Kimler each gave for being here.
 

Today's Speaker:

Monnie Bush, founder of The Victory Project, Inc, a faith-based c3 non-profit organization. He was accompanied by Tom Holley, manager of Victory Landscape, LLC, a micro-enterprise of the Victory Project, and also owner of Full Circle Cleaners, LLC, and Robert Gregory, a volunteer with the program, who is a speaker by trade and helps mentor students and help with entrepreneurship, etc.

 

Our speaker Monnie Bush is shown in the above picture, second from left. At left is Robert Gregory, and to the right is Tom Holley and our own club member PDG Sivaji Subramaniam, who got to know our speaker through his son, and employed the use of young men in the program's landscaping business to help at his home when he first came to the Dayton area.

Sivaji said Monnie Bush is a lifelong resident of Montgomery County and has served our community for more than 25 years. Prior to being called into mission work, he was vice president of an international corporate security firm where he successfully managed sensitive personnel and financial assets during internal investigations for several Fortune 500 companies.

One of his most notable achievements is his 15 year service within the criminal justice community, Sivaji said. Upon his departure he was acknowledged for having one of the most decorated law enforcement careers in the state of Ohio.

Because of the problem of high recidivism rates of youth in the criminal justice system, he founded The Victory Project, Inc. It blends an uncommon alliance between the business, local government, and faith communities. Their unique approach includes a micro-enterprise, Victory Landscape Management, LLC, which employs students from Victory Project, Sivaji said. This offers a true alternative to the street for young men without government funding.

Sivaji said Monnie Bush is a member of Aileron and the Montgomery County Mentoring Collaborative, and consults for the Ohio Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative. He is a founding member of Police and Clergy Together, which provided comfort and care to the Dallas Police Department after their mass police shooting in July, 2016. He serves as the Montgomery County Faith Representative for the Crossover Youth program at Georgetown University. Recently he began consulting with other organizations and municipalities for additional Victory Project campuses. He lives in West Dayton with his wife Kelly and their three sons, Sivaji said.

Monnie said he knew Sivaji from his son volunteering at Project Victory. He said the project has an impact on the business community. Before he was in law enforcement, his family was from Appalachia, he said. It was a blue collar family with ethics and faith. When he became a policeman he realized many young men did not get the discipline he did from his family. As a policeman he found he was getting calls from moms asking him if he could come and spank their child for them. Monnie said he had a healthy fear of his father, but the calls he got said the child was back talking or wont' go to school. The parents had more social and mental issues to deal with. 

Monnie said Montgomery County has a program for offending children who are ten years and younger. There are court issued alarm clocks as some kids have nobody home to get them to school, he said. 

As a Christian he said he saw it as his mission to help direct and build relationships between law enforcement and the community. To incarcerate one youth it costs the state $200,000 a year, he said. 

"There's gotta be a better way," he said. When he was a kid he had a job. He had a newspaper route, and worked at a pizza place. Now there is unemployment, and graduation rates are going down. He said he was called to this project as a mission. The first year and a half he did research and development, he said. He did not want to take government money. He wanted things to be voluntary. The classes, Bible study, and job training. To do that they need to start their own businesses, he said, and be able to have references for doing their job. 

The Victory Project is for youth 12 to 18. They practice the three E's: Education, Entrepreneurship; and Enlightenment. They want to give back to the community and break the cycle of poverty. Students help in giving tours of their workplace. "We invest in them," he said. It's an Alternative to the Street. He showed a short video that showed kids holding guns and in a gang situation. The alternative to the gangs and assaults, are work, gaining self confidence and changing attitudes, he said. There's accountability for what you do and you gain your right to work. He said volunteers help mentor the students and businesses can hire the students to help with landscape work. They have a logo: Uncommon Alliance. Uncommon Youth. Uncommon Results." Monnie Bush, the founder and C.E.O. of the project can be reached at (937) 224-0880, or monnieb@victoryproject.org. The address is 409 Troy St., Dayton, OH., 45404. Tom Holley, manager of Victory Landscape Management, LLC is at the same office number, with cell phone: (937) 369-5434, or tomh@victoryproject.org

The meeting ended with the reciting of Rotary's Four-Way Test.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The club ended the meeting by reciting the words on Rotary's Four-Way Test:

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