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This Week at Centerville Rotary 
JUNE 15, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Rick L. Terhune
June 9
 
Bob Fry
June 15
 
Matthew Kuhn
June 17
 
Donald K. Gerhardt
June 22
 
Carol Kennard
June 28
 
Spouse Birthdays
Carlos Quiñones
June 1
 
Bev Callander
June 22
 
Anniversaries
Harvey B. Smith
Carolyn Smith
June 8
 
Dick Hoback
Marilyn Hoback
June 16
 
Rick L. Terhune
Terry
June 16
 
Peachy Metzner
Pamela Metzner
June 21
 
Chuck King
Elaine King
June 25
 
Donald K. Gerhardt
Phyllis
June 25
 
Raymond A. Merz
Sue
June 26
 
Boyd Preston
Deborah Preston
June 27
 
Don Stewart
Teri Stewart
June 28
 
Bridge Herzog
Zog Herzog
June 30
 
Join Date
Michael Wier
June 1, 1981
36 years
 
Ann Blackburn
June 5, 2001
16 years
 
Bob Fry
June 8, 2005
12 years
 
Don Overly
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Harvey B. Smith
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Jack Workman
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Lee Hieronymus
June 13, 1972
45 years
 
Matthew Kuhn
June 30, 2004
13 years
 
Shelley Fisher
June 30, 2006
11 years
 
Speakers
Jun 22, 2017
BOGG Ministries
Jun 29, 2017
Installation of Officers @ Benham's Grove
Jul 13, 2017
Goodwill & Easter Seals Miami Valley Overview
Jul 20, 2017
Fraze Pavilion
Jul 27, 2017
Downtown Dayton Partnership
Aug 03, 2017
Dayton Council of World Affairs (DCOWA)
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Rotary's Theme for 2016-17
 
The GREETERS​​​: ​​​​ 
 
06/22/2017 Raj Grandhi and Graham Ross
06/29/2017 Jennifer Gibbs and Harvey Smith...meeting at Benham's Grove on N. Main St. in Centerville
07/06/2017 Jack Durnbaugh and Brad Huffman
07/13/2017 Frank Perez and Don Gerhardt
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
 
Meeting on 06/15/2017
 
Greeter Jen Gibbs and club member Boyd Preston serving as extra greeter
 
Here Jen Gibbs greets club president Ron Hollenbeck
 
Official greeters Ann Blackburn (L) and Jen Gibbs welcome Rob Degenhart from the Fairborn Rotary Club. He is seen holding the book produced by their club to promote literacy using the Rotary 4-Way Test as a basis for the story.
 
The greeters at the next meeting will be Raj Grandhi and Graham Ross
 
The Centerville Rotary Club met at noon at The Club House at Yankee Trace Golf Course. 
President Ron Hollenbeck led the Pledge of Allegiance, Brian Hayes gave the Prayer, and Adam Manning led the singing of God Bless America
 
This week's guests included:
 
 Saloni Bagwani, our Indian exchange student; Maria Arechiga, Rotary Exchange student from Los Cabos, Mexico, sponsored by the Dayton Rotary but attending Centerville High School, and a good friend of Saloni; Rob Degenhart, past president of the Fairborn Rotary and past Assistant District Governor; our speaker Angela Fisher, volunteer coordinator at Bethany Village/Graceworks; Dottie Overly, wife of member Don Overly.
 
Maria and Saloni are seen in the picture below with club members Arnie Biondi and Boyd Preston. Arnie was honored with the title "dad" by Saloni for all his help while here and his family serving as one of her hosts.
 
 
 
Jen Gibbs and Rob Degenhart
 
Our guest speaker Angela Fisher is seen below
 
Ben Holmes (L) helps set up and serve and help out wherever needed
 
Before the meeting, those on the membership committee met to strategize. Sivagi, Ann, Joyce and Adam...
 
Jill Wallace works across the hall from the club's meeting room. She's the go-to gal for all things Yankee Trace and is helpful when the clubs needs extra help or to find things. She's also a shoe person, though you can't see that from this picture.
 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
 
Ron reminded everyone that with our exchange student Saloni about to return to India, there would be a farewell mixer for her from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 16 at Schoolhouse Park off Nutt Road at the big shelter. He asked club members to come and thank her for all she's done and for her successful year here in Centerville. You all should have received an e-mail message this past week about the event. The party got off to a great start Friday, with cake and food supplied by the Biondis and student friends bringing dessert cookies and chips. And lots of friends and Dale Berry and wife, Ron, Boyd, Mark Febus, Kim Senft-Paras and husband, Harvey Smith...all in the first hour. Music and laughter ruled the evening as the big shelter and 90-plus degree weather without rain gave a warm welcome to lots of hugs and good wishes. There was Rebecca Quinones with her two daughters, pretty as ever and gracious too, and much much more. A few of the pictures from the party are seen below. And more at end of bulletin.
 
At the Rotary meeting Ron reminded members that our "changing of the guard" meeting at Benham's Grove will be June 29, and he will need a head count to plan on the number of box lunches needed for the day. He passed around sheets to sign up if coming so there will be enough box lunches for everyone. He said Peachy hopes to be able to attend that meeting. Peachy said he is keeping up on the meetings by reading the bulletins, which makes him feel almost like being here. He said he misses us, but we miss him more...
 
Ron said he never met up with Harvey and Dick Hoback at the Atlanta convention, but with many thousands of people from all over the world, it is easy to see how they may have passed in the night. Ron's wife got left behind and when asked why she was not there, as she was shopping at DLM, where Ed Flohre and Erich Eggers hang out...she said she was not asked to go...Ron countered when he got back, saying that wasn't so, Fake News in today's political terms, but that it was a choice of her new dog or the convention, and she chose the new dog, the same one that bit into her expensive tubes of yellow paint, squirting them all over the carpet a while back.
Ron said he was impressed by some of the speakers, especially Bill Gates, who said he came late to the Polio eradication project, while Rotary had been at it for 30 years. He said it would take another billion and a half dollars to make sure it is totally eradicated. Rotary International pledged $50 million for the next three years and Gates said he would match that two for one, with $300 million over the next three years, Ron said, adding that Gates would probably stick in another $100 million.
Ron said those involved in Operation Warm got together, and he also met up with Greg Bixler of Design Outreach, responsible for the water pumps used in the African projects to provide clean, safe water. 
 
Ron said the Fourth of July parade will again include Rotary and the 1927 Fire truck driven by club member Lee Hieronymus. Squirt guns should be on the ready. Ron said he would fill in for Peachy, but others wanting to ride should let them know. They meet at the city building lower parking lot at 9:30 a.m. on July 4, Lee said. "We're a big hit," he said. 
 
Ron said earlier that Katie Neubert has been accepted for membership and should be here around July 1. She will be transferring from a New Jersey club, he said.
 
Happy Bucks: Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers (seen below) collected Happy Bucks for The Victory Project, a privately funded Dayton after-school program for young men involving the three "E's": Education, Entrepreneurship, and Enlightenment.
 
Our exchange student Saloni used her Happy Buck time to thank the club and her family hosts for her year in Centerville and all the good times and friends she has made. She said she enjoyed being at club meetings and while at CHS joining in on all the activities she could fit in, from the successful speech and debate team, to throwing shot put on the track and field team, and being in the school's Interact Club. 
Boyd Preston gave Happy Bucks for the Victory Project. 
Judy Budi gave for Angela Fisher, our guest speaker. Judy is head honcho over at Bethany Village, so she also gave Angela's introduction.
Arnie Biondo gave a couple of Happy Bucks for the exchange students.
Dale Berry gave for going to the Wilmington, Ore. Rotary where he visited a banana split festival, and Erich Eggers gave for Saloni being an absolutely fabulous exchange student. Jack Durnbaugh also gave for Saloni, as did several others in succession. Frank Perez said he was back from Texas and his nephew's wedding on South Padre Island. Carol Kennard said her daughter was home and she saw the second dance recital for her granddaughter, and this year she actually went out on stage. 
Brian said that on June 12 his grandson celebrated his first birthday. 
Rob Degenhart said he looked up our Rotary Club using the Rotary App and found a ready link to the Web site and that he read some of the recent bulletins to get an idea of what club he would be visiting, and found the bulletins a good read, which we appreciate and owe to the jovial nature of the club members.
He asked to participate in a banner exchange, which is shown in one of the top pictures in this bulletin. Don and Lee gave, with Lee saying he got the 1927 Chevy's  carburator  cleaned, as it does't always run like you want it to. 
Rebecca said she was happy to have her 19-year-old daughter back home for the summer. Doug Bockrath said he was just Happy. 
Ron gave for Saloni and the Atlanta Conference. 
Bob Fry was called out to pay five dollars for his birthday, which he had already done last week, but he said he would gladly pay another $5 if the club just doesn't sing Happy Birthday. Which we didn't.
Erich Eggers also gave Happy Bucks for Saloni.
 
This picture shows the Fairborn Rotary Club banner and the book the Fairborn club had published.  Below that are pictures of Maria and club member Jack Durnbaugh, principal at Centerville High School, then you see Ben again and then the guy in the bow tie, Todd Standard, who like Ben helps set up and serve the meals. 
 
 
Today's Speaker:  Angela Fisher, Volunteer Coordinator, Bethany Village Graceworks
 
 
Club member Judy Budi introduced our guest speaker, noting that Angela Fisher came to Bethany Village/Graceworks in March of this year from Omaha, Nebraska. Judy said Angela has a masters degree and is a resident of Kettering with a four-year old and a six-year old. She was a Rotary exchange student to Brazil in 2002, Judy said. Angela is the volunteer coordinator at Bethany Village.
 
Angela said that before she became the volunteer coordinator she had been at Pay Pal and also had been a stay-at-home mom.
Her first job was as a volunteer at a retirement home in North Platte, Nebraska, when she was 14, she said. She found she has a passion for working with the elderly.
She said Bethany celebrated its 90th birthday in 2016. At first its mission work was its objective, along with creating activities to stimulate those residing at the center. Graceworks was part of their mission, dealing with adoptions, disaster regions, family counseling, etc. Bethany Village was developed for senior living (62 and older) with housing and apartments for low income and disabled, partnering with HUD, to give a sense of security to those in need, with no more than 30 percent of their annual income. Locations are in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.  The VA has Martin Luther, the Redeemer is on Steve Whalen Blvd., and St. Mark is for the hearing impaired, she said.
Graceworks at Home, Lutheran Services, is a program wherein skilled nurses go into the home and do things like occupational and speech therapy, and private duty care workers do things like medicine reminding, running errands, light housekeeping, and some personal care.
There are also consumer credit counseling services and in Eton, Ohio, a food pantry and once-around shop.
 
Bethany Village, where she works is a continuous care community started in 1946 by the Lutheran Intermission on a 100 acre farm with four farm houses on it. Housing and nursing services have increased over the past 65-to-70 years, with renovations and additions to buildings making a huge campus that you can drive around amidst cottages, villas, apartments, with trees and a lake, she said. Some 750 residents live on campus, some independently and others in assisted living, where they get extra help. The nursing care facility has licensed nurses and can help dress, bathe and feed the residents. A rehab center and a memory support unit are also part of the complex. The rehab center is for those who need short term support recovering after surgery. They usually have a two-to-three week stay, she said. Occupational therapy is available there.
Memory support is for those with dementia and/or Alzheimer's.
She said they have an up and coming addition which they plan to start next month, and have complete by the end of 2018, called Crescent Crossing. It will have 74 assisted living rooms. People have indicated they want bigger spaces more like apartment style living, Angela said.
It will have more places for people to congregate: a coffee shop, a nice chapel, a fitness center, and different dining rooms, she said.
The $42 million project will require demolishing a 22 unit, 47,000 square-foot wing in the Linden House, used as a skilled nursing center. The new area will have 74 units in a four-story, 90,000 square foot building for assisted living. Smaller assisted living units will be made into memory care units.
 
Angela said Bethany is a continuing care facility, so that people can live in a cottage or villa for maybe 10 or 15 years and then not find it a big jump to move to assisted living if needed. They are accredited and have a life enrichment team coordinator, who arranges luncheons, games, outings, etc. 
They have a full-time music therapist and a family support area. The staff is very welcoming, she said. It is a Christ-based organization. They emphasize fitness and have a full-time exercise physiologist to help keep residents in shape. 
Graceworks has 850 volunteers, who give 86,000 hours a year, which represents about $1.8 million in dollar value, Angela said.
Bethany Village has 220 volunteers, with 50 percent being residents who live on campus. Some give friendly visits and establish relationships with those who may have no family around. They can serve as a foster family. There are also wheelchair visitors, who push wheelchairs, helping residents to church service, meals, etc. They might turn a page in a church hymnal for someone who can't, or help them sing hymns. Also there is a thrift store and a gift store on site run by volunteers. If you volunteer you give your time to the community and it keeps you active, she said. It helps you stay healthy. She showed a few pictures of residents having a home run derby, a Floridian party in February, and some residents going to a Buckeye game.
Those wishing to volunteer have to go through a short vetting process, with a background screening and are usually placed in one to two weeks, she said.
 
The meeting ended with the members repeating the words of the Rotary Four-
Way Test. 
 
More party pictures...

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