President Adam Manning welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. PDG Harvey Smith provided the prayer, including special get well prayers for Dick Hoback, and Sivaji & Elvessa Subramaniam.
This being the first meeting of the month, Lee Hieronymus led the club in singing God Bless America.
Today’s quote: "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." By Sir Winston Churchill
Thanks to today’s greeters: Arnie Biondo played by Ron Hollenbeck and Rand Oliver played by Lee Hieronymus.
Welcome to our guest from the Oakwood Rotary Club, Jacqueline Gaines.
Todays announcements:
- Tomorrow is the service project at the CWPD Operations Building sorting batteries for recycling. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help.
- Feb 23 Rotary celebrates it’s 119 birthday. It is now known as World Understanding and Peace Day.
- Feb 26 next Board meeting, starting at 5:30 pm at Woodbourne Library
- Feb 29 Rotary Social at Senney’s house, beginning at 6:30 pm.
- Sofie will be attending the All Ohio President-Elect Training (PETS) in March. The District project this year is raising funds for “On our Sleeves”. A $25 donation funds a kit to schools for child mental health awareness.
- Apr 27 Rotary Social at Dayton Philharmonic with an ABBA tribute band. Tickets are at a greatly reduced price of $30.50. Let Jeff know if you can attend.
- Brian Hayes said “Hi” and “Thank you.” You know what for.
- Crissy Allums distributed sign up sheets on the table for diaper wrapping in March. Please sign up!
- Sofie Ameloot encouraged all to sign up for the Rotary social at Senney’s and bring a dish to share.
- Chuck King announced next Wednesday, 6-8 pm is the training for District grants, sign up online and learn more about the process.
Happy Bucks this quarter are going toward the International Conflict Relief through the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
Brian Hayes was the Sergeant at Arms.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Sofie Ameloot was happy, is looking forward to PETS and hopes many will donate to the On our Sleeves project.
- Ron Hollenbeck got to see the Dayton Flyers play Tuesday night and WIN
- Lee Hieronymus shared we had 26 days of no sun in January and he had no farm report today. (Followed by a room of cheers!)
- Elda Gotos Gay sending get well wishes for Elvessa, Sivaji, & Dick.
- Harvey Smith to help the Red Cross.
- Brad Huffman was happy the 49ers squeaked in the Super Bowl and knows the NFL is rigged and Taylor Swift will prevail!
- Vimbai Mazani was happy.
- Wayne Davis was happy.
- Adam Manning for Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl.
- Bob Daley for the Dayton Flyers playing St Bonaventure tomorrow, where Bob’s dad went and if he were still alive, there would certainly be a bet!
- Carol Kennard for getting to see signs of spring up close at Bill Yeck Park this morning.
- Mike Wier announced only 30% of the club was in attendance today.
- Crissy Allums “Go Chiefs!”
- Socks Bowersocks for only 38 days til spring, his bride hasn’t left yet, today is his birthday, and tomorrow he’s leaving for Florida.
- Dale Berry for the sunshine.
- Boyd Preston said happy birthday to Socks and gave appreciation for Harvey’s influence over Lee.
- Matt Kuhn for the sunshine.
- Chuck King said happy birthday to Socks, and reminded all that tomorrow is Groundhog Day (hope he doesn’t see his shadow or we’ll have 6 more weeks of winter.)
- Don Overly was glad Jacqueline was visiting from Oakwood.
- Jim Harris for our guest, Jacqueline.
- Jacqueline Gaines was happy to be here and gave thanks for the great hospitality and, “Go Chiefs!”
- Sofie Ameloot announced she’s starting a Ladies of Rotary meeting the 2nd Thursday of the month, 5:30 pm at Old Scratch. Everyone is invited, men, too!
Our speaker today was our own Ron Hollenbeck, speaking on the Zambia Life Pump.
Ron Hollenbeck shared our club has been involved with Design Outreach, the maker of the Life Pump, for around 10 years. In 2014, our club made our first donation to install these water pumps. In 2018, pumps funded in part by our club were installed in Haiti, and more installed in Malawi in 2023. The new focus today is in Zambia.
Who is Design Outreach (Columbus, OH)? In the fall of 2013, Design Outreach installed their first pump in Zolomondo, Malawi and it has run non-stop since then. It is very unusual to not have breakdowns with other water pumps installed around the world. So far, they have put in 262 pumps with a goal to reach 1,000. Over 230,000 lives have been impacted by supplying a clean, reliable water source..
Ron said often times pipes are installed without anything at the end to control the flow of water, so it just runs constantly. He demonstrated a Design Outreach Pipe Stand - gravity fed to control the flow of water.
The Life Pump can go down 500 feet, deeper than most other pumps. If have to go lower than 150 feet to reach water, the Malawi Ministry of Water now mandates the Life Pump.
Design Outreach has the ability to monitor the pumps remotely. They can see how many times the hand crank is turned. If there is a decline in turns, they return to see what’s wrong and fix it.They would like to have electricity but most use a hand pump. They tried solar power in some locations, but it always disappeared
There is a documentary available on the Design Outreach website that can be viewed here:
https://doutreach.org/
The Zambia communities with the greatest need have been identified Rotary International has to review the proposed project, including making sure they can be maintained.
This water project is a collaboration between Districts 6690 and 6670 to install 6 pumps, provide pump training, water education, and empowering community leaders to become health ambassadors.
Project budget is $103,000. Final global grant submission will be in June followed by RI approval. Then within a year, the 6 pumps will be installed.
Over $300,000 raised here for the 20 pumps installed in Malawi.
Borehole drilling cost is included. They drill to a depth to have water throughout the dry season. Ron has helped install some of the pumps in Malawi. It takes 10-12 people to install each pump.
President Manning thanked Ron for all his great work on the Life Pump program, led reciting of the 4-Way Test, and wished everyone a great week.
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