President Sofie Ameloot welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting of the Pledge. PDG Harvey Smith provided the prayer, including special prayers for Dick Hoback, who is in the hospital and not doing well.
Quote of the day: "Having a young child explain something exciting he (or she ) has seen is the finest example of communication you will ever hear or see." Bob Talbert (Columnist )
Thanks to Ron Hollenbeck & Boyd Preston for being greeters today.
Today’s guests included: Ed Werner, who was approved by the board to join the club; and our newest Exchange Student from Thailand, Enzyme (Pichpatra).
Today’s Announcements:
- Business Community Committee is working on letters to businesses. Please check the list and if you know anyone personally, let Sofie know you can make a follow up call.
- The Environmental Committee update - Dave Trout & Sofie met with Robert Erwin, Environmental Management teacher at CHS. There are lots of opportunities for partnerships with his class. Mr Erwin would like for his students to speak to our club to gain public speaking experience.
- Rotary is providing funding for tree planting at Grant Park/Kennard Nature Nook and Village South Park. We received $2,000 from the District plus $2,000 from the club to fund this project.
- Community Service - Lisa delivered 25 bags for Neighbor to Neighbor (food bank that serves 8 zip codes,) and has enough for 10 more bags that she will deliver to Cornerstone Church pantry. Thanks everyone for donating!
- Lisa still needs people to sign up for Shoes for the Shoeless 10:30 am - 1 pm. Once she has the volunteers, she will schedule a time convenient for all.
- St Vincent de Paul - also need volunteers to sign up and then the work days will be scheduled. They require a soft background check.
- Adam announced the Pancake Day volunteer sign up sheet is available at each meeting now. Sign up now or Gina, Socks, and Jackie will get after you!
- Uriah announced Pancake ticket sales are going on now. Whoever sells the most tickets will receive gift cards for the Pine Club!
- Reminder, Pancake Day this year is on October 26 (4th Saturday in October.)
- Artemis sponsorship, We are now sponsoring $1000 (8 table/volunteer opportunity Oct 17th, 8am breakfast). We would need to get there at 7 am. Need a couple more people to volunteer.
- Fall Fest, Oct 5, needs help with parking. Check the email for details. Shift includes food truck voucher.
- Kristin announced she is setting up an online Rotary apparel store and will send out an email with info. It will be shipped directly to your house. For each purchase, a portion comes back to the club!
Happy Bucks for this quarter go to Operation Warm, our annual drive to purchase winter coats for children in need in our area.
Jim Stuart was our Sergeant at Arms.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Kelly M for a coat and donated the dollar picked up on I-675 when doing the litter sweep. He invited all to Dayton Diaper Depot grand opening, Sept 28. Will email details.
- Jim S for his sick kids finally back in school and his brother got married.
- Don S daughter, Mallory, plans to stay in Jackson Hole through next winter. The house she was in was sold and she can’t get into the new place for 30 days. So while she is homeless, she’s being resourceful by doing a National Parks tour and visiting friends.
- Wayne D was happy Jim is doing Happy Bucks instead of Pat.
- Lisa GM announced we are $4,000 short of our Operation Warm goal and are collecting just this week and next, so she gave $100 and challenged others to do the same.
- Adam M turned 40 on Monday so he bought 2 coats. Happy Birthday!
- Jackie D gave for a coat and an upcoming 2 week vacation to Alabama.
- Sofie A gave a coat and is very pleased for all the efforts made by members of this club. Saturday she is going to visit her baby at OSU.
- Crissy A was happy to see Sivaji here today.
- Ron H gave congrats to Adam for his birthday, gave for 10 coats, and is going to Delaware to visit friends.
- Chuck K passed his Medicare physical today!
- Sivaji S was happy to have lunch with his table.
- Uriah A announced tonight is the 3rd Annual Joyce Young Center Art Exhibit from 6-8. He’ll be wearing a suit.
- Mike Wier for a coat.
- Gina S for a coat.
- Dave T for a coat and excited to be leaving for Maine where he will have no phone or computer during the trip.
- Jim H for a coat, and thoughts for Dick Hoback, who was a great fishing buddy.
- Rand O was glad to be where it’s not raining.
- Brad T for his 3 weeks traveling through Central Europe.
- Carol K for missing the next two weeks and requested those who are giving dedications at next week’s program, to please send her their notes for the bulletin. Thanks to Crissy for filling in as bulletin editor.
- Raj G gave a couple of coats.
- Dale B for Operation Warm.
- Bob F gave prayers for Dick Hoback and his family and matched the $100 challenge.
- Elda GG said the same.
- Lee H returned from London, gave prayers for Dick Hoback who is a wonderful man, wonderful doctor, and wonderful Rotarian. Back in the 80s or 90s we had the same drought conditions and Harvey did a rain dance so he encouraged him to do it again.
- Harvey S gave $50 and will bring other $50 next week for Operation Warm.
- Brad H gave $100 and was excited to see our Exchange Student, Enzyme, from Thailand. Gave thoughts for Dick, who was always very friendly. Brad will also be at the OSU family weekend. Last weekend he was at OU for their family weekend.
Our speaker today was Melanie Taylor, Hospice educator with Ohio Hospice.
Melanie said that Hospice is a non-profit alliance with health providers. They serve more than 60 counties and have the facility on Wilmington and also in Cleveland and Marietta.
She asked what people think about when they hear the word, “Hospice.” Some thought were: lots of fear, sadness, hero, end of life, She said there are lots of feelings around the topic but it is something that should be talked about.
Palliative Care is relatively new and is care that chronic patients can receive as all needs in one place. They started building a Palliative Care program but then COVID hit and they had to focus on that. Now they are working to build it up. It is available during any time of the patient’s chronic illness. It is for when you are still trying to sustain life.
Hospice is when you don’t want to pursue any more options or have any more treatments.
Hospice is covered 100% by Medicare Hospice Benefit. Hospice is called in when two doctors state there is less than 6 months to live (but some live longer.) Some people graduate from Hospice and that’s fine.
Ohio’s Hospice (Hospice of Dayton), serves 2100 people/day currently. They are banding together with other Hospices (non-profit). Hospice of Dayton is largest in the country.
They depend a lot on volunteers to help - deliver flowers, give hair cuts, make visits, do Veteran pinning, and Nurse Honor Guard.
They also try to make dreams come true. One patient really loved the movie Frozen, so they watched it and made it snow outside the window in July. They focus on quality of life - what do you want to do with the rest of the time you have.
Most services are provided in the home. Many people die in hospitals or nursing homes, which is not consistent with their wishes. 90% want to die at home but only 25% actually do.
People believe their loved ones will ensure their end of life wishes will be honored but fewer than 15% have shared their wishes with loved ones. End of Life directives can be changed over time as your thoughts change and your kids age.
Advance directives are the written document that outlines what you want. Then let your family and friends know you have it and where it is. A Living Will goes active when you aren’t able to communicate your wishes.
Consider the difference between a Living Will and Power of Attorney - the doctor will listen to the Living Will first since that’s your voice.
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