10/9/14 Jim Briggs and Dick Hoback
10/16/14 Mark Balsan and Pat Beckel
10/23/14 Ann Blackburn and Deb Dulaney
10/30/14 Carol Kennard and Lee Hieronymus
If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.
9/25/14
Club Vice President Brad Thorp opened the Centerville Rotary Club meeting at The Clubhouse at Yankee Trace with the Pledge of Allegiance. Member Harvey Smith gave the prayer and member Peachy Metzner led the singing of God Bless America. Peachy was able to put an image of the flag on the screen via computer, as the club's American flag had gone missing for the day.
The guests at the meeting included: Walter Senney, father of Jeff Senney. Walter Senney, 92, of Lima, has just moved in with Jeff and his wife Sharon. Also, our speaker Karen Wonders, the founder and director of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, joined us for lunch, a chicken and carrots and rice entree, with pumpkin and pecan pie for dessert.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pancake Breakfast Fund-raiser co-chair Carol Kennard said that by Monday, the latest, sponsorships need to be in if they are to be in the DDN insert. It's $250 to be listed and $500 for an ad in the newspaper insert. John Callander and the other men on the committee have put up the new signs but more signs need to be put around the community, Kennard said. Also, more volunteers, including spouses and family friends, are needed to help on Pancake Breakfast Day Oct. 25.
Boyd Preston of the Pancake Breakfast committee said Tom Broadwell has sold about 150 tickets thus far, apparently leading the pack.
Peachy reminded those volunteering to help put labels on the dictionaries and thesauri, that they would do that after the meeting behind Cline Elementary school off Virginia Avenue.
HAPPY BUCKS:
Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers said the club has collected $3,500 for Operation Warm and with $500 from grant money, should have $4,000 to purchase about 200 coats for Operation Warm to help children stay warm this winter. Happy Bucks will now go towards the House of Bread.
Jeff Senney introduced his father Walter to the club and said he will probably be a regular attendee at our club meetings from now on. He has some hearing difficulty, so please speak up when you talk and greet him.
Member Pat Beckel said his son's debut in a commercial has gone world-wide. He appears with a super model in a Chinese cellphone company commercial..
Peachy, the club's liaison with The Castle, mentioned a mental illness awareness event designed to get the public more aware of help available and to help get rid of the stigma often attached to having mental illness. During Mental Illness Awareness Week The Castle will hold a National Day of Prayer event at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at The Castle, 133 N. Main St. Keynote speakers will include Mayor Mark Kingseed and Amy Simpson, the author of Troubled Minds.
SPEAKER: Karen Wonders, founder and director of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance
Ron Hollenbeck introduced our speaker.
Ms. Wonders said she first became interested in cancer exercise rehabilitation in 2003 when she was working on her doctoral degree in exercise physiology at the University of Colorado. She became certified as a cancer exercise specialist and worked at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute as a cancer exercise trainer.
She said she found that supervised exercise and nutrition can have positive effects on people in treatment for cancer.
She and her family moved to Dayton in 2006. She is now a professor of exercise science at WSU, where she also serves as director of the Sports Science program. She continues to research the area of exercise and cancer treatment-related pain and neuropathy. She has authored professional manuscripts, books and book chapters on this topic.
Ms. Wonders explained cancer as cells in the body that divide and get out of control and then invade other areas of the body. The treatments for cancer, from surgery to radiation and chemotherapy, all have side effects that can be toxic or painful in and of themselves. Treatment has physiological and psychological effects. The physiological effects can be muscular-skeletal, cardiovascular, or pulmonary, and also effect the extremities with fluids, she said.
Psychologically, treatment can cause fatigue (98 percent of cases), and depression or anxiety (two-thirds of cases), she said.
In the past, the treatment was often as dire as the disease, and some doctors wouldn't tell their patients they had cancer, because they did not understand it themselves, she said.
In 1961, President Nixon declared "war on cancer" and the National Cancer Act was passed, helping in the war. At that time there were three million people with cancer. Now there are 245 million, with 11.7 million of them living in the U.S., she said. The five-year survival rate is 64 percent, with those with breast cancer at a 90-plus 5-year survival rate, she said.
The National Institute of Health considers cancer a chronic illness and looks for the improvement in the quality of life for those who have cancer, she said.
She founded the Maple Tree Cancer Alliance in 2011 in Dayton (it's near Children's Hospital) with the intent to improve the quality of life for people struggling with cancer. It includes supervised exercise training and nutritional counseling. All services are free, she said. They hope to see shorter hospital stays and better health with nutritional intervention, she said. She said 38 percent of the time nutrition is a factor in a cancer diagnosis. They have a registered dietitian who is also a chef in their program, she said. As the program director of the exercise science program at WSU, Wonders said she makes sure they have certified exercise trainers in the Maple Tree Cancer Alliance program.
The exercise program tries to increase the range of motion, improve treatment tolerance, manage side effects from treatment, and increase strength and endurance and improve the overall quality of life of the cancer patient. "Everything is one-on-one," she said. Every three months a re-evaluation of the treatment is made, she said.
Wonders said the program has two up-coming fund-raisers, one at 6 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Dayton Country Club, which is a Fellowship Dinner, and one March 7, 2015 at the Five Seasons Sports Club, an event that will be like a spa day with Beauty/Body emphasis...nails, massages, etc. More information can be found on the Web, she said.
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