Announcements:
President King thanked our official greeters.
Sofie Ameloot had Adopt a Family information. Gifts were to be brought to the Cline Elementary location from 3 to 7 p.m. and Monday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Christmas meal sign up and meal surveys was on the table. You can either have Prime Rib or a chicken meal.
Holiday Dinner: Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. at Yankee Trace, with Centerville Jazz Ensemble as entertainment. The District Governor and the Assistant Governor are both to be guests at the dinner.
Boyd asked for a vote on the officers and board for next year. Frank Perez will be President in 20-21. Brian Hayes will be President-Elect. Crissy Allums will be head of Activities. Arnie Biondo will be Vice President...we understand that before coming to Centerville, Arnie was in a Rotary Club in Illinois, where he was also president of the club he was in.
Ann Blackburn will remain as Chair of Membership and Attendance. Gerry Eastabrooks will remain as Treasurer. Mark Balsan will remain as Secretary. Joyce Young will still be Rotary Foundation Director and Harvey Smith will be Asst. Director. Chuck King, of course, will be Immediate Past-President/Nominating Committee.
Education Foundation Director is still Judy Budi with Tom Groszko on board. International Service Director is Ron Hollenbeck still (International service projects)
New Generations Director remains Mark Febus and Community Service Director remains Sofie Ameloot. Club Affairs Director remains Brad Huffman.
Carol Kennard will be in charge of the 50th Anniversary, Interact is Mark Febus. 4-Way Speech is Kisha Taylor, and Youth Exchange is Brad Huffman.
R.Y.L.A. was done by the late John Beals. That spot is open still.
Under Community Service Director Sofie Ameloot
...Dictionaries/Thesauri, Sofie
...Adopt-a-Family...Susan Snell
...Operation Warm...Jim Stuart (TBC)
...Service Days...Jen Gibbs
...Silent Auction...Dick Hoback
...Orphan Souls...Elda Gotos Gay
Under Club Affairs Director Brad Huffman
...eBulletin Editor Kitty Ullmer
...Social Activities
Pancake Chair..Adam Manning/Brad Huffman
Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers
Public Relations
Fund Raising
The slate was unanimously approved.
Happy Bucks were collected this week by Club Treasurer Gerry Eastabrooks and Past President Boyd Preston
VP Brian Hayes gave for his first grandchild. Ann Blackburn gave $20 for missing birthday, etc. Frank Perez, like many, was just Happy. Carol was happy for being with her new grandchild two weeks ago. Susan Snell gave for forgetting to serve pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. Sofie Ameloot gave for having all her girls home with her. Kim gave for being back and Jeff Senney gave for being in the Miamisburg Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving and seeing his grandson do the five mile race in 40 minutes. He was only 7 when he ran it the year before and did well.
Jim Harris gave $5 for his birthday and Donald Overly gave for Carmella, our guest at 22 months, the grandchild of Kisha Taylor. Kisha had PeeWee League tickets for sale for $5.
Mark Gerken gave $20 and Crissy Allums didn't forget OSU the Big Ten Champions.
Wayne Davis gave for being a late arrival and Arnie gave $10, noting the Miamisburg Rotary is holding their Pancake Breakfast Saturday morning. Some of their members came to ours, he said. Ray gave for his son and daughter-in-law for having Thanksgiving Dinner. Mike Wier gave to announce that the Ohio Brass Band would be playing at Christ United Methodist Church at 3 p.m. Sunday. Dale Berry said he had to go all the way to Orlando, Fla. last week to celebrate Thanksgiving with his grandchild.
Ron said he had a great Thanksgiving, as did Jim Briggs, and Harvey had Thanksgiving with a grandchild.
Speaker of the Week: Mike Watkins, Butler County Chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, which makes and delivers beds to kids without beds.
Vice President Brian Hayes introduced our speaker.
He said Mike Watkins and his wife Eileen live in Monroe and have six kids, three in college. Mike is self employed and does electrical design and programming on factory automated equipment. He received his electrical engineering degree from UD. He served eight years in the Navy in the Nuclear Power Program.
Mike said he and his wife Eileen started SHP in 2018. It is the Butler County chapter of SHP, but he would like to see Montgomery County also become a chapter.
He said a youth church group in Idaho started the original group, putting their work on Facebook. It was a group of high school buddies. He said he didn't realize how big it could be after learning how to start up a chapter. They've built over 900 beds, he said. He wants to get local businesses and churches involves, with the businesses getting their employees to build the beds. He showed a video of the beds being built and delivered and the joy on the faces of the kids getting the beds and their parents seeing their kids have beds. They can do 100 beds in a day, he said. He said the District Conference will be in April and that Wilmington College started a chapter and that Lebanon is going to have one. Word of mouth spreads after they deliver the beds, he said. They get funding through grants and the companies sponsoring building the beds use their own employees as volunteers, so they don't need outside volunteers, he said. When they deliver the beds they deliver a Bible, but they are not pushing any particular religion, he said.
Mike told how the organization got started in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that builds and delivers beds to children who don't have beds to sleep in. Luke and Heidi Mickelson founded SHP in 2012 in Twin Falls, Idaho. As of November 2019, the organization has 200 chapters around the United States and has built over 35,000 beds.[1
When Luke Mickelson was a youth group leader at his church, the group built beds for a member family of the church that was in need. He then built a bed with his family and offered it for free on Facebook. When people in the community heard about the effort, many donated bedding items, which encouraged Mickelson to move forward with the project. The organization grew at such a pace that Mickelson decided to leave his job and run SHP full-time.
The web television series Returning the Favor featured Mickelson and SHP on an episode in February 2018. CNN honored Mickelson as a CNN Hero of 2018.
The Rotary meeting was adjourned with the reciting of the Four-Way Test
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