Centerville eBulletin 11 09 2017 (Nov 07, 2017)

Rotary's Theme for 2017-18

Centerville Rotary Club Meeting Nov. 2, 2017

The GREETERS:

11/09/2017 Phil Raynes and Wayne Davis

11/16/2017 Sofie Ameloot and Dr. David Herman

11/23/2017 Thanksgiving

11/30/2017 Kim Senft-Paras and Sivaji Subramaniam

If you cannot greet on the day assigned, contact Kitty and she will schedule a replacement.

Here are our official greeters for the day, Wayne Davis (L) and Phil Raynes (M), greeting club member Judy Budi.

Phil Raynes arrived early so he got to greet many of those first coming in. And among them was

Jack Durnbaugh, CHS Principal.

And here is Tom Broadwell being greeted by Phil.

And here is Butch Spencer searching for his club badge, which wasn't in the proper spot.

They were all smiles once yours truly happened to put her hand on the one with Butch's name on it. Pure happenstance, but that's luck for you.

And then came Bob Fry.

And Jennifer Gibbs, whose husband owes her one for the OSU game tickets she bid on.

And here's Phil with Rebecca Quinones and our own ex-mayor Sally Beals

And now you see Vas Appalaneni, who started a $100 donation match for the San Juan Rotary's Puerto Rican annual program for the needy children that was in need of $5,000. My sister, Stephanie McNary, who lives in Panama City Beach, Fla., read about their need on our club Facebook posting, and posted the notice on her Facebook, so there may be some money coming from down south too.

In this picture we see Dave Trout and Chuck King talking. Dave has the sunglasses.

Jim Harris has just come in on the right.

And here's our greeter Wayne Davis talking with Dave Trout, who tried to stay out of the picture.

And Joyce Young, who has retired after 23 years as a Washington Twp. Trustee, is seen here with Wayne, our new Centerville City Manager.

And then, Judy Budi and her guest, Mark Metzger, who heads up the Washington Twp. Rec Center, arrives. He brought the lastest Winter Activity Guide for the WTRC, and also a request for a Santa to help with up to 12 nights at Woodland Lights. The whole club started pointing to Lee Hieronymus, known for his Santa-like good cheer throughout the year and on special occasions, when he arrived in full gear at club Christmas parties. A stipend of $50 would be paid to the club for Santa's visit 6 to 9 p.m.

And Wayne Davis greets Adam Manning, who took charge of the Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser with Brad Huffman this year. Good job by all.

And now Kisha Taylor and Harvey Smith, both on the Pancake Breakfast Committee, arrive.

And Harvey and Wayne have a good shake.

And then we take a look inside to see those seated for lunch.

And Jack Workman just got done saying, don't take my picture, but it was just too inviting.

And look at these two unofficial greeters, greeting one another, Brian Bergmann and Tom Broadwell.

Today's Guests included:

Mark Metzger of the Washington Twp. Rec Center, shown here with Judy Budi

Our guest speaker Nora Vondrell of SICSA.

And our little black cat disappears into the arms of Gerry Eastabrooks during the meeting.

Her pretty green eyes shine from her light inside.

And below is a better picture of our speaker Nora Vondrell with Katie Neubert, director of community engagement at the SICSA Pet Adoption Center

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The Centerville Rotary Club met at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace at noon. President Peachy (Mark) Metzner led the Pledge of Allegiance; Ray Merz gave the prayer, citing the words of St. Francis of Assisi:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen

Brad Thorp led another great rendition of God Bless America, sung by club members.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

President Peachy Metzner was greeted with great applause for returning to the club as our president after a bout with ill health.

Peachy came in proudly wearing his U.S. Marine hat. When he asked the various members to stand up when he mentioned their branch of military service, he was the sole member of the club who served in the Marines. The U.S. Air Force had the most members and the U.S. Navy several.

Ron Hollenbeck sent out an e-mail for nominations for Rotarian of the Year. He also has printed forms to use if you don't have a computer. They and the Paul Harris forms need to be in by Nov. 17, and Peachy reminded everyone of this, noting he has received about seven nominations and that nominations can be e-mailed to him.

Ron had also noted earlier that the club will match a $500 donation to move a member up to the next PHF level. Checks need to be made out to The Rotary Foundatiion, not to the Centerville Rotary.

He noted earlier that Dec. 14 is the Christmas Holiday dinner here at Yankee Trace.

President Peachy said Mark Gerkin 's application to join the club has been accepted and that he should be inducted at the next meeting. Peachy said he got a letter of thanks for our Rotarian Mike Wier cleaning the aprons for the Bellfountaine Rotary Club.

Peachy said club member Tracie Hoker has resigned from the club.

Peachy said club member Joyce Young has retired after 20-plus years as a Washington Twp. Trustee and that a retirement celebration will be held in her honor at the West Rec. Enrichment Center on Dec. 15 from 4 to 6 p.m.

He noted that Saturday is Veterans Day and asked the various Veterans in the club to stand and be recognized. Among the Navy guys were Doc Hoback and John Callander. Among the U.S.A.F members were Matt Kuhn, Chuck King and Mike Wier...Others may have stood, but Peachy went through the list so fast, these were the names I got. And some may not have stood. Peachy said that the next day would be the 242nd birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps.

He noted that the annual Veterans Day Ceremony for Centerville will be held at Stubbs Park at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Veterans Memorial, 255 W. Spring Valley Road. It will feature Col. Lori L. Winn, Commanders, 88th Communications Group, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In case of inclement weather the ceremony will be held at the Centerville Police Building, 155 W. Spring Valley Road, next to the park.

Club member Rebecca Quinones made another plea for donations to help the San Juan Rotary Club sponsor it's annual dinner for some 500 needy kids in the area. They are still without power and water in many of the areas.

Ron Hollenbeck suggested that this week's Happy Bucks go to that donation.

Peachy thanked Ron for serving as president in his absence and said that without Ron and Boyd Preston, he wouldn't be back where he is now.

Frank Perez said he had started getting thank you's from the schools for the Dictionary project and had an example from Incarnation School to pass around.

It was also noted that the Adopt-a-Family for Christmas is coming up.

HAPPY BUCKS:

Erich Eggers, our Sgt.-at-Arms, has been collecting Happy Bucks for BOGG, Because of God's Grace, which helps those in need with food and activities, etc. Gerry Eastabrooks passes the cup.

Here are the two.

Erich started the donations by stating that he was giving $100 for the Puerto Rican cause, whereas Vas Appalaneni said he would match that, but when Gerry went over to Vas, she let him know that Erich had really only given $20. and Raj Grandhi then said he would match the $100, and Erich then got out his wallet and found $26 more to give. And they said Raj only had to give $50, but it was unclear the final outcome over there.

Ron Hollenbeck then said he would also donate $100 to the cause.

Dave Trout gave for soccer being over and it's not in the cold and for Adam Manning doing such a good job with the Pancake Breakfast. He also mentioned a charity benefit for the opening of a new restaurant up by Cheddars, wherein you would pay what you wanted for the dinner served and the money would go to Hannah's Treasure Chest. This would be a soft opening for the dining staff. That benefit was for Thursday night Nov. 9.

Ray Merz gave for Peachy's return and Puerto Rico and then there were many more for Peachy being back and Puerto Rico, from Dale and Brian and Judy, and Butch giving for Life, and Jennifer for telling about just getting back from a tour of Italy, and Mark Metzger for his free lunch, and Lee gave, saying he was pleased to be a member of the club, which supports so many causes, like him being Santa and all...then there were many giving for Veterans Day, Mark, Wayne, etc., and Wayne happy that the election's over and for the second time he's been privileged to eat lunch next to Sivaji Subramaniam. Harvey and Doc Hoback gave for Puerto Rico and Jim Harris for Peachy, Adam and Puerto Rico, and Mike Wier for Puerto Rico and Brian Hayes for Puerto Rico and Matt Kuhn, noting that his son who is in the U.S. Air Force Academy is the fifth generation of the family serving in the military, going back to his great, great grandfather serving in the Austrian army in the 1860s. Sofie Ameloot gave for seeing her daughter, and Don Stewart and Brad for the Vets and Don for a great meal at Carrabba's, and Puerto Rico. And for his daughter coming in fifth in the state in cross country recently. And Peachy gave for Puerto Rico and being happy to be back in the driver's seat at the club, and Gerry gave $9 for Puerto Rico, and others gave for Puerto Rico, Brad Huffman and Kisha with $18, and Frank for Peachy and Puerto Rico and Katie for 20,000 hours of service from volunteers at SICSA and our guest speaker gave noting she was glad to hear that Lee would be Santa Claus. And Adam Manning gave for Puerto Rico, and Erich Eggers thanked all and the money won in the 2/2 drawing was given back to the Puerto Rico donation.

Today's Speaker: Rona Vondrell, executive director of the SICSA Pet Adoption Center

The above picture is an artist's rendition of the proposed new SICSA building to be built in Washington Twp.

Katie Neubert, seen on the right in this picture, introduced our guest. Katie is the Director of Community Engagementl for the SICSA Pet Adoption Center

Kati said Nora has been the executive director of the SICSA Pet Adoption Center since early 2011. Since then the program has seen tremendous growth in all areas, she said.

Previously Nora held leadership positions at AIDS Resource Center Ohio (now known as Equitas Health) and Daybreak. She said Nora has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and a Master's degree in Public Administration. She is also a graduate of the Leadership Dayton Class of 2002 and was chosen to be a part of the Dayton Business Journal's Forty Under Forty in 2007. Highly strategic in her approach, Nora has been lauded for her willingness to step outside the nonprofit box when needed, and work from a business enterprise model.

Katie said Nora lives in Washington Twp. with her husband of over twenty years, Jack; their two teenage boys, Luke and Adam, and their four-legged adopted fur baby, Bella.

Nora said the number of homeless dogs is four times the number of homeless humans, namely because humans don't have litters of five or more.

She said 2.7 million animals are euthanized annually as shelters are overcrowded. She said 46 percent of the animals rescued locally are euthanized, which is good compared to five years ago when 65 percent had to be euthanized.

She said the Animal Resource Center ran out of room and in 2016 had a high of 1,654, or 46 percent.

In 2013 they developed a comprehensive strategic plan. Where they were housed used to be a strip mall, she said. It wasn't built to be a shelter. Also it was landlocked. It had been in Kettering for 40 years. It's been at 2600 Wilmington Pike. In 2015 they hired Hodge Group, a Columbus consultant and decided to build a capital campaign to build a new facility.

What they need is shown in the picture below:

Nora said SICSA had humble beginnings, starting with a $1 rented place, then a house, then the strip mall.

They vetted 11 parcels of land before finding one with the right visibility and accessibility, she said. They found what has been called "beachfront" property, where Washington Church Road ends and crosses Lyons Road with I-675 on the left. It will have 25,000 square feet of space, compared to the 11,000 square feet at the present site, which will remain open, according to a previous DDN news release on the township trustee's approval of the rezoning. SICSA said ‘significantly’ more volunteers will be needed to support both sites. SICSA has between 700 to 800 volunteers.

Nora said they have 1,600 adopted animals annually. At the center they have a veterinary clinic on site where the animals are spayed and neutered and given up-to-date vaccinations. Medical problems are dealt with, she said. They also have a program for low and moderate income people.

Many of the animals are cast offs from society. Volunteers come and help with physical exercise, taking the dogs for walks, etc. Animals are also taken to senior centers, and 5,000 people come to their educational programs.

Their capital program needs a total of $5 million, of which they have already received a $1 million donation with the terms not to say who gave it, and are half-way there, she said. They have $2.5 million and are now fine-tuning the design and construction of the proposed facility. Going through the re-zoning process was somewhat of an ordeal, she said. If they get another million or million and a half they may be able to break ground in the summer and have a facility in 18 months.

The meeting was closed with the reciting of the Rotary Four-Way Test.