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Welcome to this week’s meeting of the eClub of the State of Jefferson.
I am Bob Gibson, President of the Rotary eClub of State of Jefferson. Welcome to this week’s meeting. I hope this finds you well.
Our grant application for the book vending machine for Chinle Planting Hope has been submitted to the District Grant Committee and is being processed. Jean Hamilton made the trip to Chinle this past Saturday for a recognition event. It sounds like a wonderful experience. I believe the support we provide to the Navajo Nation is well directed. Thank you, Jean, for representing our Club.
We have started the transition process for the new Rotary year. We are putting together the plans and budget for Rotary Year 23-24. There are many opportunities to get involved with the Rotary eClub of State of Jefferson. If you would like to get involved and need more information, please contact me.
Our June Board meeting is today, June 15 at 8:00am PDT. You are welcome to attend. These meetings provide an opportunity for input and involvement in the direction of your Club.
Please look for an email from our Treasurer, Carol Ruggeri. She is sending out the invoices for the membership dues for our Club. We work to keep the cost of membership under control. The payment is due by June 30. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your interest in our Club and your commitment to “Service above Self.”
Enjoy the meeting.
If you have any questions or comments, I am available. My e-mail address is: bob@bluewaterphoto.net.
email president@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
eClub Board Meeting June 15, 2023
08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join District Governor Aimee and District Governor Elect Jim for the Passing of the Gavel,
Pinning of the 2023-24 Rotary Club of Illinois Valley and District Leadership, REGISTER HERE
The Rotary E-Club of World Peace is co-hosting a mega-meeting with Rotary International President-Elect Gordon McInally
this Thursday June 15th at 7:30 AM Pacific Time.
His topic is: Imagine a Future: Creating Hope in the World! Please join in for a chance to meet our incoming president and ask questions.
Club member Arthur Kanegis is part of the planning group and will be giving a short talk on how we can “Transcend Borders to Create Peace.”
Register now and share widely.
Dear District 5110 Rotarians:
Our Annual District 5110 Business & Resolution Committee Meeting will be held via Zoom this Saturday June 17th at 9:00 AM.
Please visit https://www.dacdb.com/index.html?EventID=77671904 to register. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you Saturday morning! Yours in Service, DG Aimee
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RLI Coos Bay is September 23/24 at The Mill Casino / Hotel
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Jennifer warned Rotarians against polio fatigue by insisting that the world has never been closer to winning the battle against the disease.
Speaking at an End Polio Now event at the House of Commons, the Canadian said she was mindful how Rotarians have heard over many years how close the world was the seizing victory.
“We get fatigued sometimes and people wonder when is it going to happen,” said Jennifer.
“But the reason for nights like tonight is to let you know that we are within reach and we have to have the confidence that we are going to do this and keep our promise to the children of the world.”
We have never worked so hard to find the virus. We are aggressively going after that virus wherever it takes place. We are most definitely on track for the goals that we set ourselves in the strategy.”
Speaking in one of the committee rooms at the Palace of Westminster, in front of an invited gathering of Rotarians, the RI President spoke movingly about her visit to Pakistan last year, watching vaccinators move from house to house in some of the most challenging slums in oppressive heat to carry out polio vaccinations of young children.
“I visited Karachi and Islamabad with one very simple purpose and that was to offer word of gratitude to these women, the vaccinators, who put themselves in harm’s way every day. These women told me they believe they are on the frontline of this war.
“I am enormously proud of the work these women are doing to ensure every child remains polio-free.”
Jennifer Jones admitted funding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to complete the task remains a challenge. There is a gap of $2.2 billion in order to immunise 400 million children over the next three years.
(Photo) Jennifer Jones and Aidan O’Leary at the House of Commons.
But the reward of delivering on the promise and creating the legacy of a public health infrastructure were enormous, she said.
Aidan O’Leary, the World Health Organization’s Director for Polio Eradication, described 2023 as “an absolutely critical year”.
Pointing out how there have been no polio outbreaks in Afghanistan or Pakistan since September last year – the only two places where the wild poliovirus is endemic – the Irishman admitted: “That comes against a backdrop where we have never looked so hard to find the virus.”
He said that in both countries, despite political and security difficulties, he believed that they were winning the fight.
Though he cautioned, with federal and provincial elections looming in Pakistan, alongside dealing with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, there remains many hurdles. “Our challenge continues to be to improve quality in each successive round.
“As we speak today, there is a campaign targeting more than nine million children across Afghanistan. That’s not withstanding the huge challenges that exist in the country as a whole, but we continue to find a way to operate.
“We have never worked so hard to find the virus. We are aggressively going after that virus wherever it takes place. We are most definitely on track for the goals that we set ourselves in the strategy.”
The WHO chief outlined challenges they were facing to fight polio in parts of Nigeria, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen, notably in northern Yemen, where the authorities have not allowed immunisation campaigns to go ahead.
Delighted to announce my new role as Polio Eradication Gender Champion at tonight’s @Rotary event. UK 🇬🇧 support is helping the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to #EndPolio and has seen polio cases drop by 99.9% since 1988. Women are key to finishing the job.— Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP (@AndrewmitchMP) March 14, 2023
He added: “Given the environments we are operating in, we’re going to have to continue to exercise no complacency in what we are facing.
“We would like to thank the UK and Rotary for all your support – whether is it advocacy or financial, that commitment has been outstanding.
“And in 2023, it is important that we see it through.”
At the meeting, Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister of State (Development & Africa) announced he will be taking on the role of gender champion for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and pledging the Government’s continued support for the campaign.
He pointed out how the British Government has supported the initiative to the tune of £1.4 billion. “As long as polio is anywhere, it is a threat everywhere,” he said.
“They do say the last mile of any marathon is always the hardest, and the UK will continue to support the campaign in global forums.”
And speaking about his new role, the Minister said: “The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has the capacity to empower women and girls. Women are critical in the fight against polio.”
eClub Rotarian Jean represented the eClub at the Chinle Community Center Open House on Saturday, June 10th.
Gifts and thanks were given to all who contributed to the project. Four Rotary Clubs (eClub of the State of Jefferson, Castle Rock, Glenwood Springs, and Durango) were present at the event as well as many other donors. She said it was great to see the Book Mobile in action – lots of people (young and old) checking out books. Here are some pictures from Saturday . . .
THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN IMPORTANT SUPPORTER OF CHINLE PLANTING HOPE!
CPH wants to thank you and express how grateful we are for your partnership
Thank you for helping us to Build Community, Live with Hope and Walk in Beauty every day. We wouldn't be where we are today without you!
As a part of our thank you, we have included an engraved brick to commemorate your contribution to building and creating the physical spaces of the Chinle Planting Hope Community Center where children and families can safely gather for play and learning experiences. The brick represents that solid foundation and the impact you have made in each of the programs that CPH is developing including the Garden of Dreams, HOPE Thrift Store, R.E.A.D. in Beauty Bookmobile, CPH Bike Shop, Imagination Station and future playground and walking track! A signature brick with your organization's logo will also be included in a special walkway in the Imagination Station, which we will be breaking ground on in July 2023. The Imagination Station will be a 2400 square foot building with a "mini community" with hands-on toys for imaginative play and room for art and STEM classes. The Imagination Station will be used by students, families, and elderly from the community.
In addition to the brick, you will find the book "Fall in Line, Holden!" By Daniel W. Vandever (he's here today at the Open House signing books as a guest author!) as part of your thank you. In the book, a young Dine student named Holden tries really hard at school to do his best and follow the rules but desperately needs extra spaces and opportunities to fall OUT of line to be himself and be creative. We hope that within the brick and mortar buildings of CPR children will find those spaces to create, learn, and be challenged.
Finally, as illustrated in Jorge Mendez Blake's art installation a single book can create a beautiful wave or beautiful disturbance in an entire brick wall. Thank you for being a part of both the bricks and the books, which will help children in Chinle and the Navajo Nation, grow and play in new ways!
Ahehee' ~ Thank you,
The CPH Leadership Team
As a reminder, Sunday, June 18, 2023 is Father’s Day.
The Man Who Inspired Father’s Day Was a Single Dad and a Civil War Vet
William Jackson Smart was a twice-married, twice-widowed Civil War veteran and father of 14 children, one of whom dedicated her life to the creation of Father’s Day in honor of her devoted and selfless dad.
The story goes that William’s daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, was attending one of the first official Mother’s Day services in 1909 at her church in Spokane, Washington, when she had an epiphany—if mothers deserved a day in honor of their loving service, why not fathers?
When Sonora was 16, her mother Ellen died, leaving William as a single father to Sonora and her five younger brothers. And by Sonora’s account, he performed brilliantly. “I remember everything about him,” Sonora said many years later to the Spokane Daily Chronicle. “He was both father and mother to me and my brothers and sisters.”
Sonora’s mother Ellen, herself a widow, had three children from a previous marriage. On top of that, William had also been married and widowed before he met Sonora’s mother. William had five children with his first wife, Elizabeth, who were already grown when William became a widower for the second time.
In 1910, Sonora brought a petition before the Spokane Ministerial Alliance to recognize the courage and devotion of all fathers like William on June 5, her dad’s birthday. The local clergy liked the idea of a special Father’s Day service, but couldn’t pull something together so quickly, so they settled for June 19, the third Sunday in June.
On that first Father’s Day in 1910, church sermons across Spokane were dedicated to dear old dad, red and white roses were passed out in honor of living and deceased fathers, the mayor of Spokane and governor of Washington issued proclamations, and Sonora found her calling. She would spend much of the next 60 years pushing for the official recognition of Father’s Day as a national holiday.
William Jackson Smart, the original inspiration for Father’s Day, was born in Arkansas in 1842 and records show that he enlisted as a Union soldier there in 1863. That was odd, because Arkansas was a Confederate state. Spokane resident, Jerry Numbers, who owned what had been Sonora’s home, researched the Smart family history for Spokane’s Father’s Day Centennial Celebration in 2010. Numbers says that William, in fact, fought for both sides in the Civil War.
Driving a supply wagon for Confederate troops, William was captured in the Battle of Pea Ridge, a decisive Union victory in Arkansas in 1862. Rather than languish in a prisoner of war camp, he opted to join the northern cause. As indication that William was a “Reb” before he was a “Yank,” Sonora was a member of both the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of Union Veterans.
When Sonora was born in 1882, William and his second wife Ellen were living on a “coal ranch” in Jenny Lind, Arkansas. Instead of mining for coal, William and the family “farmed” it, collecting chunks of coal from the surface and carting it to town for sale. William and Ellen sold the property in 1887 for $5,000—a handsome sum at the time—and the family traveled by train to a new homestead outside of Spokane. (The farm in Arkansas would turn out to be one of the most productive coal fields in the entire nation.)
It was on the Smart’s family farm near Creston, Washington, where William’s second wife died and he became a widower again at the age of 56. His youngest son was seven or eight and Sonora, his oldest child still living at home, was 16. In Sonora’s memories of this difficult time, she recalls her father as a “great home person,” a man who exemplified fatherly love and protection.
That first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane might have remained a local tradition if not for the perseverance of Sonora Smart Dodd. Following the 1910 Father’s Day observance, William Jennings Bryan, one of the most famous politicians of the time, sent Sonora a congratulatory letter, which sparked a rush of national media attention on Sonora and Spokane.
Sonora won the support of her congressmen, who began to lobby for the creation of a national holiday. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson celebrated Father’s Day in Spokane during a visit to Washington. We don’t know if William Jackson Smart was there to shake the president’s hand, but it would have been one of his last Father’s Days. William died in 1919.
Much more than a Father’s Day booster, Sonora Smart Dodd was an accomplished artist, poet, children’s book author, funeral home director, and founding member of just about every civic organization in Spokane. But she never let go of her determination to give fathers like hers the recognition they deserved.
It wasn’t until 1972, six years before Sonora’s death at the age of 96, that President Richard Nixon finally signed a Congressional resolution declaring the third Sunday in June to be Father’s Day. Her dad, no doubt, would have been proud.
weekly@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
Healthy Friendships and Relationships
Close Friendships and Romantic Relationships: Some relationships are very close. Close relationships develop when two people love each other and like to spend time together. You can have close relationships with many people. Some close relationships involve romantic feelings.- Share their common interests
- Share their feelings
- Learn to listen
- Know they are an important part of someone else’s life.
- People respect each other for who they are.
- People may disagree with each other. But with respect and trust, they can talk about how they feel and work things out.
- People also should respect and trust themselves and their feelings so they can set boundaries and feel comfortable.
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Being In a Healthy Friendship Means
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Being In a Unhealthy Friendship
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| The person feels good about themselves when they are with their friend | The person doesn’t feel good: their feelings are hurt or they feel sad or upset around their friend |
| There’s an equal amount of “give and take” between the person and their friend | The person and their friend only talk about the friend |
| The person feels safe around their friend | The person is uncomfortable with what their friend says and does |
| The person trusts and respects their friend | The person’s privacy is not respected |
| The person wants to spend time with their friend | The person feels like they have to spend time with their friend |
| The person can be themselves around their friend | The person acts differently around their friend |
| The person goes to places and does things both people like with their friend | The person only goes to places the friend wants to go |
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