Service Above Self
Rotary Club of Barrington (Noon)
The Rotarrington
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Editor: Richard Hogan If you have any comments or questions, email the editor.
Future Speakers Mar 7 2011
Rotary Club Board meeting "12:10- 1:30pm at McGonigal's in town" Mar 8 2011 Susan McCormick "The Garlands" Mar 22 2011 Sarah Personette "Bus. Oppor. on Facebook/Internet" Apr 4 2011
Rotary Club Board meeting "12:10- 1:30pm at McGonigal's in town"
Apr 5 2011
Dep. Chief John Feit "Area CERT & Medical Response Prm"
Apr 12 2011 Tammy Chatman "The Flight for Life Prm" Apr 19 2011 Fire Chief Jim Arie
"The Barrington Fire Department" Apr 26 2011
Hans Olsen-JP Morgan/Chase "Economic Update" May 2 2011
Rotary Club Board meeting "12:10- 1:30pm at McGonigal's in town"
May 3 2011 Mike Farrel
"The Egg Harbor Story-A Different Bus. Plan"
May 10 2011 Pat Sharpe
"McHenry Cty. Pirates-Semi Pro Football"
Newsletter - 2011-02-22
by Larry Barnett
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Guests & Friends of the Club today:
There were 61 Guests and/or Friends of the Club today.
Included in this list was Carl Walsh, many guests from Harris Bank, as well as many friends of our club members.
Notes:
Mike Pinter is the Bulletin Editor for the month of March, which
starts next week.
Speaker/Program Summary:
Todays program was our quarterly Economic Series. Mr. Jack Ablin from Harris Private Banking was our speaker. In my humble opinion this was the best of our Economic Series so far. Now, I think that is at least partially due to the fact that we have been learning how to put on this event and are doing a better job. Check-in went
smoothly, the presentation was good, and we had sufficient time for the few questions that were written on cards. Our attendance was good, but primarily due to the large group that came from the various Harris Banks.
This was a very good meeting thanks to the following Rotarians in attendance: Don Arndtsen, Danese Bardot, Larry Barnett, Belinda Bauer, Carol Beese, Ron Dockery, John Gillett, Dick Hogan, Ralph Jensen, Joe Kelsch, Kurt Marquardt, Reese Mates, Norm May, Frank McGovern, Gary Personette, Mike Pinter, Carol Thompson-Erker, Rick Wokoun, Don
Wortmann and Richard Zacaroli.
We are missing our snowbirds and look forward to your return. You were represented this week by Gary Personette, looking tan and fit.
Dates to Remember:
Please check the website: http://www.barringtonrotaryclub.org/ for important upcoming dates.
Upcoming Events
Barrington Giving Day 2011 Planning Meeting
Mar 1 2011
Love of God Foundation Dinner/Auction
Jun 17 2011
News
President Reese Mates in the news
District Bulletin
Noon Club beats the Breakfast Club at bowling!
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Drawing:
Our new drawing will begin next week. Tickets will be $5.00 each and the drawing will be for a $100 raffle ticket. Mike will again explain the rules and Larry will be collecting the $5.00 during our meal. Please plan to write your name on the ticket(s) that you place in the pot for the drawing. For drama's sake I will still read the number each week, but this way we can keep track of our winners until we receive the printed raffle tickets.
Sincerely,
Larry Barnett, February Bulletin Editor BACOA Hall of Fame Nominations
by Burke Groom
The Barrington Area Council on Aging is once again planning to hold its annual Senior Citizens Hall of Fame Recognition Tea during May, which is nationally recognized as Older Americans Month.
This will be the 16th year for the tea and the purpose is to recognize older adults who have volunteered their time or made a significant contribution to enhancing the quality of life in the Barrington Area.
To nominate an individual for the 2011 Hall of Fame, complete and return the
nomination form
by Friday, March 18, 2011 to: Barrington Area Council on Aging, Inc.6000 Garlands Lane, Suite 100 Barrington, IL 60010
All nominees will be honored at the te which will be held from 1-3 pm on May 18, 2011 at Lake Barrington Woods.
Bulletin Editor Reminder
Just a reminder if you have not been checking the Club Document section of the website, below is a list of the Bulletin Editors for the 2010-2011 year. Please remember if you cannot make a meeting, please find a substitute to take notes for you.
Rotary Club of Barrington
2010-2011 Bulletin Editors
2010 July Wokoun August Kern September Kuehl October Stephens November Jensen December GroomPlease visit our Club Website Sponsors.
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2011 January Hogan February Barnett March Pinter April Cox May Train June Hogan
Club Board Members 2010-2011
Take a look at our 2010-2011 Board Members:
Club President: Reese Mates
President Elect: Joe Kelsch Secretary: Norm May Treasurer: Burke Groom
Immediate Past President: Rick Wokoun At Large Director: Larry Barnett Director - Ave of Srvc: Danese Bardot Director - Foundation: Ron Dockery Director - Membership: Kurt Marquardt
Director - Public Relations: Carol Beese
Director - Club Admin: Dick Miller
Youth Exchange Officer: Alexis Portugal
President Nominee: OPEN
Doing something is better than nothing...
by Reese Mates
HAITI: One year after....an SRT's
point of view
Doing something is better
than doing nothing...
David Hatcher helps to erect another home for orphans at the House of Smiles Orphanage in Leogane, Haiti
ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) member David Hatcher (UK) is a retired Police Chief Superintendant with 37 years of police experience.
Despite nearly four decades of frontline policing, nothing prepared him for the experience he went through on his first deployment as a SRT member.
Here he records his thoughts and feelings, after returning from Haiti: Here he records his thoughts and feelings, after returning from Haiti: Here he records his thoughts and feelings, after returning from Haiti: Here he records his thoughts and feelings, after returning from Haiti:
'I thought I had seen tragedy at its worst - the sadness of cot death, the suffering of those in road accidents, the grief spawned by the delivery of death messages, involvement in the strife of the 1984 miners dispute, the consequences of the enormous loss of life in the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster, to the repeated involvement in rail crashes at Paddington and Potters Bar. However, after 37 years of policing at the sharp end, and in the senior ranks, nothing prepared me for the experience of the dilemmas that Haiti is still going through, 3 months after that awful afternoon when the earth moved. Out of all the aid agencies working in Haiti, I must confess to a huge feeling of pride that I was there as a representative of ShelterBox - the international charity that locals appeared to welcome more than any other, probably because it actively provides tangible help for those who have literally lost everything apart from their dignity.
Even doctors and nurses at the field hospital where we camped felt they could be more valuable as a ShelterBox worker, in spite of the lifesaving acts they perform hourly dealing with the consequences of accidents and illness that were sometimes a consequence of the disaster and sometimes just people who couldn't acquire help for their illnesses before the earthquake occurred.
A question often posed by such medical staff was: 'How do I become a ShelterBox Response Team member? It must be so worthwhile providing the help that you do!'
David with 17 day old Gessna - who lost his dad in the earthquake before he was born and now recieves care in a ShelterBox tented clinic.
During my time in Haiti it seemed that whatever I did made only a tiny difference to the whole situation, yet I also knew that everyone we helped was just one more step in making an enormous difference to the future wellbeing of that family for the rest of their lives.
Without the support of the ShelterBox family around the world; from donors through to those who order the goods, those who pack the boxes and the Response Team members like myself who get to do the 'glamorous bit', the families we help would be in the same dire situation for the foreseeable future.
I kept repeating the mantra in my head that 'doing something is better than doing nothing' - it was as though we were trying to swim the Atlantic but had no concept of really getting anywhere.
Of all the happenings in my life (apart from the joy of my family), nothing has come close to the pride I felt at being selected following training to become a ShelterBox Response Team member.
At last it was a role that would make a real, timely and tangible difference to the lives of others. However, in contrast I am now wrestling with the contrast of that privilege and the austerity of those I've tried to help - I feel even worse when I think of those for whom we will never have enough resources, but who have so much less than the rest of us.
One of the many children in Haiti helped by ShelterBox with a children's activity pack
While so far I've donated hundreds of hours to fundraising for ShelterBox, a few hundred more to training and preparing myself for work in the field, it's nothing like enough to offset the suffering and relative poverty of those we're trying to help.
One thing I know for sure is that there is nothing potentially more fulfilling than our jointly helping ShelterBox to continue the work of providing for victims of natural and manmade disasters or conflict, in whatever way we can.
No one in the chain of providing each box is more important than any other, and none of us come close to being as important as the recipients of the boxes we supply.'
