Filed under: International
Please find below the latest update from our deployment in Somaliland, where ShelterBox is providing homes for thousands of IDPs (internally displaced persons, or refugees within their own country). One of our newest SRTs, Mark Dyer of Illinois, is on the ground now, assisting with the distribution of boxes and training recipients to use their new equipment. The photos from this deployment are beautiful (below and attached), and provide some of the first shots of the new Africa tent in wide use. Please be sure to pass this update along to your friends, colleagues, and ShelterBox and Rotary contacts.
ShelterBox Response Team member Mike Greenslade reports to HQ that tent distribution and training continues in Hargeisa with 480 tents issued to IDP families living in and around the capital. ShelterBox Response Team members and local volunteers have erected over 250 new Africa tents, at two completed campsites named ‘Kood-Buur’ and ‘26th June.’ Newly trained teams of local volunteers continue to build two further camps: ‘Mohammed Haybe’ and ‘Ahmed Dhagax.’ Mike comments, “Distribution has gone smoothly with those allocated a tent receiving a numbered ticket which they exchange in the grounds of the Ministry of RRR. Reserve tents have been issued to the elderly and disabled, who receive no state support, living outside the camps on a discretionary basis.” The third ShelterBox Response Team consisting of Adrian Sumner and Jens Pagotto from the UK and Mark Dyer from the USA will now oversee the completion of ‘Haybe’ and ‘Dagax’ camps and the distribution, training and fulfillment of the large ‘Ga’an Libah’ camp.
Mike adds, “There has been a lot of hard work from all parties involved and it’s been immensely satisfying to be able to help such warm and welcoming people. For some, this has been the first outside aid they’ve received. Somaliland’s low national budget means that there is no safety net for the vulnerable, and there are thousands more needy IDP’s spread throughout the country. I’m sure ShelterBox would be welcomed back with open arms.”
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Filed under: meetings
Visitors and Guests
Ed Curry – Kathleen Scharf
Pepe Charles – Lana Elliott
Club guest – Nevada Childhood Cancer Rep, Jeff Gordon
Doug Beckley – Lisa Nosz
Club – Jack Pestaner
Rotarian – Ken Gill, Dallas Tx
Recognitions
Rich Bowler and Bill Nelson were each fined $50
Induction
Jack Woodcock proudly inducted our newest member, Jack Pestaner. click here
Speaker
OGIE SHAW, B.A., B.A., M.S.M.
Topic: Fitting Fitness Into Your Schedule
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Education: Ogie Shaw is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with B.A. degrees in both Speech and Physical Education. He also holds a Master of Sacred Ministry degree from Multnomah (pronounced Mult-no-ma) Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon
Athletics: He played on two State Championship baseball teams in high school. He was an outstanding army football and basketball player, studied Karate in Japan, and holds a Second Degree Black Belt. He won First Place in the Carolina Karate Tournament.
Military: He served four years in the U.S. Army, and was presented the Army Commendation Medal for his work in Military Intelligence in Vietnam. He has served as Brigade Fitness Director for the Oregon National Guard.
Achievements: He is an accomplished musician having done studio recordings, TV shows, and international tours. He was presented the 1975 North Carolina State University International Student Award for his work with foreign students. He was a scholarship participant in the North Carolina Outward Bound School.
He was recruited to the Northwest by the Portland Police Bureau and Presented a Commendation by Chief Bruce Baker after only two months as a Portland Police Officer.
Community Service: He worked as a counselor for Janis Youth Programs, and served as a volunteer counselor for the Portland Vet Center. He served for three years on the Human Rights Advisory Commission for the City of Beaverton. He has served for over twenty years as Volunteer Pastor at Patton and Macdonald Retirement Homes in Portland, Oregon.
Fitness: He served as Fitness and Health Writer for the Valley Times and the Hillsboro Argus newspapers.
He has served as a speaker at Governor’s Safety Conferences in both Oregon and Washington.
He was nominated for the Board of Directors for the Oregon Public Health Association.
He has lectured at over a dozen Northwest colleges and universities .
In 1979 he designed an off-season conditioning program for the Portland Trailblazers.
He has served as a consultant and instructor for the Seattle Seahawks in the use of isokinetic- aerobic exercise.
He has given over 4,000 talks on Fitness Motivation.
Currently: He is Executive Director of Community Fitness Leaders, which is a training program for health and fitness professionals, and he is President of Ogie Shaw Fitness in Beaverton, Oregon.
Meeting Adjourned
Filed under: meetings
Visitors and Guests
Josh Satterlee – Linda Bell
Rotarians
Vicki Wille – LV NW -Finance
Kaleta Kuhlemeier – LV NW -
Jim Jenkings – Calgary – Retired
Diane Cabral – LV NW – Interior Designer
Announcements
Josh Satterlee announced that the next Happy Feet is October 23rd and that “Feeding the Homeless” is on October 29th.
Eric Colvin announced that the Tailgate party for UNLV is this weekend, October 18th.
Karen Strawn announced that the Christmas Party is December 1st.
Adrienne Cox announced that the Gold Outing at Boulder Creek Golf Club is November 1st and that they will have dinner at Scott Baranoff’s house afterwards.
DeWitt Paul announced that the Club’s Board of Directors met to discuss how these economic times are affecting the Club. After much discussion, it was announced that the Club dues will remain the same as in the past and the Board will reduce operating expenses to avoid raising dues. DeWitt also said that our Club dues are amongst the lowest of the 13 Rotary Clubs in the Valley.
Recognitions
DeWitt recognized Dayton Baline, Bill Goff and Jean Ellsworth for birthdays this week.
Adrienne was recognized for being at Andre Agassi’s fund raiser, she volunteered to work at the event.
Kirk Harrison was recognized for being a “Super Lawyer”.
Scott Baranoff was recognized for being in Dorothy Huffey’s column at a fund raiser for the Nevada Cancer Institute with Ed Guthrie.
Richard Bowler was recognized for just “working” and still being on his honeymoon with wife Athena.
Ed Jameson was recognized for not shaking anyone’s hand as the “mystery greeter”; Ed was not present at the meeting.
Gary Crowe was recognized for being at his home in Sun Valley.
Ed Guthrie was recognized for distributing brochures promoting Opportunity Village’s “Santa Run”.
Wally Emery was recognized for not completing a gas station near the President’s home.
Scott Baranoff told a “Joanne Blystone appropriate joke”.
Eric Colvin, Ed Guthrie and Wally Emery were recognized for not wearing a Rotary pin today.
Joanne Blystone won today’s drawing.
Speaker
Justine Harrison of the Nevada Cancer Institute
Meeting Adjourned.
