Ruthe Workcuff will be speaking with us on Friday about the RESPECT Institute in Missouri. RESPECT is a movement begun by the international consultant Joel Slack to help educate the public by telling his personal story of the powerful impact that respect and disrespect has on a person’s recovery from mental illness.
Slack developed the RESPECT Institute which began in December of 2000 at Fulton State Hospital. It was important that staff understand the effects of mental illness and the long road to recovery for the patients. RESPECT speakers offer insight into the ways general attitudes may affect the success or failure of the lives of people who face mental illnesses. The institute was started in the Kansas City area in 2010.
We help train speakers to share their personal stories of the ups and down of mental illness. We go to all types of venues so people can be aware of the struggles, and we hope to help decrease stigma of mental illness one story at a time. Please join us!
Hosted by Kathy Leibrand
December Third Thursday Happy Hour NEXT WEEK!
Cheryl and Dave Rittman have invited out members and guests for the Third Thursday Happy Hour to be at their home. Members normally pay for their food and beverages at the Happy Hours. The cost for the evening will be the cost for the caterers. Cheryl and Dave have offered to provide the liquid refreshments.
Address following in the coming days.
Please let me know by a YES or NO so arrangements can be completed with the caterers for the refreshments.
Thanks
Bob Stone Club Secretary
bc-stone@kc.rr.com
Save the Date - Snowflake Party
Saturday, January 6th
Our Annual Snowflake Dinner is scheduled for 6pm at Café Des Amis on January 6th, 2024. Café Des Amis is located at 112 Main street, 2nd floor, Parkville, MO.
Dinner will cost $60/person (gratuity is included).
You will have a choice of 3 entrees
1) Baked Rainbow Trout, topped with crab meat, saffron béchamel sauce, and swiss cheese
2) Braised Pork Cheeks
3) Beef Filet, cooked medium, for an upcharge of $12 (so $72/dinner). Please note medium is the only option available.
Dinner will also include butternut squash soup and a warm goat cheese salad.
Dessert will be a delicious champagne mousse with pistachio cake and red fruit.
Drinks will be à la carte. You will be responsible for your drinks and your drinks' gratuity at the end of the night.
Final numbers and menu choices must be turned in by 12/31/23.We will have a sign up sheet, or you can email me directly with your choices.
**If you sign up for dinner and cancel after 12/31/23 - you will be charged for the dinner.**
Looking forward to a night of friendship and creating amazing memories.
Save After Long Banning Polio Campaigns, Taliban Declares War on the Disease
ACHIN, Afghanistan — During its 20-year armed campaign, the Taliban repeatedly banned door-to-door immunization campaigns, helping to make Afghanistan one of only two countries where naturally acquired poliovirus is still endemic.
Two years after the Taliban took power, however, it has done an about-face, and its unexpected efforts may now represent the best shot in two decades at eradicating the highly transmissible, crippling children’s disease in Afghanistan.
Vaccinators in the country’s northeast, the center of the poliovirus outbreak, search cars for unvaccinated children at roadside checkpoints manned by Taliban soldiers. With no deadly attacks on public health campaigners reported in Afghanistan this year, they also feel increasingly comfortable venturing into remote virus hot spots that were previously far beyond their reach.
“We now have access all over the country,” said Hamid Jafari, director of the WHO’s regional polio eradication program.
Member News is a new section in the weekly newsletter. Have news you want to share with Parkville Rotary members? Email Dalyn Novak at dnovak@wskfarch.com to have your news added.
Medical Update from Dave Overman:
I was released from home health care last week, which means a slightly longer leash and I can drive. I’ve developed a “work around” to closing driver side door (…no…it’s now tearing down the road w/ door wide open!!) so the missus doesn’t have to accompany me to my appointed rounds. And if I haven’t done so publicly, I freely confess that I am not a good passenger!
And yesterday, I started PT on my left shoulder (3 months and 6 days after my three point landing (head, right hip, and left shoulder) with the good folk at Pullem, Stretchem & Twist Rehab, LLC.
Living up to their name, they did indeed did some pullin’, stretchin,’ and twistin’ – all with only minor discomfort. I could’ve take an extra dose one treatment: Lying on my right side while therapist massaged my left shoulder/should blade – man, that felt good!
And while my shoulder is reminding me that I really hadn’t used it in over three months, I do have more movement – a small victory, but after as many orbits around the sun as I’ve had, that pretty dog-gone good!
Rotary Fact of the Week!
Rotary first established Paul Harris Fellowships in 1957, for contributors of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation.
The Membership Committee has been hard at work putting together new membership forms! All members can `access the forms by clicking on the blue box below which will take members to a dropbox link with the forms. Give these to potential members! The new spouse forms can be found here as well.
The following forms can be found in the link:
Standard Rotarian Membership Packet
Corporate Membership Packet
Spouse Membership Packet
Please submit the forms filled out to Dalyn Novak (dnovak@wskfarch.com) so she can get new member information added to ClubRunner after the board's approval!
When you have a speaker scheduled please make sure to provide the following information to Michelle Sparks, michelle@audraheller.com, who is managing our events calendar.
Speaker Name
Speaker Bio
Speaker Topic
Any other information you think members would like to know about your speaker, photos are welcomed too!
This information is included in this weekly newsletter and can really get people excited to come listen to our weekly speakers!
