Today’s Chair: Kevin Sixbey, President

 

Invocation: Tory Irgang

 

Visiting Rotarians & Guests: Barb Horrigan and Dewey Jones, prospective member

 

Announcements:    

 

Ruth Lundin announced the VISION committee will meet at NOON at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation.

 

Ruth thanked all who helped with the Jamestown Neighborhood Cleanup last weekend including Andy Goodell, Sharon Hamilton, Tory and Adam Irgang, Hiroki & Kenji Walters, Steve Sandberg and “better late than never” Lynn Gruel.

 

 

District Grant Qualification Sessions will be held by ZOOM Wednesday, Nov. 3 from 4:30 to 5:30 OR Monday, Nov. 8 from 7:00 to 8:00. This is a MUCH-IMPROVED way for Clubs to fulfill their obligation of at least two members qualifying so that we may apply for district grants. It is also a wonderful way to learn more about the grant procedure. Let Kevin or Sue Jones know if you would like the appropriate links.

 

Cheri Krull announced again that the district will begin the Student Exchange Program once again. If you know of students who might be interested or adults who might be interested in hosting students let Cheri know…but most importantly if you can join this great committee, sign up with Cheri.

 

Sue Jones celebrated the following “goblins” birthdays: Deb Kathman, 11/3; Melissa Meyers, 11/22; and Mike Roberts, 11/23. Melissa won the free lunch!

 

 

Foundation Chairman Greg Jones thanked the Club members for their dedication to the success of The Rotary Foundation through their continued birthday donations to the Rotary Foundation.

 

Rotary’s Nice areas of Worldwide interest that the Rotary Foundation supports and makes happen are:

 

 

So far in 2021, only two cases of wild polio have been reported – the lowest circulations of the disease ever – with one infection each in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two countries where polio remains endemic.

 

Rotary has challenges of political change and security concerns in Afghanistan but the polio program there is used to adapting operationally during uncertainty.

 

According to the WHO and UNICEF, nationwide house-to-house polio vaccinations will resume in Afghanistan in early November, providing access to children in areas where campaigns had been banned for the last three years.

 

So here we are today in small, rural Jamestown, NY, honoring a member of our Rotary Club for his third $1,000 donation to the Rotary Foundation, thereby doing his share to make good things happen around the world.

 

Tim Edborg has been a member of the Rotary Club of Jamestown since 1999. He was President of the Club in 2005-2006. He is Senior Vice President – Wealth Management with the Great Lakes Consulting Group of UBS Financial Services, Inc.

 

Edborg, graduated from Jamestown Community College, SUNY Buffalo with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and from SUNY Buffalo School of Dentistry. After graduation he continued his passion in music, playing the drums with several area groups. In 2014 and 2015 he charted the Billboard Hot Single Sales as a writer and producer with two different songs (one at #6 and one at #14).

 

He is a former competitive power lifter with a NYS deadlift record (505 pounds in the 148 pound weight class in 1986) and he continues to be his older brother’s weightlifting coach. He holds two world records. Tim was also a boxer with the Jamestown Boxing Club at the YMCA in the mid-1970s and has just recently taken up the sport again.

 

Tim is married to his wife Lianne and they have two grown children. In his spare time, he loves to cook, especially steaks and makes his own salt rub.

 

 

 

Tim wanted to use his Foundation donation, along with the opportunity to name another PHF, to select a great friend and community supporter.

 

This person met their spouse in kindergarten and attended the University of Cincinnati. Due to their work, this person had to move 14 times in 28 years. The new PHF served on the Board of the Chautauqua County Humane Society and dressed as Santa Claus for Christmas dog and cat photos.

 

The recipient served on the Finance Committee of Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church and directed the Children’s Choir. She also served on the Creche Board as Treasurer. And finally, SHE served as special assistant to the campaign committee of Chautauqua County Executive Vince Horrigan.

 

Our new Paul Harris Fellow is none other than Barbara Ann Horrigan, wife of Colonel Vince Horrigan. The couple live in Bemus Point, have been married for 50 years and are the proud parents of a son and a daughter and four granddaughters.

 

 

 

Fines & Happy Bucks: Members with winning football teams paid up and so did all who did not wear their Rotary pin.

 

Someone paid for Mike Roberts having the best Halloween treats!

 

Max Eimiller paid to offer tickets for sale for a fundraiser in memory of his cousin who was killed riding his skateboard last Mother’s Day. A fund has been established in his honor at the CRCF. The fund raiser will be held Nov. 20 at the Elks Club. Please see Max for tickets.

 

 

 

The Rotary Club of Jamestown, NY, District 7090 has partnered with the Rotary Club of Karachi Sunset Millennium-District 3271 on a joint Rotary polio project for the rehabilitation and improvement of a polio/vaccination center at the Government Marwat Dispensary, Korangi District, Karachi, Pakistan.

 

Located in a densely populated and low-income area of Karachi, this dispensary is providing health facilities to a huge population of the area through male and female OPD administering polio vaccinations, Covid vaccinations and many health procedures for children.

 

The dispensary also serves as a facilitation and training center for Polio teams, but its poor and dilapidated condition is both alarming and worrisome. There are no toilets or drinking water, no proper seating for patients or furniture for staff and patients. The entire building lacks basic cleanliness, inside and out with failing building foundation and wall structure; the roof is in faulty condition and the windows are broken. The vaccination room equipment is in poor condition and the polio facilitation room is small and congested for the workers and supervisors during training and reporting sessions. Karachi Sunrise members met with the local Government officials who have ensured their cooperation and proper management of the center after improvements are made.

 

The Karachi Sunset Club decided to support this Health center by improving and providing some basic requirements so that it can serve the community more effectively. The plan is to clean, repair and repaint the building and provide basic furniture and equipment for the vaccination rooms. Improvements will include a male and female toilet with a water supply for each stall and a clean drinking water filter unit. And finally, a fiberglass shed for visitors, concrete benches, wall-mounted fans and plantings of trees and shrubs in open spaces will be added.

 

Improvements are estimated to cost $4600 which have been underwritten by the Rotary Club of Jamestown while the Karachi Sunset Club supervises the physical improvements to the building.

 

Discussion between the two clubs led by Jamestown Rotarian David Troxell, began almost a year ago when the Jamestown Club was searching for a polio prevention focused project. This project was most appropriate as Pakistan and its neighbor Afghanistan are the final nations with polio cases.

 

Now that construction has begun, plans are being made for Jamestown Rotarian David Troxell and his wife Marissa to visit Karachi for the conclusion of some of the construction and the formal opening celebration in early December. The Troxells have been instrumental in bringing several international projects to the Jamestown Club including school improvements in Cambodia, a school cafeteria in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, school improvements in Moshi, Tanzania, and a women’s weaving cooperative in Nepal, all in cooperation with other Rotary Clubs.

 

The Clubs look forward to sharing photos of the finished project when the Troxells arrive there in early December. A wonderful example of two Rotary Clubs on different sides of the world, working together to end polio NOW!