January 26, 2006

UPCOMING PROGRAMS...

STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club
Feb 2: Dr. Stephen R. Feldman, Department of Dermatology, WFUBMC, “ Dr. Score”, A Web Based Way for Patients to Rate the
Doctors.
Feb 9: Special Valentine Program, Fashions By Juliana Collezione
Feb 16: Ms. Sherry Bridges, Marketing Professor WFU
Feb 23: Parker Lovell with Cash Lovell Stables and Riding Academy
Mar 2: Jo Ellen Carson, Direct Rebuilt Leadership Winston-Salem
Mar 9: Rick Rembielak, Head Baseball Coach at WFU, “Diamond Deacons and the 2006 Season”
Mar 16: TBA
Mar 23: Mark Brazil, Director of GGO
Mar 30: Andy Brown

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY: - Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center
Jan. 31: Classification Talks
Feb 7: David Dawson, Special Agent, FBI
Feb 14: John Gist, Winston-Salem Fire Chief
Feb 21: Dr. Timothy Monroe, MPH Health Director
Feb 28: Dr. Robert Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, WFUBMC, “Obesity in Children”

REYNOLDA: - Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Feb. 3: Dr. Jane Stephens, “Putting a Face on AIDS in Africa: Bringing Local Resources to a Global Challenge”
Feb 10: Willaim “Pete” Rodda, the Forsyth County Property Tax Assesor/Collector
Feb 17: Bob Leak, President Winston-Salem Business, Inc., “Economic Development after Dell: Challenges and Opportunities”
Feb 24: Dr. Gary Green, President of Forsyth Technical Community College

CLEMMONS: - Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Feb 1: Beth Brozwell from Habitat for Humanity
Feb 8: Teresa Addison, “Exercise for Physical Fitness”
Feb 15: Jerry Smith, Presidnet of LeBleu, “Pure Water for Your Health”
Feb 22: Danny Green, Director of the Piedmont Youth Symphony

ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEWS & INFORMATION................

DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 9 – Valentine Luncheon
February 23 – Board Meeting

GIVE YOUR SPOUSE OR FRIEND A TREAT………
Thursday, February 9 will be our Valentine Special. Bring your spouse or Friend to lunch and enjoy a special program. Invite your guest now and put it on your calendar. I will have sign up sheets at the meeting and you can also call 784-6276 and leave a message.
We will be collecting books again this year for Kimberly Park Elementary School. The librarian at the school has indicated they need books for 9 to 11 year old children, and specifically requested the following types of books: simple-concept non-fiction books; sports books, simple biographies, joke/riddle books. The school needs recreational reading books – books the children can read for fun. The school cannot purchase these ‘fun’ books for children with the grant money they receive so this is their greatest need. Please bring new or used books to our Valentines lunch on February 9th.

LET’S KEEP IT GOING………
Members are still coming forward and contributing or assigning their extra funds to other members to help towards being a 100% Paul Harris Club. We really need to have this completed by April to get everyone’s name and money in so The Rotary Foundation will have time to get all the credit in for the year. Please contact Margaret or President Bobby Sprinkle if you have any questions about how much you need to complete your Paul Harris Fellow.

ABOUT OUR MEMBERS…….
Continue to remember Shari Covitz. Shari had extensive back surgery on Thursday, January 5, 2006. I spoke with her today and she is doing much better. She thanks everyone for their thoughts, prayers and cards. She hopes to be back in March.

BOARD MEETING MINUTES…………
The Board met today. The minutes of the previous meeting and the financials were approved as presented. A major item discussed was membership. All the previous resignations along with new ones, Kathie Cooper, Bob Kulp and Don White were accepted. The members that resigned had no problem with the Club, mostly they were because of extensive business conflicts, moving and heavy traveling. We need to look for new members. A leave of absence was approved for Shari Covitz and Larry Gray.
A new member proposal was approved (check your emailed newsletter for information).

THE BEACH IS CALLING……
District Conference is April 20-23, 2006 at the Myrtle Beach Marriott Resort at Grand Dunes. Anyone interested in going needs to let Margaret know. Registration deadline is February 20, 2006.

PROGRAM FEATURES............

January 19 – Linda Brinson, Editorial Editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, spoke to us today. She talked about the newspaper in general and the role it has had and continues to play in the community. The Internet has actually made the paper more important because there is so much hype on the Internet. She discussed the purpose of editorials and how they are written. An editorial is an unsigned opinion. A column is the opinion of the writer. Thank you Linda for an interesting talk.

January 26 - For those of you that missed the meeting today, you missed a great program. Clinton Parker came and brought his honeybees and talked about their importance and Bee Venom Therapy. The honeybee is a very important insect. It is so important that it is considered the state insect. I couldn’t begin to tell you everything he told us about the live of the honeybee, but it was all very fascinating. He told us about the medicinal purposed of bee pollen and something called Popolis, which comes from inside the beehive. Mr. Parker talked about how Bee Venom Therapy works and the successes he has had treating people. Mr. Parker is a walking testimony to his business. He was at stage 4 cancer in 1995 and was told he had 3 weeks to live. He decided he had nothing to lose by letting his bees sting him in his cancer areas to try and numb himself and quiet his pain. After 44 weeks of getting stung 3 to 4 times a week. Mr. Parker discovered that the latest lump was gone. He called his doctors and they made x-rays and did blood work only to find that he was cancer free and he has remained so ever since. Mr. Parker is just a country beekeeper that found something natural that seems to be working for him as well as others. Thank you Mr. Parker for one of our best programs.

CONGRATULATIONS:

Happy Birthday:
Frank Spence 2-08
Kathy Acton 2-11
Joe Potter 2-17
Kevin Fussell 2-18
Sandra Mitchell 2-18
Tom Battle 2-19
Tom Griffin 2-20
George Fleetwood 2-21
Bill Porter 2-21
Jennifer Foster 2-24
Randy Skidmore 2-28

MAKEUPS...

Winston-Salem: (1-17) Roane Cross, Nancy Johnston, Doug Leckie:
Reynolda: (1-06) Gordon Spaugh: (1-13) Bob Coil, Dayle Phillips: (1-10) Rick Amme, Tom Gatewood: (1-27) Roane Cross, Dayle Phillips:
Clemmons:

JANUARY IS ROTARY AWARENESS MONTH!