August 31, 2006

UPCOMING PROGRAMS...

STRATFORD: - Meets Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at Forsyth Country Club
Sept 7: Ian Taplin, WFU Professor, “The Development of Our Local Wine Industry”
Sept14: Robbie Perkins of NAI Maxwell
Sept 21: Dr. David Carroll, Director, The WFU Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials
Sept 28: Bill Schatzman, Winston-Salem Sheriff

WINSTON-SALEM ROTARY: - Meets Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Benton Convention Center
Sept 5: TBA
Sept 12: TBA
Sept 19: TBA
Sept 26: TBA

REYNOLDA: - Meets Fridays at 12:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the LJV Coliseum
Sept 1: Sally Gant, “Mesda Asked to New York”
Sept 8: Mike Wells and Erica Aft, “New Directives for the United Way”
Sept 15: Don Martin, Superintendent and Donny Lambeth, Chairman of the WS/FC Board of Education, “ Everything You Wanted to Know about the Public Schools but were Afraid to Ask”
Sept. 22: Club Assembly
Sept 29: Rev. Peter Parish, “Camp Elk Shoals on the New River”

CLEMMONS: - Meets Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. at the Village Inn - Clemmons
Sept 6: Janet Bowen, heart recipient, “The Gift of Life”
Sept 13: John Matthews, Rainbow Center for Children
Sept 20: Jimmy Flythe, Customer Relationship Manager, Duke Energy, “New Generation Plan”
Sept 27: Site Visit to Golding Farms

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

DATES TO REMEMBER:
September 21 – Board Meeting
October 7 – District Football Game, WFU vs Clemson at Groves Stadium
October 19 – Board Meeting
November 2 – Foundation Dinner, High Point Country Club

We still need a couple of people to help with the golf tournament.ANYONE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING AT THE TOURNAMENT, CONTACT JAY LUKE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

Speaking of contacting Margaret…….If you think you might need something over the next two weeks try and let me know now. I am excited to say I will be leaving September 6 going to Hawaii and will not return until September 19 therefore I will miss two weeks of Rotary. Aloha!

CONGRATULATIONS:
Happy Birthday:
Steve Brendle 9-06
Joe Carroll 9-10
Jim Lambie 9-13
Tom Rice 9-17
Lu Anne Wood 9-22
Mickey Boles 9-26
George Newstedt 9-27
Sharon Reid 9-30

PROGRAM FEATURES............
August 24 - Our own Jimmy Flythe, Customer Relationship Manager for Duke Energy, spoke to us today about the “New Generation Plan”. Jimmy gave us some very interesting information about supply options for peak demands and ways to generate power more efficiently in the future.
Some areas have had challenges keeping power going in the summer heat wave. In NC our reserves are about 17% - California is at 5%. We want to prevent issues that occurred across the country in the 2000 heat wave.
They are working on developing other ways to meet demands and our conservation plans. Duke Energy has a significantly low fuel factor, which equates to lower costs to consumers.
They are seeking permits to build a new efficient steam station – Cliffside – near Rutherfordton. Multiple efforts are being made to modernize production and they are using new technology to generate more power and reduce costs and pollution.
Jimmy’s talk was very informative and made us feel lucky to live where Duke Energy is implementing such innovative improvements.
Thanks to Ellen Stockton for her notes today.

August 31 – Anthony Atala, M.D., is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Atala is a surgeon in the area of pediatric urology and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. His current work focuses on growing new human cells, tissues and organs (including kidney, blood vessels, cartilage, muscle, bladder, pancreas, and others) to repair or replace tissues or organs damaged by age, cancer, trauma, or abnormal development. Dr. Atala talked about the time line of his research and how it has progressed and the benefits patients have received from his and other scientist’s work. He gave a power point presentation showing his research from a cell to a new bladder. Totally amazing!
No matter how amazing the research is, the most important thing at the end of the day is how it benefited the patient.