Rotary Log 08-20-19 (Aug 30, 2019)

Greeters: Katrina Koontz and Danny Tetzlaff

THE ROTARY CLUB OF EVERETT

The meeting of August 20, 2019 #8 (5314) was called to order President Steve Miller who then led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Suzanne Britsch delivered the thought of the day that inspired us all to, at least once, do what others say cannot be done.

Katrina Koontz recognized our guests from the Holman Recovery Center Gina Wassemiller and Maynard Kielty.

Amy Norman, PP, introduced former Everett Rotary Club member Pat Dowd and presented him with a recognition gift for his service during her presidency. Greg Lineberry introduced his guest.

Announcements:

George Bowden highlighted the upcoming International Service Project meeting being held at 5:30 pm at the Vintage Restaurant. All are invited.
Sean George promoted the next Rotary Happy Hour on August 22 from 5 pm to 7 pm at the Courtyard by Marriott
President Steve reminded everyone that there was still room for the District Golfunevent this weekend
Tony Orso delivered the Membership Committee’s message that membership is the responsibility of all our members. The next meeting of the Membership Committee will be after the meeting next Tuesday, August 27. Also, Tony reported that Will McMahon’s wife is in hospice and to keep them in our prayers and thoughts. There is a card to sign.
Also, there is a card for Neil Angst in memory of his Uncle’s passing
Eric Samuelson invited all to short dedication event for the HOPE Mentoring Center, to publicly launch HOPE Mentoring, and bring some good attention in the community to Everett Rotary’s hands-on commitment to youth development. We will do that on “Seagull Day” Thursday August 22nd from 12:30-1:00pm. Meet at the office, just inside the main entrance to Everett High School.
Judi Edwards announced that she has copies of the flyer for the RI convention in Hawaii.
Judi Edwards announced that the next VOA Food Bank volunteer opportunity is this Thursday, 8/22 from 11 am to 1 pm. It is a make-up.

Janice Ellis reported that our exchange student Arisus is arriving from Japan at SeaTac on August 26 and invited all to welcome. Call Garth Fell for carpool rides. Also, there will be a BBQ on Labor Day weekend that members are invited to attend to welcome Arisus.
President Steve Miller highlighted the next 3-year strategic plan that was produced at last week’s strategic planning meeting. He thanked all that were involved.

Happy Dollars/Birthday Bucks included:

Steve Miller opened the happy dollars with his $20 in memory of his good friend Jim Canard of the Sheriff’s Department. He was tragically lost several years ago. He saw a recent newspaper article on the tragedy.

Dave Schlosser was $50 happy about the Youth Service Committee
Katrina Koontz was happy about her son’s baseball trip to Minneapolis where the team placed 4^th and her son threw a complete game.

Kari Petrasek have her dollars to announce her recent trip to San Francisco and the Rotary Club of San Francisco.

Jim Stafford had a bell-ringer announcement that his buildings are painted, and this is the last time he plans on performing that task
Greg Lineberry also have his donation in memory of Jim Canard.

Kelly Sheppard was $50 happy for the efforts of Aquasox’s Danny Tetzlaff for the exciting summer events at the ballpark.
Janice Ellis is happy with a bell ringer that the Weeks-Edwards family are providing a home for our exchange student Arisus. Also, she was also an additional $20 happy in the memory of Jim Canard

Ed Peterson gave his happy dollars for the work of Housing Hope and invited all to the October 11^th Noon event at the facility.

Amy Norman was happy with her dollars for her son who at 14 years is 6.2 feet tall and has made quite an impression as a Quarterback in making the local Football team.

Tony Orso was happy to donate this week as he starts his new job with Roy Robinson RV sales in Marysville.

Danny Tetzlaff was happy that the club’s new manager is onboard and is 25 years old. There was a recent article on the new manager. There are 10 games left in the season. There is also an upcoming documentary film on Funko and the Aquasox.

Raffle Winners included:

Presidents Steve Miller,

Rich Toyer

Greg Lineberry

Greg Tisdel introduced Edmund Smith who has a long career in Drug Recovery programs.

Edmund thanked Judge Ellis for coordinating the presentation of the program today. He introduced two of colleagues: Gina Wassemiller and Maynard Kielty, both involved in recovery programs. Edmund defined substance use disorders as when recurrent use causes clinically significant impairment for an individual at home, school or work. Current abuse trends: Opiates, Stimulants, Alcohol and Marijuana. There has been a slight decrease in the past years (according to CDC) of deaths from overdoses from 72k in 2017 to 68k in 2018. During the 1990’s through 2010, there was an increase marketing by major pharmaceuticals of opioids in prescription. In 2012, there was an effort to decrease prescriptions of opioids and Narcan was introduced to help with overdoses. Fentanyl and heroin are on the increase and responsible for many deaths. Fentanyl is easy to make and is very dangerous. There has been an increase in medically assisted treatment programs, but overdoses from Fentanyl continue to rise. Also, cocaine is back on the rise. Meth production is also still very high. Alcohol continues to be responsible for the most deaths. Marijuana use is greatly increased, especially with the legality in more states. Snohomish County had 742 overdose fatalities in 2017. Heroin and Fentanyl use is up and overdose fatalities also. It is estimated that 5,000-10,000 people are abusing opioids in our county, which is about 18% of the state’s count. There are resources in the County including the Diversion Center with 50 beds, the Carnegie Resource Center. There is a new 32 bed treatment center coming soon. What is missing to address this issue is more residential treatment centers. Victims have been going to other locations for services. There is need for 100 beds a day in our county.

Edmund is part of group that is developing a new treatment center in the Smokey Point area. It will be a residential substance use disorder treatment center. They have partnered with Grandview Homes to build the facility. A January 2021 opening is anticipated. Edmund finished the presentation with an inspirational video. Questions were taken by Edmund, Gina and Maynard at the end of the presentation.

President Steve thanked the visitors, the $100 donors and adjourned the meeting a bit early.

Rotary Connects the World

Respectfully submitted,

Kevin Nichols

Photography by,

Walt Greenwood

Next Program:

August 20^th – “Summit Assistance Dogs” presented by Alice Collingwood; introduced by To Be Determined