From: harry wright [mailto:hwright@adams.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:48 PM
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Subject: Rotary 9-27-06

                                    PITTSFIELD ROTARY CLUB    District 6460  9-27-06

 

Visiting Rotarians:  Joe Cook and Thommy Sanders, Louisiana, MO  (Note:         Finally got Thommy’s name properly  written)…….

 

Visitors:  Dan Long,  with Debbie Dugan; Paul Lyell, with Mark Meleski;  and Lacy Albrecht, Administrative Assistant to Senator Demuzio.

Carole Bradshaw distributed the Rotary Radio Days materials to the team captains… It is important to get all ads sold as  quickly as possible, and to have  materials back to the committee members by the Wednesday of Color Drive Weekend… (It takes about 2 days to finalize the various ads, type them up, sort and process them…..and yes, they need extra help to do it…get ready to volunteer for that…

Note:  Special luncheon for older members….’How to Build Better Bones’ starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Senior Center…. Call there, or the Pike County Health for reservation…(lunch furnished)

Program:   Debbie Dugan introduced Senator Deanna Demuzio….who is serving this area and also running for re-election.

Deanna thanked us for her friendship…both old and new friends.  She filled in after her husband, Vince’s death, and then ran for a 2 year term, which is now up.  She felt that traveling with her husband for 30 years really equipped her to know what was going on in, and important to, the people of this district.

She travels about 30,000 miles a year in the district, which has about 250,000 residents, and it takes 1 hour and 10 minutes to drive from her home to the furthest part of the district.

Deanna has helped to support many projects in this district, and today will be giving a check for $100,000 to the board of Old East School, so that the roof repair can be accomplished to save the building from further damage….She also tries to identify areas in the district that need assistance.

Some of the problems identified are Poverty..... Under-insured pockets of people….The need to try to increase job and educational opportunities.  She recognizes that we can’t help everyone…and has had a real lesson in what the Government can and can’t do.

She recognized Rotarians as great volunteers…world wide…She stated that ‘knowing you have helped somebody/done something worthwhile and gave of yourself… is so very important.   You get out of something what you put into it…

She is very supportive of ethanol, flex-fuel and recognizes the need to get alternative fuels to reduce the need for foreign oil.

One large problem facing all of us is the proposed electricity cost increase anticipated to be 25 to 55 percent….She will work with other legislators to attempt to keep the rates at the current level….

Board meeting at noon at FSB….bring your own lunch….