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Our Next Meeting
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Presenters: Rotary International Foundation Club Co-Chairs
NATHANAEL (THANE) BILLOW
and
BILL MANBY, JR.
Join us as we recognize those who have given gifts to The Rotary Foundation (TRF).
Learn how TRF transforms your gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.
With your help, we can make lives better in your community and around the world.
Our mission
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
What impact can one donation have?
For as little as 60 cents, a child can be protected from polio.
$50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness.
$500 can launch an antibullying campaign and create a safe environment for children.
Not all of our members are pumpkin pie fans but those who are asked me to republish this!
Dr. McGregor and his wife Sharon made it and said how absolutely delicious it was and cannot wait to make it again!
Last year, John Daily offered up his grandmother's recipe and shared that it is "not your standard pumpkin pie".
He said, "I have never actually done this myself (not much of a cook) but I feel pretty confident this is the pie I remember enjoying for many years." He added that his late wife, Ardell, was the baker and continued making it for the family over the years.
RECIPE:
2 cups canned pumpkin
3 egg yolks beaten (save egg whites for later)
1 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Blend all ingredients together. Fold in 2 stiffly beaten egg whites.
Place into 9 inch unbaked deep dish pie shell.
Bake in hot oven (450 degrees) for 10 minutes, then low oven (325 degrees) 45-50 minutes.
For the last 70+ years, our Club has sponsored an event to bring Christmas cheer to children with autism and other life challenges at the S.U.P.E.R Learning Center. This year, we have “Great Expectations” for the event, and we need your help to make it happen.
As in the past, Santa Claus (Bill Manby Jr.) will be delivering presents to the children and there will be a brief concert with the children singing to the group. This year, we are also looking to support a special project for the children and will be sharing details soon. You can help make this event SUPER by attending the event and/or by making a financial donation.
We have decided to take a one-year hiatus on participating in the Salvation Army Bellringing Event to double down on our support for the kids at the S.U.P.E.R Learning Center. Over the next few weeks, you will be hearing from Lyn Godwin (Founder of the Center) and Bill Manby Jr. as they share more details about the event and how you can participate.
Date: Thursday, December 16th
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Santa will be delivering presents from 10-12 and 2-3)
Location: S.U.P.E.R Learning Center, 1584 Wilson Avenue Akron, OH 44250
Please contact one of us if you would like to participate so we can plan for the event. It would be great to have the gym filled!
CLUB PRESIDENT STEVE BUIE INDUCTS NEW ROTARY CLUB OF AKRON MEMBER Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Steve Buie and Tina Boyes
Tina Boyes is a 20+ year marketing and communications veteran who uses her skills to improve life in Akron’s Kenmore neighborhood.
In 2017, Tina chaired the Kenmore Better Block, a two-day popup event that transformed three blocks of Kenmore Boulevard into a walkable, bikeable, vibrant cultural space where neighbors and visitors could gather and where businesses could thrive.
Tina is working to make permanent improvements to the area as executive director of Kenmore Neighborhood Alliance, a nonprofit community development corporation focused on creating an enjoyable, engaging Boulevard experience. This work involves building on the Boulevard District's existing assets, including five recording studios, two guitar shops, an internationally known guitar luthier and The Rialto Theatre, a former movie theater that now serves as a live music and theater venue.
Before her community development work, Tina served for 13 years as the vice president of marketing and communications at Akron Community Foundation. She and her family live in Kenmore, where she is a closet karaoke queen and air-guitar junkie.
Tina is married to Ryan and is a graduate of Leadership Akron Class 32.
She currently serves on the City of Akron Planning Commission, Akron Civic Commons Core Team, United Way Community Investment Task Force, Summit Lake Community Council and is a past president of the Public Relations of America Akron Chapter.
L-R: Lynda Farkas, PDG Stew & Cheryl Buchanan Linda & PDG John Reyes, DGN Julie Brandle, PDG Cheryl & Steve Warren
Our Club members took part in the 2021 District 6630 Foundation Awards Gala on November 11, 2021.
The evening was a celebration of the great works of the Rotarians/Clubs during the 2020-2021 Rotary Year.
With almost 100 people in attendance, there was wonderful fellowship and some fun that included an "ugly sweater" contest! Click to View All of the Event Photos
The event theme was "Warm Hands, Warm Hearts" - gloves, mittens, socks and hats were donated at the event and will be shared among the 7 counties here in NE Ohio.
DGN Julie Brandle is shown gathering up the donations of:
Our College & Career Academy Partner North High School is having an in-person Career Expo Thursday January 13th from 8:30am-11am. They are looking for professionals from the area of Entrepreneurship and Marketing (they already have a small business owner and social media marketing), or something in the area of technology, whether working on an actual system or designing apps/websites, etc. to represent and talk about their company to students.
I am looking for 1-2 volunteers in any of those spaces to help give some insight into potential careers to the North students.
Please email me at josephmariomicale@gmail.com to let me know if you’re interested and able to help with this ASAP.
The Rotary Club of Akron was presented with information on the “Be the Match” program at our Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Club Meeting. View the presentation by clicking here or cut and paste the link into your browser https://youtu.be/wAAVLNDpEcs
Dale Smith is a manufacturing quality and process improvement leader, having worked in industries ranging from ceramic tile to undersea telecommunication systems manufacture. Dale retired in May from Avery Dennison after seven years there. Dale has a B.Sc. in Ceramic Engineering from the Ohio State University, a Six Sigma Blackbelt from Sigma Breakthrough Technologies and is an certified and experienced Kepner-Tregoe problem-solving facilitator.
Dale has been a Rotarian since 2003, belonging to the Cambridge, Downtown Macon, Kent, Camden (SC) and Mentor Rotary Clubs as his career progressed. Dale has been active in many roles in these clubs and served as President of the Cambridge (05/06) and Mentor (19/20) Rotary Clubs. Dale is a member of the District 6630 Membership Steering Committee.
Dale is married to Jeri Ann and resides on Raccoon Ridge in Newbury, Ohio. He enjoys gardening, winemaking and taking daily hikes in retirement with his three yellow labs Murphy, Quinn and Keeva.
Tonya Davis is a marketing, PR, and community engagement specialist who has been swabbing cheeks with Be The Match for more than 10.
Her passion for making a difference in the world is only rivaled by her love for karaoke.
Give her a microphone, and Tonya will either entertain or educate you!
She loves her job and living Be The Match's life-saving mission daily.
What is Be the Match?
The mission of the organization is “We save lives through cellular therapy.”
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the Be The Match Registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and umbilical cord blood units in the United States.
The Be the Match Registry is the world's largest hematopoietic cell registry, listing more than 22 million individuals and more than 300,000 cord blood units. Hematopoietic cells from NMDP donors or cord blood units are used to transplant patients with a variety of blood, bone marrow or immune system disorders. As of December 2020, the NMDP had facilitated more than 100,000 transplants worldwide.
What is the Impact of Be the Match?
Every Three Minutes, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer
Every 10 minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer.
Every year, more than 14,000 patients are diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers or other diseases for which a marrow or cord blood transplant from an unrelated donor may be their best or only hope of a cure.
70%of all patients who need a transplant do not have a matched donor in their family
Approximately 70% of transplants facilitated by the National Marrow Donor Program® are leukemia or lymphoma.
What Treatable Diseases use Blood Stem Cells?
70+ blood diseases & blood cancers can be treated/cured by blood stem cell transplant, including:
leukemia and lymphoma
sickle cell disease
severe aplastic anemia
inherited immune disorders
Be The Match currently covers the US, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. There are @ 50 National databases around the world.
How does matching work? Matching is much more complex than blood types. It's your heritage or ancestry.
It’s based on genetic typing involving the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA).
Patients are most likely to match a donor who shares their ethnic heritage.
Currently, not all patients have an equal chance of finding a donor.
The odds of finding a match based on ethnic background is alarming for some ethnic categories. The odds currently are as follows:
White 79%
Native American 60%
Hispanic 48%
Asian or Pacific Islander 47%
Black or African American 29%
Peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donations
PBSC is one of two methods of collecting blood-forming cells for bone marrow transplants. The same blood-forming cells that are found in bone marrow are also found in the circulating (peripheral) blood. PBSC donation is a nonsurgical procedure, called apheresis.
83% of donors give by PBSC.
Similar to donating platelets
Shots for 5 days (4 days before collection & 1 the day of collection)
A machine filters out stem cells and returns remaining blood to the donor
Most donors visit with friends or watch TV during the procedure
Marrow donations
17% of donors give blood stem cells collected from bone marrow.
Surgical procedure
Anesthesia = no pain during the procedure
Same day, usually outpatient
Doctors withdraw blood stem cells from back of the pelvic bone
Your cells replenish themselves in 4-6 weeks
Why is the Mentor Rotary Club involved with Be the Match?
In 1992, Carolyn Shandle-Cobb, daughter of Rotarian Cliff Shandle, was diagnosed with leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant. There was no family match.
Cliff asked fellow Rotarians to consider being donors. Not stopping there, the club decided to have an event to recruit other people in the Mentor Community.
The first event was May 23, 1993 - more than 800 people showed up. A second event was held June 23 with another 222 registered.
A donor was found for Carolyn but sadly she passed from an infection in July before the transplant could occur.
The Shandle family and Mentor Rotary Club vowed to host recruitment events and fundraise to support Be the Match and other families in need.
Recruitment events have been hosted at Lakeland CC, Lake Erie College, and Notre Dame College
The Mentor Club raises about $5000 annually.
How Can the Akron Rotary Club Help?
The Rotary Club of Akron has a focus on engaging diverse populations where there is the most need for people to join Be the Match.
Can the Mentor Club partner with the Rotary Club of Akron and 100 Black Men to raise awareness and recruit new donors?
College donors are young, diverse, and provide the best outcomes for patients. Is there an opportunity to work with the Rotary Club of Akron and your diverse partners to have a recruitment event at the University of Akron or other colleges in the area?
The Rotary Club of Mentor has donated $5000 to Be the Match to cover testing costs of these events.
To learn more about getting involved with Be The Match, you can contact Tonya Davis at 216.406.6236.
Because of our new setting for weekly meetings, we must have a head count each week for IN-PERSON attendees. This is for proper seating and also for the caterer.
For November 23, 2021: Please email me (click here)no later than MONDAY at 9am and advise if you will (1) be attending IN-PERSON and (2) if you plan to eat
Please also accommodate for any guests you plan to bring.
NEW:Parking passes will be sent out weekly and must be displayed in your window. CLICK TO DOWNLOAD the parking passfor November 23, 2021
In service together,
Steve
2021-2022 Rotary Club of Akron President Tel: 330-701-2970 Email: sbuie@learningrx.net
We are excited to share that we will be back on the grounds of Hale Farm & Village at 2686 Oak Hill Road, Bath, Ohio.
Attendees will have the opportunity to golf, participate in putt-putt and hole-in-one challenges, enjoy some Whitey's Premium Chili, arctic beverages and much more!
Our Auction, will continue to be online this year. It will open for a week beginning on January 28, 2022 6pm and will conclude on February 5th at 1:30pm.
Text chiliopen22 to 76278 to register for the auction.
Please be sure to check back for updated information closer to the event.
Your participation in Akron Rotary’s Chili Open Golf Classic presented by Wayne Homes will help serve more than 1,800 children and adults along with their families with a wide range of developmental and physical disabilities and mental health disorders through our day, overnight and year round respite camp programs.
At Rotary Camp, campers are provided the opportunity to experience traditional camping activities, develop relationships, learn life skills and create memories that last a lifetime. When campers leave Rotary camp at the end of each session, they not only leave with lifelong memories and friends, but they often show more independence as well as a greater understanding of themselves and their abilities.
Tonya Davis is a marketing, PR, and community engagement specialist who has been swabbing cheeks with Be The Match for more than 10. 
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