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Program for Tuesday, Aug 29, 2017
The speaker for Tuesday, Aug.29 is Adrienne Sherk. She will talk about Team Red, White and Blue
Meeting Assignments
Date
Who am I
Rotary Minute
Aug 29, 2017
Mark Berdan
Jim Dunny
Sep 5, 2017
Rosemary Bergdahl
Gordon Erickson
The member assigned to Who Am I is also responsible for providing the positive thought for the day st the beginning of the meeting. During the meeting the Who Am I assignment the task of introducing visiting Rotarians and guests.
The member assigned to provide the Rotary Minute is also to be a Greeter for the day and also sell opportunity drawing tickets.
2017- 2018 District Governor Scott C. Carr will make his official visit to RB Sunrise Rotary Club on Tuesday, July 2017. He will get a chance to experience the hospitality of our club and see firsthand why our club has grown in the last several years. Scott will speak to us about the priorities he has set for his year as district governor. He will also get a chance to meet with our board of directors after our meeting to hear about our club's priorities and plans.
This is your chance to learn about what is happening at the district level in San Diego.
Rancho BEERnardo Documents and Fundraising Details are now available in Club Documents
The 2017 Rancho BEERnardo Festival will be held on October 28th. I have placed the festival banner on the website in a permanent place at the top of the middle section of the website. If you click on this banner, you can view any updates that are posted on the festival website. In the last week, fundraising documents and the official banner to use for any letter you want to send to prospective donors have now been released. I have posted these documents on our club website under Club Documents. To access these documents, go to: RB Sunrise Rotary.
Login by using the link on the upper right corner of the home page. Once you are logged on, return to the upper right corner of the home page and click on Member Area. This will take you to the Admin Page. On the upper left side of the page, you can scroll down until you see View Club Documents. Click on this link to get to the page called Private Documents. (The documents on that page can only be seen by club members.) The top folder in the list of folders and documents in this area of the website has the 2017 Rancho BEERnardo fundraising documents.
Please download these documents to a folder on your computer so that you have them available. October 28th seems a long way off, but that is only three months away!
RB Sunrise July Board Meeting
Paul Gorman will conduct the first board meeting of his year as president of RB Sunrise Rotary Club. The meeting will be held at at 6:00 pm Thursday, July 27, 2017 at Craig Brown's office, Skyline Home Loans on Bernardo Center Drive just north of the McDonald's Restaurant. (Macdonald's is located at the Bernardo Center Drive exit off I-15.)
All club members are welcome to attend board meetings. New (red badge) members are encouraged to attend in order to earn the points needed to become a blue badge member. Please notify Paul Gorman pgorman92131@gmail.com or Craig Brown CBrown@skylinehomeloans.com
So it was last night as the Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary Club met at 5pm (don't try to make sense of it...it works) to install President Paul Gorman as Lunatic-In-Chief.
A Standing Room Only crowd of thousands cheered him on, playing HAIL TO THE CHIEF to start his year off with a bang. Because Paul believes in a hands-off management style, everyone was allowed to play in their own key, so it all came out as a really loud buzz.
The aspirin and earplugs concession did a very profitable business!
Emily Weinberg, our club's musical talent, is expected to join us later in the year to provide lessons in how to play kazoo and stay on-key.
And with the first rule of Rotary's four-way test (IS IT THE TRUTH?) firmly in mind, I'll admit here that the crowd may have been smaller than previously reported...though nobody can be certain exactly how many people were there. However, it WAS the largest presidential inaugural crowd the club has ever had...this year.
Congratulations, Paul. Remember that you can handle anything if you know there's an end to it, and there are just 353 days until you're finished with your term.
One of the best parts of Rotary is knowing you're having a positive impact on the future.
So we give many thanks to David Clark for joining us at this week's meeting. David is one of the dozens of students who's been sponsored at Abraxas High School by the RB Sunrise Rotary.
Now that he's graduated and has started at Mesa College, David dropped by to bring us up to speed on his successes and future plans.
Congratulations, David! We know you'll do well, and look forward to hearing from you again over the years. Please stay in touch.
On Saturday, Jun 24, 2017, nine members of RB Sunrise Rotary gathered at 9:00 am to do some projects to spruce up the Ed Brown Senior Center at the RB Community Park on West Bernardo Drive. Several members spent time using one of the three power washers to wash the outside of the building. One of the tasks for the power washer was the removal of bees nests on the ceiling of the stage entrance. These mud balls needed to be removed because the bees had been swarming and attacking people using the tennis courts. The power washers were also used to clean the sidewalks and the patio area on the southeast side of the building. Jean MacLaren cleaned the windows after the adjacent walls were power washed.
The most impactful project was the refurbishment of the men's restroom on the south side of the building. Jim Roth used a power washer to clean the floor. After sweeping out the water, fans donated by Rick Coburn were used to dry the floor. In the interim, Jim replaced loose baseboard tiles, attaching them with grout. Jim then mixed an expoxy material and then applied it to the floor. The result was dramatic. The tan epoxy material brightened the restroom considerably.
Several other members spent some time weeding in the planted area at the rear of the building. There are other projects at the Ed Brown Center, but they will need some advanced planning. The main project is the replacement of a rotted door to a storage area adjacent to the southeast patio.
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, Julie Reinke from the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine spoke to the club members about the enhancements in diagnosing diseases in infants and newborns that genomics is making possible. A research study made possible by a research grant and private donors has created the research lab at Rady Children's Hospital that has a human DNA sequencing machine that can sequence the DNA from a baby in as little as 36 hours! Using a database that is in the cloud, physicians can then take the data from the sequencing machine to make an accurate diagnosis of disease in newborns and infants.
Julie spoke of several cases that provided an insight in to the benefits of this technology. In one case a baby was admitted at the beginning of the week with a preliminary diagnosis that would require invasive surgery. Because the baby's blood was used to get a serum sample the was used to do a rapid DNA sequencing study, the need for the surgery was literally cancelled at the last moment. While the anesthesiologist was taking a break before starting the anesthesia for the procedure, the information was conveyed to the surgical team that told them that the planned surgery which had the possibility of serious side effects was not needed.
The fact that the database information is in the cloud allows the researchers and doctors in the institute to be anywhere and be able to react quickly when the sequencing process has been completed. In one case a physician was at Legoland with his family when he was notified the the information was ready. Without leaving Legoland, he was able to make a diagnosis.
Raw data being gathered by the institute on economic impact of this technology is already sparking intense interest by insurance companies. Although the testing procedure is expensive, the fact that early use of this diagnostic tool is proving to make possible a tremendous cost savings as well as making accurate treatment available more rapidly that ever before.
As word of the benefits of rapid genomic testing is shared with other hospitals around the country, the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine is partnering with other hospitals around the country to provide the results of genomic testing at the institute. Military hospitals around the world are also interested in using the institute to provide genomic testing results at all of their locations around the world.
The Economic Development Corporation is committed to publicizing the fact that San Diego has more to offer than sunshine and beaches. The scientific research in the biotech industry here makes San Diego a leader in medical biotech research. This is good news for everyone who lives here in San Diego.
