~ SERVICE ABOVE SELF! ~

~ From one of our murals ~

~ Newberg Noon Rotary Club Newsletter for

Zoom meeting on July 22, 2020 ~

[THANKS again to Mike Caruso for the use of his ZOOM account!]

~ Call to Order ~

Vice-President Joe Morelock welcomed Rotarians and Friends of Rotary to the Zoom meeting at 12:03 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Photos by Auggie, and meeting notes courtesy of Paula.

Mike C., Paula, Denise, Lynn, Paul, Joe, Laura, Gene, Ralph, Dan, Michelle, Om, Dale, Judy, Sean, Brandy, Shannon K., Kim, Shannon B., Spike, Auggie, Geoff, Kathie, Curt, Stan, Todd, Walter, Julie.

~ Zoom Meeting Participants ~

~ Rotary Guests ~

Larry Strober, Rotary Club of McMinnville Sunrise

Bill Rogers, President, Rotary Club of Newberg, Early Birds

~ Guest/Presenter ~

Danielle Howard Dye (Junior Orchestra of Yamhill County (JOY))

~ Announcements ~

• Join Kim on the Membership Committee. New members keep our club vibrant.

• Geoff: The 2019 GFU interns completed the mural on the Library Annex. The mural depicts various forms of the arts. A big “thank you” to Jim for arranging for scaffolding. The 2020 interns will paint the next mural on the former Plaid Pantry building at the “Y” intersection in Newberg.

• Paul: The Rotary Club of Newberg is approved for a $2,500 matching grant for our schools’ Resource Rooms.

• Thanks to all — $573 was collected for Polio Plus at last week’s Rotary Club meeting.

~ Rotary Moments ~

Gene: Rotary moments can be fleeting or lengthy. From 2005-2010 I was full-fledged Rotarian, then made a job change so I could assist my spouse. Auggie shared that I could be a Friend of Rotary. Om recently helped me with an insurance plan. I am grateful to fellow Rotarians.

Laura: The recent edition of The Rotarian describes a club fundraiser called Radio Days. Using podcasts, the club raised $220,000—something to consider as we think about a virtual auction.

Brandy and family took a hike last weekend. The plan –hike from Timberline Lodge to Mt. Hood Meadows—a three-hour journey. After crossing the river, they could not locate the trailhead and decided to return to Timberline. (The three-hour journey now became a six-hour trial without food and water. Brandy’s mother and stepfather began to tire. Brandy and others hiked out to get help. On the way, they encountered a hiker–a Newberg High School graduate. The hiker provided located Brandy’s parents, gave them food and water and lead them to safety.

~ Program, Junior Orchestra of Yamhill County (JOY) (Danielle Howard Dye, Teacher) ~

Danielle Howard Dye graduated from George Fox University where she studied Violin Performance and Music Education. She teaches strings in both classroom and private environments and currently holds a private studio. Danielle taught the After-School orchestra at Edwards Elementary School. Two weeks ago, Danielle married her Newberg husband. She says, “Newberg feels like home.” Danielle notes, “We are lucky to have such strong middle and high school orchestra programs in Newberg.”

Since 2017, the Junior Orchestra of Yamhill County (JOY) has been devoted to creating access to music and strings education to youth in Yamhill County. Working with the Newberg School District, JOY provides in-school violin education for Kindergarten and First Grade. In Second Grade, students continue in JOY’s After-School orchestra with the choice of violin, viola, or cello. The plan is to continue the After-School orchestra program through fifth grade to prepare students to join the middle school orchestra program.

JOY was inspired by the El Sistema movement, which started in 1975 in Venezuela by Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu to harness the power of music for social change. Because of Dr. Abreu’s successful work bringing music to underserved communities, El Sistema-inspired programs now operate in many countries around the world, including the United States. JOY is a member of El Sistema USA and is one of two El Sistema inspired programs that operates in the state of Oregon. JOY’s vision is to establish youth orchestra programs throughout Yamhill County.

Music education is important because it actively uses many parts of the brain at once. In engaging the many parts of our brains, we strengthen other skills such as focus, analysis, decision-making, planning, and attention to detail. In addition, participation in music groups oriented towards excellence strengthens community and cultivates social responsibility. The cognitive and social benefits brought together lead to improving student outcomes in school attendance and academic performance.

~ Are these kids having FUN, or what!? ~

COVID-19 brought a change in instruction from “in person” lessons to “virtual” lessons. Teachers recorded instructional videos for students to “play along.”

JOY supplies instruments to K-1 students via music classes. Children in the After-School orchestra class pay an annual rental fee of $15 with the fee waived if a family is unable to pay. Parents of JOY students are supportive and attend student performances

“From the minute a child is taught how to play an instrument, he/she is no longer poor. He/she becomes a child in progress headed for a professional level, who’ll later become a full citizen.” –Jose Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema in Venezuela.

~ Thanks, Danielle! ~

~ July 22, 2020 Duck Donations ~

Name	Amount	Why
Brandy	$50.00	In honor of the NHS grad who rescued Brandy’s parents on the hike.
Auggie	$10.00	Purchased a Rotary mask. He made a pledge last week and found the process easy.
Todd	$10.00	Friendsview is building new residences and renaming buildings: e.g., University Village is now Pennington Terrace.
Shannon	$10.00	In thanksgiving $5 for Joe hosting today’s meeting and $5 for our CASA case.
Denise	$10.00	Thanks to Gene for his service on the Newberg City Council.
Mike C.	$10.00	Thank you Gene for your service to our community.
Om	$10.00	Thanks to Gene for mentioning my insurance business.
Joe	$10.00	Thanks to Brandy for filling my inbox with patron feedback.

~ Next Week’s Program ~

NASA Space Camp

~ Respectfully submitted, Rick Kaufman, Newsletter Editor ~

~ PLUS…..~

~ Wisdom ~

“You are so much more than what you are going through.” ~ John Tew

~ Trivia ~

~ The world’s largest butterfly, found only in Papua New Guinea, the female

Birdwing Butterfly typically has a 12″ wingspan….and eats poisonous vines! ~

~ Humor ~

~ Do you know these words?…..~

Widdershims, troglodyte, hobbledehoy, mugwump, borborygmus, gubbins, diphthong, collywobbles, lollygag?

Look ’em up! There WILL be a test! 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

~ Newberg Noon Rotary Club Newsletter for July 15, 2020 ~

If you would like to see today’s ZOOM meeting on “the CLOUD“….here is how to get there, courtesy of Mike Caruso:

Topic: Newberg Rotary Zoom Meeting
Date: Jul 15, 2020 11:44 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Share recording with viewers:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/248lIrjpxkRJW6PN80WYBIo7Bp_YT6a81CMaq6YIyxv4RU8opVVU-2stSZ8VYuGN Password: 7m$.#4?S

~ Newberg Noon Rotary Club Newsletter for Wednesday, July 8, 2020 ~

~ Rotary Club of Newberg Zoom Meeting ~

~ Call to Order ~

~ President Shannon Buckmaster welcomed Rotarians and Friends of Rotary to the Zoom meeting at 12:03 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, 2020. ~

~ Shannon’s First Meeting “guidelines….note the DUCK…~

~ Rotarians and Friends of Rotary ~

Zoom meeting participants: Mike C., Paula, Shannon B., Dan, Laura, Kathie, Todd, Ralph, Matt, Michelle, Tony, Michael P., Lisa, Lynn, Geoff, Jeff, Shannon K., Karen, Sean, Denise, Julie, Jim, Joe, Paul, Corey, Auggie, Stan, Walter, and Dale.

~ Announcements ~

The Rotary Club of Newberg Board Meeting is Thursday, July 9, 2020 from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Incoming officers and/or club directors were emailed the meeting zoom link and agenda. Following Thursday’s Board meeting, the club will launch a payment process for the Duck using the Square.

~ Guests ~

Larry Strober, Rotary Club of McMinnville Sunrise

Casey Kulla, Yamhill County Commissioner and today’s Speaker

~ Flag Salute ~

Shannon lead participants in the flag salute.

~ Rotary Moments ~

Geoff: Thanks to Jim M. who stepped up to help the mural project with needed equipment. Due to the COVID delay, art students will paint the mural on the Library Annex between July 12-17.

Ralph: The Habitat for Humanity Restore is open Fridays and Saturdays. Masks are mandatory. Disinfectant and wipes are available for shoppers. Restore accepts donations by appointment. Ralph and Habitat for Humanity volunteers are helping North Valley Friends—and Veritas with affordable housing on their site. Habitat has a permit pending for the build of a low-cost home east of River Street.

Sean: Thank you Kathie B. and First Federal for the grant program.

Shannon B. and her daughter met Dan, his wife Lydia and children Jackson and Isabelle while on a neighborhood walk.

Jim: reported the Government shipped his Coast Guard son, Taylor, to the Arctic. Jim will encourage Taylor to take pictures and be a Rotary program in the future.

Shannon B.: The Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce has several hundred N-95 masks available at their location at 112 N. Garfield Street. Call (503) 538-2014 between 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. M-F.

Laura: in watching the Rotary International Convention via Zoom Laura suggests as we are having Zoom club meetings we can invite anyone from around the world to join us for a program.

~ Today’s Program: A Yamhill County Update by Casey Kulla, Yamhill County Commissioner ~

Occupation: Farmer/owner, Oakhill Organics, 2006 – present

Occupational Background: Farm intern; Chemistry lab instructor; Plumber and plumber’s assistant; Biochemistry researcher; Construction worker

Educational Background: Western Washington University, Forest ecology, Master of Science; Western Washington University, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science; Taft High School, High School Diploma

Prior Governmental Experience: Yamhill County Water Taskforce member

Family & background: Fifth-generation Oregonian. Raised in Lincoln City. Married with two school-aged children.

~ Purpose of Today’s Discussion ~

The state of the Yamhill County’s response to COVID and how that relates to systemic racism and what our future might look like.

We are seeing increases in cases of COVID in Yamhill County. Kulla says, he is an optimistic person. His focus is to remain calm and help Yamhill communities look at what is needed for the future and how to keep COVID under control while maintaining an open cultural life.

Kulla hosts a Leadership Roundtable each week that includes: superintendents, mayors, leaders of business organizations, representatives of congressional delegations, commissioners etc. Kulla’s hope is that these roundtables will help Yamhill County present a unified voice from leadership even though that unity sometimes requires “pushing and pulling.” As these meetings are recorded, community members get an opportunity to see what normally happens behind closed doors.

~ Maintaining an Open Economic and Cultural Life. ~

Kulla is doing the following:

• Working to help people get their unemployment claims, get business what they need—advocate at federal and state level.

• Making sure our county has stability. We are in the chronic long phase of the virus. We need to support our employees.

Provide personal protective equipment and facemasks—manufacturers can list the equipment they are making and people can go online and buy it. Citizens can also access PPE by clicking on this link: emergencymanagement@co.yamhill.or.us

~ What would it take to reopen schools? ~

The public school system is one of the structures that underpins our society—I’m committed to working with school districts and the state on this issue.

What would it take and what would it look like to fully reopen schools in the safest way possible for all involved. It would take an estimated $200 billion to fully reopen schools in the fall. Imagination is needed to make it happen. We need funds for broadband—high speed internet to connect families to education in rural and remote areas

Parents need better access to childcare. The Yamhill Early Learning Hub provides resources and guidance to childcare providers regarding COVID safety.

~ It’s absurd that public health decisions that affect people like you

are being made by people like me. ~

We need federal leadership on wearing masks. We need to provide messaging and funding. We need the state to provide the messaging. A lack of federal leadership causes a diversity of opinions and a big difference in county by county case counts. The impacts of coronavirus decisions leads to systemic racism—Latinx employees are more severely impacted by COVID. We need to: expand testing for immigrants; train law enforcement; and, build a bench of Latinx in elected positions who can speak about the issues and challenges of being a person of color in the Yamhill Community.

We need to increase Spanish language translation. We need to have things in the language that people speak and materials in their language. Yamhill County was not getting the message out to Spanish speaking communities. We need paper copies to those who are trusted in the community.

Economic Development: We need to support and uplift people of color who are business owners. This measure reduces systemic racism and positively impacts a community.

Long-term—how do we help people reduce disparity across communities? How do we best serve our marginalized immigrant community? Communities of color need equal access to outdoor recreation and pursuits. We need to build up our trail network. We have gems of parks but sometimes citizens can’t get there without a car.

~ Next Week’s Program: Leadership Chehalem Valley ~

Limited to 20 individuals per year, Leadership Chehalem Valley, is a two-year program that offers valuable leadership assessment and training, shows how communities are structured and how they work, and puts forth examples of community leadership and their stories. Linda Sanford, Brandy Penner and Dennis Lewis are the presenters.

~ Thank you, Commissioner Kulla! ~

Please check your e-mails for links [from Mike Caruso] to recordings of the Zoom meetings.

Respectfully submitted, Rick Kaufman, Newsletter Editor

~ Wisdom ~

~ Humor ~

~ Have you ever been…“Dog tired” ? ~

~ Trivia ~

~ The Appalachian Trail stretches 2,192 miles from Springer Mt., Georgia, to Mt. Katahdine, Maine. ~

Rotary Club of Newberg Zoom Meeting

Wednesday, July 01, 2020

~ Call to Order ~

President Shannon Buckmaster welcomed Rotarians and Friends of Rotary to the Zoom meeting at 12:06 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, 2020.

~ Rotarians and Friends of Rotary ~

Zoom meeting participants: Mike, Paula, Laura, Shannon B., Lynn, Dan, Julie, Walter, Joe, Gene, Paul, Michelle, Tony, Lisa, Auggie, Judy, Kathie, Ann, Sean, Corey, Shannon K., Curt, Ralph, Todd, and Judy.

~ Guests ~

Leslie Caldwell, Executive Director, Taste Newberg

Larry Strober, Rotary Club of McMinnville Sunrise

~ Flag Salute ~

Shannon lead participants in the flag salute.

~ Welcome Incoming Officers and Directors! ~

Shannon officially welcomed 2020-2021 Directors and Officers:

Corey Zielsdorf, Immediate Past President

Tony Lelack, President-Elect

Joe Morelock, Vice-President

Shannon Knight, Secretary

Michelle Colvin, Treasurer

Paul Jellum and Kathie Byers, Community Service Co-Directors

Laura Tilrico, International Director

Lisa Salmons, Public Relations Director

Jim McMaster, Vocational Services Director

Brandy Penner, Youth Services Director

Mike Caruso and Dan Keuler, The Rotary Foundation Co-Directors

Kim Abraham, Membership Director

~ Rotary Moments ~

Laura: Our club is working on two Global Grants: (1) Prevention of Violence Against Women—Nepal and, (2) EMS Emergency Dispatch Center and Response—Nepal.

Joe: recognized yesterday as a Rotary moment for everyone participating in the Installation Celebration. Joe thanked Corey for his success as 2019-2020 Rotary Club President and welcomed incoming Rotary President, Shannon.

Judy: “We have unbelievable members serving on our Scholarship Committee!” Judy was inspired by: Lynn’s excellent coordination of the scholarship program; the quality of applicants; the maturity of students responding to interview questions and the number of Interact students competing for scholarships. Scholarship recipients will be announced within a few days.

~ Congratulations! ~

Congratulations to Walter and Julie Want who celebrate 54 years of marriage July 2nd. Julie was recognized for 30 years as a Rotarian during this year’s Installation Celebration. Walter will celebrate 20 years as a Rotarian January 2021. In recognition of their anniversary, Walter and Julie will make a contribution to Rotary.

~ Program – Taste Newberg/Leslie Caldwell/Executive Director ~

~ Leslie’s Background ~

Leslie started out in tourism management in California then moved on to world-wide tourism for Hyatt Hotels and boutique style hotels. She’s worked in Chicago, Orlando, Colorado Springs and promoted resort properties in Seaside and Bend. Her last position in Portland was marketing the Benson Hotel. After living in Yamhill County and commuting to downtown Portland for seven years, Leslie decided to focus on tourism in Yamhill County.

~ Transient Lodging Tax ~

When guests stay in lodging, guests are assessed 9% for the Transient Lodging Tax. The tax is used as follows:

• Advertising, publicizing or distributing information for the purpose of attracting and welcoming tourists.

• Conducting strategic planning and research necessary to stimulate future development.

• Operating tourism promotion agencies, and

• Marketing special events and festivals designed to attract tourists.

Revenue from the tax is distributed to: General Services, Tourism Promotion, Events, and the Chambers of Commerce

Tourism is one of three largest industries in Newberg. Tourism includes hotels, tasting rooms, etc. During a “normal” year $120 million in direct travel is spent in Yamhill County.

~ What is Taste Newberg? ~

Taste Newberg is a nonprofit destination marketing organization chartered by the Newberg City Council in 2018 and formerly called Visit Newberg.

Taste Newberg partnered with Travel Oregon sharing a database of area attractions, businesses and events. People who wish can learn about Newberg from their phone, tablet or laptop. They can explore what they want, select favorites and share them with friends.

The name of the organization morphed from Visit Newberg to Taste Newberg. Leslie and her Board challenged the brand team with the task of elevating their naming protocols–based on the visitor experience most often occurring in Newberg, and what visitor attractions bring people to the area.

In addition to the Travel Oregon database, the website features blog articles, an event planning guide and highlights what makes Newberg unique, such as the Old Fashioned Festival and numerous events at the area’s wineries, Champoeg State Heritage Area and George Fox University.

Taste Newberg measures success by examining: (1) transient lodging traffic, (2) website traffic, (3) digital marketing analytics and media, public relations, and, (4) articles sent to travel writers about our area.

~ Operating During COVID ~

The organization wasn’t thwarted in launching the website amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

• They spent their first year building out infrastructure—launched the website on March 24, 2020.
• With guidance from Governor’s office, they are careful not to push “in person” visitor stays.
• Taste Newberg supports the local business community by emphasizing and promoting how visitors can be safe and which business are open.

Taste Newberg is focused on a responsible reopening program. There is a valley-wide safety commitment to adhere to guidelines of unity, responsibility and safety. Taste Newberg promotes country drives, take-out food, and how to handle responsible distancing at the Newberg Wednesday Market.

~ Thanks, Leslie! ~

~ New Club President Shannon’s first meeting adjourned! ~

~ Respectfully submitted, Rick Kaufman Newsletter Editor ~