~ Newberg Noon Rotary Club Newsletter ~
Rotary Club of Newberg, Zoom Meeting
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
~ Zoom Meeting Participants ~
Shannon B, Mike, Dan, Jim, Lynn, Judy, Debby, Christy, Walter, Julie, Paula, Ralph, Patrick, Denise, Amber, Michele, Tony, Auggie, Larry, Laura, Geoff, Kathie, Brandy, Joe, Matt, Om, Paul, Shannon K, Amy, Kim, Stan
~ Call to Order ~
President Shannon Buckmaster welcomed Rotarians and Friends of Rotary to the Zoom meeting at 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, 2021. The Rotarians split out into breakout groups to start the meeting.
~ Flag Salute ~
Todd lead participants in the Pledge of Allegiance.
~ 4 Way Test ~
Jim lead participants in the recital of the 4 Way Test:
Rotary’s Four Way Test of the things we think, say and do:
#1 – Is it the TRUTH?
#2 – Is it FAIR to all concerned?
#3 – Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
#4 – Is it BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
~ Announcements ~
Welcome to our newest member who was officially inducted into membership during the meeting with the Rotary Club of Newberg. We look forward to hearing your classification talk on March 10th!
~ Guests ~
Lisa Broderick, Guest Speaker, Police2Peace
Jim Bueermann, Guest Speaker, Police2Peace
Dan Weinheimer, City Manager for the City of Newberg, guest of Denise
~ The Rotary Duck ~
Kathie: Announced First Federal’s Ballot Program is beginning and that ballots are being mailed to customers of First Federal whereby customers get to, through the month of February, vote on which two non-profits will be getting some of their $40,000 annual donations to charity. Additionally, mentioned her husband loves cars and when she met him he had a collector convertible Corvette and two collector Camaros. He sold those cars when he met Kathie and since then he just has an old Toyota. On Saturday they finally went to the Beaverton Toyota and bought a Brand new Toyota Tundra Platinum Edition and he loves it!
Dan K: Welcomed new member Amy to the Club.
Brandy: Gave kudos to Dr. Joe Morelock on his amazing hard work carrying the District through the COVID-19 pandemic! Thanks Joe!
Laura: Spoke to Marge, who thanked the club for sending Flowers after she fell and got hurt. She said this was the first time shes ever gotten flowers! Her 92nd Birthday is coming up and Laura wants to send another bouquet to celebrate her birthday and invited other members to chip in. Marge is a dedicated and generous Rotarian who has been very active with the club.
Christy: Last week Shannon Knight brought Christy a coffee cup that said Honey (honoring her grandfather who passed away recently) and a care basket from Rotary, and she wanted to give big thanks! Also wished Happy Bday to Marge.
Judy: Thanked her husband who has been such a trooper since getting major knee replacement surgery. He has stuck to his program and almost has full function of his new knee and even is looking to replace his other knee in February so he can get out and ride his bike again.
Denise: Thanked and contributed to Marge mentioning that Marge has been a huge supporter to Denise and she is amazing human being. Also mentioned that she will be celebrating this weekend 22 years of marriage (officially titled her husband a Saint for hanging in there!).
Joe: Responding to Brandy, mentioning that Brandy has had amazing leadership as well and Joe owes his successes to her and the rest of the staff and school board at NSD.
Geoff: Wished Marge a happy birthday. Also he mentioned that she loves Joe to show off his socks, and asked what socks Joe had. Joe showed off his Milk and Cookies Socks.
Paula: Wished Marge a happy birthday. Mentioned that Marge led the effort to set up all of the custom Rotary logo shirts for both the Noon and Early Birds clubs, organizing the ordering and money collection related to that. Also wished Gene good luck with his treatment.
Paula: Wished Marge a happy birthday. Mentioned that Marge is a wonderful Rotary role model.
Patrick: Marge is one of his favorite people ever
Total Collected today for the duck (and for Marge’s Birthday Flowers): $337
~ Today’s Program: Police2Peace by Lisa Broderick and Jim Bueermann ~
Lisa Broderick is a former high-tech executive with decades of experience in how technology can effect society. She started her career at apple and has been at the forefront of applying disruptive technologies to societal problems through the use of language and radical thinking. She is now the Executive Director of Police2Peace, a 3 year old national non-partisan, non-profit organization that is bringing a new framework of community policing that is rooted in the concept of “peace officers” to police agencies across the nation. She has a degree in Economics from Stanford and an MBA in Global Finance and Management from Duke. She is also a Rotarian and member of Mediators Beyond Borders, the United Nations Association and the Alliance for Peace Building.
What P2P wants to convey to the agencies they work with and speak to is that, especially aftet this year and everything that has happened over 2020, keeping the peace has never been more challenging, for so many reasons. Part of the challenge for agencies and communities after everything is answering the question of “where are we going and how will we get there?”. Part of the answer lies in using and reintroducing the disruptive technology that is the term “peace officers”. Public safety will always be a need, and rather than accepting and adopting the phrase “defunding”, P2p prefers to replace it with “redefining, re-imagining, and advancing policing. Communities and departments will need to work together to respond to the movement of re-imagining how community policing should and could work to provide needed safety. P2P uses programs to do this including Peace officer ID program (using decals and patches identifying as peace officers), department self-reviews and community reviews, cognitive resilience training (meditation mindfulness), and community feedback loop where the community can provide feedback. They also established 7 steps for positive policing that a community can take to become part of the process. Public safety and public health are interconnected in our communities.
Chief Jim Bueermann is a retired police chief out of California who also served as President of the National Police Foundation in DC, America’s oldest non-profit, non-partisan police research organization. Jim is a strategic site liaison for the National Public Safety Partnership of the Dept of Justice. He served as an executive fellow for the US Dept of Justice and serves as a Law Enforcement Futures group member of the Bureau of Justice Assistants and an honorary fellow into the Academy of Experimental Criminology and in the hall of fame at George Mason University Center for evidence based crime policy.
Policing in the US often is viewed as a pretty homogeneous straightforward enterprise, but actually is a very complicated issue. As the most visible representative for local government, policing tends to be a catch-all for many societal problems. There are somewhere along the lines of 18,000 agencies in the US, all answering to different independent bodies, policing different cultures in different parts of the country with different problems to deal with in many ways. Most countries have one national view of policing and America does not operate in that traditional way, which Jim has confirmed over his career dealing with the National research foundation. Communities get whatever policing they expect, tolerate, and/or pay for. The three disruptive technologies that most drastically changed the world, especially policing, are the internet, social media, and smart phones (which really are full on computers that happen to make digital calls). An example is when a policing incident happens, and is caught on camera, it is spread throughout the world, resulting in protesting and other civil interaction before the officers can even file a report breaking down the incident. He used the incident in Ferguson as an example, where Ferguson was a nice, middle town in america which became the ground zero of police reform while the rest of America absorbed the images and story and framed it or read about it from whatever context or media outlet supported their view of the police, whether that be viewing the police as helpers or corrupt annoyances. He also mentioned that Policing in general have not done a good job of being transparent when things do not go well, often due to regulations that limit what they are allowed to share or speak on, which provides an information void that people can fill with whatever information they hear about, often revolving around their own biases. Often agencies and communities agree that reform is needed, but may be resolved that its not a problem where they are. The Police Chief in Ferguson who was fired certainly was an example of how that might not be true even if it is a strong perception. Jim pointed out that he is not a fan of the phrase “law enforcement” because that is not what policing is about: policing is an art, not a science. He appreciates the phrase, which was more commonly used long ago when the state codes were written, peace officer. When we bring that phrase back and label them in that way, it changes the way they see themselves and how the community sees them. It provides more trust that they are there for conflict resolution with cooperation, not to enforce. This effort/initiative by Police2Peace and similar organizations gives the police an opportunity to reflect on their services and perceptions, meet the community, learn about alternatives, and reinvent themselves accordingly to become what the community needs and expects. He expressed confident that most policemen and women agree that much of what is put on their plate, such as responding to mental health issues, are not appropriate to be their responsibility, so there is an opportunity to work together to find improvements.
During questions:
Auggie commented on a Canadian effort he read about whereby officers made efforts to cite people for positive things as a thank you and encouragement. What a cool idea.
Laura commented on her direct experiences whereby police chiefs and staff where she lived previously were Rotarians and the difference it made. She encouraged people who know officers to invite them to Rotary.
~ Next Week’s Program: Christy Cowgill’s Classification Talk ~
Check your e-mails for Mike Caruso’s Zoom meeting access information.
~ Joke of the Day ~
I was hoping to share with you all my favorite construction joke…
But I am still working on it.
~ Happy Quotes! ~
“It’s not a crime to be good to yourself.”
– Dr. Joe Morelock (during today’s meeting)
~ Published 1/17/2021: Dan Keuler, Newsletter Editor ~
