Rotary Club of

Centennial Colorado Centennial, Colorado October 23, 2018

ROTARY MINUTE

John McCarty gave the Rotary Minute. His topic was a heads up that November is Ro-tary Foundation Month. Our members support the Founda-tion by donating $100 each quarter with our dues. The six areas of focus for the Founda-

tion are 1) Peace and conflict prevention/resolution, 2) Disease

prevention and treatment, 3) Water and sanitation, 4) Maternal and child health, 5) Basic education and literacy, and 6) Economic and community development. There will be additional material presented during the month of November.

BUSINESS MINUTE

Kevin Mackessy spoke on his real estate busi-ness, Blue Olive Prop-erties. It is a full-service real estate and property management firm. He offers a unique end-to-end ex-perience for clients. Kevin has taught in-vesting seminars and

classes to over 1500 people in the last 15 years. He has helped create over a dozen millionaire real estate investors.

He helps clients navigate through and complete sometimes com-plex real estate transactions. In May 2017, Kevin closed a seven transaction chain of 1031 exchanges involving three investors all in one six hour marathon of closings.

He provides expert tenant placement and full-service property management. His firm actively manages tenant relationships to help protect valuable assets.

When it comes time to sell, he tap his extensive network of inves-tors, often selling properties with leases in place

He is always looking for new connections and new business part-ners.

SPEAKER

Dr. Marny Eulberg was our guest speaker. Her topic was

the Rotary Polio Plus program. She is the District 5450

chairperson for the Polio Plus Committee.

Marny passed out bottles of purple finger nail polish.

This is what is used in developing countries to indicate a

child has been immunized against polio. She challenged

members of our club to color their pinky finger nail with

the polish.

Year to date there have been 20 cases of wild polio world

wide. Sixteen of the cases are in Afghanistan and 4 in

Pakistan. It is felt we will exceed the 22 cases in 2017.

There have been 64 cases of circulating vaccine derived

polio virus (cVDPV) this year. These are cases derived

from oral polio virus. To help combat the polio virus,

environmental sampling is done in Afghanistan and Paki-

stan. There are between 1 and 10 positive environmental

samples each week. Polio is spread by fecal-oral relation-

ship.

2018-2019 Club

Officers President—Tim Eunice

President Elect-Samantha John-ston

Past President –John Berry

Secretary—Karen Berry

Treasurer—Barbara Medina

Sergeant at Arms—Allen Jackson

Directors Technology—John Peterson

Membership Growth & Enrich-ment—Samantha Roe

Rotary Foundation—John McCarty

Communication-Jessica Sidener

Millennial Satellite Club-Andrea Tagtow & Katie Guyon

UPCOMING

EVENTS Oct 26-Book Club, Jeanne Hensch-en

Oct 30-Christy Kopp, Kids Mobili-ty Network

Nov 13-Classification Talks

Nov 17-Denver Indian Center Food Drive, King Soopers, Arapa-hoe and Parker Rds

Nov 20-Kent Ostedgaard, RYLA Presentations

Nov 14-Board Meeting

Nov 27-Club Assembly

Dec 7-Holiday Party

Dec 9-Christmas Tree give away

Dec 12-Santa Clothes

Marny and her sister came down with polio in 1950. Marny was hospitalized for 6 months and left the hospital with long leg braces and crutches. She had 7 orthopedic operations to correct the effects of the polio. Eventually she was able to get rid of the crutches and braces. However, in 1985 she came down with post polio syndrome and is back to wearing braces.

She feels very fortunate to have grown up with polio in the United States. Here there is no discrimination for people with handi-caps. She is concerned because this is not true in developing countries.

At the Rotary convention in Atlanta, Rotary committed to raising $50 million per year to combat polio. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to match the $50 million two to one. This matching goes on for two more years.

On Jan 23, 2011, Don Shattuck and Bob Heisermann for District 5450 lit up the Den-ver City and County Building to bring awareness to end polio.

PAUL HARRIS AWARD

Randy Pye received his Paul Harris Award x6.

Congratulation Randy!

CLUB BUSINESS

• Andrea Tagtow announced the upcom-ing Thanksgiving Dinner for CASA individuals. The dinner will be Nov 14. Volunteers are needed to bring food and to serve.

• Trip Butler announced there will be a Business Mixer at Ken Hope’s house on Nov 8 from 5 to 7.

• Tom Buck announced the Indian Cen-ter food drive on November 17. It will be at the King Soopers at Parker and Arapahoe Rds.

• Samantha Johnston and Diane Wye announced more information on the Holiday Party. See the announcement on the next page.

TRAVEL GIFTS

• Patrick Maguire brought back from Ire-land a singing leprechaun.

• Roxy Hahn brought back a book titled “Dead Distillers”

BLUE MARBLE

Tim Eunice was unable to find the elusive blue marble.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1925 Johnny Carson is born

John William Carson, who will become known to most of America as the longtime host of the popular late-night TV pro-gram The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, is born in Corning, Iowa. As host of the highly rated Tonight Show, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1992, Carson became a bona fide American institution and enter-tainment icon.

Carson grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska, served in the U.S. Navy and attended the University of Nebraska.