Oak Hills Rotary Bulletin Oct 17, 2018 (Oct 17, 2018)

Mary McGuyer
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Speaker

The speakers for the month of October are courtesy of the Oak Hills Rotary Club. This week's speaker was Michelle Camara of the Southern Wildlife Rehab.

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President

Fred Timmons

President Elect

Rick Tarbell

Secretary

Mary McGuyer

Treasurer

Stuart Dudley

Vice President

James Daniel

Immediate Past President

Allyson Hamlin

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President Fred presents a book to our speaker to be given in her honor to Haven for Hope.

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Brenda demonstrates a hat for American Heart Association's Little Hats, Big Hearts.

Member Birthdays

Brett Ward

October 7

Pat McGuyer

October 11

Ted Harwood

October 17

Derek Matthys

October 29

Anniversaries

Bil Trodlier

Linda

October 31

Join Date

Derek Matthys

October 15, 2010

8 years

Joe Montagna

October 15, 1991

27 years

Don Deal

October 23, 1977

41 years

Ted Harwood

October 23, 1977

41 years

Stories

Program for October 17, 2018

Prayer, Pledge and Visitors

The meeting began with the ringing of the bell by President Fred Timmons. Joe Montagna led us in a word of prayer and the pledge.

Umbrella Time: No one owns the umbrella this month.

Gold Raffle Drawing Update

President Fred is asking that unsold tickets be brought to the next meeting - or to his office - or for a small fee of a glass of iced tea Mary McGuyer will be happy to pick them up!

All sold tickets are due Friday, Oct 26 - which is the Friday prior to drawing.

On this Day in History Fred Timmons shared:

1835 Texas Rangers were created
1931 Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion - which segued to Fred's sage advice: "File your taxes!"
1989 San Francisco Earthquake, magnitude 6.9, killed 67 people and caused 5 billion dollars in damages.

National Days Fred continues Allyson's wonderful tradition:

National Medical Assistant Day
National Edge Day - this one kept all of edgey because we're not sure what it means...
National Pasta Day
National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
National Hagfish Day
National Support your Local Chamber of Commerce Day

Humor You may not know that President Fred Timmons is a big fan of all things to do with Texas such as:

Texas is larger than every European country except Russia.
Texas claims the world's largest rose garden (Tyler)
World's largest parking lot (DFW Airport)
Rattlesnake roundup (Sweetwater)
Fire hydrant (Beaumont)

Welcome Guests! Our guests this week were Jerret Krouse of the San Antonio Rotary Club and Ron Greenberg of the Alamo Heights Rotary Club. Ron is the Committee Chair for RYLA.

We were glad to see our regular visitor, Dave Jower of the NW Rotary Club.

Bruce shared a great article about Polio Plus, "Lessons from Life" in the November issue of the Rotarian Magazine. A school outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, has played an important part in the lives of thousands of children. The school was founded by the Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle, California. More than 6,200 children, both boys and girls, are educated separately. Girls as well as boys participate in sports and they are taught the importance of sanitation for health and the prevention of illness, and the importance of polio awareness. Students share their knowledge of polio awareness and prevention with classmates, friends and family. Read more interesting stories about Rotarians changing lives around the world by clicking the button below!

Club Lunch and Business Program

Brett Ward introduced our guest speaker Michelle Camara of Southern Wildlife Rehab. Michelle is licensed to rehabilitate wildlife in Texas and Louisiana. She also maintains a Texas Educational Display and USDA permit to use live native animals for education. She specializes in bats, skunks and opossums. Although she has been rehabilitating wildlife for over 30 years, she opened the doors to Southern Wildlife Rehab, Inc. in 2014 and is now rehabilitating and providing education on a larger scale as a 501c3 organization. She has a Bachelors in Arts in Psychology. She somehow finds time to run her husband's law practice and holds several important positions in the practice. She loves to educate people about wildlife and hopes to take away some common myths and misconceptions. She specializes in bats and skunks. Max and Olivia are a pair of skunks that she owns who have not been descented. She says that skunks don't spray unless they feel their life is in danger. To discourage skunks from setting up their love nest near your house, soak rags in ammonia and place them where you suspect they are hanging out. She discourages the use of mothballs because they make them sick. Michelle's passion is to encourage people to "like something they have never liked before". Michelle charges a nominal $50 fee per class to help offset the cost of the wildlife care and rehabilitation. If you are interested in sponsoring a class, contact Michelle email: southernwildliferehab@gmail.com or her cell: 210-825-8961.

Main Skunkline: 210-272-9621.

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It's Frightfully Close! Deadline for signing up to volunteer for Morgan's Wonderland is Oct 24! Contact Mary for more info.

Upcoming Events:

Oct 20 Rotary Leadership Institute will be at Spring Creek United Methodist Church. James Daniel & Mary McGuyer attended the last RLI. They reported that they enjoyed meeting Rotarians from other Clubs and more importantly how to help our Club reach its full potential. This course is beneficial to members of all levels of the Club. Click on the link below to register!

President Fred Timmons inducted John Legris as our newest member. John is a former member of the Leon Valley Rotary Club. He has already been involved with our club, regularly attending meetings and happy hour! He is a practicing attorney in the area. He enjoys demonstrating the Rotary motto, "Service Above Self". Welcome to the club John!

Oct 31 Gold Raffle Drawing will be held during our regular meeting.

Oct 31 Later that same evening...Rotary Clubs from all over will volunteer again at Morgan's Wonderland "More Delightful than Frightful" annual Halloween party from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Get to know members from other clubs while having a blast with the kiddos! Last year Ken Donoughue of Medical Center Rotary and Pat & Mary McGuyer of Oak Hills Rotary Club volunteered and had a ton of fun! Pat & Mary didn't dress up and not sure what Ken did....

Nov. 1 International School of the America's Pancake Supper Fundraiser. Meet at the school cafeteria at 3:30 p.m. We had a large group volunteer last year and there is always room for more!

Dec 8 Earn-a-Bike Volunteer Event at Our Lady of the Lake University We've been learning about this worthy non-profit from one of our new members, Destiny Mujica - here's our chance to help!

Dec 8 Later that same evening....Oak Hills Rotary Club's annual Holiday Party will be at the Sonterra Country Club again this year. You don't want to miss this so put it on your calendar! We will have a white elephant gift exchange.

Show Low Raffle

Rick Rhodes won the opportunity

to draw for the 2 of Clubs and win the $575 pot for today. Unfortunately, he drew the 5 of Spades. Instead of going home disappointed with a wine.o.u. Ken Donoughue saved the day and came to the rescue with a bottle of red wine! Thank you Ken! The pot will increase by $25 next week.

Wine Drawing

Rotarian guest Dave Jower owned the ticket drawn for a bottle of wine and he took home a bottle of white wine. We know how to make our guests feel welcome!

Allyson Hamlin donated the wine for October...except for today....

Brags and Confessions

Barry Abrams invited members to visit the website to review our scholarship policy. This is a very important part of our club outreach to the community so let's familiarize ourselves with this policy. Please contact Barry with your recommendations or suggestions.

Our American Heart spokesperson Brenda Jackson says it's time again for Little Hats, Big Hearts. Hats are donated for babies born in February with congenital heart defects. There are many ways to participate! Please contact Brenda gailjackph@aol.com for more information or to donate.

President Fred Timmons and President Ken Donoughue offered this big announcement: Med Center Rotary Club with Oak Hills Rotary Club have merged! We warmly welcome our new members and look forward our future together!

Missing Pins and Badges

There didn't seem to be any missing pins or badges this week.

The Meeting was closed with the Four-Way Test, led by President Fred.

Upcoming Speakers:

Oct 24th Joe Jeffries of Diamond Residential Mortgage will bring a Mortgage Update. Joe is very knowledgeable in the field of Mortgage Lending and brings his sense of humor as well....