Welcome

 

No one got past greeter Joe Kanine this morning including President Matt Hausler who didn't show up at all!  Fear not, our President-Elect Lindsey Bur was able to stand in and ring that bell.  She, of course, called on our new member Megan Zaremba to navigate us through the intricacies of the 4-Way Test, a task she handled flawlessly.

 

Don't forget about the Multi-Club mixer tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at Bob's Place in Alanson.  It runs from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.  We have several club members planning to attend.  If you'd like to join them, please send an RSVP to Reg Smith at regs1262@gmail.com.  

Venison Stew is on top of everyone's minds these days.  Dave Meyer and Rod Niswander reminded us to sell as much stew as humanly possible.  We'll have around 300 containers available at $20 each.  Buy five and you get a sixth free.  Sign up sheets are available, or people can order from the QR code on the flyer.  See Dave or Rod or Christy Lyons if you need copies.  

 

Our annual Coach Pollion Charity Championship tips off in just one month.  Soon the Charity Giving adjudicators will be pouring over statistics, schedule difficulties, and high value wins to see which 32 charities will make it onto the bracket.  But just to be sure, if you have a favorite charity that you would like included in the voting, make sure you let Carlin or Val know by next week.

 

Carlin says key stakeholders in the community and neighboring communities have been notified about our plans to no longer do fireworks on the 4th of July.  He has started actively recruiting organizations and has had one solid no, one that said they will take it to their board, and silence from the rest.  News releases went out to the media yesterday.

 

Some old, metal, Rotary Wheel signs were recently salvaged by the city.  “What should we do with them?,” they asked.  “We should take them to Jenny Brower!”  So that's what they did.  They are now in the church basement.  “What should we do with them?” the club asked.  All eyes turned to Jenny Brower.

 

 

Chuck Drake thanked all of the Rotarians who helped last week at the Habitat for Humanity project in Indian River.  More projects are coming to Mackinaw City and Bay Shore.  Let's give makeups to our volunteers: Mark Antonishen, Mark Thompson, Paul Reed, Tom Oelke, Jim Shirilla, Mark Mercer, and Chuck Drake.

 

While we're handing out make-ups, let's tack on two for Hal Lawrence who was back among his friends at the San Miguel Club in Mexico the past two weeks.

 

 

Despite his weariness from his travels, Hal popped up to be first in line for Happy Bucks.  He was happy for that trip to San Miguel, and is now happy to be back home.

 

Val dropped a buck to remind everyone to go visit the Women and Water Exhibit at the Petoskey District Library.  It truly is amazing and inspiring.  The exhibit closes Thursday.

 

Welcome back Fred Hueston from Conway Arkansas.  He's Mike Malone's brother-in-law and father of former club member Devin.  It's Fred's first trip here in the fall and he's loving it.  But he's loving even more his brand new granddaughter Maren Ann born to Devin and Mariah.

 

Back in the day, Fred Hueston helped Camp Daggett do a feasibility study for a capital campaign project.  Julie Joles says that project breaks ground this week!

 

Jim McLain dropped a buck to say how much he enjoyed having family visit and all of the activities they did at Nub's Nob and Pond Hill. He quickly added another buck saying, “And then they left!”

 

Buffalo won in overtime last night.  You know that will generate a buck from Brian.  However he stayed up very late and decided to sleep in and skip Rotary this morning, but his thoughtful wife was kind enough to wake him up in time!

 

Carlin's daughter Paige got a job at the Mt. Pleasant library as a Page.  Paige is a page!

 

That was a fiver from Tom Oelke.  His daughter and son-in-law found a new home and have moved out of his!  He added another buck in honor of our speaker today.

 

Lindsey went camping this past weekend and was delighted that everything was dry when she packed it away! That doesn't happen very often with October camping excursions.

 

We'll close with Heidi Shearer who announced that she is leaving Pine Pond at the end of the month after selling 32…soon to be 35 homes there since its beginning.  She will still sell real estate with Harbor Sotheby's and will pursue a personal dream of life-coaching.  

 

 

Jim McLain welcomed back Heather Nalbock for an encore presentation about senior care and planning.  Heather is a Community Specialist for Independence Village and titled today's presentation, “The Third Act of Retirement.”

 

In her eight years at Independence Village, Heather has had 22,000 conversations with families.  Only 400 moved into her facility as a result of those conversations, which means she does a lot of counseling and coaching for families.  She says two-thirds of those conversations are with people who are reacting to a very difficult situation.

 

The First Act of Retirement is for ages 18 to 65, the working and saving years.  The Second Act is when you are actively retired at ages 65 to 80.  The third act is the last five to ten years of life, which is the most overlooked act.  Most of these folks have a chronic disease, or hearing loss or vision loss, or can no longer drive or are a fall risk, or have cognitive challenges.  Most plan to stay in their homes and only 2% are willing participants to move into assisted living.  

She challenges people to ask themselves, “What type of quality of life do I want for myself?”  And then start to develop a strategy or plan to get there.  “Those who fail to plan are destined to one day react to a crisis,” Heather said.  

 

Heather praised our Area Agency on Aging, the Friendship Center, and encouraged folks to utilize their resources.  She also offered her services to anyone, just make an appointment and she will help advise you with your planning for yourself or a loved one.  

 

She also noted that we are blessed in this area to have Bay Bluffs Medical Care Facility as a resource for more acute care.  

 

 

Thanks Heather.  You gave us a lot to think about!

 

Have a great week everyone.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Carlin Smith