Newsletter for May 29th Meeting
May 29, 2013 Newsletter
By John Hammer
Charlotte Shelburne Rotary
Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 7:15 a.m.
Trinity Episcopal Church Community Room
Welcome
President Adam Bartsch opened the meeting with the Pledge. Sam Feitelberg gave a devotional in recognition of last Monday’s Memorial Day service calling for peace based on Isaiah 2:4 “Beating swords into plowshares.”
Guests: Mikie Marcotte, Grandson of Gary Marcotte
Sally Mack - Speaker
Quote for the Week: “
Word for the Day: Look for the * and definition at end.
Upcoming:
June 5 – There will be no meeting
June 6: District Governor and Club Presidential Change of Guard at Shelburne Farms Coach Barn.
June 12 – Committee Meetings
June 13 – Board Meeting
June 19 – Brenda Torpy, Champlain Valley Housing Trust
June 21 – Bowlathon
June 26 – Matthew Hankeys – Fleischer Jacobs Group – Vermont Health Care Program
July 30 or 31 – Camp TaKumTa – Serving Breakfast 6-9:30 AM
Announcements
Changing of the Guard Party
One week until the Changing of the Guard. It will take place between 6 and 9 at the Coach Barns at Shelburne Farms. All members are urged to let Linda know if they are coming and if they will be bringing guests. Members are encouraged to pay John Beal before the event to simplify the evening. $40 per person that includes the meal (roast beef and vegetable lasagna). So far 76 have signed up.
Club Bowlathon
It’s coming up, Friday, June 21 at the Champlain Lanes. Lane sign-ups are taking place right now. Time to think about whom you would invite to take part on your team.
Shelburne 250th Anniversary
David Cranmer briefed the club on plans for the forthcoming Shelburne 250th Anniversary Events to be held on the weekend, August 16-18. So far the plans are:
· Friday, Aug 16 – Ship-borne tour of Shelburne Bay out to Rock Dunder aboard a LCCT vessel. There will be an historian aboard to narrate the voyage. They are trying to lay on an excursion train from Shelburne to Burlington in conjunction with the voyage. LCCT has donated the vessel.
· Saturday, August 17 – Shelburne Day on the Parade Ground. There will be exhibits on the North Field of the Shelburne Museum, accessed through the double covered bridge. The exhibits will celebrate Shelburne’s history and industries/culture.
· Sunday, August 18 – Picnic/BBQ on the Parade Ground with old-timey games (sack races, three-legged races, etc).
· Our club may be asked for traffic control to the covered bridge on Saturday and help with the BBQ on Sunday.
Sergeant at Arms
Happy Fines
Fritz – Happy Birthday today
Bob Maynes – Back from a good trip to Los Angeles
Denny Bowen – Just back from a trip to the Barents Sea above the 71st Parallel. That’s way up north – about 210 nm north of the Arctic Circle! Did you get a Blue Nose, Denny?
Terry Kennaugh – Happy that this year the lake level Is not low, at least that’s the view after all this rain.
Bob Sanders – Back from three weeks away, two on Hawaiian Islands and one in San Diego. Missed a club make-up by a hair – a bar got in the way
Linda Gilbert – Had a great breakfast at the Shelburne Farms.
George Schiavonne – Happy to have had a daughter and two granddaughters run in the Burlington City Marathon.
Joan Lennes – Happy to have been able to attend the Shelburne Memorial Day Ceremony and about to take off on an extended trip.
Roz Graham – Had a five star breakfast at the Shelburne Farms and she is celebrating her husband’s return from a China trip. Also was happy to have been able to attend last night’s very interesting Shelburne Selectboard meeting.
John Beal – Went sailing Memorial Day and he warned that the water in the lake is 40°, which is dangerously cold.
Joan Lennes drew the Three of Diamonds. Roll over of the pot of $14.
Speakers – Member Colleen Haag and Sally Mack, Homeopath* from Charlotte speaking on Lyme Disease.
Colleen began by reporting that she had been diagnosed as having chronic Lyme Disease back in November. It knocked her down for a long time before she was correctly diagnosed. She had worked with Sally Mack on the disease and asked Sally to speak to the club.
Sally has had Lyme for twenty years and also went many years without being correctly diagnosed. She took nine tests, all of which were negative, though she was suffering from flu-like symptoms in the middle of summer with achy joints and fatigue. She says that Lyme is the most serious vector-borne disease in the US. Most of us know that the vector is the tick. There are many kinds of ticks and you have to be careful to find them as they lodge in hard-to-see areas such as the groin, armpit, or scalp.
Lyme is related to syphilis and is often cured if caught early enough. If treatment is delayed, it can become acute. Lyme opens the door to many other co-infections. It is best to catch it early. Its effects are ameliorated by Doxycycline, among other antibiotics. Victims of the bite often present bull’s-eye rashes. The disease has been around for thousands of years and is caused by a spirochete bacterium which augers into flesh anywhere, thus making it often hard to reach and treat. Sally warns that many doctors are misinformed about the disease and that tests often do not detect it in the appropriate tiers of blood work. According to Sally, the only two organizations where accurate Lyme tests can be obtained are: IGeneX in Palo Alto, CA; and Advanced Labs, Inc., in Sharon Hill, PA.
Disclaimer – If in doubt – please consult authoritative sources as I am no doctor. There are many web sources of information. Sally’s site is www.Vermont-Lyme-Support-Network.org and the CDC is: http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/. Interested persons might also wish to consult www.healthvermont.gov.
Definition – Homeopath, n. – A person who practices homeopathy which is a method of treating disease by the use of small amounts of a drug that, in healthy persons, produces symptoms similar to those of the disease being treated