Rotary Newsletter
District 5170
Welcome Governor Marley!
W
e are honored to welcome Governor Arley Marley III to our clubthis week. The Governor will meet with Dr. Susan Klear and her Board prior to the regular meeting and then address the entire club at regular meeting. Itis expected that Governor Marley willpresent pins to members who havepledged their contributions to TheRotary Foundation.
Dr. Sue received a note from her friend, Sandra, who grew up in Joplin, Mo.
She had planned a trip to Joplin to see relatives, but a cousin
ʼ
s knee surgerypushed plans forward by several weeks and she missed staying in the hotel thatwas leveled on the day she was to be there.
When she went on her previouslyplanned trip to see relatives in MO and OK and sent me the email that is below.
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After seeing a picture in Time Magazine of Joplin and fireworksin the background from July 4
th
, I had to look into what the Rotary Clubsare doing and how they are coping.
I took excerpts from her email tome dated 6/28/2011:
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Well, It has been a long two days! I am staying inMiami, OK, because there are no hotel rooms available in Joplin.
Miamiis about a half hour up the road and across the border. I guess I need totalk just a bit about the "path of destruction" but I really can't!
Thereare really no words to describe it!
. . .
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I came in from the south following Main Street; I usually come inanother way but I was afraid that way might have been blocked.
Therehad just been a thunder shower and things were damp.
Everythinglooked the same.
There was a block, perhaps two, where things lookeda little odd, and then there was nothing in tact!
That went on I guess forabout a mile as I bisected the path of the tornado.
COMINGEVENTS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3DISTRICT 5170 CABINETMEETING
This monthly meeting will beginat 6:30 PM at the San JoseDouble Tree Hotel. All membersare invited to attend.
MONDAY, AUGUST 8DINNER SERVICE @ EHC
The Hungry are not onlyhungry at the Holidays.Please help us serve dinner toour homeless neighbors from4:30 to 5:30, if that long.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13: DAY @ THE A’S
Support Camp RYLA and have aterrific day at the ballpark. Youcan also buy tickets for EMQ/FFkids. (See the flyer on page 3 formore info.)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9:NEXT SPEAKER
Chris Block, CEO, AmericanLeadership Forum-SiliconValley will be introduced byMayor Jason Baker.
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Newsletter
Rotary Club of Campbell
Message from Joplin, Mo.
con’t on pg. 2
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I turned to go to the street that would leadto my grandparent's home.
I had no idea what toexpect; I had been told that streets were blockedoff but I have seen no blocked streets during thetwo days I have been here.
I passed my brickelementary school that has been listed asdestroyed; it is standing but there are manyboarded up windows.
The houses I could seefrom this street looked pretty much OK - and thenI began to notice more and more significantdamage as I moved further and further west.
Iwas following for the most part the northern edgeof the path - to my left things looked pretty goodand to my right things were getting worse andworse.
"
I passed the tiny neighborhood store where my grandmother sent me for a loaf of bread and penny candy from Old Mrs. Carter (she was real mean!).
It was in bad shape but it was falling down the last time I saw it.
I edged up the street and pulled over and parked the rental car before I looked.
My grandparent's home was standing!
"
As I got out of the car with camera in hand I noticed heads turning by some men working on their homes right around me.
I immediately walked up to the nearest one, stuck out my hand,told him who I was and why I was here.
All was well from that point on.
"
He remembered my grandparents by name.
He
was repairing his home.
He had already replaced his front and his windows.
He was the first house on my right, toward the path; the second house to the right was significantly more damaged and by the third house to the right,they were standing but uninhabitable.
The house directly across him had the flat roof sheared completely off while an elderly man inside soundly slept.
"
I walked around most of my grandparent
ʼ
s house.
One of the walnut trees fell over and the top branches of the tree fell on the roof not seeming to do much damage.
My great- grandparent's home has been condemned; still standing but off its foundation.
"
Two blocks away is leveled completely.
Huge trees are lying on their sides with their root balls exposed.
Homes are flattened!
(For the most part, homes in this area are older, simple,wood-framed.) Peace Lutheran Church, built I believe in my teens, is gone completely; only the concrete slab foundation and the asphalt parking lot remain.
They are now sharing worship space 6 blocks away with a Presbyterian church.Stumps of trees that were growing at the high school have been formed by chain saw into eagles, the school mascot.
My middle school,two- storied brick is collapsed inward on itself from the roof giving way.
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In some sense of my own ethics, I feel free to visit my own "spots" but I do not drive into areas that are not my own.
I know that may seem silly.
I also don't feel that I need to witness more and more destruction.
ʼ "
Below is the website for the Joplin MO Rotary Clubs.
We all have the opportunity to help people in devastated areas.
And we do not even have to travel overseas to be available to lend a helping hand.
If you are interested in helping,please write a check to the Campbell, San Jose West Rotary Club Foundation, identifying the money to go to Joplin Mo., and we will see that you have a tax deductible Foundation donation (TRF) and will go toward your annual gift to the Annual Giving Fund.
http://www.joplinrotary.org/index.cfm?print=n
PRESIDENT’S CORNER
DR. SUSAN KLEAR
ROTARY CLUB OF CAMPBELL
JULY 19, 2011
“Valley Flavors” promises to be a gastronomicaltreat highlighting local restaurants and vintners.Plan to join us on Aug. 28th and savor the “Flavorsof the Valley.”
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