December 16 2009

President Ginny called the meeting to order, Marylou Stinson led us in prayer and pledge; Jacqueline Kleynenberg conducted health and happiness and Happy Dollar. Darren Bouknight recognized our guests. Several announcements regarding club programs were made; Blount Sheppard informed our group the Adopt A Highway project for this Saturday is postponed due to the expected weather. Jim Wellman asked for volunteers to sign up to deliver Meal On Wheels.

President Ginny recognized our Club members with perfect attendance records. For this past year those recognized were:
John Adair, Beetle Bailey, Bill Brooks, Patty Cavanaugh, Reid Danielson, John Hanson, Judy Johnson, Eddie Robinson, Jay Seward, Larry Stohs and Jim Wellman.
Lyman Whitehead 16 year’s of perfect attendance!
Janette Coulter 19 years!
Lynn Campbell 20 years!

President Ginny then introduced the Department of Juvenile Justice Interact Club members to recognize their accomplishment of winning the Rotary Fall Video Contest. We viewed the video and then were spoken to by three DJJ Interact members who expressed their appreciation to our Club for the support and how much they feel this opportunity is helping them make progress in changing their lives.

We then broke into planning groups for the “Club Assembly” to prepare for the great bike ride project.

The meeting was then adjourned.

Christmas Party 2009

December 2 2009

Notes from the Lake Murray Irmo Rotary Club 12-2-09 Meeting

After President Ginny Barr called the meeting to order, Lynn Campbell led in prayer. Darren Bouknight introduced the guests. Jacqueline Kleynenberg led the group in Health and Happiness and a time of Happy Dollars. During Happy Dollars, Jeff Baldwin provided an update on Bill Kopelman. Joel Collins provided the club with information on the Rotary Foundation and Patty Cavanaugh handed out individual foundation contribution status pages. Joel challenged the club to become 100% Paul Harris Fellow contributors.

The last adopt-a-highway for 2009 will be held this Saturday, December 5. Please meet at Blount Sheperd’s office at 8:00 am. The club Christmas party will be held Monday, December 14 at 6:30 pm at the Chestnut Hills Club House.

Our speaker for the morning was Dr. Burk Dial, who talked about the Palmetto Richland Gamma Knife program. Richland has had the only gamma knife in the state for ten years. The gamma knife offers an alternative to whole brain radiation treatment for metastasized tumors in the brain. The gamma knife provides 192 low dosage penetrations which converge on the tumor providing a high dosage radiation to the tumor without damaging the cells through which the laser passes. According to Dr. Dial, whole brain radiation treatment can only be applied to a patient one time while gamma knife radiation treatment can be applied multiple times. The accuracy of the gamma knife is less than one millimeter and the success rate is very high. We need to thank Maris Hargrave for arranging this very informative program.