St. SimonsMar ch 31, 2020

Rotar y Spray

October 30 , 2018

Volume 20, Number 32

Mar ch 24t h Meet ing

We had 26 people join the Zoom meeting on March 24. The speaker was Char lene Hall , Regional Dir ector for C.A.R.T. (Coins for Alzheimers Research). She began her presentation by thanking the club members for their suppor t.

She showed a video about The CART Fund and how i t was begun by Rotar ian Roger Ackerman (died in 2018) in 1996, whose idea of emptying loose change from pockets/pur ses at weekly rotar y meetings has r aised mi l l ions of dol lar s over the years - $1 mi l l ion in 2019 alone. Al l funds r aised go towards Alzheimers r esearch to search for a cure/prevention, something the Federal Government w i l l not pay for.

Char lene gave us some interesting facts:

- 1,580 rotar y clubs are now involved- Ever y 60 seconds, someone is told they have Alzheimers- 6th most common cause of death and is increasing- Ever ybody knows someone w ith Alzheimers- 70-75% of those aff l icted are women- 18 mi l l ion care-giver s

Upcom ing M eet ings Mar ch 31

Aar on Bel l i zzi : Local Br ew Owner

The m eet ing w i l l be " Zoom ed"

WA TCH THIS SPA CE!

.... date to be deter m ined....depending on the tur m oi l i n DC over the cur r ent cr i si s ............ we hope for Fm r Congr essm an Jack Kingston to be our guest speaker " ver y soon" .

There is a huge cost associated w ith the care of people suffer ing from Alzheimers, both in "Dollar cost" and in "Human cost" Many caregiver s die before those aff l icted - especial ly spouses. The Alzheim er s Associat i on gives information about suppor t groups

You can go to w w w.car t fund.or g to r ead more and/or donate.

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Mar ch 31, 2020

Mar ch 31st Meet ing

The meeting w i l l again be through Zoom. See instr uctions below i f you need help w ith Zoom.

Aar on Bel l izzi

execut ive chef and owner of The Local br ew

We w i l l be meeting on March 31st at 12:45 pm thr ough Zoom . Whi le the bell w i l l r ing at 12:45, ever yone is encouraged to cl ick on the l ink and join in beginning at 12:30pm so we can "mingle" ahead of the meeting. That w i l l also provide time to "get connected" and make sure sound and video etc are working.

Keep tr ack of your attendance. Many of you w i l l enjoy "attending" the meeting and getting together. You can use your computer , ipad, tablet or smar t phone.

To join the m eet ing:

1) BEST Option: Cl ick on the l ink below (on page 3) just past "Join Zoom Meeting" I f you are asked for your meeting ID i t is: 912 111 4210 I f you asked to dow nload the zoom app - do i t! I t makes for a "better exper ience" I f you are asked to create a fr ee account - do i t. They w i l l never harass you.

2) Or you can cal l in from your phone and l isten - but you w i l l not see anyone - by using "one tap mobi le" or "cal l in" when asked for your meeting ID i t is: 912 111 4210

When you join the video meeting from your computer etc, your camera may be off and you may be muted. The control is in the lower left corner of your screen. Tap to turn on the mic and to turn on the video.

Detai l s for the Meet ing

See Page 3

Previously Chef De Cuisine of The Georgian Room at The Cloister Hotel on Sea Island, Aaron Bll izzi is now Executive Chef and ow ner of The Local Brew on Market Str eet, St. Simons Island.

Aaron has a Bachelor 's degree focused in Restaurant/Food Ser vices Management from The Culinar y Insti tute of Amer ica. His mission at The Local Brew is "to provide local and responsibly sourced food and dr inks that are delicious and creative whi le helping bui ld happy and healthy communities". He has been offer ing breakfast and l ight lunches and was just star ting cooking classes when the cur rent cr isis occured. As w ith other r estaurants hi t w i th the Conoravir us cr isis, The Local Brew is now taking orders for pick-up and deliver y - for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Guests on Mar ch 24thvia Zoom !

Club Guests

Margie Dorsey guest of Bud Dorsey

Char lene Hall Guest speaker

Li l l ie Onday Guest of speaker Mar 31 Aaron Bell izzi

Happy Dol l ar s

Members who par ticipated w i l l have the Happy Dollar amount added to their invoice

Car t Bucket

Members were encouraged to send their donations to: SSI Rotar y, PO Box 21887, SSI, GA 31522

Rotar y Websit es w w w.ssirotar y.org - St. Simon Rotar y Website

w w w.rotar ydistr ict6920.org - Distr ict 6920 Website

w w w.facebook.com/rotar yssi - St. Simons Rotar y Facebook

w w w.facebook.com/Rotar y6920 - Distr ict Facebook Page

Rotar y St Sim ons Island i s i nv i t i ng you to a scheduled Zoom m eet ing. The ' l i nks' to join ar e below : Topic: Rotary St Simons Island Zoom Meeting Time: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 12:45 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/9121114210 Meeting ID: 912 111 4210

One tap mobile +19294362866,,9121114210# Dial in manually: +1 929 436 2866

You?ll be asked to enter the meeting ID: 912 111 4210 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeQgrxMfOy

Mar ch 31, 2020

Ar ea Rotar y Cl ub Meet ings

Brunsw ick Brunsw ick Countr y Club Thurs, 12:30 pm

Golden Isles Brunsw ick Hospital Wed., 7:30 am

Jekyll Island Jekyll Island Hotel Wed., 7:30 am

St. Simons Ziggy's Tues., 12:30 pm

Four Way Test

Is it t he TRUTH?

Is it FAIR t o all concerned?

Will i t build GOODWILL & bet t er FRIENDSHIP?

Is it BENEFICIAL t o all concerned?

member news

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Birthdays Apr i l 3 Mer r y Tipton

Rotar y Car es

Ann Nermoe Mar ie Dodd Lise Hofmann Sue Taylor

Frances Allen continues to decl ine.

John Law is r ecuperating at home after bypass and valve hear t surger y

Tuffy Adams recuperating after foot surger y. Had problems w ith blood clots.

Contact Jean Hur st at 912 580 2642 or jeanhur st@comcast.net with new Rotar y Car es or updates

Susie Cur tis is i l l at SGHS awaitng Coronavir us test r esult.

Jennifer Broadus and husband Bob are tr ying to r eturn home after being stopped on the ship Zaandam. They tr ansfer red to the Rotterdam. We await fur ther news.

Rotar y member , Susan Im hof f , has been f ishing again ? trout and redfish this time! Susan can out f ish some of the best f ishermen in this area and has won several local f ishing competi tions.

The documentar y f i lm - " St . Sim ons: Sur v iv ing Success" can now be viewed on You Tube HERE. An open- captioned ver sion and tr ai ler are also avai lable.

An accompanying SSI Take Act i on Toolk i tis also avai lable for dow nload and provides ways you can discuss the issues and take action to develop a w ise balance between grow th and preser vation.

Many of you may alr eady be famil iar w i th the documentar y. Made by George Crain and Lance Lipman, i t is a 15 minute f i lm that presents the assets of the St. Simons Island community but also the challenges i t faces as development and tour ism pressures increase.

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Fr om Pr esident Beth

Answer s to her quest i on " How ya doing?"

Our week has been consumed w ith the death of my cousin Penny Duncan, who l ived in Marsh's Edge. We have postponed the Celebration of Li fe ser vice and are concentrating on cleaning out her ME apar tment and closing the var ious accounts, the var ious f inancial i tems, etc. That w i l l occupy us for several weeks .

John H Matthews

Beth, glad to see you are keeping busy.

We are both going along w ith our programs. Sue has been to PT tw ice so far and is going 3 times a week to tr y to get back to walking again.

I am staying ver y busy w ith our cat r escues and keeping the household going.

Whi le the GreyOwl Inn is in mothballs there?s not much happening there. Great time to clean out those closets and get a load ready for ?Hello Goodby? . What packrats we have been!

Hope to connect w ith the gang again soon. Good that you are ar chiving the meetings as the zoom time is now taken up w ith other sur vival work. Glad I was a Boy Scout and also learned how to sur vive from Uncle Sam some years back.

Too bad we dropped the Draft. Today?s kids are r eal ly missing out on a super learning exper ience.

Bye for now

Yours in Rotar y, Bi l l Gussman

Great idea Beth,

Jane and I have been reading a lot and getting caught up on al l of the things we have recorded on our DVR.

We are r eady to bust out of here!

Kern Baker

Beth, thank you for checking in w ith ever yone. I think i t is a great idea to get this feedback from ever yone. You w i l l have to put i t in our ar chives to get brought out for our next big bir thday celebration. Is that in 5 years? Won?t i t be great to have i t in the r ear view mir ror !

Bob and I are doing f ine. We are both in the ?at r isk? categor y by vir tue of being of a cer tain age, but Bob also has an under lying pulmonar y condition, so we are most mindful to keep him safe and well . We have been staying at home and going out only to walk in the neighborhood and to go to the post off ice since March 11th. That was when my pediatr ician fr iend said that the vir us was going to be bad and that we should stay home and away from public places. So, that has been two weeks ago. Our daughter includes us in her grocer y and pharmacy er rands, so we avoid that, too, which is a big r el ief of concern.

Thanks to learning Zoom through Rotar y, I am able to par ticipate in vir tual meetings for the Coastal Symphony Board and w ith the other nonprofi ts I work w ith. I can car r y on my law practice using my phone and my computer , so I have met w ith cl ients that way and continue to prepare their documents, as usual. Those of us who are accustomed to working online and remotely have a r eal advantage. Those who can only work at a given place w i l l be the hardest hi t dur ing the ?stay at home? order.

We are lucky to have lots of w indows over looking the marsh and al low ing lots of l ight, so we are not going too sti r crazy. Zoom has opened the oppor tuni ties to see family in several places at once as well as fr iends at Rotar y meetings, so i t is a godsend.

I f ind that i t is easier to stay sane i f I am able to stay in the moment and think about today and, maybe, tomor row. Keeping to a schedule helps, and having a l ist of things to do keeps me busy, which is not a problem. I have a backlog of things to do at home that w i l l keep me busy for as long as this lasts.

It sure seems that there might have been better ways for God to get our attention, but there is no question that the coronavir us has gotten our col lective attention al l over the wor ld. Like Georgia O?Keefe at Ghost Ranch, we are f inding out that we can l ive r easonably well when l i fe is r educed to i ts essentials. Maybe, when this is f inal ly over and i t is safe to emerge, we w i l l discover that we are the better for i t. I hope so. I think we w i l l appreciate each other more and realize how much we need and depend on each other.

Dur ing this time of physical separation, i t is impor tant to be social ly connected w ith people far and near. Thank you for helping us to do that and for being a great leader through these troubled times.

All the best,

Linda Muir

-Playing Duplicate Br idge on l ine for 2 hours ever y day w ith 10 others

-Deliver ing weekly bread to Well, Salvation Army, Boys & Gir ls club, and Manna House- picked up end of day from Panera

-Enjoying our heated pool dai ly

-movies & reading (fr ee multi day previews so far from HBO, SHO, & Star z to r ecord)Wash your hands and don't touch your face!

Regards,Jim Kielt

We are enjoying St George Island, Flor ida. Getting our house painted. We have not heard of anyone w ith vir us dow n here. Grocer ies are plenti ful.

Douglas Sharp

Hey Beth

We have been gardening, walking - anything to be outside to enjoy the weather before i t gets too hot - but also r eading, doing crosswords, tr ying to keep the brain cel ls active!

PamHamilton

Hi Beth

Funny how you never miss the simple things in l i fe unti l you don?t have them.

Please tel l ever yone that I am REALLY looking for ward to getting off this ship

And getting back to l i fe as normal at SSI Rotar y.

Stay well .

Jennifer M. Broadus

(She and Bob have been on a cruise to Chi l i .They are sequestered in their room on the ship! They are feel ing f ine.)

Thanks so much for r eaching out and think i t?s a great idea. Here?s my 2cents wor th

This whole isolation thing is nothing new to me as I have been doing i t pretty much since November. Having had lung surger y then, I was ver y afr aid of getting so much as a cold let alone the possibi l i ty of the f lu so I stayed in almost al l of the time. So this is just an extension of what I was alr eady doing.

I think what saved Peter and me as we do l ike to watch TV in the evenings is the str eaming ser vices such as Netf l ix and Amazon Pr ime. I would watch out for some good ser ies or movies and then we?d have something good to watch. A r eally good str eaming ser vice is Acorn which car ies mostly Br i tish and Austral ian ser ies and movies which are r eal ly good. I t?s wor th the monthly charge to have some good ser ies to choose from.

Other than reading a lot and resting, I haven?t done much else as I haven?t felt l ike doing too much. This al l w i l l end so my advice to ever yone is to hang in there and zoom the meeting (which I w i l l do next week). Lots more Zoom meetings are cropping up so Rotar y was ahead of the cur ve on that

Hope this isn?t too bor ing to include. Thanks for al l you are doing to tr y to br ing us together.

Ann F. Nermoe

Hi Beth,

I would have put money in the Happy thing. I got a job working w ith a company to create the abi l i ty to use your mobi le phone to vote in national elections.

Phi l ip Andreae

Days- Tennis Mon, Thurs & SatOutside planting new bushes, cleaning golf car t tr ai lsFixing things, leaves off parking lotEvening- Adding web programs to help r efund Tour of Home ticket pur chasestracking dow n ticket buyers to get disposi tion choiceWishing I had Braves baseball to watchTr ying to avoid TV vir us news repor tsCollecting CVS purchase receipts for toi let paper

Jim Bruce

Beth,

We?re staying busy r eading and w ith projects we haven?t had time for in the past. We?re isolating ourselves and doing well? ..wor r ying about the impact on others. Thanks for al l you?re doing. I enjoy the Rotar y meetings on Zoom.

Alice Bar low

Beth -

I hope you are well . Thank you for your updates on our members. We are safe and well . I pul led my kids out of daycare on March 12 because Nicholas had a fever and a cough, and we have chosen to self-isolate since then. I tel l you this because after 14 days of isolation, this last Thur , I felt the greatest wave of r el ief. I t was l ike nothing else - so r efr eshing. So to al l who are hesi tating about isolating, I offer my exper ience of getting through those two anxious isolation weeks; I am sti l l isolating (and w i l l be for the foreseeable future) but I feel SO much better now. I t feels wonder ful to know that we are safe, and that we are not harming anyone. Power through the two tough weeks! Ever ything feels easier after that!

Casey Har r is

Dear Beth, Jane and I are staying home and so far we are sti l l speaking! Jane was concerned that Har r is Teeter was out of toi let paper unto I did an inventor y and found out we had 48 rol ls. We have plenty of ever ything including 3-4 months supply of booze. The economy w i l l turn the corner in two weeks. Thanks for your inquir y.

Paul Sanders

We are doing f ine. After a week of isolation we f inal ly got a group together for cocktai ls (less than 10 and 6 feet sor t of apar t). That makes a di f ferenceSor r y about Jennifer and Bob. Imagine 4 people dead on boardThanks for your update. We are prayingBarbara Sull ivan

We are f ine. Nothing to r epor t other than Kathleen and I are r ecording music for CCF and Diocese of Georgia use dur ing shutdow n.

Te Turner

Dear Beth,

From New Hampshir e, where i t 's 40 degrees and dr izzl ing. We returned ear ly to meet our daughter here who wanted to "escape" from New York; who could blame her. And we've al l quarantined ourselves for 2 weeks and are in good shape at this point.

Please pass on my sincere thanks to al l in the Club for the hospital i ty show n to me dur ing the season there. Not sure you are sti l l meeting on Tuesdays but you have such a good camarader ie i t hardly matter s. Our Club in Concord is not meeting at our usual spor t, but is now meeting on l ine w ith the help of Zoom. (I t works qui te well for the group, even those technical ly challenged.)

I 'l l see you in the Fall and thanks again.

Best r egards,

Phi l Wall ingford

We are good and sequestered, looks l ike unti l Apr i l 30th.We are r aking leaves, painting bathrooms, Zooming here and there and always w iping things dow n w ith a Clorox w ipe!Thank goodness I buy lots of cleaning supplies!Bless Susie and the Broadus?, they are al l constantly on my mind!Oh and I watched Tiger King and Ozark?s 3rdseason on Netf l ix.Tiger King is di f ferent than anything I have ever seen!

Hope to see al l of you at Zoom meeting tomor row.

Beth Smith