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Today's Events:

President Pansy Graham presiding  

We welcome all our visitors…

Mr. Michael Munroe (Capt. Assad)

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We’re happy because…

·    Capt Assad has brought 1-4 visitors per meeting - Brett

·        My family took 4-5 vacation days in Orlando and  Racheli’s Crones disease is getting better (YEA!) - Felipe

·        That the anniversary of Hurricane Andrew came and went with no issues – Capt. Assad

·        We’re wondering am I one of the beautiful guests of Asaad?  (YES to both) – Britt & Carolyn

·        For fixing the business network on my work computers - Dr. Mike

·        My granddaughter will be attending the FSU theater program in London - Diana

·        I’m off to visit Northern California - Donna

·        I’m going to NY for my 50th high school reunion - John Sorgie

·        I’m overjoyed - Fabio

·        Returning from four days in Mexico followed by four days in Sanibel Island - Ed F

·        That Pansy as our President is always so upbeat - Cathy

·        I’m twice as happy working for SM Hospital because I was sent to the Bahamas to help 110 orphans and we raised $500 through a booksale for a high school library in the Bahamas – Karen V.

·        My eldest granddaughter started her senior year in high school - Pansy

·        I got to the meeting after leaving school at 12:15!!  And today is my birthday – Patricia

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It is with deep sorrow that we inform you that Alan Fish, husband of D6990 PDG Marcy Ullom passed away Saturday evening, August 22, 2009.

The visitation is from 5pm – 8pm on Thursday evening, August 27, 2009 at the Van Orsdel Funeral Home, 11240 N. Kendall Drive (SW 88th Street) Kendall, FL 33171, (305) 271-1222.

There will be a celebration of Life on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 5pm at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall, 1314 Miller Drive, on the University of Miami Campus, Coral Gables, Florida, (305) 284-2211. Parking will be in the Pavia Garage. There will be a small reception afterward.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Marcy and her family at this difficult time.

Lee Phares, DG

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!

District Governor Lee Phares’ club visit!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Board members and Officers arrive at 11:00 a.m.

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Football Mania – John Sorgie

The call went out to SHOW HIM THE MONEY!!! Asking all members to sell 10 booklets by September 10^th!

Support Football Mania!  Mike demonstrated to members how to find people who are normally supportive of charities and just ask for a donation to this small fundraiser by September 10^th!  $10 each offers you 17 chances to have high combined scoring teams which pays off at $50 or 17 chances to have low combined scoring teams which pays off at $10! 

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SPEAKING OF FOOTBALL: 

Rotary District 6990 

Rotary Day at Land Shark Stadium

Miami Dolphins vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Tailgate Party $15 pp starts at 10:30 am until the game starts

Located at Dolphin’s RV lot #8

Catered by Char-Hut

Purchase online:  www.miamidolphins.com/rotaryclub.asp

Or contact Thomas Eugene at 305-626-7296 or teugene@dolphinstadium.com

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Cathy Miller:

A Rotary Minute for the RI Foundation:

$500 is available from club funds for matching your contribution to Rotary International’s foundation.  If you donate $50 then $100 will be sent to Rotary towards your Paul Harris Fellowship (a $1,000 goal.) Up to $150 per member will be matched.

Join in the fun and help the cause!

Thursday, Nov. 11, 1:30 p.m.

Biltmore Golf Course, Coral Gables

$25 donation

1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes!

Contact Chris Morrison, 305-582-7690

morrisonclan@att.net

If everyone of us sells two tickets, this can raise $105,000. 

WE CAN DO THIS!! 

This fundraiser is a top priority!  We need to sell tickets to meet the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They donated  $355 million in the last two years. Of that amount $200 million is a matching grant for polio eradication.  Our district is expected to donate $300,000. 

We have raised $195,000 towards this goal to date. The balance is $105,000 yet to be raised.  If the 2,100 district’s club members can all sell just 2 tickets this year at $25 per ticket, we’d sell 4,200 tickets.

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Apply Now to be the D6990 Outbound GSE

Team Leader

The deadline is rapidly approaching for Group Study Exchange Team Leader hopefuls to apply for this wonderful opportunity to lead a team of young professionals in May 2010 to District 4450 in Peru. Applications must be received prior to the October 3rd interviews. Candidates should be a mature and seasoned Rotarian with leadership experience and abilities, language proficiency and be willing and able to keep pace with the vigorous program of travel and study planned for the team members. The Team Leader will be responsible for facilitating all aspects of the exchange as well as inspiring the team with a sense of mission. To learn more about Group Study Exchange, go to: http://www.rotary.org/ RIdocuments/en_pdf/160en.pdf. Contact Joe Roth, District GSE Chair, at 954-646- 6844 or prescent0405@aol.com for more application information.

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Next show:

Saturday & Sunday, February 27 – 28, 2010

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

DID YOU MISS A MEETING ‘CAUSE YOU WERE AWAY?

Our club goal is 100% Attendance!

If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date.

For online make-ups:

Visit www.ri6990.org to find a club to make up an absence. 

Attendance credit for a 30-minute interactive club Web site activity offers an alternative to making up a meeting at another club.

To earn this credit, Rotarians log on to the site, read up on a range of subjects, post comments, & submit a form to the club secretary.

How to do a Make-Up On-Line via Rotary eClub One?

Perfect attendance is now possible for every Rotarian with computer access. Rotary’s eClub One is a full-service online charted Rotary Club. Meetings operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What an easy way to make up for a meeting that you have missed! During the last Rotary year, Rotary eClub One welcomed more than 120,000 visitors from 161 countries. Of these, about 800 per week participated in one of eClub One’s meeting programs and applied for make-up credit.

Here’s what you have to do to earn make up credit. Go to

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/eclub_list.pdf

It is mandatory that you spend at least 30 minutes on the website for qualify for a make-up credit. (Remember Rotarians are guided by the principles of the 4 Way Test).

1.  Read a variety of current articles in the programs section and/or choose articles from the Archived Programs list and/or information from the Avenues of Service pages. You will be required to answer questions. There is space on the makeup request form for up to three articles to be reviewed, however you will need to read more than three to meet your 30 minute visit obligation.

2.  At the end of your 30 minute visit, click on Make-up Request Form from the drop-down menu at the top of the page OR the bottom of each make-up program.

3.  Read the Makeup Request Form carefully, and follow instructions. The form will appear once you press the SUBMIT button (one time only) and an email copy will be sent to the email address you proved. This can be forwarded to your club secretary so your attendance records are properly updated.

Rotarians can also designate eClub One as their home club.

Members in eClub One are usually experienced Rotarians who are unable to belong to a traditional club because they reside in a remote location or they are engaged in a demanding travel schedule. Those applying for membership in eClub One must provide an endorsement from their current District Governor, current Rotary club President, along with letters of reference from two Rotarian colleagues of their current club..

eClub One has standard requirements for memberships, including charges for dues and administrative fees. Participants also must be willing to take part regularly in the Rotary eClub One community by taking on tasks and responsibilities. Members are required to also have regular access to the Internet and be willing to acquire the necessary skills to participate in the activities of Rotary eClub One.

Rotary and eClub One are on the cutting edge of the technology age. How this evolves will only be determined by periodic evaluation and the involvement of its members. For today, however, it is an outstanding tool for Rotarians to makeup missed meetings and keep in touch with Rotary happenings throughout the world.

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally:

http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

NOTIFY Brett Trembly, RCSM Secretary

of ALL make-ups:   b.trembly@gmail.com

2009-10 RCSM OFFICERS:

President:  Reverend Pansy Graham
pansygraham@bellsouth.net

President Elect:  Doreen Reitnauer
dhiker217@aol.com

Vice President:  Bill Enright
yukonbill@bellsouth.net

Secretary:  Brett Trembly 

b.trembly@suttonlawgroup.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs
david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Fabio Fernandez  

fernandezfabio@bellsouth.net

Club Board of Directors:

Ellen Book, Ed Fischer, Roy Gonas, Linda Kaplan, Mike Mills, Diana Phillips, Don Streaker, Donna Gaines, Felipe Vidal

Club Foundation Board of Directors:

Pansy Graham, Bill Enright, Doreen Reitnauer, Brett Trembly, Don Streaker, Fabio Fernandez, Treasurer Artfest, Linda Kaplan, Diana Phillips, Ellen Book

To send an E-mail to the Rotary Club of South Miami’s Board of Directors, board@southmiamirotary.org

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org

Rotary District 6990:

www.ri6990.org / 305-860-8060

District Governor Lee Phares & Eliju Phares District Foundation Chair

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

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Mission Statement

The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:   

Benefits of Being A Rotarian (Membership)
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:

¨       Become connected to your community.

¨       Work with others in addressing community needs.

¨       Interact with other professionals in your community;
assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.

¨       Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.

¨       Develop leadership skills.  Involve family in promoting service efforts.

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Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($275) or to become a New Member ($325) contact

Asaad Massoud at www.racharters.com

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Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser?

Contact Club Fundraising Chair Wendy Lapidus at

wendylapidus@bellsouth.net

Service Projects

Interested in helping others?

Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at lk@lindakaplan.com

Karen Vassel introduced today’s speaker:

Cindy Brown, ARNP

South Miami Heart Center

786-662-5050 / smhc@baptisthealth.net.

For a referral with a South Miami Heart Center physician, call 786-662-2222.

Outside Miami-Dade County, call 1-866-860-8174

A Common Form of Heart Disease

Jenice, Viviana and Fran, three nurses from the Heart Center were thanked for performing blood pressure before and after the meeting.  They will return in 6 months to compare your readings. 

Today’s green goody bags double as mango season carriers.  Inside find a coupon for vascular screenings, pens, and literature.

Cindy Brown, Midwest native but since 1973 lives in S. FL.  She has been a nurse practitioner for 35 years working the majority of the time with cardiac patients.  She is an adhoc professor at Barry University and lectures on vascular disease. 

For 21 years she has worked in vascular surgery practice.  She is an allied health professional at SM Hospital where she trains nurses in PAD.

Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) or artherosclerosis, which is also called hardening of the arteries of the legs, effects all arteries in the body except for the heart.  It is a silent disease until you have a lot of problems.  It is very dangerous, affecting 12 million people.  It occurs when the arteries in the legs are clogged.

FACTS:

·       2/3 of people with PAD don’t have symptoms.

·       Complications from PAD can result in amputation, disability and diminished quality of life. 

·       1 of 5 patients with PSD will have a cardiovascular event within one year of life. 

·       8,500 yearly hospital deaths

·        15th leading cause of death overall in the U.S.

Unstable, rupturing plaque causes the issue.  The classic symptom is pain in a muscle with walking that is relieved quickly with rest – called claudication.

The leg is not getting enough blood for the work it is doing.  Think of it like a heart attack, but this is a leg attack.

Blockages can be anywhere in the leg.  Symptoms include pain at rest, generally in the foot or toe, wounds that won’t heal, cold painful foot signify very severe symptoms, but the majority of people with PAD don’t go on to these problems.

If you have PAD, you probably have hardening of the arteries to the brain, heart and kidneys. 

RISKS:

Associated with heart attack, stroke, and death. 

Functional impairment and loss of leg. 

WHAT FACTORS MAKE SCREENING VITAL?

·       Age - Men over 60 / women over 65

·       Family history

·       Smoking history even if you quit

·       Diabetes

·       High blood pressure

·       Over 50

·       African Americans

·       Weighing over 30% more than your ideal weight Some damage to arteries can be caused by certain diseases.

PROCEDURE:

·       Need a blood test for cholesterol and diabetes, you might have a ankle-branchiol blood pressure test.  Ankle pressure is higher than in the arm.  If the ABI is less than .09 than the disease is identified.

·       You then get referred to a vascular specialist.  Lifestyle changes will be in order. Walking is one major answer to increase the circulation.

·       Endovascular repairs allow patients to go home quickly – day after or the next day.  MRA, CTA, Angiograms

Resource for patients and medical personnel:  www.padcoalition.org

Goals: 

Relief of symptoms, prevent limb loss, maintain bi-pedal gait.

Pictured: Cardiologist Theodore Feldman, M.D., medical director of South Miami Heart Center, says advances in technology such as 64-slice CT scans of the heart can help doctors diagnose problems with ever greater precision.

President Pansy Graham and Cindy Brown, ARNP and nurses Jenice, Viviana and Fran