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Club Announcements:

The Rotary Club of North Jackson is meeting via Zoom due to the continuing high rate of COVID-19 cases in Mississip-pi. Zoom meetings will continue until a resumption of in-person meetings is authorized by the club's officers and directors.

It is with sadness that the Rotary Club of North Jackson acknowledges the death of Honorary Member Julian Carroll who served as Chair of the club's Classifications Committee for decades. Julian joined the club in its charter year, 1971-1972.

 
Zoom meeting invites with the link and password will be sent to all club members on Mondays. The Zoom meetings will continue to start at noon on Tuesdays with club member fellowship with the meeting starting at 12:15 p.m. If you have any issues connecting to the Zoom meeting, please email Past President Greg Campbell at gregcampbell2@comcast.net.
 
We reserve the first 15 minutes for fellowship and give our speakers nearly 30 minutes for their presentations.
 
Mark your calendars for two upcoming events:
  • Parham Bridges' Park Work Day on March 27th
  • Rotary Club of North Jackson 50th Anniversary Gala at the Country Club of Jackson on July 20

    More details are to come on both events. They are listed as events in our club calendar
 
 

Birthdays and Anniversaries.

Birthdays

  • None
Wedding Anniversaries:
  • Chris & Adrienne Brantley         March 17
  • Jeff & Karen Bonner                   March 19
  • Larry & Dot Anderson                March 20
  • Ben & Marita Walton                  March 20
  • Suman & Rosly Das                    March 22
Membership Anniversaries
  • Trip Barnes                 18 years, March 18
 
Prayer. Almighty God, as we gather together for yet another weekly opportunity to renew our fellowship and to reaffirm our principles and purpose as Rotarians, we are grateful for the gift of repetition, for returning to a familiar place, conversing again with friends, and colleagues we have greeted numerous times before.
 
Hear our prayer of thanksgiving for food and fellowship, by which we are energized and strengthened for recurring opportunities to serve others. Amen.
 
Stories
Rotary Club of North Jackson Donates Dictionaries to Miss. Humanities Council
The Rotary Club of North Jackson donated dictionaries to the Mississippi Humanities Council recently. The dictionaries will be used for the Council's Prison Education Project. Through the program, students in three correctional facilities are taking college courses. Since they have no internet access, a physical dictionary is a necessary tool for success. Shown are Greg Campbell, Immediate Past President, Rotary Club of North Jackson and Carol Anderson, Assistant Director of the Miss. Humanities Council.
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Rotary Club of North Jackson Planning Service Project
 
The Rotary Club of North Jackson will have a service project at Parham Bridges Park on Friday March 26th and Saturday March 27th to refurbish some signs, clean up fallen limbs and other needed task. Shown planning the service project are from left, David Barrett, club member; Lee Carney, club president; Suman Das, club president elect and Ison Harris, Jr., director of City of Jackson Dept. of Parks & Recreation.
 
 
 
 
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CSPAN Representatives Speak to Rotary Club of North Jackson

Two representatives of CSPAN spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the club’s March 9, 2021 meeting. In their presentation, they discussed the various CSPAN channels and the fact that CSPAN is not publicly funded, but gets its funding from the television broadcast networks.CSPAN is an acronym for “Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network.” It is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1979. It was initially devoted to televising sessions of the U.S. House of Representatives but later expanded, with the creation of additional channels, to air coverage of the U.S. Senate and other government proceedings and public affairs programming.

C-SPAN was the brainchild of Brian Lamb, who came up with the idea while working at a cable industry trade magazine; he later served as the network’s CEO (1979–2012). C-SPAN debuted on March 19, 1979, and was available in some 3.5 million homes. The following year, it introduced a call-in feature, which became extremely popular. In 1981 the network began broadcasting daily, and the following year it moved to a 24-hours-a-day schedule. Although it initially focused on the U.S. House of Representatives, in 1986 the Senate agreed to televised coverage, and C-SPAN2 was introduced to carry those proceedings. C-SPAN3, which began airing in 2001, covers live political events and airs archived historical programming. In addition to the U.S. government, the network also occasionally airs coverage of the British Parliament, the Canadian Parliament, and other governments whose proceedings might be of some importance to viewers. In 2010 C-SPAN was available in more than 100 million households.

C-SPAN does not receive funding from the government. Instead, its operating revenues are paid by license fees collected from the cable systems that offer the network to their customers. Its board of directors is composed of executives from television operating companies. Adhering to its policy on neutrality, C-SPAN does not sell advertisements or sponsorships. By airing unfettered video coverage of speeches and legislative proceedings, C-SPAN gives those in office and other figures of public interest a channel through which they can reach the public without the filters of traditional media outlets.

The following is a photo of Jaden Green in the CSPAN Control Room from which she spoke.

Green said that CSPAN covers the Mississippi Book Festival each year. She showed photos of the festival and of JPS’ Northwest Middle School on Medgar Evers Blvd.

We sincerely appreciate the presentation and the fact that CSPAN offers unbiased, unfiltered coverage of our federal government and of both the Canadian and British governments. A video of the meeting and of the CSPAN presentation can be seen at the following link: https://vimeo.com/522383172.

 
 
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Mississippi Free Press Founding Editor Speaks to Rotary Club of North Jackson

Mississippi Free Press (MFP) Founding Editor Donna Ladd spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the club’s March 2 meeting. Ladd is an award-winning journalist from Philadelphia, Miss. After leaving the state the day after she graduated from Mississippi State, vowing to never live here again, she returned 18 years later with a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia. She co-founded the impactful Jackson Free Press in 2002 in order to bring an in-depth news source to the state that would not shy away from historic effects of structural, institutional, and systemic racism—how the past connects to the present—in a way no other media outlet had done in Mississippi.

Ladd has won many awards for columns, political columns, editorials, feature writing, and investigative work, and has shared in a number of public-service journalism awards for her work in Mississippi, from helping put an old Klansman, James Ford Seale, in prison for the kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers in 1964, to deep systemic work on the causes and solutions of crime and violence now in the capital city and the embedded racism in the criminal justice system since the time of slavery.

In 2001, Ladd received a Packard Future of Children fellowship to study the discriminatory application of school discipline on children of color and the cradle-to-jail pipeline. More recently, she was a three-year W.K. Kellogg Foundation leadership fellow, deep-diving into systemic inequity and pathways to “truth, racial healing, and transformation” in her home state. The fellowship led to her efforts to change the narrative about race through the Mississippi Youth Media Project, in which she started to train young people to challenge the media narrative about them and their communities. She has trained many award-winning journalists over the years.

Ladd spoke to the Rotary club about the mission and fundamental principles of Mississippi Free Press. She emphasized that the principles of the MFP are consistent with Rotary’s 4-Way Test: “Is it the truth, Is it fair to all concerned, will it build goodwill and better friendships, and is it beneficial to all concerned?”

Ladd also discussed the fact that MFP is a digital nonprofit that is relying on donations for its success. While MFP is not a 501c(3) nonprofit, tax-deductible donations can be made for MFP to the Community Foundation for Mississippi at 119 S. President St., Jackson, MS 39201.

We thank Ladd for her presentation to our club, for returning home, and for her journalism work. She is shown in the following photo:

A video of the meeting, including Ladd’s presentation, can be seen at https://vimeo.com/519759536.
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Rotary Club of North Jackson Recognizes Paul Harris Fellows

 

The Rotary Club of North Jackson recognized four Paul Harris Fellows at the club’s February 23 meeting. Those recognized were Marisa Davidson, Immediate Past President Greg Campbell, President-Elect Suman Das, and Bill Osborne. Paul Harris fellows are people who have donated or have had donated in their name $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation. People who have donated or have had donated in their name multiple thousands of dollars are named multiple Paul Harris Fellows. People who have donated $10,000 or more are called Major Donors. Members who agree to donate $1,000 annually are members of the Paul Harris Society.

The following are photos of the members who were recognized:

                         Marisa Davidson                                                      Suman Das

                     Greg Campbell                                                Bill Osborne

The recognition ceremony was organized by Club Foundation Director Neelam Goel; and Club Administrative Secretary/Treasurer Don Roberts. 

We thank Marisa, Suman, Greg, and Bill for their support of the Rotary Foundation and we thank Neelam and Don for their work developing the recognition program.

To see the Paul Harris ceremony and the complete meeting, please click on the following link:

 

https://vimeo.com/517225171

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Hope Hollow Ministries Representatives Speak to Rotary Club of North Jackson
Owen Mullen and Esper Delgado of Hope Hollow Ministries spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the club’s February 16 meeting. Hope Hollow Ministries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization developed for the purpose of ministering to children and adults with special needs and their families. It provides inclusive and integrated programs that are designed to provide year-round opportunities to experience fun, fellowship, and growth. 

Hope Hollow Ministries began in 2008 by three families of children with special needs. The founders realized the need for a program where children like their own could gather with peers and experience the joy and fellowship of camp. As the children of the founding families grew older, the programs developed further to include people with special needs from 5- years old through adulthood. 

Hope Hollow is located on Catlett Road West of Canton, MS. The camp accommodates 80 campers annually and focuses on giving those campers a fun experience in a day camp environment. Four different programs are offered: summer camps, weekend retreats, after-school programs, and vacation/holiday camps.

We thank Mullen and Delgado for bringing us the information on Hope Hollow. The Hope Hollow presentation and the complete meeting can be viewed at the following link: 

https://vimeo.com/513559141

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