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Prayer.

O We thank you, O God, for your protective providence enabling us to gather here once again. We have come as separate individuals with personal histories and current personal involve-ments. But inherent in each of us also is the desire anfor us today, and ability to engage in fellowship with others, both for personal pleasure and for our purpose of serving others.

 

We express our thanks for food prepared for us today, and for friendship deepened and fellowship enjoyed in the course of this meeting. Then as we depart to our remaining tasks today, go with us in spirit, granting us your wisdom, strength and moral guidance. Amen.

Birthdays And Anniversaries.

Birthdays:

  • Paul Howell      August 25
  • Jim Stanley      August 26
Wedding Anniversaries:
  • Tommy & Mary Dent       August 20
Membership Anniversaries:
  • Nick Miller          4 years, August 25
Stories
New Members Make Vocational Talks
 

Three new members of the Rotary Club of North Jackson made vocational talks at the Club’s August 13, 2029, meeting. Those members are as follow:

  • Rita Sun, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

  • Suzy Tubb, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

  • Collier Graham, Attorney at Law

 

Ms. Sun is a native of China, as is her husband. She came to the US to pursue her Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Mississippi College. Her husband is also a native of China who came to further his education at Mississippi College. Ms. Sun owns her own financial advisory service, Wealth Management, LLC in Clinton.

 

Ms. Tubb is a native of Brandon, MS. She received her degree in Accountancy and her Masters in Taxation from the University of Mississippi and is a CPA with GranthamPoole in Ridgeland.

 

Mr. Graham, is a native of Meridian, MS, and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi School of Law.  He is an attorney and shareholder with Wise Carter Child & Carraway.in Jackson.

 

We welcome these three new members to our club,  thank them for their service to the citizens of Mississippi, and for their presentations to our Club. They are shown in the following photo after their talks. From the left are Ms. Sun, Ms. Tubb, & Mr. Graham.

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Paul Harris Fellow Recognition
 

North Jackson Rotarians Stephen Stenmark and Bill Osborne were recognized as Paul Harris Fellows at the Rotary Club of North Jackson’s July 30, 2019, meeting. Judy Lyons, Club Foundation Director presented the awards.

 

The Paul Harris Fellow award recognizes Rotarians who have contributed, or have contributed in their name, $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation. Rotary created the Paul Harris award in 1957 to recognize people who made significant financial contributions to Rotary. The first Paul Harris awards in 1957 were for 1946 gifts to Rotary. In 2006, the one-millionth Paul Harris Fellow was recognized.

 

Rotarians Osborne (left) and Stenmark (center) are shown holding their Paul Harris Certificates with Rotarian Lyons in the following photo. We congratulate them for achieving this distinction.  

 

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Art for All-Mississippi

 

Tom Harmon, Executive Director of Art for All- Mississippi spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the Club’s July 30, 2019, meeting. Mr. Harmon, who is retired from the U.S. Army, discussed the history, mission, and activities of Art for All-Mississippi. The Mission of Art for All - Mississippi is to provide art opportunities for persons with disabilities. The organization was founded by Jean Kennedy Smith as a program of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in Starkville, MS as Very Special Arts. Over time the name evolved to VSA Arts and ultimately to its current name Art for All - Mississippi. The mission remains unchanged. The organization has an art studio in the Mississippi Arts Center at the corner of Lamar and Pascagoula in downtown Jackson. This studio provides opportunities for persons with disabilities to develop their art skills. He introduced some of their clients on a first name basis and showed and distributed some of their work. Mr. Harmon also discussed that Art for All is developing a new program with the Flowood YMCA to expand their activities to Rankin County and a Community Art Group in Vicksburg to support persons with disabilities and the elderly. Each of these new programs will provide a studio and a gallery for the clients’ work He emphasized that Art for All fits the mission of the YMCA and that the new Vicksburg center will provide marketing opportunities with river cruise tourists.

 

We thank Mr. Harmon for his work on behalf of the elderly and the disabled in the art field. He (right) is shown in the following photo with Chuck Galey (left) who is an Artist in Residence at the Jackson Art Studio and with Rotarian Larry Anderson who introduced Mr. Harmon and the program.

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Eric Sokolosky Inducted into Rotary Club of North Jackson
 

Eric Sokolsky was inducted into membership in the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the Club’s July 23, 2019, meeting.

Eric is Vice President- Sales for Employee Administrative Services Inc. (EASI)  which provides payroll, time, and attendance services. He has been with his company for 4 years.

Eric is married. He and his wife Lisa have lived in the metro area for the past 39 years, currently residing in Madison. They are parents of one daughter and have 3 grandchildren.

We welcome Eric into our Cub. He (center) is shown in the following photo with his proposer Lori Greer(left) and his sponsor Past President Don Roberts.

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Assistant U. S. Attorney Speaks to Rotary Club of North Jackson
John A. Meynardie, Assistant U. S. Attorney, Criminal Division, Southern District of Mississippi, spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the Club's July 23, 2019, meeting. The subject of his talk was the Opioid Epidemic in Mississippi. He said that in 2018, the U.S. Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) estimated that in the U.S. there is one opioid death every 8 minutes and that opioid overdoses are the leading cause of death from injuries in the US. The primary causes of those deaths are heroin and prescription opioids plus fentanyl. He said that the term opioid arises from the fact that opium poppies are the original source of opioid pain killers that act on the opiate receptors in the human brain. The primary drugs being abused today are heroin, oxycodone, and hydrocodone. Fentanyl is an impurity in the drugs.
 
According to Mr. Meynardie, the common misconception in the public is that prescribed opioids are "safe" because they are from a doctor. HIstorically physicians prescribed 30-day supplies of the drugs following surgery or injuries as pain killers. Recent studies have shown that a person who takes the prescribed pain-killers for 30-days has a 1 in 4 chance of becoming addicted and that if a person is taking these medicines without a doctor's supervision the addiction chances increase immensely. The properties of these drugs are such that the longer you take them and the more you take, the more your chances of becoming addicted increase. As the costs of drugs increases, addicts seek cheaper alternatives; i.e., heroin. Mr. Meynardie cited that 75-80% of heroin users began with pain pills. For high school seniors, the most abused medicines are pain pills such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. the sources of those pills are relatives or friends. He cited an example of a football quarterback who was injured and prescribed pain pills. He followed a familiar track until 4 years later he died of a heroin overdose.
 
Data show that Mississippi has more painkiller prescriptions than most other states with in excess of 100 painkiller prescription per 100 people, but that the number of prescriptions in both our state and the nation has decreased since the epidemic was identified. Another cause of the deaths is counterfeit pills that have become available from the black market. The risks of these pills are: 
  • they come from an unknown source,
  • they may contain an unsafe active ingredient, and
  • they may contain harmful/toxic ingredients such as fentanyl which Mr. Meynardie calls a "Game Changer."
Fentanyl is many times more potent than heroin or prescribed opioids. He cited that 1 milligram of fentanyl is lethal.
 
Another contributing factor to the abuse of illicit opioid pills is the wide availability of pill presses and binding agents in the U.S. The DOJ is currently investigating pill press manufacturers. Many of the black market pills sold as opioids contain no oxycodone but do contain significant amounts of heroin and fentanyl.  In 2015, the overdose deaths were primarily due to heroin and fentanyl. The following slide provided by Mr. Meynardie shows the changes in the causes of US Overdose death causes in the 2000-2015 period. It is interesting to note the increase in the fentanyl and fentanyl analog deaths from essentially zero to over 20,000 deaths annually or about 2 per hour.
 
 
We thank Mr. Meynardie for his very informative presentation and for his service to our country. He (right) is shown in the following photo with Club Past President Mike Dawkins (center) who introduced him and with Daren LaMarca (left) of the Jackson U.S. Attorney's office. 
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Rita Sun Inducted into Rotary Club of North Jackson
Huiming “Rita” Sun was inducted into the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the club's July 16, 2019, meeting by Club President Greg Campbell. She was proposed for membership by Uriel Pineda and sponsored by Past President Don Roberts.

Rita is the owner of Wealth Management LLC and her office is located in the Mississippi Farm Bureau Building on Ridgewood Road in Northeast Jackson. Born and educated in China, she came to Mississippi College in 2008 to study and obtain her Master of Business Administration degree. Rita is a Charted Financial Analyst (CFA®) and a member of The CFA® Society of Mississippi. She is married and lives in Clinton with her husband, Xiao Luo, and their two children, Joshua and Joanna.
 
We welcome Rita to our club.
 This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about transforming a community from the August 13, 2019, Rotary Voices Blog.

Leadership library transforms community

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The inside of the new Leadership Library in Mare Tabac, looking through the reading room.

By Frederic Nullathemby, 2018-19 president of the Rotary Club of Rose-Belle, Mauritius

If you want to be a leader, you have to read. If you want to develop leaders, you have to provide a place for young people to read. When we took on our project to develop the Leadership Library, we very much had the words of Margaret Fuller, a 19th century American journalist and women’s rights advocate, at heart: “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

We knew of a building in Mare Tabac that had fallen into a deplorable state. The building had once been a pre-primary school where many villagers in Mare Tabac began their education. Due to management issues the school closed and was converted into a village hall. But it was later abandoned when no stakeholders were making use of the building. It became an eyesore until more than a decade later; The Rotary Club of Rose-Belle stepped forward to do something with this building.

Taking our cue from Rotary’s vision statement, we set out to unite the local authorities and join together to create the Leadership Library. We were confident our project would create positive and lasting change in our community. We made several site visits and held numerous meetings with local leaders before we were able to secure the approval of the Mare Tabac village council and Rose Belle district council.

Inside the building before work began.

It took six months of renovation work to bring the building alive again. Members gave the outside and inside a thorough cleaning, applied fresh coats of paint, and lined up local electricians and workers to wire the building back to life.

We launched the brand new Leadership Library on 18 May with our 2018-19 District Governor Shelly Oukabay. This is easily the largest education project we have ever undertaken, and we are proud to bring it to completion in just under a year. We began to work on the project in July of 2018. We had the collaboration and support of all the members of our club and the various stakeholders including the Mare Tabac UNESCO Club, a local nongovernmental organization that is managing the library for free.

Our aim is to promote young leaders and encourage people to discover Rotary by visiting a special corner inside the building. There are books and materials about Rotary, photos and images on display, and words painted on the walls that capture Rotary truths including our new vision statement.

The Leadership Library’s goal is to motivate young leaders to take initiative and share their newly-gained knowledge with the public and local leaders. Eventually, the library will be equipped with computers, which will be used for free courses and literacy programs run by the UNESCO Club.

Through Rotary, we were able to unite community leaders to make a difference in our community. We invite you to witness the full transformation by watching our YouTube video of the project.