Chartered April 4, 1980 Meets Tuesday at 7:00 A.M., Cultural Center of Charlotte County, Port Charlotte, Florida

Rotary Club of Charlotte Harbor

OFFICERS AND

DIRECTORS

2011-2012

PRESIDENT Sherry Penfield

PRES-ELECT Carl Rehling

SECRETARY Darryl Keys

TREASURER Steve Vollmer

PAST PRES Bob McDuffie

SERGEANT

AT ARMS Don Helt

DIRECTORS

Cheryl Bowman Stephen Carter Rick Hayman Vibha Kumar

Joe Rezek Don Roll

Club #4308

Official Publication of the December 6, 2011 Volume 32 - Issue 23

Rotary International President: Kalyan Banerjee District Governor, District 6960: Denise Hearn

Assistant Governor, Area 7: Mark Zehr

The Conquistador The Conquistador

President Sherry and Vibha Kumar pose with last week’s speaker, Dr. Ramon Gil.

This could be the last “We Didn’t Know That About …” article

Charlotte Harbor Rotarians and Guests, you are invited to write a brief story yourself for publication in our bulletin. It needn't be an autobiography, just a slice of your life that you enjoyed or look back on and smile. This series of articles can only continue with your contributions. Have you enjoyed the articles? Learned about your fellow Rotarians? If so, we need your help! Tell us something about yourself we might not know, send it to Bob Clendenin at: redcorn@embarqmail.com. The article does not have to be long; 250 words is more than enough. And, if you have an old photo to go with it, all the better!

Club Christmas Party December 9th

One event we have been doing for years at our Christmas Party is our “Chinese Auc-tion” gift ex-change be-tween mem-bers. The gift should be in the $20 to $25 range, be of gen-eral interest and in good taste (no XXX rated calendars, etc.) The gift should be WRAPPED.

Portraits A century of face time Beginning on page 30, the December Rotar-ian magazine has a series of photos of visionar-ies and humanitarians from Thomas Edison to Bill Gates, including Wilber and Orville Wright, Sir Winston Churchill, Buzz Aldrin, Ted Turner (pictured below) and many others.

No Major Spills By Guest Editor Dave Powell

Invocation May each of us assembled here today enjoy the many offerings of Rotary.

May we abide by the rules we have established - those of trust, fellowship and ethics.

May we place Service above Self, in our daily endeavors.

May we always test ourselves and our efforts to be sure they are the truth, good for all concerned, of benefit to man-kind, and provide peace and under-standing.

Amen

It’s me again on Tuesday. My arrival was early because I wanted to be well-prepared to write these meeting notes. However, the worker bees were already in place. Greeter Rick was at the door, the banners were hung, silverware in place, coffee brewed and ready to pour. Eve-ryone was so good, you might think they were putting on an act for Santa. Promptly at seven, President Sherry led us in reading the invocation, Austin led us in pledging our allegiance to the flag and we sang God Bless America under Don’s apt leader-ship. Breakfast went smoothly with no major spills. The meeting progressed with Stephen wielding a mean net. Darryl was fined for being late. Makes ups were from Don, Nancy and Vibha. Guests Don V, Karol, and Lloyd were serenaded with our welcome song.

Don tried to inform all that Jose’s cha cha cha would be electronic because of his ab-sence. As was the case, we could not hear it because someone drowned it out with a poor

English imitation. Nancy had a birthday and Vicki and Wayne celebrated their 6th anniver-sary. Chris also distributed a sign-up sheet for volunteers to serving breakfast for the Cultural Center’s volunteers. Our Speaker, Dr. Ramon Gil was intro-duced by Vibha Kumar. He is a local doctor who spoke on Parkinson’s Disease. He started it with a quote of a Dr. Rama. “Those who fight Parkinson’s with knowledge will always find solutions.” Gil said that there are many symptoms or in-dicators that may be exhibited five to six years be-fore the more common ones involving motor skills like bal-ance, stiffness and tremors. In stage one it may be a loss of smell, chronic con-stipation, mood disorders and sleep disturbance among others. Doctors want to be able to inter-vene before motor symptoms occur. Cognition or dementia are also symptoms of Parkinson’s. There has been a lot of pro-gress in treatment. In the seventies, the life expectancy of a Parkinson’s patient was 8-10 years. Today it is the same as the general popu-lation. He emphasized that the most important treatment was exercise. Tai Chi, Yoga and dancing are all good exercises. Walking is also excellent. Today’s Parkinson’s patients can expect to continue a happy and productive life. The meeting adjourned at 8:04 A.M.

Club Breakfast Calendar

Program Nancy Lisby Christmas Bob McDuffie Mike Moody

Greeter Todd Helt Party at Larry Howell Austin Jambor

Guest Editor Wayne Sallade Sherry’s Carol Stevens Selva Sunderavel

Today December 9 December 13 December 20

Board Meeting this Thursday, Presidents Room, 7 am Don’t forget the Gift Exchange at the Christmas Party

THE

FOUR-WAY TEST

Of things we

think, say or do First, Is it the TRUTH?

Second, Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Third, Will it build GOODWILL & BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Fourth, Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Charlotte High School Advisor

Todd Helt

Port Charlotte High School

Advisor Rick Hayman

This isn't so much about me as about the Old Clunker Car I drive from time to time. When I bought it from a man in Fort Myers in 1977, it had about 60,000 miles. Being 15 years old, (the Benz, not me) it was just another used car. Having migrated to Florida in 1974, I was enamored with all the top-down sports car drivers I'd seen enjoying the tropical sun. Checking cars for sale in the classified, I found a good deal, bought it and sold my 197? Chevy.

For 18 years it was my drive-to-work car and sometimes my-take-a-trip car. I remember traveling the beltway around Washington, D.C. in a snowstorm. Averaging about 12 thousand miles a year, the Benz is now pushing 300,000. I can't say for sure that's true, because there was considerable driving with a speedometer malfunction. Whenever I'm asked if I restored the car myself, I like to answer it's never been restored. I just fix stuff when it breaks. The truth is I've had it painted three times and repaired or replaced almost every bit of the drive train. Ask me about the time it was wrecked by three Chevrolets. Sometime around 1995, I decided there was some appeal to having a car with air-conditioning, headrests, a back seat and anti-lock brakes. Purchasing a new car from a fellow Rotarian, I put the Old Clunker in the garage, saving it for special events, such as driving to Rotary meetings.

“"It is never too late to become what you might have been"” Mary Ann Evans

I Didn't Know That About... Bob

Did you know that the most successful and sus-tainable Rotary service tends to fall within one of the following six areas?

• Peace and conflict prevention/resolution • Disease prevention and treatment • Water and sanitation • Maternal and child health • Basic education and literacy • Economic and community development

Rotary’s Areas of Focus

District 6960 Web Site www.rotary6960.org

Rotary International Web Site www.rotary.org

TheThe ConquistadorConquistador

Editorial Team: Bob Clendenin, Chris Gover,

Darryl Keys

Printed by the Cultural Center of

Charlotte County

Visit Bob Clendenin’s website: www.bobclendenin.com

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Club mailing address: P.O. Box 510391, Punta Gorda, Florida 33951-0391

Revised 8 November 2011

Charlotte Harbor Roster

Murdock

7:15 am - Perkins Restaurant Breakfast at 7:00 am

North Fort Myers

8:00 am - Capt’n Fishbone’s at the Shell Factory

Punta Gorda

Noon - Isles Yacht Club Punta Gorda Isles

Friday

North Port 7:15 am - Old World Restaurant

Cape Coral Goldcoast

11:45 am - Gulf Coast Village

Nearby Rotary Clubs For Make Ups Harbour Heights - Peace River

7:00 am - Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club Except first Wednesday - 7:00 pm

Fort Myers East

7:30 am - Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Verandah Plaza

Cape Coral

8:00 am - La Venizia Ballroom

Port Charlotte 12:15 - South Port Square

Lunch at Noon

Thursday Englewood Lemon Bay Sunrise

7:00 am - Suncoast Hospital

Monday

Fort Myers South 12:15 pm - Crowne Plaza

Bell Tower Shops

Tuesday Arcadia

Noon - DeSoto Memorial Hospital

Englewood Noon - Suncoast Hospital

North Port Central

Noon - Heron Country Club

Wednesday Placida

7:00 am - Rotonda Hills Golf Club