OKC Rotary News

April 16, 2024| Volume 112 | No. 39
In-Person and Livestreamed from Christian Life Center - St. Luke's Methodist Church | 11:55
Link to the Livestream 11:55am

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Oklahoma City native Jess Wedel has a drive to experience every single thing she can with the tiny life she has. Her friend gave her a blank canvas after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 27 back in 2016. As her everyday life became increasingly more robotic and ruled by the goal of survival, painting became a source of uninhibited exploration and a space to be creative and curious about all that she was experiencing. Self-taught, Jess works with acrylics and primarily spends days or weeks on each piece, re-working colors and textures until her vision aligns.

Chair of the Day: Cristy Callins
Attendance Scanner/Greeters: Byron Jackson, Peggy Kates
Registration: Barney Semtner, Evan Walters
Introduction of Guests: Cliff Dougherty
Choral Invocation/Pledge Leader: Club 29 Chorale
Microphone: Ellen Fleming
Menu: Wedge Salad; Cucumber Salad; Chicken Pasta with grilled peppers and onions; Beef Tenderloin-Horseradish Sauce; Green Beans; Ranch Dusted Red Bliss Potatoes

club 29 breakfast

April 18, 2024 | 7:00am
Quail Creek Country Club | Wingspan Room
Chairs: Susan McVey, Bud Oehlert

Speaker: Nathan Tschaenn, “Oklahoma Home Gardening and Landscaping”

reflections

The Myriad Gardens Tulip Festival
by Ron Page

I’m sure the entire Rotary 29 Club eagerly anticipates my next Reflections article dealing with growing up on a corn farm in northern Illinois, just south of the Wisconsin border. I know that to be true because when I polled a sampling of Rotary members, I was told they were really good, although no one could remember the topic, the message, or when they might have read them. I take that to mean my little essays fit the theme of Rotary so well that my messages just blended right in with “Service Above Self” and all that. The most touching compliment was from the member who vaguely recalled reading one of my articles 30 or so years ago, but was avoiding reading subsequent ones until “the right time”.

But I must disappoint!! Lauren Branch’s article two weeks ago on the topic of “Community” really inspired me to change course, so I am writing about the Myriad Gardens Tulip Festival, a really grand multi-generational, multi-cultural, multi-racial event with tens of thousands of families interacting as people eagerly volunteered to take family photos for strangers struggling to take “selfies”. It was the very definition of “community”.

I am choosing not to bring up stuff from the 1950’s such as to how we had community clubs in our farm communities and how we met in the little one room school houses where farm families enjoyed interacting with other farm families and our moms brought “dishes to pass”, and how when a child got lost in a cornfield, a call went out to the community and everyone showed up with their flashlights to assist in the search for the lost child without regard READ MORE

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The Rotary Club 29 Foundation gratefully acknowledges gifts in memory of Page Dobson from Owen Wilson and Tim Dowd.

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Rotary Magazine - April 2024

No country has greater instances of maternal death than Nigeria. In 2020, 82,000 pregnant women and new mothers died there. One contributing factor? Sixty percent of births in Nigeria take place outside of a hospital, making those women far more vulnerable if complications arise. In this issue of Rotary magazine, senior staff writer Diana Schoberg visits a Rotary Foundation Programs of Scale initiative addressing the problem head on.

Click here to read your digital copy of the April 2024 issue.

April is Rotary Environmental Month, and we are highlighting the work of Rotarians and Rotaractors on climate change, regenerative agriculture, food waste, and more. In one of this month's feature stories, you can learn about the urban heat island effect and the Rotary members in sweltering Houston who are promoting more tree cover, "cool pavement," and other adaptations to turn down the temperature.

And in our "Where are they now?" column, conservation biologist and 2016 Rotary global grant scholar Gabi Fleury explains her approach to helping communities manage conflict with wildlife: She starts by listening.

Prefer to listen? Check out the podcast for audio versions of the magazine's best storytelling, along with full episodes featuring exclusive bonus interviews

In the News

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April 24-28, 2024 - Multi District Conference - Choctaw Resort & Casino
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May 14, 2024 Rotary AfterHours - Bellini's Patio
June 25, 2024 - Inaugural of the 24-25 Officers and Directors, Suzanne Mitchell President

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