July 3, 2014

Our sponsor this month is “SUNSET MEMORIAL GARDENS” Thank you Rotarian Richard Kehrig Richard used his moment today to talk about a general trend in North America to choose cremation vs. traditional burial. There are several new developments too in how cremains are interred…from seating benches that incorporate urns or placement in “forested areas” such as the forest walkways at Sunset Memorial Gardens. In larger centres, small crypts are built into walls of mausoleums for urns and similar containers.

OUR FAMILY OF ROTARY IN THUNDER BAY Celebrating birthdays this month BILL BUTUK President Ken clearly enjoys his new role OLAVI JARVELA

GAIL KROMM A bright summer morning for our meeting with 21 Lakehead GEORGINA VOULGARIS Rotarians on hand plus our special guest Tessa Murray from

Rotary Shelter House.

President Ken’s theme for our Club this year… “LIGHT UP ROTARY”

ON THE DOOR IN 2014/15:

Mo was on the door today with no one yet signed on for August.

The sign-up sheet for our 2014/15 is out now…so pick a month, help your Club, and welcome the members as they arrive. JULY Mo Papich JANUARY Mo Papich AUGUST Richard Kehrig FEBRUARY And celebrating anniversaries this month SEPTEMBER Graham Stewart MARCH DONNA YOCOM OCTOBER Karl Ratz APRIL NOVEMBER Volker Kromm MAY CALENDAR – MEETINGS & EVENTS: DECEMBER Allan Kozlo JUNE Clint Kuschak JULY – A NEW ROTARY YEAR BEGINS

CLUB MEETING SPONSORSHIP: JUL 17 BUSINESS MEETING If you can help your Club and wish to promote your business or JUL 24 GIUSEPPE SIRIGNANO – CLASSIFICATION TALK community interests through a month sponsorship, please contact JUL 31 JACK JAMIESON – STUDENT SPONSORSHIP/MEXICO Sergeant Bill or Clint. Here is the sponsorship line-up for 14/15. JUL 31 CANADA CLUB MEETING – 12:00 NOON

AUGUST – MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT MONTH JULY Sunset Memorial Gardens JANUARY RFDA AUG 4 CIVIC HOLIDAY AUGUST Ken Boshcoff Inc. FEBRUARY Beaux Daddy’s AUG 6 BOARD MEETING SEPTEMBER Valhalla Inn MARCH Blair Schoales AUG 7 AMINA ABU-BAKARE/BLESSING IN A KNAPSACK OCTOBER APRIL MS Society AUG 9 SOUJOURN AT LOON LAKE WITH THE LUCAS FAMILY NOVEMBER Investors Group MAY Salvation Army AUG 14 COUNCILLOR REBECCA JOHNSON DECEMBER JUNE 5 Star Rotarians COMMUNITY STRATEGIES AUG 21 BUSINESS MEETING AUG 28 MARIA HUDOLIN – SHELTER BOX CANADA

SHELTER HOUSE THUNDER BAY ACCESSIBILITY SEPTEMBER – YOUTH SERVICE MONTH SEP 1 LABOUR DAY Shelter House Thunder Bay is committed to providing persons with SEP 2 DIRECTORS MEETING WITH D.G. TIM KAMINSKI disabilities with equal opportunities and standards of goods and SEP 3 BOARD MEETING SEP 4 DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S VISIT services in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with SEP 11 OPEN Disabilities Act, 2005. These goods and services will be provided in SEP 14 TERRY FOX RUN a manner that respects dignity, independence, integration and SEP 18 BUSINESS MEETING equal opportunity. All Shelter House Thunder Bay buildings are SEP 25 OPEN wheelchair accessible and equipped to support clients with most disabilities. PRESENTATION: Our special guest today was Tessa Murray, Volunteer Co-ordinator Tessa talked about a pilot project conducted this past winter. The for Rotary Shelter House. Tessa works with all the volunteers who SOS street outreach services offered by Shelter House concluded help out at Shelter through the year including those who prepare on April 27. The numbers are still coming in, but Shelter helped and serve meals – two per day plus sandwiches on demand 24 close to 1000 people get to services in times of extreme need hours per day. Most meals are prepared with food donated through during our very brutal winter. They handed out food, blankets and food drives and regular pick-ups from local grocery stores. Some comfort every night for 12 hours. They helped clear out the organizations [like Lakehead Rotary] bring the food, prepare and emergency room by transporting people to other services. They serve a special meal. Our turkey dinner is in October. Lots of made sure really sick people could access health care to prevent pasta is donated through the year and is often on the menu. There long hospital stays. They helped our emergency services by taking is also a lot of bread as stores and bakeries must observe “best by” care of folks so the responders could move on to other dates and Shelter benefits. They must also buy some basic staples emergencies. Shelter House is grateful for the support from the such as potatoes. City of Thunder Bay, TBDSSAB, Tbaytel and Safetyline for their valued monetary and in-kind support, making this service possible.

In March 2012, Shelter House opened the doors to the Kwae Kii Win Managed Alcohol Program. This ‘housing first’ facility offers supportive living to people who have experienced long periods of homelessness and chronic alcohol use problems. The program has shown incredible results for residents and the community alike. A rigorous evaluation showed that participants in the program had improvements in health and quality of life and 40 to 80% less reductions in contact with police, emergency services and withdrawal management services. By reducing the time that people with chronic alcohol problems spend in police custody and emergency rooms, community resources can be used in different ways to improve the safety and health of all citizens.

Shelter House depends greatly on donations and funds earned through fund raising. Two events that we are most familiar with are the Relay for Shelter and Raise the Rent. This year, a new event will be presented – an Airplane Pull. Expect to hear more about this soon as the event takes place on Sunday, September 28th.

If you would like to take on some personal volunteer work to help Rotary Shelter House, give Tessa a call:

Tessa Murray, Volunteer Coordinator Shelter House Thunder Bay 420 George Street, Thunder Bay, ON P7E 5Y8 Phone: (807)474-4354 Fax: (807)622-6328 www.shelterhouse.on.ca

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

34th ANNUAL TERRY FOX RUN:

Tessa gave us a virtual tour of Rotary Shelter House through a series of slides. The Shelter is usually at capacity these days and there is no plan at the moment to expand. Their role is to provide emergency shelter but they have been very involved with others in the community to help address the issues of homelessness and St. Ignatius High School - Boulevard Lake - Parking Lot poverty. Shelter’s Mission is “to provide basic needs, dignity and REGISTRATION: 1:00 PM comfort to people living in poverty and stimulate action to address OPEN START: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM the root causes of homelessness”.

Pinetop Perkins

FELLOWSHIP FINES: Allan worked the cup today acknowledging President Ken for his welcome for our guest Tessa and his care in checking on her needs for her presentation. Past President Gail was acknowledged for a fine introduction of our speaker. Donna’s phone was acknowledged and a gaggle of latecomers was also acknowledged for missing our fine rendition of “O Canada” today. In honour of our guest today, those who have helped prepare and serve a meal at Joseph William “Pinetop” Perkins (born July 7, 1913 in Belzoni, Rotary Shelter were recognized…and those who have never done —died March 21, 2011(age 97) in Austin, Texas) was an so were also recognized. This is how one scores a fine sweep. American pianist and songwriter who played piano , boogie- Volker’s happy dollar was for “7 to 1”. For those not observing the woogie, delta blues and . He was active from World Cup, that would be Germany’s stellar romp over the home the1920s right up to his death in 2011. He played with some of the team of Brazil. Devon’s happy dollar was to note his assignment to most influential blues and rock and roll artists in American history. manager the Beardmore branch of Scotiabank for a few weeks. Allan’s happy dollar was for the daily posts from Maya who is He began his blues career playing primarily guitar and also piano at wrapping up her “totally awesome” travels in Ireland and England. house parties and honky-tonks, throughout the Mississippi delta in Brian Brescia’s sad dollar was for his news that he has accepted an the 1930s and '40s. In 1943 he travelled to Helena, Arkansas with offer to manage a BMO branch in Huntsville, Ontario. He moves in Robert Nighthawk. An encounter with an outraged chorus girl a few days and has resigned from our Club. He plans to seek swinging a knife at a Helena night-spot, severely slicing through membership in the Huntsville Rotary Club. Gail’s happy/sad dollar tendons in his left arm. With his guitar aspirations dashed, he was to congratulate Brian on his appointment. Looks like some concentrated on piano from that point on. He joined Robert commuting in their future…for now. Nighthawk's Radio show in Helena, but soon switched over to rival Sonny Boy Williamson's King Biscuit Hour radio show in Helena. He remained with Williamson for an extended time, but in 1950 he 50/50: followed Robert Nighthawk to Chicago where they recorded a Shirley was the lucky winner of today’s 50/50 draw and her session for . In the early 50's he was recruited by $9 win will go to the Rotary Foundation later this year. Our , a Nighthawk disciple, to do a tour. They stopped at sponsor this month, Richard Kehrig, provided additional Sam Phillip's Sun Studios in Memphis Tennessee where Perkins bonus prizes in the form of two Esso gas cards. The first recorded his first version of “Pinetop's Boogie” was won by Bill and the second was for Chris. Thank you (Although the music was originally written by Pinetop Smith in the Richard. 1920's, Perkins performed it so often that he received the nick- name “Pinetop”) He settled in southern Illinois for a while and then relocated to Chicago. By this time, he worked odd jobs as music NEXT MEETING: had been gradually relegated to the back burner. In1968, he was th THURSDAY, JULY 17 coaxed back to work by Earl Hooker to play on a recording session. MONTHLY BUSINESS MEETING picked him up soon after and Perkins had re- emerged. He stayed with Waters until 1979 when he formed his Welcome regular contributor to your weekly Club Chronicle – Bill own “Legendary Blues Band”. He toured and recorded over the Butuk with his “Bill’s Stuff” Column next 30 years, culminating in a Grammy in 2011 for Best Traditional Blues Album, and making him, at 97 years, the oldest Grammy recipient. A month after the Grammy ceremony, he died of a heart attack at his home in Austin Texas

He was inducted in to the in 2003 Watch and listen to at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTAw7Z1wx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHlM2Qr9TZQ