Minutarian Minute By Mike Shewey on Friday, June 5, 2020 Wednesday night, we had the first of our 30 minute Brief & Brainstorm sessions. RI Director, Stephanie Urchick, briefed us why Rotary International Club Meeting has shifted entirely to Zoom until December 31. Then all 95 of us on the call brainstormed a list of ways our clubs have made Zoom meetings really great. Some of my favorites are: a South Jacksonville competition for the �most expired� food item found in each house; a mini-concert from an exchange Meets via Zoom and begins at student from across the world; and a �fix-it� Rotarian who helped all tech-challenged members get on 12:00 PM for social time Zoom. Meeting Time: We will choose a new subject every two weeks. Ask your president or secretary to send the next Tuesday at 12:30 PM invitation to you, if you want to join us. Some asked when we can resume in-person meetings. Tonight, I will address that in a letter to Events presidents. Even though we succeeded reducing Covid 19 during the shutdown, the virus appears to have tripled over the last three weeks in Jacksonville. Your area may currently be different. But one large Birthdays �spreading event� can create a bloom of cases. We do not want Rotary to be that event. Our RI Board directed us, �The health and safety of all participants in Rotary�is of paramount importance.� DG & PP Mike Darragh June 8th So know the facts. Be smart. And, most of all, ACT SAFELY. Mike Darragh PP Jay Plotkin District Governor 2019-20 June 8th Weekly Speaker PP Jason B. Burnett June 15th By Mike Shewey on Friday, June 5, 2020 Martin A. Goetz Chief Executive Officer Meredith L Porter River Garden Senior Services June 16th River Garden Senior Services sponsors an array of not for profit elder care programs and services on a 40-acre seniors campus in Jacksonville, Florida. Eddie Farhat The River Garden Hebrew Home for the Aged (The Home) is a 180-bed not- June 16th for-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the organized Jacksonville Jewish Community. Since 1946, the Home has provided traditional long-term care, Alzheimer�s and dementia care, short-stay skilled nursing care and Charlie G Cofer rehabilitation, respite care, and adult day programming. The Home is June 27th certified for participation in Medicare and Medicaid. In July 2002, November 2004, November 2006, November 2008, November 2010, July 2012, July 2014, July 2016 and January 2020 River Garden was awarded the prestigious, �Governor�s Gold Seal Greg Anderson Award for Excellence in Long Term Care.� June 27th Additionally, the River Garden seniors campus includes: The Coves at River Garden, an 80-unit not-for- profit independent senior living facility; River Garden Home Health Care, a Florida licensed and Medicare certified home health agency; The Albert Z. Fleet Geriatric Training Center a not-for-profit Jennifer Suharmadji � � post-secondary school which trains caregivers and The River Garden Foundation which raises July 2nd philanthropic funds in support of our programs and services and sponsors an annual gala and golf tournament. In February 2005 the nursing home began training certified nursing assistants for careers Renee Hanson as licensed nurses through �Building Bridges� a joint pilot program with Florida State College of July 5th Jacksonville, The Florida Department of Education, and Worksource Florida. Martin A. Goetz, Chief Executive Officer, has been with River Garden since 1978. Marty holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Kent State University, a Master of Science Degree in Health Club Anniversaries Services Administration from S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook, and a Master in Public Administration from the University of North Florida. He is a past member of the Board and Executive Committee of LeadingAge Years of Service Florida (formally FAHSA) and in August 2007 served as Treasurer of the Association. In 2001 Marty was a recipient of LeadingAge Florida�s Public Policy Award for his advocacy on nursing home litigation PP Tom A. Ranney, Sr. reform and in 2003 he was the recipient of LeadingAge Florida�s Distinguished Service Award, the 03-10-1981 highest award given by the association. In 2007 Marty was presented with the Chairman�s Award by 40 Years LeadingAge Florida in recognition of his years of service to the board and its members In 1994 Marty was the recipient of the �Dr. Herb Shore Young Administrator of the Year Award� by William H. Harrell the Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS) in Washington, DC. In 2005 Marty was elected to the 03-31-1981 AJAS Board of Directors and from 2011�2013 served as its Board Chair. In April 2016 Marty was 40 Years presented with the �Dr. Herb Shore Award of Honor� by AJAS, the highest award the association bestows on a professional in the field. P Bea Fore Marty has served (2002 � 2006) as a member of the Community Advisory Board for Av-Med Health 03-08-2011 Systems, a statewide managed healthcare organization with a central office in Gainesville, Florida. He 10 Years has also served as a member of the Dean�s Advisory Council at the University of North Florida College Of Health in Jacksonville. From 2013 � 2020 Marty served on the board of OneJax, previously known Bob C. Freeland as the Jacksonville Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and in June 2017 served 03-20-2018 a one-year term on the Supervisory Committee of the Alive Credit Union. 3 Years Marty is married to Susan Goetz, an accomplished writer and editor. They have two daughters, Jennifer, 34 a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland; and Amy, 31 a Psychologist in Houston, Ken R Flottman Texas. 03-20-2018 3 Years Rob Sly Food Project Nears Completion 03-20-2018 3 Years Big Shout-Out and Thank You to Integrity Transport for helping us pick up groceries from a local Winn-Dixie. Stay tuned as deliveries are now PP Odette Struys being scheduled to complete this amazing project. 03-26-2019 2 Years Wedding Anniversaries PP Ted S Johnson June 5th PP Gary L. Wilkinson June 14th PP Harlan S. Bost June 16th Bob Massey Jr. June 24th From The Board~ Greg Anderson June 24th The following candidate has been approved for your consideration into membership: Ryan Goltry, sponsor is Jen Suharmadji and classification is Banking-Operations. Anyone having an objection, please submit in writing to the Board within ten (10) days. Ben Samuels June 25th We will continue Zoom meetings during June. PP Lee F. Mercier Mark your calendar for our virtual Hail & Farewell Celebration! Tuesday evening, June 23, 6 pm. More June 25th details will follow. No Zoom lunch that day! PP Dan Robie June 25th This Week in History By Mike Shewey on Friday, June 5, 2020 PP Allan P. Clark Secretariat wins Triple Crown in breathtaking style July 2nd With a spectacular victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America�s coveted Triple Crown�the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Warner Webb Stakes. In one of the finest performances in racing history, Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, July 3rd completed the 1.5-mile race in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, a dirt-track record for that distance. Secretariat was born at Meadow Stables in Doswell, Virginia, on March 30, 1970. He was sired by Bold Ruler, the 1957 Preakness winner, and foaled by Somethingroyal, which came from a Thoroughbred line known for its stamina. An attractive chestnut colt, he grew to over 16 hands high and was at two years the PP Bill R. Jaycox size of a three-year-old. July 4th He ran his first race as a two-year-old on July 4, 1972, a 5 1/2-furlong race at Aqueduct in New York City. He came from behind to finish fourth; it was the only time in his career that he finished a race and did not place. Eleven days later, he won a six-furlong race at Saratoga in Saratoga Springs, New York, and soon after, another race. His trainer, Lucien Laurin, moved him up to class in August, entering him in the Sanford Stakes at Saratoga, which he won by three lengths. By the end of 1972, he had won seven of nine races. With easy victories in his first two starts of 1973, Secretariat seemed on his way to the Triple Crown. Just two weeks before the Kentucky Derby, however, he stumbled at the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, coming in third behind Angle Light and Sham. On May 5, he met Sham and Angle Light again at the Churchill Downs track in Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. Secretariat, a 3-to-2 favorite, broke from near the back of the pack to win the 1 1/4-mile race in a record 1 minute and 59 seconds. He was the first to run the Derby in less than two minutes and his record still stands. Two weeks later, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, Secretariat won the second event of the Triple Crown: the Preakness Stakes. The official clock malfunctioned, but hand-recorded timers had him running the 1 1/16-mile race in record time. On June 9, 1973, almost 100,000 people came to Belmont Park near New York City to see if �Big Red� would become the first horse in 25 years to win the Triple Crown. Secretariat gave the finest performance of his career in the Belmont Stakes, completing the 1.5-mile race in a record 2 minutes and 24 seconds, knocking nearly three seconds off the track record set by Gallant Man in 1957.