A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.― Nelson Mandela

 

 

Announcements
(notes provided by the crafty and courageous, Barb Litner)

 

Todd asked for volunteers to participate in Bowl for Kids Sake on March 18 at 6:00pm.  Contact him to sign up.  Each bowler is responsible for $100 donation so anyone who wishes to support a bowler can contribute individually or at our next meeting.

 

District Conference is May 21 and each club is to provide a basket for the auction.  Jen volunteered to put our basket together.

 

Dee Brown will be our speaker on March 31.  It is an excellent time to bring a guest so let Reuben know to make sure we have space.

 

Checks for $2250 each from our fruit sales were presented this morning to Daily Bread and to CASA.  Daily Bread serves 200 people a day and our contribution will feed them for the month of April.  CASA at present is providing advocates for 400 abused or neglected children.

 

 

Speaker

 

Mary Butzow, the EMS Education Co-coordinator at Presence and the EMS trainer at Parkland College, spoke to us about the urgency of stroke.  Having a stroke no longer means death or severe disability.  Stoke affects nearly 800,000 people each year and 25% of these people die.  There is one case of stroke every 45 seconds, and stroke is the #3 killer of women.  One quarter of women’s strokes occur before the age of 65.  Stroke is the #1 cause of long term disability.

 

Time is of the essence.  Of those elgible for treatment only 2% are given a tPA thrombolytic or clot buster due to the short window of time in which it is effective.  From onset the patient has 6 hours if experiencing a heart attack but only 180 minutes if experiencing a stroke.  Since there is often not tremendous pain present people often wait but should not.

 

It is imperative to have a CT scan immediately to determine if you are a candidate for clot busters.  In 2015 56% of those experiencing stroke arrived at an emergency room by private vehicle which causes delays.  It is best to call 911 in order  to have a medical professional at your door who can bring the ER to your house and alert the hospital to what services you need immediately on arrival  The slogan is “Don’t Guess Call EMS.”  Think of stroke as a brain attack.  It is truly a race against time.

 

Indicators of stroke include a drooping smile, inability to hold both arms out straight at the same level (shows weakness in one arm), and/or slurred speech or inability to repeat a phrase.  Some risk factors that can be controlled are:  smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, and atrial fibrillation.  Risk factors that cannot be controlled are age, gender and genes.

 

 

 

Mar 17th Mar 24th Mar 31st April 7th
Introductions Barb Lintner BJ Lytle Ben Mast John McDaniel
Invocation Tod Satterthwaite Jen Shelby Billy Stull Jeff Van Buren
Greeters Barb Lintner BJ Lytle Ben Mast John McDaniel
Robb Patton Allan Penwell Ed Perry Rod Roberts
Song Leader Gary Olsen Scott Paceley Robb Patton Allan Penwell
Notetaker Conforti Perry Penwell Hodson

 

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

March 17th – Steven Bentz, Director, Virginia Theater, will discuss upcoming shows

March 24th – Molly Delaney, Executive Director, C-U Schools Foundation, will discuss their first cross-district, collaborative grant

March 31st – Dee Brown, Special Assistant to the Director of Athletics, UIUC – Meeting will be held in the Savoy Room

April 7th – Laura Weis, Champaign County Chamber of Commerce

April 14th – TBD

April 21st – Megan McKisson, vice president of Illinois 2015-2016 Vis International Commercial Arbitration Team

April 28th – TBD

May 5th – TBD

May 12 – Prof. Christopher Barkan, Executive Director of the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center, UIUC, will discuss high speed rail travel and RailTec

May 19th – TBD

May 26th – TBD

June 2nd – TBD

June 9th – Megan Casey, Frances Nelson and SmileHealthy