#562, Club Bulletin, June 22, 2015
Posted by Mary L. Wildermuth
on Jun 22, 2015
Program for June 22, 2015: Origami with Gilad Aharoni
Invocation: Keith Porter
Rotary News: Dan Clark guest of Dick Stanley. June 25, 2015 Rotary After Hours at WineNutz has been cancelled. Mary Odell, incoming President asked members to sign up for committees on the sheets on the tables. Mary reminded us to sign up for the 4th of July Parade staging. Diana Broderson gave an update on the Food Committee and indicated we were staying with HyVee. West Liberty Rotary is partnering with us for the India Rainwater Project. Mary thanked Chuck Moody for his work in setting up the meeting room weekly. No small task!!
Happy News: Mike Hagerty thanked Rotarians help pack the 6000 meals. Judi Holdorf and Keith Porter were happy that the annual meeting for the Community Foundation was so representative of the great givers in our community...small and large!! Erika Cox is happy that she moved last weekend!! Today is Karen Diercks birthday and we sang to all June Birthday folks!!
Program: Dick Stanley introduced Mel Duncan a founder of the NonViolent Peace Force Organization. Mel grew up in Davenport. He gave a very informative talk on creating peace without guns. Many Rotarians and Rotary Fellows have been involved and some trained in the process. Most conflicts in the world are premised on land, water or resource shortages. Mel gave three examples of protection and conflict resolution: Proactive Accompaniement, Proactive Presence, Inter-positioning and additionally Compliance Monitoring. The reasons these strategies work is because they are based on deterrence, encouragement and open communication through the chain of command from the decisionmakers to the local folks. Conflict is usually centered on civilians who are caught in the conflict.
Rotarians can help in the following ways: get trained in the process, sponsor Peace Fellows, engage with our political candidates about nonviolent methods. www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org.