Club Business
President Brian Dement opened the meeting. Jim Cartner prayed and led us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Matt Patel introduced his son who attends Williams High School, Saajan Patel. Bonnie Whitfield introduced Allison Hammer, the new branch manager for Truliant in Asheboro . Next week Pete Beck will provide our speaker, who will be Phil Bowers with Sustainable Alamance.
Happy Dollar Announcements
- None this week.
Club Member Responsible for Our Program: Ed Woodall
Ed has served our club as president and is now chairman of the youth services committee, which does outstanding work with Rotaract and Interact. He is married and has three children. He is a VP at First Bank, serving as their Business Development Officer.
Program: Alamance Partnership for Children Reading Programs
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
The Reach Out and Read® program (ROR)was initially developed and tested in medical practices in Boston, Massachusetts. The program incorporates literacy awareness into health care for young children by educating parents that healthy development for their children goes beyond physical care and encompasses developmental and cognitive care as well. At regularly scheduled well-child visits, doctors ask questions about family reading patterns when completing developmental screenings. They inform parents regarding age-appropriate pre-literacy skills and expectations as well as give tips on effective practices to encourage shared family reading. Beyond that, the doctors give age-appropriate books (provided by the Alamance Partnership for Children) to the children to take home, ensuring that the child’s home environment is print-enriched and thereby reinforcing the importance of reading. ROR is currently being administered out of Burlington Pediatrics on Webb Avenue, Mebane Pediatrics and Kernodle Clinic in Elon. ROR has distributed nearly 5,000 books during well-child visits. Additional offices providing well-child visits are being added.
Conclusion
There was no raffle today. We all stood to recite Rotary’s four way test before Brian adjourned the meeting.