Milton-Freewater Rotary Club
History of the Milton-Freewater
Rotary Club
The club was chartered as #3030 on 11
January 1929
with 27 members.
The first President was Dick Monahan
We were sponsored by the Walla
Walla, WA Rotary
Club
We are located in Rotary District
5100 as Club #294
| Meeting Date |
Mailing Address |
| Tuesday at 11:45 |
P.O. Box
346 |
| Community Building |
Milton-Freewater,
OR 97862 |
| 5th and Ward
Streets |
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| Milton-Freewater,
OR 97862 |
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|
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| 2008-09 President: Bob Jones |
| President Elect: Larry Widner |
Secretary: Chris Wallace-Burlingame
|
| Treasurer: Chris
Wallace-Burlingame |
Past President: Pat McConn
|
Statistics
34 Active Members on 01 July 2008
14 Honorary Members and Rotary Youth
Exchange
Students
43 Paul Harris Fellows
33 Ross Lee Fellows
742 Club Banners
Club News
01-03 May 2009: Rotary District
5100 Conference,
Salem Convention Center, Salem, OR
21-24 June 2009: Rotary International
Convention,
Birmingham, England
20-23 June 2010: Rotary International
Convention,
Montreal, Canada (tenative)
25 November 2008
The ladies from the Milton-Freewater Democratic Club prepared the lunch
for the members and guests at this weeks lunchtime meeting. There were
no visiting Rotarians this week.
Marilyn McBride introduced her husband: Roy
Marilyn McBride introduced Rotary
Youth Exchange Student, Natalia Ordenes Evensen from Villa Alemana,
Chile. Naty arrived 19 August 2008. This week she tried her first slice
of Pumpkin Pie and really liked it. Roy made both Pumpkin and Apple
pies for the weekend and she tried both of them. Looking forward to
learning about our Thanksgiving Day celebrations.
Honorary Rotarians Orlin Hansen, Richard Meier, and
Pete Peery joined us for lunch.
President Bob Jones told the club that the Board of
Directors has approved a project to sell Christmas Wreaths as a fund
raiser for our club. The wreaths will be 22” diameter of evergreen
stock and will sell for $24.99 each. Delivery is planned for 07
December 2008. Contact any Rotarian to make the purchase.
President Bob Jones reminded everyone that Congressman Greg Walden will
be our guest speaker next week.
President Bob Jones reminded everyone that the joint meeting with the
Chamber of Commerce will take place on 16 December 2008. This special
Christmas Program has been an annual event since Jack Williams
presented it for the first time in December 1954.
President Bob Jones invited Marilyn McBride and David Marshall to the
podium. Marilyn, his sponsor, introduced David as our new member,
bringing the club membership to 36. David, a long time local resident
is very active in many facets of our school district.
Program Chairman, Larry Kezele introduced the members of the
Milton-Freewater Emergency Medical Service (EMS). Tracy Bunker, Brandon
Schmitgal, Michael Legore, and Andrew Brown. The Milton-Freewater EMS
was organized in 1996 to provide EMS for residents of Milton-Freewater,
and the rural area around the town (326 square miles). The organization
was established using funds from contracts with local residents. No
Federal, State, City, or other funds support the operation. The
establishment of a local EMS using tax funds from a bond issue is a
possibility but that might only support a Basic EMS, not the Advanced
Life support program we presently have. Such a plan would also take
time to prepare and the present EMS could close in the meantime.
The Milton-Freewater EMS has three advanced life support ambulances,
three full time Paramedics, four Emergency Medical Technicians, and ten
volunteer EMT’s to provide assistance. The Milton-Freewater EMS is a
mobile emergency room capable of performing triage and life saving
procedures on site and en route to the closest hospital.
Tracy told us that there are presently about 550 local residents with
contracts for their services and the EMS needs about 1500 to remain in
business. If the M-F EMS shuts down, the nearest service will be
Pendleton since Walla Walla has already said they are not interested in
working this area. Such a situation would increase the response time
considerably; not a good situation for emergencies. For $55.00 a year,
a family is covered for the EMS. The average cost of an ambulance call
for an emergency is currently about $900.00 and not much of it would be
covered by many health insurance plans. Many calls are from people with
no coverage at all. The M-F EMS presently answers about 100-150
calls/per month.
For more information contact Tracy at (541) 938-7146.
Editor: Robby
Robbins.
E-Mail to:
robby@valint.net
Last modified: 04 December 2008
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