Souls for Soles, RYLA report

I need your help! (614th meeting)
Hi, my name is Leah Moulton, and I need a lot of help with a service project that I am working on. Recently I attended a RYLA camp in Sundance, Utah, and my group and I decided to do a service program together state-wide. There are eight kids working together, involving their local Rotary Clubs, schools, local business, and their Interact clubs in on this international project.

The name of the program that we are working with is called Soles4Souls. It is an organization that collects men, women, and children's shoes and distributes them to other parts of the world who have never seen shoes. Did you know that over 300 million children have never seen a shoe in their life? What is worse is there over 1.4 billion shoes lie idle in closets all over America. Since I myself have an obsession with shoes, I really began to realize that maybe I don't need all 30 pairs. What my group of fellow young Rotarians and I are trying to do is collect as many possible to help those who really need it.

Soles4Souls is a non-profit organization who has helps MILLIONs of people all over the world. They brought over 250,000 pairs of shoes to Asian tsunami victims in December 2004. Altogether they have donated over 3.3 million pairs of shoes in over 60 countries as estimated in 2004. Imagine what they are doing now.

Now that you've read this, think about all those uncomfortable shoes that are just too small, outdated, or you don't don't like that are lying at hope and haven't been touched for months. Someone in need would love that pair. I need Childrens (1-6), Men, and Women LIGHTLY-USED shoes. Anything from sturdy work boots to the coolest beach sandals anywhere. Every pair you donate may help save an inividual from our global family from disease and will make life much easier.

I will have more collection boxes in more locations soon, but for now you may donate them to this Rotary Club. If you need more information or would like for me to pick up a delivery myself, my number is: 702-510-2317.

Please help others in need!
Thank you, Leah Marie Moulton

New Member Induction

We welcome Trish Sheffield from the Childrens Justice Center back to our club. She is a great Rotarian who is deeply involved serving her community. See this link for more information about her compelling work, or the previous post from her Rotary presentation in our club on 10/09/2008.

Glasses Project

Tonight, the preparation for our Mexico trip got underway. Thanks to Todd for hosting our work project at ALSCO. It was a heady, fashion filled evening--the Heiner family three won the hearts of all the judges...

Dr. Mike Anderson, Photography

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Flashback! Who can solve the mystery of how the "HOG TABLE" got its name?

New Member Induction

Welcome to our two newest members, Annette Wiggins, and Kris Hansen. Annette is a 4th generation Venetian Plasterer. She owns Bella Murus and does high end commercial and residential plaster--the real stuff, using Italian product and methods.

Kris Hansen is a Chiropractic Physician who owns the Advanced Health and Pain Center. Kris is a returning member. We are delighted to have him back and are excited for the new life these two new members breathe into our club.

Natural Healing and Allergies

Thursday, October 16, 2008 (612th meeting)

Today's speaker was former club member and local Chiropractor Kris Hansen. Kris spoke to us about allergy elimination (NAET). He has been aware of this technique for many years and was skeptical of it at first. After leasing office space to a doctor from Salt Lake that came down a few times a month that offered these treatments he became more familiar with allergy elimination. Through his own experimentation he became convinced that the system really does work.

Kris explained that an allergy can be more than the typical symptoms that we think of; anaphylaxis, red puffy eyes, sinus issues, rashes, etc.. Allergies can cause the body to have other serious reactions causing a wide variety of reactions. In some cases the body will reject nutrients, hormones, vitamins or other substances that we are exposed to. In others instances the body will accumulate excessive, and unhealthy, levels of an element because it can not process it properly due to an allergy.

New allergies can be acquired by the body during times of stress, illness, trauma or toxicity due to an overall weakness of the body. Patients can not only be treated for typical allergen causing substances and foods but other conditions such as; anxiety, ADD/ADHD, asthma, autism, insomnia, depression and many more. The treatment itself is based on the proven principals of acupuncture/acupressure.

Kris also announced that he will be rejoining our club. Hopefully, we can keep up this trend of inducting our speakers to increase our membership.


Darrin Hallman
Infinite Solutions, Inc.

New Member Induction

We welcome two new members to our club. Luther Anderson, retired Lutheran Pastor had some temporary changes to his retirement plans. As a member of our club since 1999 who recently left St George, we are glad to have him back for as long as he can stay before his retirement sends him off to colder climes.

Paul Chrisco is an IT specialist with a passion to give back to his community. We are delighted to have him join our club and look forward to getting to know his compelling story. Thanks to Joe and Chantra for filling in for their absentee sponsors.

A Rotarian and his or her pin are never far apart. Whenever Luther forgot his pin in the past, it was because he forgot to get it off him jammies when he dressed for the day. Now he has two...

Children's Justice Center

Our speaker today was Patricia Sheffield the director of the Children’s Justice Center (CJC) and a former member of our club. Patricia has been the director of the CJC for 10 years. The CJC offers a comfortable home like environment in which to conduct interviews with juvenile victims of abuse. The interviews are conducted by law enforcement and child protective services, all interviews are recorded. They typically see 310 children each year. 94% of these cases are alleged victims of sexual abuse, 26% are male and 74% are female. Approximately, 50% of the cases that they see end in a conviction. The bulk of the remaining cases are believed no to be actual abuse but usually misunderstandings. The abuser is almost always someone that is known to the victim and rarely a stranger. Patricia reminded us that by state law we are required report any case of suspected abuse to law enforcement or Child Protective Services.

The Children’s Justice Center recently moved into a new building thanks to many generous contributions from the community.

Patricia also shared criteria to watch for when contributing money to a group. In order to be considered a non-profit organization and for your contribution to be tax deductible the organization must be a 501C3 Corporation, have a current charitable certificate from the state, and be current with their filings to both the state and the federal government.

The highlight of the visit was when Patricia agreed to rejoin our club as a member!

Its a Privilege to be Blind

It was standing room only for the 610th meeting of the Rotary Club of Dixie Sunrise. Former member Larry Stansifer brought a bucket-full of wit, a belly full of laughs, and inspiring insight into his life of blindness. He began by sharing with us that he considered his blindness a privilege. Later in the meeting, when asked why, he explained, almost reverently, how beautiful it was to hear waves lapping against the side of a boat; or how neat it was on a warm spring day in a pastoral setting to hear the sound of a butt splashing as it fell down in a muddy field; or the rare feel of the sun on his face in Seattle.

Larry was diagnosed with bilateral retinal blastomas and lost both eyes as a very young child. He spoke of his privilege of having parents who refused to treat his blindness as a handicap. Recalling the day in Montana when he asked his father, "What is a mountainside?" he told us that his father stopped the truck and told him to "get out and start walking." After hiking a ways uphill, his father yelled to Larry to come back down before his nervous mother "had kittens." He also related the story of being out in a small boat on the ocean with his father when his father asked, "how far do you think it is to the shore?" Larry replied he thought it sounded like about 300 yards. The next thing he heard was a SPLASH and his father yelling back to him, "See you there!"

Larry spent his career as a certified Master Mechanic for BMW and Porche. He described how he hand-made his own gauges so he could feel them, and routinely performed any and every type of mechanic work including engine rebuilds. "Picture this!" he quiped, "A blind guy drilling holes in your $100,000 dollar car to install ski racks. It brings new meaning to 'measure twice, cut once'."

Larry also shared some of the details about life with a guide dog. With deep emotion, he related to us the process the dogs go through from birth and selection, to socialization with 4-H children, to final training by guide dog school.

We had some special guests that made the morning even better. Mike Theuer of Theuer Orthodontics and Annette Wiggins of Bella Murus joined our fun. We were delighted to see retired member Luther Anderson back for a visit. He shared the story of one of his blind parishoners who's guide dog would get up when the sermon was over, but sometimes stood up too early. Without skipping a beat, Larry replied, "In my experience the dogs are very punctual. Your sermon probably went long."

Larry, thanks for making our day brighter!

Paul Chrisco has been proposed as a new member. Call President Gooch or any board member if you want to comment over this next week.

See you then!

President Gooch