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PRESIDENT MARYLIN GALIMI
PRESIDENT-ELECT KEVIN VISCONTI
SECRETARY MICHAEL GEORGE
TREASURER DAN MORROW
SERGENT-AT-ARMS JAMES MORROW
PROGRAM CHAIR ~ KEVIN [email protected]
This Week: Nicky Jennings of SUNY UpstateEducation Specialist at Pediatric Designated AIDS Center
Program Committee
Since 1990, SUNY Up-state Medical Universi-ty’s Pediatric Designated AIDS Center (PDAC) has been providing ser-vices to HIV positive and at-risk children and young adults.
The PDAC currently provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care to patients from birth to 24 years of age. Services in-clude HIV treatment and supportive services and HIV testing and prevention for babies born to women liv-ing with HIV.
The PDAC team features pediatric HIV specialists, pediatric nurse practi-tioners, a social worker, a dietician, a fam-ily therapist, a data manager and a pro-gram manager. An adult HIV specialist is also available to provide support and to work with adolescent patients as needed.
In 2011 New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute desig-nated the Pediatric Des-ignated HIV Center an "Adolescent/Young Adult Specialized HIV Care Center," establishing the only Adolescent/Young Adult HIV Care Center in the Central New York region. The Specialized Care Center focuses on providing HIV special-ty care, HIV and STD transmission prevention,
PrEP, HIV and STD education and out-reach programs in the community.
High risk HIV negative patients are offered HIV testing, Pre-Exposure Pro-phylaxis (PrEP) services, Post-Eposure Prophylaxis (PEP)services, STD testing and treatment, social work services, men-tal health services and health promotion
THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE • CLUB #42 • ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7150 • CHARTERED 1912 • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2018
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A Look Ahead
see VAN ROBINSON page 2 >>
FEBRUARY 911:10 am
Syracuse Rotary Club Board of Directors February Meeting
12:00 pm RCS Club Meeting
Program: Nicky Jennings
SUNY Upstate PDAC
FEBRUARY 105:00 pm
D7150 Foundation Gala Double Tree Hotel, E. Syracuse
FEBRUARY 1611:00 am
Syracuse Rotary Foundation Trustee February Meeting
12:00 pm RCS Club Meeting
Program: Greg Loh
Director of City Initiatives
FEBRUARY 2312:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
Program: Lynn Simonetta-Blair
MARCH 212:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
Program: TBA
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Scene & Herd ~ Reboot: Recap of Feb 2Anonymous Syracuse Rotarian
Friday, January 12 ~ PP Jim Mor-row ably presided today in the cramped downstairs Members Lounge, in the excused absence of our busy Prez, Marylin. Like always, we pledged, sang a lusty version of America under the ba-ton of PP Brad and heard PP Bob give one of his usually thoughtful and apt invocations.
For announcements, PP Jim Glad said that following today’s meeting ye old social hour would resume at Pas-cales bar (only to find later that the bar doesn’t open again until spring….). Nonetheless, the thought was good. Brad mentioned that he’s celebrating his (sotto voce) 86th birthday at Sym-phoria on March 17 for their annual St. Patrick Day’s concert featuring what
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else but celtic music. He hopes a goodly crowd of Rotar-ians will join him in his front row balcony seats, so please mark your calendars now and let Brad know. Word has it that Brad has retrieved Symphoria’s Rotary discount code, so the evening promises to be not only eventful but reasonably priced…. In other announcements Ray Leach urged support for Habitat’s annual Bowlathon—see Ray for details.
We welcomed as a guest East Syracuse Rotarian-friend, PDG Bob Batley who is celebrating (drum roll please) 70 years of Rotary perfect attendance. That’s gotta be a world record. Congrats Bob for this amazing achievement. Our other welcomed guests included former (soon to be current) member Warren “Joe” Young and a good friend from awhile back, Jeff Bastable.
Charlie Beach put in a HD for his grandkids whom he re-cently visited in connection with a West Coast family reunion. PP Frank Decker gave a buck in honor of Bob Batley and PP Jim G dropped in a dollar in celebration of the 39th anniver-sary of wife Sally’s (*!@#) birthday. On the 50/50, who else but Ray Leach drew for the red queen but missed, leaving the $5 to... Ray Leach, who had the second tickiet, too.
Called upon to give his member profile, long time mem-ber and former sergeant at arms, Harry Schumm, gave a very interesting and enjoyable summary of his significant life. He said he enjoyed a good childhood, working initially for his Dad in the painting business. Then off for a stint in the Army Air Corps, serving in distant Greenland. Harry returned to Syracuse after service to attend ESF where he obtained his degree in landscape architecture. Reminding us that landscape architecture isn’t just flower and garden plan-
ning, Harry embarked on his long and successful career in land planning which, among other things, involves drainage, grading, lot and amenity layout, etc., all the essentials which go into proper land planning. He first worked for the former Sargent Webster firm and then went out on his own to form Schumm and Werle where, among other things, they helped plan the successful (albeit initially resisted) recreational ve-hicle facility on Association Island in Henderson Bay. Harry joined Syracuse Rotary in 1974, is married to the lovely Ag-nes and lives with her on their beautiful property on Pleasant Valley Road. Thanks for sharing, Harry. We’re so glad you remain an active member of the Club.
PP Denny introduced pioneering downtown real estate developer, Bob Doucette, to give us his take on what to do with aging Rt. 81. Never shy, Bob whole heartedly endorsed the so called “community grid” option, saying it’s the only one that makes any sense. He said that land use is at the heart of the matter and that the grid makes the most sense in terms of land use, not to mention much lower cost, oppor-tunity for community growth, etc. He used a nice support-ing video to help explain why communities throughout the country built roads in the 50s-70s that were bad for the cit-ies—little input form urban planners, pressure from the auto industry, available Federal funding, lack of political clout of the evicted poor, etc. The result was that poor, largely minori-ty communities were pushed out while more wealthy white neighborhoods survived—precisely the consequence of the current location of Rt. 81. Noting that 88% of current traffic on 81/690 is local, Bob said that the grid was the clear choice (compared to a hugely expensive, time consuming and un-
necessary tunnel or replacing the current viaduct). The grid will not increase the number of cars in the city, and it will only take 4-6 minutes more for the 12% through-traffic to use the 690/481 bypass to recon-nect with 81 south of Syracuse or with 81 north of the city near Destiny Mall. Aside from much lower cost, one of the prime benefits of the community grid is that it will free up at least 7.5 acres in the heart of the city for tax paying development, which Syracuse desperately needs. It will also be aesthetically pleasing and allow for better dispersal of city traffic. Based on Bob’s excellent presentation, at least this writer ro-bustly supports the community grid option and urges that it be built without further delay. For more info on this important subject see www.rethink81.org. z
NOTICE The following Club meetings will be held in the Members Lounge, downstairs, adjacent to restaurant:
March 2 • March 23 • April 6 • May 11
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2018
ROTARIAN BIRTHDAYROBERT "BOB" SHERBURNEBirthday: February 7Joined: January 2012
40 The number of cards left in the Queen of Hearts drawing for 2/9
FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 9THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R SFEBRUARY MEETING | 11:10AM | DRUMLINS
Schumm presents his five minutes and we discuss 81's yet-to-be-determined fate << from pg. 1
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and harm reduction education. Care is provided in the Pediatric Multi-Specialty Outpatient Clinic in Uni-versity Hospital at SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams Street, Syracuse, NY.
Nicky Jennings is an Education Specialist at SUNY Upstate Medical University working in Pediatric In-fectious Disease. She has a Master’s Degree in Health Education and is a Certified Health Education Spe-cialist (CHES). Through community outreach, Nicky works to reduce new HIV infections by providing ed-ucation to the community and local medical providers. Nicky also co-chairs the Syracuse Mayor's Task Force to end the HIV epidemic by 2020, which works to im-plement a three point plan set out by Governor Cuomo that will bring about the end of HIV in the state. z
Center serves HIV+ adolescents << from pg. 1
Matthew 25 Farm UpdateFarm eagerly looks forward to springMatthew 25 Farm
The Farm team hopes everyone is enjoying the win-ter months and wishes to pass along a few updates as they eagerly look forward to spring.
In April the Farm will be planting fruit trees and raspberries. They open on May 1 and can always use lots of groups to help through the end of October, but especially during the spring planting season. It is never too early to sign up.
The Farm's annual Harvest Golf Tournament is on Saturday, August 18th at Vesper Hills.
In May they will be hiring a new part-time farm assistant to help with the field work and other farm activities. If you know of someone who enjoys work-ing outside and is good with people and plants, please encourage them to email a resume. Tractor driving ability is a huge plus.
Syracuse Rotary has been a supported of Matthew 25 Farm with SRF grant awards totaling almost $10,000 since 2014.
If you are intersted in volunteering, call 315.558.2212 or email [email protected]. z
FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 16THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE F O U N D AT I O N T R U S T E EFEBRUARY MEETING | 11:00AM | DRUMLINS
Grant Recipients RespondOrganizations send emails and letters
James Morrow | P&C Chair
YMCA of Greater SyracuseI wish to extend our sincere appreciation to you for your gift
of $1,000 to the YMCA of Greater Syracuse. There are children in our community who simply could not attend Camp Iroquois without your help and because of your generosity, you will help make their summer dreams come true.
The Rotary Club of Syracuse is always so generous and we are grateful for everything that you and your club members do for our community. We appreciate your partnership and look forward to always working together to provide the best support to our community.
Kelly CarinciAssociate Executive Director - Development
YMCA of Greater Syracuse - East Area Family YMCA
Charity for ChildrenPlease accept my deepest thanks for your recent donation of
$1,500.00 received on December 7, 2017 to support our trans-portation program. Your continued support has meant so much to our local children and to me. Your benevolence allows this organization to provide vital transportation to local children with no other resources available to them. I am truly grateful for all that you have done to support our mission and specifi-cally this program.
Because of donations such as yours, we can continue to say yes to every child that comes to us in need of assistance. So many times a parent has to sacrifice their job in order to take their child to medical facilities both inside and outside of the CNY area, or to be by their side during medical stays. Charity for Children is honored to be able to assist these families during their most criticaltimes.
God bless each and every one of you who were responsible for choosing Charity for Children to be the recipient of your generosity. I applaud your efforts to support local charities that struggle every day to continue to support their missions.
Thank you again for your generous donation.Nina M. Albino-Devoldre
Executive Director
The Rotary Club of Syracuse, Inc. is really comprised of two entities; the Club which was chartered on June 1, 1912 as Club Number 42 in the Rotary world, and the Syracuse Rotary Foundation, Inc., the not-for-profit philanthropic arm of the Club founded in 1957. Together, the Club and the Foundation have served the Greater Syracuse community with uncommon distinction and vigor, leaving a long trail of accomplishment in the best of Rotary’s traditions, all of which has contributed to giving The Rotary Club of Syracuse an honored position in our community.
www.syracuserotary.org | James Morrow, editorSYRACUSE ROTARY PRESS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2018
