Category: Speaker

Jenn Brownlee & Jill Curtis from the Alzheimer Association, Greater Pennsylvania Chapter came to tell us about their organization.
The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Their mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.

Read more about them at https://www.alz.org/pa

Bob and Vicki Willman from White Cane Coffee Company talked to us about their company. Their daughter started White Cane Coffee is because, number one, “Who doesn’t love coffee.”. But most importantly, her siblings and her are all on the Autism Spectrum and she is also blind. They have found that finding jobs extremely difficult.

Their goal is to provide a welcoming environment to all people and provide jobs to the handicapped community at a living wage. Most of all, they want to provide you with a Great cup of coffee!

Dr Mason Tootell from Warren General Hospital Family Medicine & Addiction Medicine spoke to us about additio

n and medication assisted therapy. Addiction effects every community at about 1 in 10 Americans have an abuse problem. The goal of any medication treatment is to stabilize a patient enough so that they can embrace and participate in recovery programs. Treatments must work hand and hand with counseling or recovery programs to create substantial recovery.

We welcomed our District Governor Scott Bayline to our meeting last Wednesday to share all about his plans and goals for Rotary District 7280 this year. Club President Adam Meneo was presented the District Governor with our donation towards his projects.

Ken Hinton, from the City of Warren Building Code Enforcement, came and spoke to the club. The department issues building permits and performs construction inspections under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (UCC) and International Construction Code (ICC) for the City of Warren.

Building permits are required for most projects such as new homes, additions, alterations, basement remodeling, sunrooms, swimming pools, spas/hot tubs, decks, and accessory buildings larger than 150 square feet. Permits run between $150-$200.

Projects such as minor repairs of a non-structural nature, painting, carpeting, door and window replacement, and roofing do not require a building permit. Some projects such as small accessory buildings and fences require only a zoning permit. It is recommended that the Building Code Department be consulted to confirm whether a permit is required for any planned projects.

Dennis Sturdevant from the Sheffield Depot Preservation Society spoke to us about the Society and the depot. The last remaining train depot in Warren County. It is from the 1880’s and the society has replaced windows, painted, fixed the roof and brought the building back to life. They are a 501C3 and through determination bought the building form the railroad after 10 years of negotiating. They have model trains in the building and lots of over interesting relics from the period.

Thank you to everyone who attended our first Rotary Community Event. Our spotlight guests were District Attorney Greene, Detective Chimenti, and Cameron Skelton of Northwest speaking on the Children’s Advocacy Center. The mission of the Warren County Children’s Advocacy Center is a “safe and supportive environment that is dedicated to serving child and their families. Professionals from multiple disciplines within the community coordinate investigations, interventions, prosecutions, and provide specialized treatment while reducing trauma and promote healing.” Last year there were 170 new child abuse cases in Warren County. The Children Advocacy Center will be a safe haven where children will only have to tell their story once in a comforting and supportive environment. DA Greene, Detective Chimenti, and Cameron Skelton were instrumental in helping establish the center. The Children Advocacy Center hopes to be opening in the next few months – you can follow their progress on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/warrencountypacac/.

Amylynn Delgado and Meghan Rowland from the Warrin’ Wrecking Dolls were our guests this week.

Warrin’ Wrecking Dolls (WWD) is a member-operated all-women’s roller derby league in Western Pennsylvania.
They play competitive roller derby under the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) guidelines.

Roller Derby is a competitive, full contact sport and requires that you learn rules and strategy, improve your physical fitness, and work and communicate with teammates. The women in the league come from varied athletic backgrounds. Some have no sports experience, some have competed at the college level in sports, and some are in between. You don’t need experience to join WWD, they will teach you what you need to know. You do, however, need to have the desire to constantly improve and challenge yourself.

Warrin’ Wrecking Dolls was undefeated last year and is currently undefeated this year as well.  Matched are family friendly.  Please go to warrinwreckingdolls.weebly.com for a list of events.

Pam Heinhold, founder of “Operation Take Me Home” was our speaker, last Wednesday. She has a grandchild that is autistic and does not speak. About 9 years ago they lost him for a short time at a museum and as a result of that, she looked into what programs were available to help with the problem of a child not being able to speak and being inadvertently separated from his parents.

She found that there was a program that provided a wrist band with a radio transmitter for people that could not speak or had problems such as Alzheimer’s.