2021-04-13 Anastasia Prior – Conservation Corps – Windsor Rotary Archived Bulletins

Good Morning Rotarian friends and family who are reading our weekly bulletin, Today’s minutes are from TUESDAY, April 13, 2021

President Bill rang the bell at 7:30 am, Bill commented on how informative Jake Rubenstein’s presentation on the effects of plastic was two weeks ago and thanked JB Leep & Bill Arnone for doing a fantastic job last week with the candidate’s forum.

Pledge of Allegiance: was led by Doug Williams

Inspiration by Glen Sugden: quote by Paul Harris, but brought up to the times,

“If you have the love of your fellow men (& woman) in your hearts, my friends, you are a potential Rotarian.”

Visiting Rotarians:

Patrick Dunn, Patrick is a member of the San Mateo Rotary Club, he and his wife are moving to Windsor and Patrick is looking forward to joining the Rotary Club of Windsor

Guest of Rotarians:

Our speaker; Anastasia Prior, & Mike Freedman, Mike was introduced for the last time as a guest; today he will become a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor, Welcome!!

Robin Resendez, Chris Landwehr, & Doug Williams have joined the vaccinated group! How About YOU?

President Bill seemed very happy he was able to play basketball for the first time in a year. Let’s make his year complete and achieve 100% vaccinated as a club and meet in person!

April Rotarians of the Month:

Bill Arnone
JB Leep
Great Job and a lot of hard work behind the scene to present a flawless candidates forum.

Rotary Club of Windsor

Doing More! with Less and Having Fun

Amazon Smile: A painless easy way to contribute to the: “Windsor Rotary Club Foundation” Once you have registered with amazon smile and chosen the charity of your choice Amazon does the rest. Last week I purchased spreaders for the Wine Tasting Charcuterie boxes, and made a contribution to the Windsor Rotary Club Foundation with one click!

Membership

It is all about US, Each One Bring One

“Our Best Shot” – A Virtual Fundraiser – Saturday, May 8, 2021

Major Fundraiser

Up-date by Michael Juric:

Barbara, Diane & Leslie created and shared a video for the “Our Best Shot” event, good job ladies!

Auction Items Needed!

Club members were placed in breakout rooms to brainstorm Auction items: Would still like your input to the questions below!

What’s the most fun auction item you have seen or experienced? WOW !!!
What is something you would like to see? Bid on
If you were going to bid on an experience, what would it be?

Register now for the Event or Register for the Wine Tasting pre-event and you will automatically be registered for the event. The Wine tasting event includes 3 Bottles of fine wine, and a Charcuterie Box, enough for TWO.

www.yourshotwindsor.com

Windsor Rotary Clip Board

Song Leader – Chris Landwehr
Scribes – Tom Boylan
ZOOM Meetings -Video Editing and WRC Website –JB Leepneeds HELP
Call/email them or go to:/ info@windsorrotary.co
Vaccine Registration – Diane Brabetz
Adopt a Road – Bill Bolster
Bee Friendly Gardens – Native Wildflowers Seeds – Rotary Club of Healdsburg Sunrise – Jay Beckwith 707-479-2554

View the candidate forum video on our website: www.windsorrotary.org

Upcoming Club Stuff!

Friday & Sat., April 16 & 17 – District 5130 Virtual Training
Tuesday, April 27 – Alexis Wichowski – The Information Trade: Big Tech Challenges the Nation-State
Saturday, May 8, – Rotary Club of Windsor Virtual Fundraiser
Saturday thru Wednesday, June 12 -16, Rotary International Virtual Convention

Speaker:

Anastasia Prior; Director of Development and Communications from the Conservation Corps of North Bay.

CCNB is a paid job training program that prepares young people to earn a living wage. JB noted he has worked side by side with conservation corps participants at Redwood Empire Food Bank and Waste Less Windsor in community efforts. JB has wanted to have a presentation from Conservation Corps and is looking forward to listening to Anastasia today.

About Conservation Corps North Bay

Our Mission is to develop youth and conserve natural resources for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable community.

CCNB is a job training and placement organization founded in 1982 and started in Sonoma County in 2010.

CCNB can have 70-90 participating in projects in the community; they average 200 participants per year.

Our work is made possible through a fee-for-service model where our partners hire our crews to complete projects on public lands throughout Marin and Sonoma County.

Corps members come to CCNB to gain job skills, education, certifications, career coaching, and help with job placement.

They are placed in one of two primary tracks when they join.

Natural Resources Work:

Fire Fuel Reduction
Trail Construction & Maintenance
Habitat Restoration
Creek Maintenance
Flood Prevention
Construction and Carpentry
Highway Right of Way Maintenance

Program Services:

Food Recovery & distribution
Mattress Recycling and Collection Events
Waste Tire Collection
Events and Illegal tire dump site cleanup
Electronic Waste collection events and curbside pick-ups
Public Lands recycling services and recyclables collection
Storm Drain marking and used oil education

Last year corps members collected 10,500 tires for recycling, diverted 301,000 pounds of bottles and cans from landfills, collected 4,600 mattresses for recycling, & 487,000 pounds of electronic waste. In three months of shelter in place, CCNB corps members served 15,000 people through Sonoma-Marin food banks.

Corps members are 18-25 years old, seeking work experience and or education. They work four days a week Mon.-Thurs.

CCNB offers 40 certificates, typically a participant in CCNB will receive 1 certificate after 1 year with the organization, however, they have had participants receive multiple.

CCNB has John Muir Charter School in San Rafael and Cotati; they also work with Youth Connections Charter Academy in Santa Rosa.

They offer year-round formal classroom instruction reinforced through project-based learning in the field. CCNB facilitates access to high school and college courses, corps members can earn a High School diploma, English language skills, and internship opportunities.

When a participant join CCNB they are assigned a counselor that guides them through their needs & goals. They are also assisted in job search & placement.

Corpsmembers Outcome:

Average time spent in program 13 months, 77% of corps members continue in work or education after leaving the program.

Average wages $17.22 an hour, 50% earn more than $17.00 an hour.

We achieve our mission by

Providing young adults with opportunities to transform their lives through paid work, education, employability, civic engagement, and leadership.
Partnering with the community to conserve and restore natural resources and improve recreational and public areas.
Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Creating the environmental leaders of the future by teaching environmental ethics and behaviors to local youth.
Making communities safer by reducing hazards and by responding to public emergencies and disasters.

@conservationcorpsnorthbay www.ccnorthbay.org

Anastasia Pryor apryor@ccnorthbay.org

President Bill ended the meeting announcing that Doug Williams will most likely be sporting a new look, bald, Doug says he will soon be starting cancer treatment, President Bill quoted Doug’s positive statement,

“No sense worry about things you cannot control, I won’t have to worry about haircuts”

Doug, I know I speak for the whole club, keeping you in our positive thoughts!

Earth Day Windsor Cleanup – April 24 –

BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TOWN OF WINDSOR

Option 1: Pick up trash in your neighborhood

Trash collection bags will be available the week of Earth Day, April 19-22, 2021 at the Public Works Oil Recycling Station at 8400 Windsor Rd

Contact Town staff (info below) through April 24th with filled bag locations and they will be picked up.

Option 2: Join the Community Cleanup Day on April 24, 2021, at 9-11 am at the corner of Victory Lane and MacFarlane Way.

Collection Bags Provided.

Pandemic safety measures enforced.

Town staff will dispose of filled bags.

For more information, contact the

Storm Water Program staff at the

Town of Windsor Public Works Department

(707) 838-5385 — stormwater@townofwindsor.com

Take pride in Windsor’s natural beauty!

Bring your whole household to pick up trash

Meeting was adjourned @ 8:30am

respectfully submitted,

Pegi Ball

COVID UPDATE

Total Cases: 29,536 (last week 29,402)

Recovered: 28,740 (last week 28,452)

New Cases: Fri zero

Sat 53

Sun 24

Mon 11

This is a total for 4 days of 88 (last week for 4 days was 145) – we are seeing so few people being tested and this is concerning. The general population feels because we are pushing vaccinations and our hospitalizations are down and deaths slowed down, that there is no need for testing!

Deaths: 309 (last week 309)

Here in Sonoma County, we have seen over 54% of our deaths coming from SNF’s and the remaining from the community.

Hospitalized: 12 confirmed and 1 suspected (last week 13 confirmed and 4 suspected)

Because we are seeing fewer people hospitalized and new cases down, we are also seeing unsafe practices. People continue to travel and mixed messages are being given out even though the CDC and medical professionals. The latest is that “it is safe to travel but then they say no non-essential travel please”. The public does not equate these 2 messages and understands that it is still best to curb travel and only fly if necessary. Or if traveling, go by car and only stop if necessary being careful to wash your hands, wear your mask and social distance.

We have tested a Total of 614,222 and 28,740 (last week 614,222 in our county with 28,452 people recovered)

Still seeing the largest number of cases in the Latinos (65% with them only being 27.3% of the populations and whites are only 28% with them being 62.9% of the population )

Still seeing the largest level of positivity in Service and sales (18.7%), then those unemployed and home care (my industry) at 2.2%.

All medical experts are encouraging all of us to continue to get tested even if you have had both of your shots. It helps to determine new variants and exposure. In Sonoma County, there have been reported Viral Mutations and the most concerning is the B117 (UK) as it is being traced to young children. We are also beginning to see “breakthroughs” in some people fully vaccinated which is concerning. People totally vaccinated but testing positive. We have even seen it in one of our employees exposed by a family member who although fully vaccinated did test positive and the family was told to quarantine while all got tested again. We continue to require all of our employees with client contact to get tested every other week despite many of their own physicians telling them that is too much. So there is not even consensus among the medical community.

The head of the CDC continues to worry about another possible surge that we will see from Spring breaks, Easter, and the recent increase in air travel. She continues to warn the public to curb their activities, travel, and continue to be careful, and to refrain from acting like we are over this. WE ARE NOT OVER COVID YET AND COULD SEE ANOTHER SURGE IF BEHAVIORS ARE NOT CAREFUL. Please do your part to hold off a bit longer with social interactions and especially travel. Stay home – you have no idea what you may be exposed to and bring back to Sonoma County. Even if you are vaccinated, you could become a carrier. Until we have herd immunity, we still need to be careful. Please listen to the health experts – we realize there are great deals out there for travel but our health experts are asking us to wait until the end of summer. Just a bit longer to then keep us all much safer!

Vaccines were begun…. As of April 11^th, 362,234 residents in Sonoma County have received the vaccine (last week 313,102). Fully vaccinated individuals now at 35% and adults with at least one vaccine dose are now at 20.6% (last week was 25.7% and adults with at least one vaccine dose 20.6%). Only 18% of Latinos (27% of our population and most at risk for COVID) have been vaccinated, compared to 62% of white, non-Hispanic races vaccinated. Only 1% of Black/African Americans have been vaccinated. We continue to have issues with vaccine availability to our County and the ability of citizens to obtain appointments. As of Apr.1^st, anyone over 50 is now eligible and as of Apr. 15^th it will go to anyone over age 16. So the Federal Guidelines have lowered the age eligibility but vaccine availability has not caught up.

There is current concern over whether we will need to have a booster to either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines that will address the variants that are now being identified in the USA. Both Pharmaceutical companies are working on this to stay ahead of the mutated versions of this virus. More than 119 million Americans have had at least one vaccine dose and 22% of the population is fully vaccinated. But we are seeing huge surges and overwhelming numbers of hospitalizations and new cases in several States and with travel could come this being brought into our County.

Please help us to educate others on the risks, the need to really consider getting the vaccine especially in some of the culturally and diverse groups who are still afraid of the vaccine, the need to stay home but venture out slowly with other vaccinated individuals, but curb travel. Variants of this virus are continuing to appear and we need to stay home – another surge of this pandemic will only task our resources and could kill many people. We want to strive for “herd immunity”. Please become a believer – the life you save could be someone dear to you! Treat those you care about with loving consideration!

Thanks