Events

November is ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH.  Libby Camire will provide the South Burlington Rotary Foundation Committee update.

Fed up with pumping in bathrooms and borrowed spaces—Mamava’s co-founders, Sascha Mayer and Christine Dodson, applied their decades of expertise in design and brand strategy to solve a problem that was largely invisible: the lack of lactation spaces in workplaces and public spaces. 

Ilona Blanchard will give an update on South Burlington City Center build out plans, city green,TIF status

D. Thomas Toner is a Professor of Music at the University of Vermont where he teaches percussion and conducts the Percussion Ensemble, Concert Band, and Wind Ensemble. Dr. Toner is the Principal Percussionist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed a wide variety of music.  He has also appeared with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Massachusetts Chamber Players, the Bermuda Philharmonic, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and many other ensembles in the northeast.

We will have no "formal" meeting this day, just time for socializing with each other (and our guests), enjoying tasty vittles, and being treated to a year-end tale by erstwhile newspaperman, founder of the Young Writer's Project, and soon-to-be published novelist, Geoff Gevalt.  If you'd like to learn more about Geoff:  https://www.geoffreygevalt.com/ 

The Janet S. Munt Family Room is a unique parent child center providing programs that are accessible to all and flexible enough to meet the needs of our changing community.  We support connection for parents and families, provide education, promote physical, social, emotional, and linguistic development in children, and nurture a vibrant and diverse community.

Damon joined the staff of the Family Room to increase his knowledge of family support and broaden his understanding of our community’s diversity. Having been a father for only 8 years means he has as much to learn about supporting families as he has to learn about raising children. The Family Room offers him the opportunity to sharpen his fathering skills while meeting and sharing with the many members and families in the community. 

More information about the Janet S. Munt Family Room Childcare Center here:

https://www.thefamilyroomvt.org/

Molly is an attorney with Primmer Piper, Eggleston & Cramer, PC in Burlington, VT and has over 20 years of experience helping families achieve their personal and financial objectives.  She also provides counsel to both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in all aspects of trust, probate, and estate administration. Her estate planning practice also includes business succession planning, business formation and real estate law as they relate to estate planning issues.  More about Molly's firm here:

https://www.primmer.com/

The Vermont Futures Project is an independent non-partisan organization with a goal of providing a vision that supports and encourages long-term economic growth for Vermont, providing data and recommendations to achieve this goal. The Vermont Futures Project will position the economy in the center of a statewide discussion about Vermont’s future, enriching that discussion with data, benchmarks, and research – demonstrating how a healthy economy provides opportunities for people and contributes to Vermont’s unique quality of life.  More about this organization here:

https://vtfuturesproject.org/

Tim Jarvis, the Senior Director of Operations and Finance and Tim Warren, the Board member will discuss the school budget for the upcoming school year.

Tibetan community in Vermont was founded in 1993 with few individual members; now consisted with hundred and twenty three members.  To actively promote and support human rights and democratic freedoms in Tibet.  To preserve and promote Tibetan Culture, heritage and religion. To liase with and support the Tibetan Government in exile through the Office of Tibet, New York, USA.  Our mission is to contribute to and uphold the American value of multiculturalism.  To work together to build innovative, productive and peaceful American Tibetan Communities in US.  To Initiate and maintain unity among Tibetan Organizations in North America. Mrs. Cummings is President of the Association. 

http://www.vermonttibet.org/

A dedicated humanitarian, Katia Vieira de Moraes LaCasse, M.D., was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and received her medical degree from Faculdade de Medicina do ABC in 2004 and completed a pediatric residency in 2010 at Santa Casa de Misericordia de São Paulo.

After several years working as a pediatric hospitalist and running a private pediatric practice, Vieira de Moraes LaCasse embarked on her first humanitarian deployment to Afghanistan with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The experience had an immense impact on her and changed her life trajectory. "After my six months in Afghanistan, I returned home to Brazil, quit both my jobs and closed my private practice. I could not fathom going back to work in private hospitals when I knew how much help was needed in humanitarian contexts," she says. "I set out to dedicate my life to humanitarian work full time."

Three years ago, after additional MSF deployments to South Sudan, as well as Save the Children deployments to Colombia, Syria, Haiti, and Dominican Republic, Vieira de Moraes LaCasse moved to Vermont.  Currently serving as the clinical lead for the Emergency Health Unit at Save the Children U.S., she decided to pursue a Master of Public Health degree at UVM to "add more tools to her arsenal to provide better responses and affect policy development". 

https://www.savethechildren.org/

Our long time member, Penrose, will lead a fun morning with her "famous" Literacy Quiz. Seat belts on everybody!

Judy was inducted into the SB Rotary Club in the Fall of 2024.  Today she will provide an insight into who she is with a classification talk.

SBRotary chooses a winner from recommendations from the public for non—Rotarian individuals who have shown exemplary service at many levels—community, business, etc.

In 1999 and 2000 Rick, inspired by 89-year-old “Granny D’s” 18-month walk across the entire United States to highlight the need for campaign finance reform, walked with her for a week in Kentucky. Subsequently Rick walked some 450 miles around 3 sides of Vermont to similarly advocate through interviews with more than 50 radio, newspaper and television discussions and stories as they covered his journey. More recently he has joined other activists to support efforts by Lawrence Lessig and The New Hampshire Rebellion to encourage NH voters to ask 2016 Presidential primary candidates the question:  “What specific reforms will you advance to end the corrupting influence of big money in politics?”  As part of these efforts Rick has:

• Walked the length of New Hampshire, 185 miles, in January of 2014.  with other NHR supporters in memory of “Granny D’s” walk across the USA in 1999/2000 for Democracy Reform.
• Walked NH again in January of 2015, 150 miles, from Dixville Notch to Concord (NH’s Capitol) as part of 4 marches from different corners of NH to all meet at the Concord state Capital  in support of Democracy Reform 
• From April 2nd to April 15th, 2016, Rick walked with about 100 others as part of Democracy Spring’s 140-mile march from Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell to our Capitol in Washington D.C.  There the group was met by thousands of others to demand that Congress take immediate action to end the corruption of big money in politics and ensure free and fair elections in which every America has an equal voice.  

A refreshed look at what happens to all the waste that we generate in VT. Update on Coventry landfill future and recyclables.

https://www.facebook.com/cswdvt/

The mission of this program is to help our residents across our independent living, assisted living, and special-purpose housing communities whose goal is to not only age in place but also age in place with one of their best friends and closest family members – their pets. Allowing seniors to stay with their pets while on a fixed income, supported by studies that show folks with animal companions have higher levels of happiness and wellbeing.

Terry and Rich Berger will present on the collaboration between Barbados South Rotary and SBRC after Rich's visit this winter. They will share projects completed together and the benefits of collaboration.  We will be enabling Zoom for this meeting for our remote presenter as well as those not able to be there in person.  Here is the link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81714993155?pwd=SFqINISny7ZRH0AM5Sw0qwOgVdS36K.1

Kristin is our President Elect and will be discussing her PELS (President Elect Leadership Seminar) experience.

The Josh Pallotta Fund, Inc. is a 501(c)3, non-profit organization, created by a group of Veterans, family, and community members in memory of Joshua R. Pallotta; dedicated to supporting Veterans and Service Members.

At the Josh Pallotta Fund, we support Josh’s House, a wellness and recreation center for Vermont’s service members. We hope to combine local and national resources, emergency services, and research to provide Veterans the resiliency, transition and reintegration tools to help them sustain or return to full and healthy lives.

We aim to be a resource for Veterans and community members through our safe spaces, in our private and community events, and by providing the best information and education available.

https://www.joshpallottafund.org/

As a director of the Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, Patrick is dedicated to advancing the visibility of minorities in the community in a positive and welcoming manner.

Signature Stories, which are stories from our lives that define who we are today. You will learn how to take you life story and craft it into a variety of useful narratives: short and long bios, About Me page for your website, and can even be the central theme of a book.

Paula Diaco is a coach and mentor that helps business professionals & thought leaders develop an author strategy & brand by writing books & book proposals that increase their visibility, credibility, and marketing reach.