Val Curtis of ARC Wayne spoke to us during our last meeting.
Opening and Invocation led by Sue Colacino
Announcements:
- Dave Hannan - Service Above Self Dinner is Thursday, 10/24, $32.00/person. We only have 80 seats available, so please make your reservation ASAP.
- Service Above Self nominations are due by Thursday, 10/3
- District Foundation Brunch is $50.00 per person, at RIT Conference Center, cks made payable to Newark Rotary Foundation. Sunday, 10/27
- David Christler - please consider joining the Community Service Committee.
- Gary Reilly - Camp ONSEYAWA - Annual Dinner on Friday, 11/6 at Club 86 in Geneva. Reservations are due by 10/24.
- Raffle tickets will be on sale to benefit Camp ONSEYAWA over the next several weeks.
- Camp ONSEYAWA Fall Clean Up: Oct 19th at 10:00am
- Russ Harris: Newark Rotary will be hosting an exchange student for the 2025/2026 year. We will need Host Families
- Linda Werts - Fiddlers Concert on Sun, Sept 29th at the United Church in Canandaigua to benefit Called to Care, Canandaigua
Happy Moments:
- Jim Weiler is sad that his Cleveland Browns lost last weekend.
- Kevin Mooney - he and Lynn just returned from a trip to Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Drove 5500 miles in 97 hours! Had a great time!
- Doug Forgue - traveled to Oregon to visit his son. Also went to Seattle to watch the Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners!
- Clay DePew - just returned from a Viking River Cruise - unfortunately came home with COVID. Reminder - if you are traveling wear a face mask!
- Norma attended Zone institute in Toronto as a Learning Leader. Reminder that there are 2 training opportunities coming up - The Rotary Leadership Institute on Oct. 19 in Victor — please see Norma if you are interested. We have funds to send 2 Rotarians.
- Marc and Ryan went to Atlantic City and competed in a triathlon. Ryan came in 84th out of 1500.
Birthdays:
Club Anniversaries: Eli Coleman, 11 years
Queen of Hearts. Dave Tyler did not pick the Queen - the pot continues to grow.
Program: Steve Hasseler introduced Val Curtis, Intake Coordinator at ARC Wayne.
Val shared that ARC Wayne provides Community, Mental Health, Vocational and Day Habilitation Services. Roosevelt Children's Center is under their umbrella. They also provide speech, physical and occupational therapy, as well as provide psychological and cognitive assessments.
Wayne ARC provides many services in our community that people are often unaware of such as holding the Wayne County contract to provide and deliver meals to seniors’ homes on behalf of the Wayne County Department of Aging and Youth. They also support a lunch program in the summer serving 120 lunches daily, Monday through Thursday for 5 consecutive weeks.
They are well known for supporting several residential homes around the county. They have converted one of the group homes in Palmyra into apartments. Wayne ARC has found the clients don’t like the model of a group home, but often need help with skills needed to live completely independent. Wayne ARC provides some staff supervision combines with technology to help assist with things like prompting residents about taking medication
There are many levels of assessments to determine which clients are good candidates for the different levels of independent living.
There are some incentives for employers like tax rebates or ARC Wayne may offer all of the supervision. They also offer “group work” which allows clients to work in teams with one supervisor. Wayne ARC is a vital organization in Wayne County who provides much needed services.
Thank you Val for sharing all that Wayne ARC does.