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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
CELEBRATES 108 YEARS
Rotary is the world's first service club that was formed on
23 February 1905 by Paul Harris. Rotary International a worldwide
network of inspired individuals who translate their passions
into relevant social causes to change lives in communities.
This year marks its 108th
anniversary. Made up of over
34,000 Rotary clubs around the
world, Rotary International forms
a global network of business,
professional, and community
leaders who volunteer their time
and talents to serve communities
locally and around the world –
and form strong, lasting friendships
in the process.
Our motto, Service Above Self ,
exemplifies the humanitarian
spirit of the 1.2 million Rotarians
worldwide . Service efforts are
directed toward our areas of focus: • Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
• Disease prevention and treatment •
Water and sanitation • Maternal and child health • Basic education
and literacy • Economic and community development
Locally, the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club will celebrate its
64th anniversary. Chartered in 1949, the Lake Arrowhead
Rotary Club has supported hundreds of local project as as well
as international projects including polio eradication and clean
water projects. The Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club meets every
Tuesday at 12:15pm at the Woody's Boathouse Restaurant in
Lake Arrowhead Village. For more information, log on to
www.lakearrowheadrotary.net.
ART & WINE FESTIVAL
ALA's Tavern Bay Beach Club
Saturday & Sunday, June 29 th -30 th , 2013
The Lake Arrowhead Rotary Art & Wine Festival will be held on June 29-30,
2013, at ALA's beautiful Tavern Bay Beach Club on Lake Arrowhead. The twoday
festival offers attendees wine tasting, shopping, dining and entertainment.
Over 70 artists from all over Southern California will showcase their paintings,
wood sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, glass art, and mixed media art work. If
wine tasting is what you enjoy, this is your chance to sample wines from many
different regions.
According to Bob Gladwell, Art & Wine chair, “This year’s festival promises
to be a wonderful weekend for both locals and visitors alike. We are featuring
our spectacular local
artists at the Festival,
and our local restaurants
and businesses
will be offering Art &
Wine packages and
specials.”
Take the free boat
shuttle from the village
to the festival,
get a glass of wine,
buy some food from
one of the many food
vendors, and then
soak in the warm sun
on our grassy lawn.
Many returning visitors stock their wine cellars at our special festival prices.
You will find our famous Rotary Dogs, along with a variety of sandwiches,
roasted almonds, cotton candy and kettle corn and other culinary delights
available for your purchase. In addition to wine, beer, soft drinks and water are
also available. This year’s festival features “beer flights” from Hangar 24, provided
by the Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club, so you can do a beer tasting in
addition to wine tasting.
Art & Wine Festival Continued on Page 11

2 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
ROTARY CLUB
OF LAKE
ARROWHEAD
Spring is just
around the corner
and your
Lake Arrowhead
Rotary Club is
actively planning
its next great
event, the 2013
Art and Wine
Festival. Set in
the spectacular
Tavern Bay
TERRY RAYWORTH Beach Club,
President 2012-13 overlooking the
water just a few
feet away, you can take in the fresh air
and beauty that is reserved for the
mountains. Each visitor will experience
the various wares that our vendors carefully
craft for the discerning eye. How
about the WINE! If you are a consummate
connoisseur or someone who just
enjoys the great taste of a fine wine, then
our wine tasting booth is for you. Bob
Gladwell is our chairman for 2013 and
you can reach him by visiting the website,www.RotaryArt&WineFestival.com.
If
you click on this link, you’ll be directed to
Bob’s contact page, where you can send
a message to Bob’s attention.
I will look forward to seeing you there.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Rotary, an organization made up of local business
people, and retired professionals, 1.2 million
world wide, is given to make our local communities
and the world a better place to live. Our primary
objective is captured in the motto, SERVICE
ABOVE SELF. To aid each of us (Rotarians) in focusing
our time, skills, energy, and yes, money, towards
this goal, Rotary has identified five (5) Avenues of
Service. These include CLUB SERVICE, COMMU-
NITY SERVICE, INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ,
VOCATIONAL SERVICE, and the newest one
NEW GENERATIONS SERVICE.
As in years past, the Rotary Avenue of Service
known as Community Service was a busy street during
2012 for the Rotary Club
of Lake Arrowhead. This
noon Club continues to reach
out to our local communities
in providing Service Above
Self in form of energy, time,
and dollars. Those dollars
come into our Club’s
Foundation in many ways,
including that fun and wet
event, the POLAROTARY
PLUNGE, recently held at the
Lake Arrowhead Resort.
Money raised for our
Foundation from this exciting
jump in the lake is destined
for our mountain kids, and
includes programs coordinated
with the Rim of the World
School District.
Recipients of many of the
other dollars that find their way into our Foundation
and distributed by your neighbors, local Rotarians,
last year and throughout earlier years, have included
the Mountains Community Hospital Foundation,
Arrowhead Arts Association, our local Soroptimists
for Women’s Health Programs, a Dental Screening
Program conducted at our local elementary schools
targeting children from low income families, the
Lake Arrowhead Classical Ballet Company in support
of the children’s Nutcracker performances, and
the Mountain Communities Boys and Girls Club.
Others joining this list have included the Blue Jay
Jazz Festival, Rim of the World Historical Society,
the Lake Arrowhead Ranch in support of their educational
programs, the San
Bernardino County Sheriff’s
office during their Holiday
Food Drive to provide meals
for needy families, and
Operation Provider.
Rotarians in our three mountaintop
Rotary Clubs continue
to be active and energetic
community supporters as evidenced
by this partial listing.
If interested in learning more,
or becoming a part of this
contributing group, feel free
to join the Rotarians of the
Rotary Club of Lake
Arrowhead, your neighbors,
for lunch, Tuesdays, 12 noon,
at Woody’s Boathouse in the
Lake Arrowhead Village.
LAKE ARROWHEAD ROTARY CLUB 2012-2013 OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Terry Rayworth - President (2012-2013)
Keith Douglas - Immediate Past President
Terry Ebert - President Elect (2013-2014)
Bob Gladwell - President Designee (2014-2015)
Jamie Zinn - Treasurer, Secretary,
President Nominee
Angela Yap - Director
Aylene Popka - Director
Dave Roughton - Director
Harry Sherman - Director
Jack Winsten - Director
Kathy O'Fallon - Director
Randy Buecheler - Director
Rick Ray - Director
Sheila Ben-Hur - Director
Bob Gladwell - Art & Wine Chair
Pat Rains - PolaRotary Plunge Chair
Rick Ray - Membership Chair
Jamie Zinn - Service Projects Chair
Aylene Popka - Youth & Vocational Chair
Terry Ebert - International Service
Dave Roughton - Community Service
Terry Ebert - Foundation Chair
Angela Yap - Public Relations Chair
Randy Buecheler - Program Chair
Kathy O'Fallon - Club Administration
Richard Montez - Fine Master
Jack Winsten - Emergency Preparedness Chair
Hugh Bialecki - Music Competition Chair
Bob Wirtenberger - Blood Drive Chair
Lon LeBlanc - Webmaster
Sherwin Grossman - Club Roster

WHAT IS NEW IN ROTARY
Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 • 3
DISTRICT 5330 FOR 2013-14
By Joseph Ramos III, Governor 2013-14, Rotary District 5330
This is an exciting time to be a Rotarian in our District. Our District
5330 includes not only the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead and the other
three Rotary clubs from Crestline to Big Bear, but also the 59 total clubs
with over 2100 members in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Each
club can be described as consisting of ethical business leaders doing community
service on a global scale.
Our new Rotary
International theme
for 2013-14 is
“Engage Rotary,
Change Lives.”
Members join
Rotary to do meaningful
service in their
community and to
make an impact to
the world. So it also
goes that the job is
not done when we
bring in a new member
but when that
new member is engaged in Rotary, inspired by Rotary and uses the power
of Rotary service to change lives.
ERADICATING POLIO IN 2014
Next year Rotary International (RI) will be writing its last pages in eradicating
polio from the face of the earth, and beginning a new chapter as
we roll out our Future Vision Plan.
Yes, RI President Elect Ron Burton predicted at his International Assembly
of District Governor Elects in San Diego on January 15 that after 26 years of
Rotary commitment to eradicating Polio he stated that “I stand in front of the
class of District Governors that will finish the job.” There are only three countries
left with the endemic strain of Polio - Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.
And the number of cases in the world has dropped from 1300 in 2010, to 650
in 2011, to 222 in 2012 and so far only one in 2013.
MARCH TO END POLIO
In July, when the new Rotary year begins you will be hearing more of
our District 5330 partnering with adjacent District 5300 in a campaign
called “March to End Polio.” This fundraiser will be asking our local Rotary
Clubs and communities in and around the Inland Empire to participate in
a walk-a-thon to raise awareness and funds for our final push to end polio
and prevent its reoccurrence.
This will be held October 19-27 during Polio Awareness month
throughout our local communities and schools and will include not only our
Rotary Clubs but also Rotary‘s school-wide service clubs Earlyact (ages 5-
13), Interact (ages 12-18), and Rotaract (ages 18-30) to walk in their school
and communities. The Little League Baseball Western Regional
Headquarters in San Bernardino donated their baseball stadium to be the
site of a final walk and Olympic torch type ceremony on October 26-27.
The Regional Director Jim Gerstenslager has a family member who is a
polio survivor and wanted to do his part by donating the baseball field to
Rotary for the entire weekend.
FUTURE VISION PLAN
The Future Vision Plan is a new grant system where the Rotary Foundation
takes everything wonderful about Rotary and makes it bigger and more sustainable
in addressing the needs of the community being served. All the various
types of grants, scholarship programs, youth and group study exchanges
are now simplified to two types of grants - larger ($30,000 minimum) Global
Grants and smaller (under $30,000) District Grants.
The Future Vision Plan will be responding to six areas of focus as organizational
priorities to include A.) Peace and conflict prevention/resolution,
B.) Disease prevention and treatment, C.) Water and sanitation, D.)
Maternal and child health, E.) Basic education and literacy, and F.)
Economic and community development. The Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club
is involved in programs affecting all these areas of focus in both international
and community programs
GLOBAL GRANTS
Global grants enable matching RI World Funds for District and Club
projects. We can essentially double the amount of money our district and
clubs donate to projects. Now all the various types of grant categories are
combined, this includes scholarships, Vocational Training Team exchanges,
and of course projects. There will be more flexibility for Rotarians to participate
with non-Rotarians in Vocational Training Team grants designed to
provide services to other countries having a need in one of the six areas of
focus. Scholarships are essentially doubled in value when it fits in an area
of focus. Also a new category of country exchanges called “New
Generation Service Exchange” for those 21-30 young adults begins July 1.
They will participate in a service project, an internship or vocational training.
Rotary’s projects will be bigger and designed so that the benefiting
country can operate and maintain the project well after the Rotarians leave.
Under the “Disease prevention and treatment” area of focus, for example,
our Lake
Arrowhead Rotary
Club recently contributed
to a District
developed program
to combat Severe
Acute Malnutrition
(SAM) for 2012-13
and again for 2013-
14. SAM is inadequate
intake of food,
leading to critical illness
and death, most
What is New in Rotary Continued on Page 14

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RIM HIGH INTERACT
ACTIVE IN
FUND-RAISING
Rim of the World High School Interact Club participated in delivering
Yellow Books to mountain residents in all communities from Arrowbear to
Crestline. This is their biggest fundraiser. Interact "shared the wealth" by asking
other Rim High clubs to participate in this fundraising project including
Rim Mountain Bike Club, National Honor Society and a few others. Yellow
Book paid Mike And Carol Chilcoat's business to get the books delivered,
and in turn the Chilcoats made a donation to Interact for the work they did.
Left to right: Eric Dahlquest, Norman Li, Karen Chilcoat, Rosie Trenholm, Lizzie
Trenholm and Rim High Interact advisor Connie Rigney.
ROTARY SUPPORTS
YOUTH LITERACY
For 18 years, Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead has donated books
to elementary school libraries. Currently, the club spends $2000 annually
on books worth twice that for Lake Arrowhead and Grandview
Elementary Schools. Members hold a regular club meeting at each
school and read one of the new books to classrooms. Teachers receive
a brief description of each new book so they can determine which
books might fit into the curriculum. More than 3000 hard cover books
have been donated over nearly two decades.
Instead of gifts to speakers at club meetings, books are presented
to school libraries in the name of the speaker. Bookplates with
Rotary’s The Four-Way Test are put into each book. After speakers
write an inspirational comment about reading in the book, the books
are given to district schools.
Several years ago, with help from a Rotary District 5330 grant, the
Lake Arrowhead club spent $7000 on books for Mountain High School
and The Academy. Those donated books increased leisure reading
enjoyment so much at Mountain High School that Lake Arrowhead
Rotary continues buy new books each year to keep Mountain High
School’s collection updated.
Grandview Elementary School asked for help in motivating and
rewarding parents who attend school-based adult literacy workshops.
Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead responded by donating approximately
600 children’s literature books to reward parents for making the
time, and sometimes mustering the courage, to attend training sessions
and special literacy events.
With other mountain Rotary clubs and Soroptimists, Rotary Club of
Lake Arrowhead bought dictionaries for all third graders and thesauruses
for all fifth graders in Rim of the World School District. These
resources now belong to the students and are sure to help them comprehend
their reading and increase their writing skills throughout their
education and beyond.
WHY I JOINED ROTARY
By Rick Ray, Membership Chair
You don't have to be a social scientist to be aware of the multitudes
who are ill housed, ill fed, idle or underutilized, which is perhaps the cruelest
burden of all. Hope comes to these people from various directions.
Any list of organizations that exist to help others must have Rotary
near its top. It is the world's oldest, biggest and certainly most dedicated
charitable organization. Consider Rotary's creed—"Service Above Self"—
and the fact that some 1,200,000 members are devoted to just that. Our
club, the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, is involved in local community,
regional, national and international activities; in doing this we reflect the
actions of Rotary chapters everywhere.
I first joined Rotary knowing almost nothing of the organization, but
wanting to be part of the community and meet people. Within several
weeks I realized what a wonderful decision I had made. The reach and generosity
of our chapter astounded me—a remarkable group of really nice
people doing really nice and supportive things, in most cases for people
and groups they did not know. It was all judged by need and limited only
by our ability to help. So I became a convert and remain deeply enthusiastic
and moved by the way the organization works.
To my delight I was elected to the board and subsequently
Membership Chair. It is the dream of all sales people; I get to sell a product
I profoundly believe in, which is really as good as I think it is.
I never was a "joiner" and you don't have to be one to be a Rotarian.
All you have to do is want to help and to care and be sensitive to all those
that need help. I would be happy to speak to any reader who would like
to know more.

Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 • 5
ROTARY BUILDS YOUTH LEADERS
Rotarians worldwide are committed to helping others learn the value
of following ethical principles in business and personal lives. One way they
reach out to youth with this message is through leadership conferences
fully funded by Rotary clubs.
RYLA
Seventeen local high school juniors will head to Rotary Youth
Leadership Awards (RYLA) three day conference April 12-14, joining 330
other students from all over Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Originated by Rotary International in 1971, RYLAs are designed to help
young adults develop skills needed to be leaders in their communities,
careers, and everyday life. RYLA programs are found all over the world. In
Switzerland, Swaziland, or Southern California, all RYLA programs share
the following objectives:
• To demonstrate further Rotary respect and concern for youth
• To encourage and assist selected youth leaders and potential leaders
in responsible, ethical, and effective voluntary youth leadership by
providing them with training
• To encourage continued and stronger leadership of youth by youth
• To publicly recognize the high qualities of many young people who
serve their communities as youth leaders
Rotary clubs pay all expenses for this potentially life-changing experience.
This year, Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead and Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club
send six students each and Crestline – Lake Gregory Club will sponsor four teens.
PRYDE
Local seventh graders also have a chance to develop leadership skills
through Rotary District 5330’s weekend Personal Rotary Youth
Development Experience (PRYDE). Following in the footsteps of enormously
successful RYLA, PRYDE’s main goals are to build leadership skills
and a commitment to service, but the focus is on leading oneself rather
than leading others.
PRYDE participants work together to learn skills that will lead to individual
success such as
• Developing the courage to step out of their comfort zones to take
healthy risks without worrying how other teens might judge them
• Resisting peer pressure
• Appreciating themselves and others for their inner strengths rather
than their outer appearance
• Setting personal goals and creating ethical steps to reach those goals
Almost 200 12-year-olds from Indio to Fontana and Temecula to Big Bear
will attend this year’s PRYDE May 4-5. Local Rotary clubs will sponsor 19
youth. Like RYLA, trained Rotarians facilitate small discussion groups to
help these preteens apply skills they learn to their own lives as high school
mentors run many of the activities. Most participants leave PRYDE exhausted
but with heightened confidence, sense of purpose, and personal commitment
to serve others.
ROTARY COMMITMENT TO VOCATIONAL SERVICE
One of the first areas of service established in Rotary was service
through one’s business or profession. Rotarians are expected to use their
unique skills to benefit people and organizations in their communities.
Vocational service also requires ethical practices in business and personal
relationships as guided by principles in Rotary’s The Four-Way Test.
Any project that prepares youth and adults for careers, guides them
to behave ethically, or recognizes individuals and organizations for vocational
excellence and upstanding character fits into the Vocational
Service arena.
Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead kicks off its focus on vocational service
by recognizing Rim of the World Unified School District’s new teachers and
administrators with an invitation to lunch and a “Welcome New Teacher”
goody bag of items donated by local Rotarians and businesses. Other
annual vocational service project descriptions can be found in separate
articles in this special publication: RYLA and PRYDE leadership training,
multiple literacy projects, and scholarships to help local graduates continue
education beyond high school.
Rotarians in Lake Arrowhead club also Participate in Rotarians-At-Work
Day, a time when Rotarians take a break from their normal jobs and donate
a day to community improvement projects. Since Rebuilding Together Day
falls during that time, Rotarians will again volunteer at the “Rebuilding”
home we sponsor.
With many Rotary clubs around the country, we encourage high school
students to develop public speaking skills and think about ethical issues by
holding Four-Way Test Speech Contests. Selecting any topic of their
choice, students apply The Four-Way Test to it to create a 5 – 8 minute
speech presented to Rotarians. Participants win monetary awards and have
a chance to move on to regional rounds of competition. Interested students
can contact Rim High teacher Amanda Bates, Rim High’s debate
coach Julie Scorziell, or Rotarian Aylene Popka for details on next month’s
club competitions.

6 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013
ON THE ROAD TO PEACE AND
GOOD ROLE MODELS
Story and Photo by Mary-Justine Lanyon
What if more people in the world incorporated Rotary’s Four-Way Test
into their lives? What effect would that have on world peace, dealing with
cancer, how we stay physically active, illiteracy and choosing role models?
That was the question posed by the five students who participated in the
Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club’s Four-Way Test speech contest last spring.
The students’ task was to weave the Rotary Four-Way Test into their
speeches. The four tenets are:
• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Sophomore Megan Bradley sees a world where people of different cultures
live side by side peacefully.
“If every nation adopts the Rotary Four-Way Test,” she said, “we will
succeed in having a peaceful world.”
Megan urged Rotary International to “step up” and play a more active
role in achieving world peace as it has done in eradicating polio.
Rotarian Aylene Popka congratulated the five participants in the Lake Arrowhead
Rotary Club’s Four-Way Test speech contest: Megan Bradley, Jordan Klein, Karen
Bogart, Dalma Felenyi and Marie Potthoff.
In talking about dealing with cancer, sophomore Jordan Klein noted
she has a friend with brain cancer. “It made me curious about what I could
do for her,” Jordan said.
She addressed prevention and the fairness of getting that information
out to more people. And, she said, it’s possible to build goodwill and better
friendship by talking to the person with cancer.
“It’s OK to touch them, to listen to their questions,” Jordan said.
It is true, sophomore Dalma Felenyi said, that staying physically active
through sports is the best way to stay healthy. Playing a sport with your
friend, she noted, “is more fun than trying to stick to a diet.”
Being part of a team makes you more responsible, Dalma said. “You
get your homework done so you have time for practice.” And even if you
aren’t good at the sport at first, “you will get better.”
Being part of a team also helps you learn how to get along with people,
Dalma said. “Join a team, make new friends.”
“Illiteracy is detrimental to the human race as a whole,” said junior
Karen Bogart. A lack of education, she noted, is “linked to poverty, illness
and gender inequity” and contributes to the spread of disease.
“Education is the key in stopping the spread of HIV AIDS,” Karen said.
It was sophomore Marie Potthoff whom the judges felt best applied
the Four-Way Test in her speech in which she talked about role models.
So many of those role models, she said, are too perfect. “If you want
to live up to them, it’s so daunting.”
How many of you, she asked, have felt inferior the first time you tried to
live up to your role model? “I make mistakes every day and that’s the truth.
“You shouldn’t strive for perfection; it’s too easy to get discouraged.”
Looking out at the group of assembled Rotarians, Marie said, “We look
to you to be our perfectly imperfect role models.”

Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 • 7
GO JUMP IN THE LAKE
Each February for the past five years an increasing number of community
“leaders” has gathered at the beach of the Lake Arrowhead Resort
and Spa to salute winter in a unique mountain way - by jumping into the
40° water of Lake Arrowhead! This annual event, the PolaRotary Bear
Plunge, brings all of the western San Bernardino mountain communities
together in a one-of-a-kind way to raise money for charities of the jumper’s
choice and to just plain have fun.
The PolaRotary Bear
Plunge is the brainchild of
Dr. Patrick Rains who is
Past President of the
Rotary Club of Lake
Arrowhead and (along
with wife Jo Bonita) is a
former Citizen of the Year.
Pat swears he was not on
artificial stimulants when
he hatched this idea. Jo
Bonita thought the concept
was “crazy.”
Undaunted, and encouraged
by Butch Bauman
who said he’d participate
if Pat put the event
together, Pat got the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead to provide the volunteers,
the Resort to donate the venue and the rest, as they say, is history.
The plunge is the L.A. Rotary Club’s second biggest fund raiser
(after the Art and Wine Festival) and the area’s biggest winter charity
money maker.
The plunge is scheduled precisely in the middle of winter and is
wedged between two federal holidays. Its timing is an effort to help the
local economy in an otherwise soft period. There is no truth to the rumor
that he wanted to piggy-back the plunge with Ground Hog Day due to the
similarity in the level of
“seriousness” with
which the respective
participants take the
occasions.
On Wednesday,
January 30 on the NBC
Channel 4 news,
weatherman Fritz
Coleman hyped this
plunge in his weather
report. He did the
same thing in each of
the past two years.
What terrific publicity
for this event and the
mountain!
Jumper pledges
are split 50/50 up to
$1,000 between the
Lake Arrowhead Rotary
Steve Caloca, Dylan Matteson, Ashley Morris from the
UCLA Conference Center jumping for Mountain Bruins.
Foundation and the jumper’s charity of choice; all moneys raised over
$1000 by an individual jumper go to the jumper’s designated charity.
As the table below shows, the plunge has raised about $85,000 for
nearly three dozen charities since its inception in 2009.
Year # Jumpers $ Raised # Charities Weather
2009 20 $11,000 + 5 snow
2010 25 $11,000 + 6 rain
2011 35 $12,000 + 10 mild
2012 57 $24,000 + 19 perfect
2013 50 $21,000 +* 20 residual snow
* Preliminary
Jumpers have included Assemblyman
Tim Donnelly (three years), former
Supervisor Neil Derry (twice), Citizens of
the Year, school principals, Resort and
Conference Center General Managers,
service club Presidents, hospital officials,
ALA board members and Chamber of
Commerce officials. Participation ages
range from 18 to 83.
Patrick Rains is one of two people
(Hugh Bialecki is the other) who have
jumped in all five plunges. Jo Bonita Rains
(who, remember, thought this whole idea
was “crazy”) is one of a half dozen to have
jumped four times.
For more information visit:
www.PolaRotaryBearPlunge.com
Chris Cline from Lake Arrowhead
Resort jumping for Lake
Arrowhead Rotary.

8 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013
OPEN WIDE AND SAY AHH
Story and Photos by Mary-Justine Lanyon
It was fitting that the Rotary-sponsored dental screenings were held at
the mountain’s four elementary schools last February as February was
National Children’s Dental Health month.
Rotarian Dr. Hugh Bialecki was joined by fellow dentists Matt Nisco and
Mike Miller, as well as dental hygienists from their offices, as they checked
the teeth of the children who had returned their permission slips.
At Grandview Elementary, hygienists Wyndi Holzer and Robyn
Stevenson from Dr. Bialecki’s office checked students from the kindergarten,
4th and 5th grades.
As they counted the children’s teeth and looked for any decay or other
problems, they had their assistants—Lupita Berry and Brianne Chavez—
make notes on the students’ forms. Volunteers Lori Semeniuk and Cheryl
Robinson called the students up for their screenings.
While they did not detect any emergency situations, there were a number of
students with deep decay, something Holzer said can be deemed child abuse.
The hygienists asked the children to take the forms homes to their parents
or guardians and recommended dental services that are available
both on and off the hill.
When Holzer asked one boy is he had been brushing his teeth twice a
day, the answer was “yes.”
“You’re doing a good job,” she told him. Berry marked off “healthy
mouth” for that student.
Wyndi Holzer (left) checks Kaelib’s teeth, while Robyn Stevenson takes a look at Corina’s.
In general, Holzer and Stevenson agreed, the oral health of the students
they saw at Grandview was average. According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, “tooth decay affects children in the U.S.
more than any other chronic infectious disease.
“Untreated tooth decay causes pain and infections that may lead to
problems, such as eating, speaking, playing and learning.” (www.cdc.gov)
Holzer agreed with the CDC’s assessment. “Decay affects nutrition,”
she said. “It’s hard for the children to chew.”
She cautioned more than one student to be careful about the snacks they
eat. The students are surprised, she said, to learn that chips can cause cavities.
Dr. Bialecki was at Valley of Enchantment Elementary with a number of
Rotarian helpers: Jim DeLapp, Crestline-Lake Gregory Rotary Club vocational
chair; Carole DeLapp; Rotarian Mick Hill; Secretary Leslie Dodge
Taylor; and President Bill Mellinger.
At Lake Arrowhead Elementary, Matt Nisco, DDS, oversaw the screenings,
while retired dentist Mike Miller checked the students’ teeth at
Charles Hoffman Elementary.
“This is a great service Rotary and the dentists are offering,” Holzer said.
This year's event will take place on Tuesday, February 26 at 6:30pm at
the Rim High School Performing Arts Theater.

By Mary-Justine Lanyon
STUDENT
MUSICIANS SHINE
AT COMPETITION
The eight judges had their work cut out
for them as 23 students competed in the
annual Rotary music competition last year.
This 2012 event, held in the Performing
Arts Center at Rim High School, was judged
by Dr. Hugh Bialecki, Dr. Kathy O’Fallon,
John Leverett, Beth Miller, Rick Miller, Karen
Prisant-Ellis, Barbara Samuels and Karen
Tomlinson.
The eight instrumentalists performed on
tenor saxophone, flute, viola, guitar, violin
and cello. Their pieces ranged from
“Autumn Leaves,” a French song with music
by Joseph Kosma, to classical pieces by
Bach and Mozart.
First place was awarded to cellist Presley
Schlarb, who played Mark Summers’ Julio-
O. Flutist Caitlin Brady, playing Paul Genin’s
“Carnaval de Venise,” won second place.
And cellist Andrew Martin, playing
“Tarantella, Op. 23” by W.H. Squire, took
third place in the instrumentalist category.
Other instrumental competitors were Nick
Maltas (tenor saxophone), Brittany Wright
(flute), Charlotte Papp (viola), Gary Guth (guitar)
and Margaret Macall Potter (violin).
Twelve vocalists followed, singing off-
Broadway, Broadway and popular tunes.
Jeannine Robertson, singing “Your
Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime, was awarded
first place. Second place went to Rosie
McDonald for her performance of “Not for
the Life of Me” from Thoroughly Modern
PHOTO BY JAYSON BURKE/Staff
Presley Schlarb was the first-place instrumentalist. Note how he is
playing some of his music without a bow.
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Millie. And third place went to Emily Jones, who sang “I’m Not Afraid of
Anything” from Songs for a New World.
The other nine vocalist competitors were Ananda Foerch, Summer
Foerch, Rebecca Landrum, Tara Rothwill, Lexi Ulmer, Reanne Lynn Valdez,
Nina Gaw, Jonathan Williams and Nick Orlando.
The final three performers of the evening were the pianists. Jason
Burnell, who had captured first place last year, was once again awarded
first. He performed the third movement of Beethoven’s “Pathetique”
sonata. Second-place winner Karen Bogart played Franz Shubert’s
“Impromptu No. 2 in A flat major.” And Blake Scullin, who won third place,
played Mozart’s “Turkish March.”
The first-place winners in each category were awarded $100; second
place, $75; and third place, $50.
This year’s mountain competition was
the largest Rudy Westervelt, past president
of the Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club, can
remember. “We also had the largest crowd
in attendance,” he said, adding “the venue
was perfect.”
Westervelt explained to the audience
all that Rotary does for the young people on
the mountain, from sponsoring RYLA (Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards), a camp for high
school juniors, and PRYDE (Personal Rotary
Youth Development), a camp for 7thgraders;
literacy programs; student
exchange programs; the Four-Way Test
speech contest; Interact clubs at Rim High
and MPH Intermediate School; and scholarships
to graduating seniors.
As the audience arrived at the PAC,
they were entertained by a strings chamber
ensemble made up of Cassie Donohue,
Ginny Winters and Sydney Aaron on violin
and Gabriella Dionnes on cello. The quartet
also played during the two intermissions.
In addition to thanking the judges,
Westervelt expressed special thanks for
Chuck and Megan Marra, of the Lake
Arrowhead Repertory Theatre Company,
and Rim Drama for handling the sound,
backup music and microphones on stage.
Jeannine Robertson, Rosie McDonald
and Jason Burnell represented the mountain
Rotary clubs at the District 5330 competitions.
For information on 2013 music competition,
log on to www.lakearrowhead
rotary.net.

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CHILDREN’S HEALTH INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
A Rotary District 5330 group
Can you imagine? When your child suckles milk it bubbles
out through its nose. IF your child lives and grows older it
can’t speak properly, is shunned by all as a “devil’s spawn.”
Never will your child have a normal life.
That is what faces the parents of children with Cleft Lip and
Cleft Palate. This malady is not as prevalent in the United
States due to proper pre-natal nutrition, but it is rampant in
third world nations.
Children’s Health International Projects (CHIPs) supports
children with this and other debilitating ailments
around the world.
CHIPs is a group of local District 5330 Rotarians, some of
whom live here in our mountains.
CHIPs helps provide, dental care, surgeries, and any medical
needs that these children must have. CHIPs donates food
for lunches at various clinics in Mexico and South & Central
America. People who may have travelled days to bring their
children to a clinic often sacrifice themselves to attend. CHIPs
donates baby quilts to those babies coming out of surgery.
CHIPs provides money for needed medical/dental equipment
including things as a portable X-ray machine
Once every calendar quarter a group of our Rotarians goes
to Mexico to help with a Dental Clinic and Cleft surgeries. We
also provide lunches for the families of those children for both
days of the clinic.
Here are some photos of some our members and successes.

DELIVERING
HELP SOUTH OF
THE BORDER
Rotarians Jeanne and Joe Ramos ventured south to orphanages in
Tijuana and Ensenada last summer to deliver food, toys and supplies to
the children.
The food was packed by students at RYLA, the Rotary youth leadership
program held in April at Thousand Pines Camp. And 7th-graders
who attended PRYDE, Rotary’s Personal Rotary Youth Development
Experience, wrote letters and prepared educational material and special
gifts for the orphans.
Ramos, who will be the district governor of District 5330 for the
2013-14 term, also attended a planning meeting with his wife and others
to talk about future projects between that district and District 5340,
which includes clubs from Baja California.
—Story and photo submitted by Joe Ramos
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Joe Ramos of the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club talks with children at one of the orphanages
in Mexico where he and his wife, Jeanne, delivered food, toys and supplies.
...Art & Wine Festival Continued from Page 1 As a non-profit service
organization, all proceeds
raised at the Art &
Wine Festival are
returned to local charity
groups, scholarships for
local youth, many community
service projects
as well as international
service projects including
providing clean
water and vocational
assistance throughout
the world.
General admission tickets
are just $5; all ALA
members with valid ALA
beach club cards are
admitted free of charge to the festival (wine glass and wine tastings are purchased
separately).
VIP Patio admission is just
$50 which includes a special
VIP wine glass, specialized
wine tasting from premium
vintners (who are on site to
discuss their wines), appetizers
specifically paired to
select wines being poured,
and entertainment.
Interested artists, food
vendors, and corporate
sponsors are encouraged to
submit your applications
early, which are available on
our website.
To purchase your Art &
Wine Festival tickets, log on
to www.LakeArrowhead
Rotary.net or www.Rotary
ArtAndWineFestival.com.

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A MESSAGE FROM TERRY EBERT,
FOUNDATION & INTERNATIONAL CHAIR
As the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead enters the club's 64th year, the
Rotary Foundation remains the center of Rotary International's effort to
promote and advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through
the alleviation of poverty, the support of education and the improvement
of health both abroad and in our community.
Since the first Rotary International Foundation Grant of $500 in 1930,
to the International Society for Crippled Children (later Easter Seals), an
organization created by Rotarian Edgar Allen, the Foundation has awarded
more than 2.9 billion dollars in grants.
One of the Foundation's major projects, Polio Plus, has been credited
with a leading role in the eradication of polio. Since beginning the project
in 1985 Rotary, with matching funds from the Gates Foundation, has contributed
more than 850 million dollars to the effort and has seen a reduction
of worldwide polio cases from 350,000 in 1985 to only 216 in 2012.
A second project started by the Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club is sewing
machines for India. This project involves providing sewing machines and
training to women who would not otherwise have an income. With starting
grants from Lake Arrowhead of $15,000 and matching funds from District
5330, Rotary International and Rotarians in India, $135,000 was raised for
ongoing training and equipment and hundreds of women have achieved a
better life for themselves and their families.
The Rotary Foundation also supports many local projects including but
not limited to dental screening, Mountains Community Hospital, Rotary
Centennial Park, Wildhaven Ranch Rotary Educational Center, Rim High
and MPH Challenge Day, Rim Historical Society, Rim Family Services,
Community Emergency Response Team, Rebuilding Together, Rim High
Scholarships, Boy Scout projects, Arrowhead Arts Association
Scholarships, Blue Jay Jazz Festival music scholarship, Blue Star Moms,
Touch of Homes, and Boys & Girls Club.
The Rotary Foundation is supported by the club's fund raisers and by
individual members, with 100% of Lake Arrowhead Rotarians participating.
Rotarians who reach $1000 of giving are recognized as Paul Harris Fellows.
Many of our members are multiple Paul Harris fellows, as denoted with a
*. The following Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club members have earned their
Paul Harris Fellows:
Tom Bachman*
Spencer Beeman*
Sheila Ben-Hur
Hugh Bialecki*
Steven Boswell
Randy Buechler
Kieth Burkhart*
Keith Douglas*
Ronald Doutt*
Bruce Field*
Robert Geer*
Bob Gladwell*
Sherwin Grossman*
Clark Hahne
Rik Klein
Lon LeBlanc*
John Lorenz*
Norton Marks
Sharon McCormick
Stacey McKay
Jane McNairn
Richard Montes*
Kathy O'Fallon*
Debra Parkinson
Chuck Peters*
Aylene Popka*
Duane Quinn*
Patrick Rains*
Joseph Ramos*
Rick Ray
Terry Rayworth
Dave Roughton*
Harry Sherman*
Mary Snaer*
Lyle Stotelmyer*
Chris Trulove
Steve Watt
Andrea Willerth*
Donald Willerth*
Jack Winsten*
Robert Wirtenberger*
Angela Yap*
Jamie Zinn*
ROTARY REWARDS DESERVING GRADS
Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead has a long history of awarding scholarships
to local graduates, giving $18,550 in 2012, $15,800 in 2011, $15,200
in 2010, $15,100 in 2009, $15,250 in 2008, and another $11,350 awarded
in 2007. We enjoy recognizing mountain community graduates for their
accomplishments and giving them a boost as they continue their education.
Applicants for most Lake Arrowhead Rotary scholarships must write an
essay on Rotary’s The Four-Way Test applied to their own lives. Other seniors
are asked to describe how they would provide community service
through their future profession or business. A few recipients, including
those receiving the Mountain High School Incentive Grant and the Fine
Arts Scholarship, are chosen by school faculty. We also give a special scholarship
to a student who has actively given service to Rim High and our
communities through Rotary-sponsored Interact Club.
Usually, scholarships range from $500 to $1500, but Lake Arrowhead
Rotary also recognizes each student who earns a cumulative grade point
average of 4.0 or better with a personal check for $100. In 2012, 15 dedicated
students received those checks. This amount won’t buy much in
today’s economy, but it’s a symbol of their excellence. We hope they use
it to celebrate their success.
Although most scholarship recipients are college bound, some plan to
further their education at technological or vocational schools. One scholarship,
the MPH Incentive Grant, identifies eighth grade students who
experience conditions that may interfere with graduation, and then
rewards them when they earn their diplomas.

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GOVERNOR
HONORS
ROTARIANS
District 5330 Governor Jean Easum visited the Lake
Arrowhead Rotary Club recently at Woody's Boathouse
in Lake Arrowhead Village, where the Lake Arrowhead
Rotary Club meets every Tuesday at 12:15 p.m.
Governor Easum shared her district goals for 2012-13,
and she also gave special recognition to three club
board members/chairs for their outstanding service:
Aylene Popka, Vocational & Youth Services; Angela Yap,
Public Relations; and Jamie Zinn, Foundation and
International Services.
PHOTO BY LON LEBLANC
ABOUT INTERACT
Interact is Rotary International’s service club for
young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored
by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support
and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting.
Locally, the Rim High Interact Club is supported
by all three local Rotary clubs.
Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community
service projects, one of which furthers international
understanding and goodwill. Through these
efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with
local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of
• Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
• Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
• Understanding the value of individual responsibility
and hard work
• Advancing international understanding and goodwill
As one of the most significant and fastest-growing
programs of Rotary service, with more than 10,700 clubs
in 109 countries and geographical areas, Interact has
become a worldwide phenomenon. Almost 200,000
young people are involved in Interact.
Pictured above are Rim High School Interact members bagging food staples for Seniors and decorating
the community room at Grandview Towers as well as Seniors enjoying the lunch provided by Lake
Arrowhead Rotary and served by the Interact Club. Also pictured (bottom right) are the Interact Club
members and Rotarian advisors, Doreen Trenholm and Jack Winsten.

14 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013
...What is New in Rotary Continued from Page 3
commonly occurring between the ages of 1 and 3. SAM is a critical, global
health problem where more children die of SAM each year than HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, and malaria combined. The program is called Project Peanut
Butter led by the District’s Rotary Club of Palm Spring Sunup with a specially
developed formula added to peanut butter. The 2012-13 funds go towards
saving children in Malawi and the 2013-14 funds go towards saving children
in Sierra Leonne. The added benefit of this project is that it also fulfills another
area of focus “Economic and community development” by establishing an
industry in that country by growing peanuts for the peanut butter base.
Another program just being formulated in this District is a “Dual Adopt
a Village” program. Most people do not realize that funds that go towards
international projects can also come back to our local communities. This new
program being led by the Rotary Club of Palm Springs for 2013-14 attempts
to relieve a major poverty area problem in the Mecca area of Coachella
Valley in our District. This Global Grant project addresses problems in all six
areas of focus. It is being written so that Mexico’s District 4100 partners with
our District 5330 in a global grant whereby they adopt our “Village” in
Mecca and we adopt an equivalent poverty area in their “Village” possibly
Villa Zapata in Mexicali. As a result, local Rotarians can do an international
project in our own district and just right across the border.
DISTRICT GRANTS
Our district will continue to serve the community with projects that
meet community needs such as scholarships, vocational development programs,
programs to alleviate poverty, improve literacy, youth leadership
development programs, disaster preparedness and relief, health and medical
support projects, and various community enhancement projects. The
big difference next year is that expenditure of Rotary Foundation Funds is
now delegated down to the club level where they have more control of the
funds they contributed to the Rotary Foundation.
Our “Million Meals” campaign last year contributed enough food to
feed 750,000 meals for those in need in our District. Next year the program
is continuing but reorganized so that it can effectively raise well over
one million meals for our local communities.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Rotary is the leading
organization in providing
scholarships. Currently
District 5330 has
Ambassadorial Scholars.
Marko Perko III sponsored
by RC Lake Arrowhead Mt
Sunrise is at the University of
Edinburgh in the United
Kingdom studying
International Relations.
Sarah Ally Fiske Phillips
sponsored by RC Redlands
is also an International
Relations graduate student
at Chapman in Orange
Rim High senior Morgan Lester (center) with New
Zealand host parents Bob & Sue Benzie (left), and
parents Ruth and Mark Lester.
County. For 2013/14 District 5330 awarded two scholarships on Feb 2: a
$30,000 graduate-level scholarship to Christopher Howell sponsored by RC
Murrietta to Andrews Univ. in St Andrews Scotland studying Peace and
Conflict Resolution. Plus a $15,000 undergraduate scholarship to Kristen
Hook sponsored by RC Jurupa Valley as a freshman to the American
University in Rome studying Intercultural Communications. A third student
Taylor Hunt is an alternate for a probable third $15,000 scholarship. Contact
Betty Folsom 951-623-5965 for more information.
We are now also recruiting for one of 110 Rotary Peace Fellowships
which have a value of over $110,000 for our next generation peace leaders.
This program gives master’s degrees or professional development certificates
in peace and conflict resolution. Contact Karen Bradford 951-685-
8614 for more information.
Finally, also beginning July 1 our District Public Image Committee is
planning on a new, more dynamic website and public image campaign
where the public can identify needs in their communities and better
observe the status of District Rotary projects being accomplished throughout
the District and the world.
As you see, Rotary is entering a very exciting new era. If you want to
join and be part of this experience contact your local Rotary Club. You can
visit our District website at www.Rotary5330.net and my webpage by
selecting “District” then “Governor Elect.”

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