Saturday, March 17, 2012 HAPPY St. Patrick’s Day!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Board of Directors meeting, 5:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Rotary Meeting at the Sheraton Up-town Hotel at noon. Program: The Great Balancing Act-Les Smith Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel. Program: Women Veter-ans of N.M.-Lt. Col. Ret. USAR, Pat Gaston

THE NORTHWIND

Rotary Club of Albuquerque Del Norte March 2, 2012

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel. Program: Health Care Coalition-Mike Nuñez March 8-10, 2012 President-Elect Training Seminar, (P.E.T.S.) At the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North Hotel. Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Board of Directors reports due. Email them to Joanna and Bill Michael Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Rotary Meeting: noon at the Shera-ton Uptown Hotel. Program: Com-puter Security, Terry Boulanger

How To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

* Wear something green. The official color of St. Patrick was actually blue, but the holiday has come to represent the Irish people at large. It is common to wear one or more green pieces of clothing (including ties, socks and shoes), but some settle for a green ribbon or hat. Most stores get into the spirit (and the sales) around this time, so you can usually find green sham-rock pins, mugs and other wearable para-phernalia. According to Sean Kelly and Rose-mary Rogers in How to be Irish (Even If You Already Are), there is a reference by the British as early as 1726 about

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Speaker—Mike Nuñez Our program at the meeting of the Rotary Club of Albuquerque Del Norte will be Health Care Coalition by guest speaker, Mike Nunez. Mr.Nuñez, is the Executive Director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Alliance. He has been the Executive Director of NMHIA since 2009 and is responsible for the organization’s strategic direction, day-to-day operations, business development, financial oversight, and leadership of external constituencies. He has over 25 years of experience in health care and third party administrative services management positions. Mike served as a senior employee benefit consultant to Mercer Health and Benefits for 15 years and was responsible for development of long term bene-fit strategies and contribution modeling for larger New Mexico public sector em-ployers. For eight years, he was the Vice President of two regional third party ad-ministration companies who provided eligibility, premium collection, and financial accounting services for the New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority and the New

March, 2012 Vol. 27, Issue 36

IN THIS ISSUE

Del Norte News District 5520 News

Programs

March Calendar Meetings, Events, Anniversaries & Birthdays

February Perfect Attendance Report

A Peek at April

Health Care Coalition story cont. on pg.3 Cont. on pg. 2

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ARE YOU LIVING BY THE

4-WAY TEST?

Is it the Truth?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Is it BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

District 5520 Newsletter at the link

below: http://rotary5520.org/

newsletter/

Do You Have A Meeting

Make-Up? Committee chair and

members, please send to the Rotary

office your commit-tee meeting atten-dance or give them

to Joanna at our regular meeting

ASAP so it will help

our clubs monthly attendance figures reported to District,

thanks.

Rotary International www.rotary.org

President….…....Kalyan Banerjee

District 5520 www.rotary5520.org

Governor……..........Bobby Wallace Lt. Governor………..Bill Rothweiler Asst. Governor……...John Gordon

Exec. Director……..Loren Kuehne

Rotary Club of Albuquerque Del Norte

www.rotarydelnorte.org

Club Officers President………..……..Bill Michael President-Elect........Darcy Savage Vice President………….Gene Gaik

Secretary…….......Carolyn Vatuone Treasurer……………...Mike Eskew Past President……..John Valentine Sgt-at-Arms…………Mike Skolnick

Directors

International…………..Bob Rausch Vocational…..........Terry Boulanger New Generations………….Michael MacDonald Club Service...........Larry Strickland Commun it ySer vice. . .Maur een Anderson

Membership............Kathie Williams

Public Image…………Sonia Torres

Del Norte Foundation

President... ...........Jay Rosenblum

Members... ...Dave Anderson,

Charlie Ofelt, Lee Dunsirn, Norm

Liss, Darcy Savage, Brooks La-

Gree

Rotary Meeting Schedule Wednesdays, 12:00 noon

Sheraton Hotel Uptown

2600 Louisiana Blvd., NE

Office Information PO Box 3951

Albuquerque, NM 87190

secretary@rotarydelnorte.org

Office Hours:

9:00 am - 1:00 pm M, Tu, Th, Fr

Wednesday—Rotary Meetings

Phone: 505-344-9162

How To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Story Cont. from pg.1

“This Plant worn by the [Irish] people upon St. Patrick’s Day…when they often commit excess of liquor.” * Enjoy some Irish entertainment. Many famous actors, poets and musicians hale from the homeland. Perhaps a quiet night sipping on Bailey’s Irish Cream and listening to U2, Enya or the Irish Tenors hits the spot. * Be the Irish entertainment. “What are you doing for St. Patrick’s Day?” usually trans-lates to, “Where are you drinking for St. Patrick’s Day?” As a culture that is known to enjoy a “drop of the creature,” the idea of going out for a pint together is more a social bond-ing experience and reason to party with friends. Many pubs put green food coloring in the beer to make it somewhat official, but other Irish drinks include: Murphy’s, Guinness, Beamish, Irish whiskey, Irish coffee, and Irish cider. *Make Irish food... American style. Though Irish soda bread is sold around March 17 in most places, there is also Irish oatmeal, corned beef and cab-bage, oxtail soup and different versions of cooking the po-tato. Most bagel shops offer green bagels, but green col-ored cakes, cupcakes and cookies are also in large abun-dance at this time. Many authentic Irish recipes can be found online, but that depends on how far you want to go in your Irish food celebration. Sugary treats such as “Irish Potatoes” are made for chil-dren to take to school, but keep in mind, there are no actual potatoes in the recipe. To make, have ready 2 lbs. of pow-dered sugar, one stick of butter, 8 oz. of cream cheese, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla, 1 lb. shredded coco-nut and cinnamon. Mix all of the ingredients together (except the cinnamon) until smooth and then refrigerate for a few hours. Roll the mixture into tiny balls and then sprin-kle with cinnamon, which will give the “potatoes” their skin. *Go to a St. Patrick’s Day parade. Approximately 500,000 people attended the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, Ireland in 2006, but nearly 2 million drew in for the parade in New York City. The first green parade was held in Boston in 1737, but was followed up by the 1762 celebration in New York when Irish soldiers in the British army marched through the streets. The New York St. Patrick’s Day parade is now the largest in the world, but other cities put their own unique spin on things. *Decorate your home, classroom, workspace, and city. St. Patrick’s Day decorations consist of paper or plastic shamrock banners, leaping leprechauns with pots of gold, shades of the Irish flag (green, white and orange), or a decorative bouquet of green and white flowers. If you really want to add a personal touch to someone’s St. Patrick’s Day, send a pot of shamrocks or clover seeds. Sound overly-sentimental? It is, but the day is for fun, so relax. Have a fun holiday, complements of St. Patty!

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Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority. More re-cently Mike has served on the Senate Joint Memo-rial 1 Healthcare Workgroup responsible for legisla-tive recommendations considered in the 2011 ses-sion. Mike received his business degree from the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico. Let’s join together and invite a guest to this inter-esting meeting.

ROTARY DEL NORTE NEWS

Health Care Coalition Story Cont. from pg.1

Master Trainer, Les Smith to speak on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 At the Sheraton Uptown Hotel at noon Mr. Les Smith will expound on the

topic of “The Great Balancing Act” which represents: B elive in yourself L augh at yourself A ssume but verify N ever quit giving C are for others E xperience Life

Mr. Smith is the Vice President and Director of Project Delivery. He is a Master Trainer for Ron L. Straughan & Associates Inc. Les is a multi course instructor, cer-tified by Dale Carnegie & Associates. He has extensive experience working in both the pri-vate and government sectors and has worked with blue chip companies to design and deliver innovative training and development solutions. His ability to build strong relationships and to gain an in-depth un-derstanding of his clients’ businesses has enabled him to build enduring partnerships with his clients. In New Mexico Les has the responsibility for developing the trainer team and ensuring the highest standards in delivery for client projects. In the industry of performance improvement, he has over 16 years experience and has been recognized in the Sales managers club with Dale Carnegie Training.

Les has worked with public programs, coached individuals, organizations, associa-tions and civic groups ranging from small local groups to many of the Nation’s largest corporations. Included among them are: AC Delco, Ford, Chrysler, Boeing, Burlington In-dustries, Texaco, General Mills, Merck Phar-maceuticals, Merrill Lynch, Chugatch, Intel, Air Gas and Toshiba. Les has worked with companies in the manufacturing, finance, retail, sports, leisure, shipping, media and facilities management industries as well as numerous government agencies.

Are you interested in becoming better at everything that you do? If so, you don’t want to miss this program. See you on March 21st!

Someone you know is looking for a way to give back. Invite your friends and co-workers today to

the next Del Norte Rotary Club meeting!

February Attendance Our attendance in February was 91% . Congratulations to the following 49 Del Norte Ro-tarians who achieved 100% attendance! Ken Abbott Dave Anderson Maureen Anderson Steve Becker Terry Boulanger Fred Bryant Sally Casey Scott Chazdon Paul Christensen Joanna Douglas Kathie Williams Frank Bird Mike Eskew Gene Gaik Cheryl Strotz Kim Helm Art Humphries Bill Johnson Debbie Righter Barbara LaGree Mike Creedon Brooks LaGree Norm Liss Jeanne Malone Michael MacDonald Michael Madanick Rob Maruca Bill Michael Roy Morgan Mark Rudolph Bob Rausch Dan Regan Nick Ritz Ruth Ronan Darla Schleyer Jim Schuyler Tim Salazar Mike Skolnick Larry Strickland Sonia Torres John Wright John Valentine Donette Wagner Carol Wright Lee Dunsirn Scott Honsowetz Don Wagner Marian Bolton Ginger Hollowell

ROTARY MEETINGS

Sheraton Uptown Hotel April 4: Program & location-TBA April 10: Board reports due e-mail Joanna & Bill April 11: Program-Dr. Cheryl L. Willman, UNM Can-cer Research Center April 18: Program-TBA April 25: Program-TBA

ROTARY BOARD MEETING Tuesday, April 17: Board of Directors meeting, 5:00 p.m.at the Sheraton Hotel Uptown.

A Peek at April-2012

ROTARY DEL NORTE NEWS

Patricia (Pat) Gaston: Speaker-March 28,

2012 Pat Gaston, Lt. Col. Retired, US Army will be Del Norte Ro-tary Club’s guest speaker at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel on Wednesday, March 28th. The Lt. Col. is the President of the Women Veterans of New Mexico Organization. The mission of the organization is to provide a voice for women who

have served and those currently serving in the

United States Armed Forces. It is an advocate for

Women Veteran’s rights, issues, and benefits.

Their goals include. Providing information and sup-

port to veterans. Conducting outreach to female vet-

erans in New Mexico. Ensuring that VA programs

are responsive to gender specific needs of Women

veterans. Along with assisting veterans with obtain-

ing VA benefits and healthcare. They also volunteer

and conduct fundraising activities to continue their

mission as well as involvement in local and national

issues.

Their many projects include providing furniture and

bikes to former homeless veterans. Picking up and

delivering furniture from donors to recipients. De-

livering gifts to patients in hospitals and resident

Rotary Service Help

March & April, 2012

Invocation: 3-7: Barbara LaGree. 3-14,21, 28th, Need Help 4-18: Kathie Williams; 4-4,11, and the 25th we need members to volunteer! Registration: 3-7: Larry Strickland; 3-14: Norm Liss; 3-21: Jeanne Malone; 3-28: Need Some-one. 4-4: Carolyn Vatuone; 4-4, 11, and the 25 Need members to volunteer. April 18; John Val-entine Greeter/Pledge/Introduce Guests: 3-7: Gene Gaik; 3-14: Darcy Savage; 3-21: Larry Strickland; 3-28: Need Someone. 4-4; John Valentine; 4-11: Maureen Anderson; 4-18: Terry Boulanger; 4-25: Need Someone! Thought Of The Day: 3-7: Gene Gaik; 3-14: Sally Casey; 3-21: Caroline Chamblin; 3-28: Need Someone; 4-4: Joanna Douglas; 4-11: Need Someone; 4-18: Kathie Williams; 4-25: Larry Strickland. If you are unable to keep your commitment, it is your responsibility to find a replacement. Sign up sheets are available at each meeting, or contact Jo-anna at: secretary@rotarydelnorte.org Let’s complete these months with Service Above Cont. on pg. 5 p. 4

Programs. They have also sent gifts to women in the

VA retirement home in Truth or Consequences, NM.

Women Veterans of New Mexico meet quarterly

with the VA Women's Program Manager and have

periodic meetings with the VA Hospital Director,

the VA Regional Director and other key players as-

sisting our veterans.

An additional function they provide is to perform

Honor Guard ceremonies throughout the state.

Show your support of Women Veterans of our State

by attending on Wednesday, March 28th.

Presidents-Elect Training Seminar Rotary District 5520 PETS 2012

All Presidents-Elect and really any interested Rotar-ian of District 5520 are welcome to attend this con-ference that will take place at the Marriott Pyramid North Hotel in Albuquerque, N.M.

Presidents-Elect are required to attend P.E.T.S. If a President-Elect is unable to attend PETS in Albu-querque, a President-Elect must contact District Governor-Elect Mark Glenn at mark-glenn5520@msn.com. Presidents Elect-Elect, Mem-bership Directors/Chairs, and Public Relations Direc-tors/Chairs are strongly encouraged to attend since PETS will emphasize these areas of club responsibil-ity. All District 5520 Committee Chairs, LtGs and AGs and other Leadership Team Members are expected to attend as well.

Registration begins at noon. The opening session begins at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 8th with the training ending on Saturday, March 10th. HO-TEL RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE SEPARATELY! The Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North is located at 5151 San Francisco Road NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109. Use the web link below for reservations or call 506-474-2009 or 877-622-3056. For online hotel registration go to: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/Rotary5520

Speaker, Pat Gaston cont. from pg. 4

Rotary Del Norte and District 5520 NEWS

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For every new Rotary year there is a theme. Newly elected 2012-2013 Rotary International President-elect Sakuji Tanaka will ask Rotarians to build Peace Through Service in 2012-13. Tanaka had this to say regarding the new theme and year. "Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary," he said. "Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic struggles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways."

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