Meeting of the Rotary Club of
Eureka
October 5, 2015
Menu: Deep fried cod or sweet
and sour pork, French fries, green beans and dessert.
Matthew Owen led us in the pledge.
Craig Hansen gave the invocation.
When he asked if anyone might need special help, someone in the audience
mentioned the 49’ers.
President Jay Bahner asked for a report from our foreign exchange
student Andy Chen. He had been at the Medieval
Festival in Blue Lake over the weekend watching people dressed in sliver
painted cardboard beat each other over the head with foam-covered sticks. He says there’s nothing like that in
China.
There were no birthdays this week.
Hank Ingham was asked how many years he had been married. 29 - with an anniversary coming up on the 11th. He was gifted with a fluorescent Rotary hat.
Then all the past presidents were asked to stand up. There were 14 in the audience, including Past
District Governor Dave Dillon. Jay gave
them a hearty thank you and no fine.
Our Rotary club has given $6,000 to the Middletown Fire Relief
fund. South West Rotary’s annual Halloween
fundraiser is on October 24th at 7pm. The theme this year is Cirque de
Soulless. The Lost coast Rotaract club
will perform circus tricks as part of the entertainment. $60 a head.
Costumes are encouraged. Proceeds
will benefit Meals on Wheels.
Dave Purdy, former postmaster in Arizona and recent immigrant,
announced a gathering at the Adorni Center this weekend. It will include a demonstration by a Coast
Guard Helicopter and rescue boat, feature ROTC and a Girl Scout Troop, and end
with the unveiling of the new Coast Guard postage stamp. You can’t lick that.
Jamie Carrol is a member of Lost Coast Rotaract, and also occasionally sings the National Anthem at Rotary. She previewed a Rotaract fundraiser, “Spooks
and Spirits,” which is a guided tour of Old Town on the 30th and 31st. It is a benefit for Rotaract and the Clark
Museum.
Jerry Reece was recognized for a recent trip to London, Paris, Spain,
and Italy. He spun the wheel and it cost
him $50. Sue Santche is a 3-time cancer
survivor and is raising money for a 3D Imaging Device. She’s having a Chemo Party that will have lots
of raffle items. Call her at Personal
Choice for more information.
Then it was time for the Spengler Howard raffle. John Winzler won the four-way test coin and
Sue Bosch won $10. J Warren Hockaday
drew for the pot and came up with the three of spades.
Our presenters were our own club member Neil Carnam and his friend Dave
Creech. They flew to Nepal earlier this
year to complete their bucket list item- a trek to the base of Mt.
Everest. They started in Katmandu and
ended up climbing 17,500 feet to the first base camp. There were no roads, no motors, no wheeled
vehicles. Everything that came up the
mountain rode on the backs of the local Sherpas who could walk for days with
225 pounds on their backs. The trail had
been hand crafted from boulders and was very rough. They got to the Everest
base camp and stayed overnight, then started down the mountain. 2 days later the earthquake struck, toppling
buildings and sending the terrified residents out into the street. No one slept indoors for days.
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed more than 9,000 people and
injured more than 23,000. It occurred at 11:56
NST on 25 April, with a magnitude
of 7.8Mw or 8.1Ms (and
a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent). Its epicenter was east of the district of Lamjung,
and its hypocenter was at a depth of approximately 8.2 km (5.1 mi). It was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar
earthquake. The earthquake triggered an avalanche on
Mount Everest, killing at
least 19 making April 25, 2015
the deadliest day on the mountain in history. The earthquake triggered another huge
avalanche in the Langtang
valley, where 250 people were reported missing.
Hundreds of
thousands of people were made homeless with entire villages flattened across many districts of the country.
Centuries-old buildings were destroyed at UNESCO World Heritage
sites in the Kathmandu Valley, including some
at the Kathmandu
Durbar Square, the Patan Durbar Square, the Bhaktapur Durbar Square, the Changu
Narayan Temple and the Swayambhunath Stupa. Geophysicists and other experts
had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a deadly earthquake,
particularly because of its geology, urbanization, and architecture.
Continued aftershocks occurred throughout Nepal at the intervals of 15–20 minutes, with one
shock reaching a magnitude of 6.7 on 26 April at 12:54:08 NST. The country also
had a continued risk of landslides. A major aftershock occurred on 12 May
2015 at 12:51 NST with a moment
magnitude (Mw) of
7.3. The epicenter was near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu
and Mt. Everest. More than 200
people were killed and more than 2,500 were injured by this aftershock. Neil
and Dave made their way to the airport where they waited for days for a flight.
They had made it to Everest and survived
and now it was time for the next item on their bucket list, sleeping overnight
in the Devil’s Playground .
Submitted by Hank
Ingham with help from Wikipedia. There
will be a test on this, and a bonus will be given to anyone who can pronounce Swayambhunath.
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