Dan began his career at Sunset Foods in 1988 as an assistant manager in the seafood department. Two years later he was  promoted to the managers position. In 2007 Dan was assigned the title of Seafood Director overseeing all aspects of the seafood departments in 5 Sunset stores. A big part of the job requires sourcing fresh seafood from suppliers all around the country. In order to assure that a supplier will meet required expectations of Sunset, Dan will personally visit them to get an in depth idea of how they operate their businesses. Today Dan will talk about two of the trips he took. One to visit the lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia and the other to visit the crab fishermen in Dutch Harbor Alaska.

The meeting in the Winnetka Community House was opened at 12:40 by President Bill Leske. An interesting Thought for the Day came from Wes Baumann before the pledge of allegiance was led by Rik Borjesson.

 

Visitors included Andy Knott with Liz Taylor, Lee Jorik with David Birkenstein, Carla and Brian Rosenthal with Rich Lalley and Brian Keeler. Birthdays noted were Bob Thomas and Jeanne Beckman. Anniversary’s noted were Chuck Norton with 21 years, Eric Birkenstin with 10 years and Carl Yudell with 4 years.

 

There were no visitors or birthdays. There were 24 members present and lunch was served at 12:40 and the meeting then started at 1:00.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: President Bill’s announcements included:

            - the meeting on March 28 will be a visit at New Trier H.S.

            - there will be a Foundation meeting next Monday at Brooke Peppey’s office

            -  March 10 Winnetka celebrates its 150^th Anniversary in Mertz Hall from 2-4PM

              - Heidi Sibert reminded us again the Kids Against Hunger food making will be   

               March 15 and still needs volunteers

            - Joe Nash informed us that a benefit for KAH will be Feb. 21 at Little Rickey’s

            -Mary Komlofske told the 50^th Anniversary of the WYO will be celebrated with a

               dinner/dance benefit on April 13 at the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club

            - Rich Lallie updated us on Operation Warm, which has been a life-saver for kids

               in the recent bitter cold weather.

 

HAPPY BUCKS: Ned Meisner kicked in $10 as he celebrated that he is almost ready to move to Ecuador. David Grant threw in the same in honor of his daughter being accepted to the PhD program at Mayo.

 

DIG & GRIN : Carl Yudall spun out a series of anecdotal, medically related puns . This was all received with warm applause.        

 

SPEAKER – As an introduction to today’s topic of medical marijuana, Marie Kuipers related her personal experience that led to successful use of prescription cannabis.

 

The speaker was Joseph Friedman who has established the first medical cannabis dispensary to have medical students do a clinical rotation. He has a Pharmacy degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Lake Forest. His talk covered a wide variety of topics in the arena of medical cannabis including:

            - treatment approaches and dealing with patients

            - a discourse on THC  vs. CBD marijuana types

There was a lively 10 minutes of Q&A and the meeting closed at 1:35 PM  with a recitation of the Rotary 4-way pledge.

 

 

 

Areas of Focus

¨ Economic & Community Development

¨ Maternal & Child Health

¨ Bonus: Positive Environmental Impact

 

Project Objectives

¨ Restore and expand breadfruit production in Jeremie region of Haiti that was devastated by Hurricane Matthew

¨ Create a local, solar-powered breadfruit processing facility

¨ Provide vocational training to farmers, facility workers

¨ Develop the domestic and export market for breadfruit products

 

Planned Activities

¨ Propagate and grow 5,000 breadfruit saplings

¨ Provide ready-to-produce tress to small holder farmers and coop orchards

¨ Fund processing equipment for new facility (building funded by cooperating NGO)

¨ Provide packaged breadfruit breakfast meals to local schools

¨ Provide vocational training to farmers and workers

 

Expected Outcomes

¨ Produce 2.5 - 5 million lbs. of breadfruit annually

¨ Economic impact on region- $470,000 - $900,000 annually

¨ Good jobs and businesses for local population in poorest region of Haiti

¨ Provide nutritious meals to school children

¨ Develop an export industry for Haiti

 

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