Author name: Patrick Arehart

CNO Member since 2017, Technology Committee, Finance Committee, Newsletter

Janet Piechocki – Hobart Welding

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Welding is a great career path. There is currently a huge shortage of welders and it is getting worse. It is estimated that 200,000 to 400,000 jobs in welding are currently unfilled. HIWT helps graduates find jobs. They hold 3 job fairs each year. The ROI for attending HIWT is higher than even the most prestigious of colleges. A recent study lists HIWT as 19th in ROI out of 4,500 post high school learning institutions.

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Club Day

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President Debe Dockins and immediate Past President Greg Griffin discussed and shared videos about the 2019-2020 year. Highlights of the recap were: Passing of the Gavel Video that ends with an SNL parody of Debe receiving the gavel; awards presentation for 2019-2020 year; highlights of the previous year video.

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Officer John P. Kalaman and Robert J. O’Toole Awards Presented to Our First Responders

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Each year one award is selected for the City of Centerville Police Department and one award is selected for the Washington Township Substation of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Nominations are accepted from the peers of those eligible. All employees of the department are eligible, not just police officers.

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2020-21 Officer Installation and Awards Presentation Dinner

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On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 6:30 PM, instead of our normal lunch Zoom meeting, we had a great online event to celebrate the past year and to look forward to the next Optimist year. This is the end of the Centerville Noon Optimist presidential year for Greg Griffin and we welcomed 2020-2021 President Debe Dockins! New board members and vice-presidents were also installed this evening.

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Dr. Tom Henderson – Superintendent of Centerville City Schools

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Henderson’s presentation was titled “Elks Back to school, Centerville City Schools 2020-2021.” He remembered on 3/11/2020 he was at a convention and the participants watched the Governor’s announcement on TV that K-12 schools would be closed for 4 weeks It became evident the online classes would be longer than 4 weeks and that the schools buildings would be shut down. There were a few people in each building making sure the buildings had no issues and to make sure maintenance issues were handled.

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N.O.W. (New Optimists Welcome) Event – our first-ever via Zoom

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The normal weekly lunch meeting was not held this week. Instead we had a special version of our weekly Zoom meeting. It was a New Optimists Welcome event. Committee chairs provided slides and presented what each committee does for the club. They presented about the community events, fundraisers, social events, scholarships, and behind-the-scenes operations. New and perspective members learned about volunteer opportunities with our club through these events.

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Craig Boring – Optimist International Foundation Executive Director

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The Optimist International Foundation was founded on February 18, 1971 and will celebrate 50 years in 2021. The idea for OIF came from a long-term strategic planning committee of OI that began in 1969. Charles Campbell, the President of OI, signed the incorporation papers and the Optimist International Foundation became a 501 (c) (3) organization. OIF gives support to local Optimist Clubs. They also support other youth related charitable organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House and Johns Hopkins Pediatric Hospital.

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Brady Kress – Dayton Historical Society and Carillon Park

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From the Dayton History Website: In 2005, Carillon Historical Park merged with the Montgomery County Historical Society to create a new umbrella organization known as Dayton History. The private non-profit (501c3) organization was established to preserve, share, and celebrate our region’s history. Carillon Historical Park is home to over 30 historic structures and cares for over three million artifacts.

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Pamela Gregg – UDRI (University of Dayton Research Institute)

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Pam has been at UD for more than 20 years, the last 17 as communication administrator for the University of Dayton Research Institute where she manages internal and external communication and media relations. She was a writer and photographer for the Dayton Daily News for 12 years before joining UD. Pam loves getting to know people and telling stories about them and their work, especially research stories, which involve a bit of “foreign language translation” – science to non-science.

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WHIO Radio Personality Larry Hansgen

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In 2019, things were not going well for Dayton through August with the Memorial Day tornadoes and the Oregon mass shooting. Then the UD Flyer basketball season started, and the rest of the year was great. He remembers predicting very early in the season how fantastic this team was going to be. He described the experience of the sudden end of post season play as being like you start falling, then realize you’re falling and you don’t have any control or choice but to fall. Once the COVID crisis hit, the sports world just halted.

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