Last Week at Rotary

When last week's planned presentation fell through, Dr. Kaila Sellars was kind enough to fill and tell us about her work as a naturopathic physician here in Great Falls.

What is naturopathic medicine? Prevention of disease is a major focus. Naturopaths work with their patients on lifestyle interventions to keep them healthy. They treat the whole person, not a particular ailment, and often work as teachers, helping their patients understand how lifestyle changes can improve their health.

Naturopathic physicians avoid the harmful suppression of symptoms through medication. They do prescribe medicines when needed, but work to reduce dependence through traditional and untraditional methods. Acupuncture and massage are tools common to naturopathic medicine.

Naturopathic physicians must complete a four-year doctoral program and pass national board exams to become licensed. Kaila completed her program at the National Academy in Lombard, Kansas. Doctors are licensed in primary care, but also assist in specialized areas. Kaila, for instance, provides integrative oncology services at the Sletten Cancer Center in addition to her primary care practice.

Kaila has practiced in Great Falls for two months now. Welcome to our community, Kaila!

This Week in Rotary

There is lots going on in city/county health programming right now and Lacey Gallagher will bring some of her colleagues to tell us all about it. Join us at noon at the country club!

Why RYLA Matters: A Thank-You Note

It's a lot of work and a considerable expense to send 8 campers to Rotary Youth Leadership Academy every summer. Long hours of interviewing, a long drive to get there and bring the campers back home .... If you ever wonder how worthwhile it is, read these excerpts from a thank-you note we received this week from RYLA camper Lydia Craw:

"I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you so much for allowing me to go to this life changing camp. I know this camp has changed my life in so many ways. With all the people that I knew at this camp they said 'I really came out of my shell." Being a normally shy person, this camp has given me the confidence to make a difference in my school and our community. I now have the skills and knowledge that I can be a great leader.

"In my interview I talked about how our student government is not super-effective. I talked about how I didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes and take charge. [Now] I know I have the skills to take charge. As I look to this next year with optimism, I know I am going to make a change. This student government year will be a big deal and we will get things accomplished."

"I want to thank you all for the opportunity to meet all these amazing people and grow so much as a person. This camp was amazing. I would with out a doubt recommend sending more people from great falls to the camp. Thank you all so much.
Best wishes in the future. THANK YOU!"

The seed to lead has been planted in Lydia Craw. It will be fun to watch it grow in the coming years in our community.

This and That

Rebecca Richards has graciously agreed to chair our Social Committee. Thank you, Rebecca!

Marshall Knick, a Billings Rotarian, has just donned the red badge in Great Falls. Welcome to Rotary Club of Great Falls, Marshall!

The International Peace Park Assembly will be September 13-15 in Waterton. It's a lovely time to be in a lovely place and learn more about making this a more harmonious world. Registrations are now open.

Have you reserved your Harvest Howl table yet? With Smashmouth as the headliner, tables will sell out for sure!

Milestones

The month of July has been kind to us in terms of recruiting new members to this club. This month Kurt Baltrusch celebrates the completion of 33 years as a Rotarian. Sheila Rice and Dave Crum each celebrate their 25th anniversary as Rotarians. Here's hoping there are many more years to come for all three. Thank you, Kurt, Sheila, and Dave for 83 years of service above self.

Weekly Wisdom: Spacing Out

”I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” Neil Armstrong on looking back at the Earth from the Moon in July 1969.

“I’m coming back in … and it’s the saddest moment of my life.” Ed White, expressing his sorrow at the conclusion of the first American spacewalk on June 3, 1965.

“From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a b----.’” Edgar Mitchel, Apollo 14 astronaut.

”When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.” Alan Shepard talking about his time on the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission in February 1971.

“HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON JULY 1969, A.D. WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND” The words on the plaque left on the Moon by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, June 20, 1969.

“We have your satellite. If you want it back send 20 billion in Martian money. No funny business or you will never see it again.” A joke reportedly written on a wall in a hall at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, California, after losing contact with the Mars Polar Lander in December 1999.

“Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world, knowing they’re going to light the bottom, and doesn’t get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation.” John Young, after being asked if he was nervous about making the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981.

“It’s a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.” Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, speaking in May 2013 about the possibility of humans eventually settling on Mars.

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong on the moon, June 20, 1969.