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Green sees impact of Rotary by attending convention
By JEFF BUDLONG
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — The
107th year of Rotary Interna-
tional is proving to be a spe-
cial one for the Rotary Club
of Wallowa County.
Stacy Green, the presi-
dent of Rotary Club of Wal-
lowa County, attended the
annual Rotary International
Convention from June 3-9
at the Houston Convention
Center in Texas. It marked
the fi rst convention — which
rotates sites around the world
— since 2019 because of the
global pandemic.
“The convention brings
the 1.5 million Rotarians from
around the world together,”
Green said. “It really shows
MORE INFORMATION
Stacy Green, president of the Rotary Club of Wallowa Coun-
ty, is presenting about her experiences at the convention
during the rotary club’s installation banquet on June 29. For
more information, email Green at srgreen@eoni.com.
when we come together we
multiply our impact, and that
impact becomes signifi cant.”
Green met, learned from
and shared the message of
Eastern Oregon with the
11,000 people who attended
the event, down from a typical
25,000. She met with individ-
uals from Nigeria, Uganda,
Kenya, India, Taiwan, Mon-
golia, Nepal, Japan, Mexico,
Canada and the United States.
Green is presenting about
her experiences at the con-
vention during the rotary
club’s installation banquet on
June 29. For more informa-
tion, email Green at srgreen@
eoni.com.
“Where else would I be
able to make those kinds of
international connections, and
by the time I left I had invi-
tations to stay with people in
Iceland, Mexico, Taiwan and
other places,” she said.
Some of the challenges
talked about were similar
to what Green sees in Wal-
lowa County, while others
were basic human needs like
supplying feminine hygiene
products.
“It is a huge barrier for
girls and women that forces
them not to go to school or
work because they have no
ability to manage it,” she said.
Green participated in
morning general sessions
with speakers that included
Indian Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi; Nobel Peace Lau-
reate Kailash Satyarth; direc-
tor of polio eradication for
the World Health Organiza-
tion Dr. Hamid Jafari; astro-
naut Charles Duke, who
went to the moon on Apollo
16; and Bruktawit Tigabua, a
social entrepreneur who cre-
ated a groundbreaking edu-
cational children’s televi-
sion program in Ethiopia that
has been scaled to reach mil-
lions of children in Africa and
beyond.
Afternoon breakout ses-
sions focused on topics of
interest from how to build
a stronger club to how to
mobilize resources at the
local club level to help
address the opioid addiction
crisis.
Green said attending the
convention illustrated the
impact that working together
can have.
“The Wallowa club raised
about $3,500 for Ukraine,
which was then sent to the
district level to become
Wallowa fourth graders revamp community garden
By Ann Bloom
For the Wallowa County
Cheiftain
WALLOWA
—
“EWWWW! It’s a worm!”
“It’s cut in half!”
“Don’t worry. It’ll grow
back together again.”
“No, it will just become
two worms!”
Once Brandy Bronson’s
fourth-grade class from Wal-
lowa Elementary School
got over its interest in earth
worms, it was all business as
they worked to turn the dark,
rich soil at the community gar-
den they adopted in front of
the River House in Wallowa.
It was a sunny day, and the
work was hard for the eight
students who wielded pitch-
forks and rakes.
Once the garden is weeded,
and leveled, the class plans to
plant vegetable starts, vegeta-
ble and fl ower seeds and straw-
berry starts. The seeds and
starts were donated by Alder
Slope Nursery. The straw-
berry plants were donated by
Ann Bloom/Contributed Photo
Wallowa Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Brandy
Bronson and her students work on a community garden June 7.
the Enterprise Main Street
Garden, located at St. Pat-
rick’s Episcopal Church.
The workday happened
Tuesday, June 7, under partly
cloudy skies. The students
and Bronson fi rst spent Fri-
day, June 3, the school’s com-
munity service day, starting
the clearing process of remov-
ing years of weeds and over-
growth in the garden.
The idea for the commu-
nity garden project came to
Bronson as she was trying to
think of ideas for her summer
programming activities.
“I’m a fi rm believer in
teaching my own kids that
food doesn’t come from the
grocery store,” she said. “It’s
possible to do it on your own
(grow your own food) and
acquire life skills, I guess.
Anyway, if I can incorporate
it (gardening) into my classes
or summer programming, I’m
all for it.”
The plan is to start with a
small garden area and plant it
with seeds and starts, keep it
watered throughout the sum-
mer and use some of the veg-
etables — lettuce for example
— in some of the summer pro-
gramming cooking activities
to make salads. Some of the
vegetables will be harvested
in the fall. Bronson explained
she would like to see her cur-
rent fourth grade class, who
will be fi fth graders in the fall,
use the vegetables to make a
few dishes for her incoming
fourth grade class.
“With the project started at
the end of the year, the (cur-
rent) fourth-graders can see it
go all the way around,” she
said.
“It’s my belief that to get
the most out of learning,
teachers have to create expe-
riences. Students get more
out of learning if they are
engaged,” she said. “Creating
experiences such as the gar-
den project allows students
to feel like they are active in
their learning process and
this yields more growth and
development.”
$118,000, and that was sent
to the Rotary clubs in Poland
and that became $15 mil-
lion,” she said.
Getting and keeping the
younger generation engaged
both in Rotary and their com-
munities was another con-
sistent topic of discussion.
Rotary has made an eff ort
to have options for high
school students and young
professionals to interact and
engage with clubs before
becoming rotary members.
It has led to an increase of
14,000 members globally.
Because of her experi-
ence, Green said she is going
to propose that the Wallowa
County club help all future
presidents attend the interna-
tional convention.
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