On Tuesday, April 20 2021, our lunch program speaker will be Jodi Rueger. Jodi is an airline and aerobatic pilot, born in London, ON, and started flying at 18. With no family aviation background or funding, she sought to earn scholarships and studied competitively to do so since 14. Going on to complete her commercial, multi-engine, and instrument ratings at Sault College in the Aviation Technology – Flight Advanced Diploma program. Where the government would subsidize flight training in this highly competitive program, she went on to become a flight instructor and aerobatic instructor in the greater Vancouver area where she flew 80 types of aircraft over the course of 5 years and has to date flown roughly 95 different types. After landing on gravel bars in the river on a set of monster truck-like tundra tires, a student asked if she would like to fly for the airlines and set up an interview. A month later, she had her start date on a 78 passenger Dash-8 Q400 and went on quickly to fly the 189 seats 787-800NG jet for Swoop. Her love of aerobatic flying and ambition to continue to learn every day she flies led her to competitive and display aerobatics, where she dazzles the skies in an RV6 and Pitts S1-S and will be racing in the Reno Air races Sport class in a Thunder Mustang in 2021. When she’s not airborne, she enjoys snowboarding, training dogs, and learning basic aircraft repair and build techniques from one of her sponsors – AI Systems.

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On Tuesday, April 13 2021, our lunch program speakers will be Mel Parker and Sara Perkins from J Bar J. They’ll be giving a presentation on J Bar J’s at: (anti-trafficking) Project. They work directly with victims to help them regain independence, safety, and stability, and to rebuild their lives. They provide comprehensive case management and crisis intervention, assist in creating safety plans, as well as offering much needed emotional support to survivors of sex and labor trafficking. Their case managers also work with survivors to access community resources such as psychological counseling, medical care, emergency housing, transportation, and academic needs. They provide team coordination for the Deschutes County Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Response Team, the group responsible for responding to cases of human trafficking in Central Oregon. This team is a collaboration of agencies working together to coordinate and leverage resources to provide a comprehensive approach to child sex trafficking and services to victims and survivors.

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On Tuesday, April 6 2021, our lunch program speaker will be club member Cort Vaughn. He’ll be giving a presentation on PolioPlus in a COVID world. Cort Vaughan is a Polio survivor. He and his wife Tonya have two sons and two grandsons. Cort joined the Rotary Club of Greater Bend to help eradicate Polio. He founded the Pints for Polio fundraiser in 2012 to raise money for global Polio eradication and to increase local awareness regarding the need to vaccinate all children according to CDC guidelines. Pints for Polio has raised nearly $210,000 for the PolioPlus Fund including matching funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Cort is Past District 5110 PolioPlus Chair and past Zone 27 End Polio Now Coordinator covering 10 Districts and nearly 800 Rotary Clubs. Zone 27 includes most of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Northern California, and British Columbia.

Cort Vaughan contracted Polio in 1954 during a global pandemic that crippled over 35,000 people each year in the United States, mostly children under the age of 5. Polio paralyzed Cort’s right leg.

Cort and Tonya spent 3 weeks in India in January 2020 to vaccinate children against polio. They also met with WHO and UNICEF, visited a polio rehabilitation clinic and toured several Rotary projects. Join us in hearing Cort’s inspiring story of growing up with Polio, learning about polio eradication in India, and PolioPlus in a COVID World.

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On Tuesday, March 23rd 2021, our lunch program speaker will be Luis Fernando Sanabria, General Manager of Fundación Paraguaya. He will be talking to us about the self-sustaining schools his foundation has created in Paraguay. If his name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s also the father of past Rotary exchange student Juanfe Sanabria. Luis Fernando Sanabria has over 30 years of experience working at Fundación Paraguaya (FP) in institution building, microfinance, and social development. He oversees the operations of all FP programs by leading a team of 500 people to implement poverty elimination programs, entrepreneurial education and self-sustainable schools both in Paraguay and in the other countries. He also exerts direct supervision to the office in Tanzania and programs in countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia where FP works.

He regularly participates in major international events such as the Microcredit Summit, the Skoll Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, FOROMIC, Accion International Network and Junior Achievement Network Meetings at which he has given lectures and presentations on FP achievements.

During 2012-2013 he served as advisor to the Social Cabinet of the President of Paraguay for the development of the plan Public-Private Partnership for the Eradication of Extreme Poverty (APEX).

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On Tuesday, March 16th 2021, our lunch program speaker will be Jeff Eager, former mayor and local attorney. Jeff will join us for lunch to discuss The Oregon Roundup, a weekly email for people interested in Oregon politics and public policy. Jeff started EagerLaw PC to help Oregon entrepreneurs succeed in business. Jeff worked in Washington, D.C. for Oregon Congressman Greg Walden, served as Mayor of the City of Bend, and has been practicing law in Oregon for over a decade.

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On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Rotarian Al Jubitz. Al joined Rotary in 1977 as a third generation Rotarian and is Past President of the 2002-2003 Rotary Club of Portland. Al believes that Rotary is uniquely capable of turning the world toward nonviolent conflict resolution, ultimately leading to a world beyond war. To that end, he submitted the application for the Rotarian Action Group for Peace to Rotary International. Al has been invited to speak at more than 60 Rotary clubs, conferences and community events over the last four years to share his vision that peace is possible and that Rotarians can play a leading role. He has received appreciation and encouragement from Rotarians and general audiences that his message is the right cause at the right time.

A native Oregonian, Al received his BS degree from Yale University in 1966 and earned his MBA from the University of Oregon School of Business in 1968. Al retired from the family business (Jubitz Corporation) after a career spanning 34 years. He also served as a director of two private start-up companies. Al is President and founder of the Jubitz Family Foundation which directs funding to organizations that foster peacebuilding, environmental stewardship and early childhood education.

In 2010, Al and his wife Nancy were recognized nationally by United Way USA with the Tocqueville Society Award for their ongoing commitment and support. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum of Oregon, Class 20, and also serves on the Leadership Councils of Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Portland Children’s Museum and the National Advisory Board of Environmental Defense Fund. He is Director Emeritus of Morrison Child and Family Services and an emeritus trustee of Outward Bound Wilderness School. Al and his wife Nancy have been married 54 years. They have three grown daughters and four grandchildren. He enjoys hiking, playing squash and golf.

Al believes that Rotary is uniquely capable of turning the world toward nonviolent conflict resolution, ultimately leading to a world beyond war.

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On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, our lunch speaker will be our own club member Kim DeBroux, Development Director, Boy Scouts of America, Crater Lake Council. Currently they service over 1,300 boys and girls from Kindergarten through High School. The Crater Lake Council – Boy Scouts of America supports Scouting programs in Southern Oregon, Central Oregon and Northern California, with service centers located in Central Point, Klamath Falls, Bend and Eureka California.

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On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Lee Vasche, President & CEO, Triton Polling. Lee will be speaking on the science of polling and reliability, as well as future of polling. In 2009, Lee Vasche founded Triton Polling & Research, a full service survey, polling and market research firm with offices in Bend, Oregon, Henderson, Nevada, Bellingham, Washington and Missoula, Montana. Triton has helped hundreds of clients win campaigns, sell ideas and develop communications strategies. The company’s client list includes organizations in countless industries throughout the nation, from Fortune 500 companies and statewide political campaigns to non-profit organizations to law firms large and small.

Before founding Triton, Lee had extensive experience running telephone outreach programs dating back to 2002. His leadership and technological expertise has been behind some of the narrowest legislative victories in his native Oregon. Lee’s call centers have conducted some of the most detailed and far-reaching survey projects in Oregon’s history.

Lee has an eclectic mix of talents ranging from statistical analysis to management of advanced telecom systems to political organizing to database administration. In addition to skiing, hiking, scuba diving, and generally enjoying the outdoors, Lee and his wife Courtney frequently leave their home in Bend, OR to travel the world or take trips around the NW.

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On Tuesday, February 2, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Mandy Skoranski, PhD, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Oregon. Mandy will be speaking on parental stress biology and mental health symptoms and the affect on young children. Amanda (“Mandy”) Skoranski attained her master’s degree from Colorado State University in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2007, and her Ph.D. from Penn State University in Developmental Psychology in 2009. Her research focus is on the biobehavioral dynamics of parent-child interactions during early childhood, and how parental characteristics (such as mental health and stress physiology) impact such interactions and in turn children’s socioemotional development. She is interested in understanding both the physiological and behavioral aspects of mental health difficulties in parents of young children, and how symptoms may be transmitted from parent to child during their vulnerable stages of development. She is also interested in utilizing dynamical systems modeling to analyze how parents’ physiological activation can regulate the physiological activation of the child (and vice versa) during face-to-face interaction, and whether this may be one way in which dysregulation (such as over-activation of stress systems) may be passed intergenerationally. She is currently working with data from the Coaching Adaptive Parenting Strategies project (PI: Elizabeth Skowron, Ph.D.) at the University of Oregon to better understand parent-child physiological dynamics among families in which child maltreatment has occurred, and whether patterns may be reorganized in a positive way through engaging families in a course of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.

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On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Eric King, City Manager for Bend. Eric King began his career in local government working for the City of Portland. In his 10 years there, he worked on a variety of projects and programs focusing on economic development and program management. He began working for the City of Bend as Assistant City Manager in April, 2007 and accepted the position of City Manager in May, 2008. Eric was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He has a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development from Portland State University. Eric currently services on the KIDS Center Board and has served on the Visit Bend and Oregon City/County Managers’ Association Boards as well as volunteered with SMART- promoting early childhood literacy. Eric loves Bend for its scenic beauty, the multitude of outdoor activities it offers, and most importantly, he and his wife Martha believe Bend is an ideal place to raise their two children.

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