On Tuesday, June 9 2020, our lunch speaker will be Commissioner Tony DeBone. Prior to his job as Commissioner, Tony served on the Board of Directors of the La Pine Park and Recreation District as Board Chair and the La Pine Rodeo Association on Land Acquisition.

While living on Maui, Tony met his wife Kathy, a Central Oregonian. They married and had their son Michael in Hawaii, then moved to Seattle, Washington for four years, where Tony worked as an Associate Computational Scientist doing drug discovery research. The family moved to Southern Deschutes County to seek a more rural lifestyle and to be closer to family.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Lee has led EDCO since 1999 and past economic development experience includes the Seattle/King County Economic Development Council and heading a public (city/county) economic development program in a rural northeast Oregon. A native of Idaho, he is a graduate of the University of Washington in Economics.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Sheriff Nelson has been in law enforcement and with the Sheriff’s Office since 1993. The Deschutes County Commissioners unanimously appointed Nelson as the 9th Sheriff of Deschutes County in July 2015. He was voted in by the citizens of Deschutes County in November 2016. He was born and raised in Bend and graduated from Mountain View High School in 1988. After graduating from Oregon State University in 1993 he moved back to Bend. He and his wife Lisa, a Bend Police Officer, have four children.

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On Tuesday, May 12 2020, our lunch speaker will be Dr. Marinus Koning, founder of Reach Another Foundation.

Dr. Koning, a general surgeon, saw a need 10 years ago after traveling in Ethiopia. He donated time to perform surgeries on children with spina bifida. He then created a foundation to help eradicate spina bifida through getting Vitamin B to pregnant mothers. With addition of Vitamin B in salt in their diets, spina bifida can be drastically reduced, thus reducing the needs for surgery. His presentation will be on his 10 year journey, working with Rotary, CDC, government of Ethiopia and others.

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On Tuesday, May 5 2020, our lunch speaker will be Eric King, Bend City Manager. Eric 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.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

On Tuesday, April 28 2020, our lunch speakers will be Kelly Cannon-Miller, Executive Director, and Anne Goldner, Development Coordinator, from Deschutes Historical Museum. They will be presenting on the history of Bend’s Water Pageant.

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On Tuesday, April 21 2020, our lunch speakers will be Lisa Goodman and Michael Johnson from St. Charles Health System. Today’s Meeting will be Virtual To join the meeting, please click on the following link: https://join.me/michaelcottam We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

As public information officer for St. Charles Health System, Lisa Goodman focuses on media relations and government affairs. In her role, she has served on the Bend Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative and Advocacy Committees, the City Club of Central Oregon’s Programming Committee and is currently a vice chair of the Bend Economic Development Advisory Board (BEDAB.) She also serves as St. Charles’ representative in the Central Oregon Emergency Information Network (COEIN), a group of 25 local, state and federal agencies that collaborate to provide timely, accurate information in emergencies.

Prior to joining St. Charles in 2010, Lisa was an award-winning health care journalist whose work appeared in newspapers around the west including The Salt Lake Tribune. In her 15 years as a newswoman, Lisa was a Jack R. Howard Science Institute for Journalists Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and a California Endowment for Health Journalism National Fellow at the University of Southern California.

Lisa holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Dr. Michael Johnson has served as the senior data scientist with the Quality Management Team at St. Charles Health since May 2016. Mike advises the senior leadership, conducts data analysis, computer simulations and predictive modeling and supervises a team of eight analysts to help St. Charles undergo aggressive organizational transformation and achieve its vision of creating America’s healthiest community together.

Mike has taught mathematics and statistics courses at Central Oregon Community College and at Oregon State University – Cascades. He launched his own analytical company, Crafted Analytics, in June 2015. Most of his consulting work is in the area of predictive modeling, data analysis, survey administration and assessment, and specializes in applying the results of modeling, simulation and analysis to improve current systems and processes. Clients include institutions of higher education, non-profits and health care-related organizations.

Prior to these recent endeavors, Mike was the Director of Institutional Research at Dickinson College for eight years and departed in June 2015. While performing the duties of the director, Mike also taught courses in statistics at Dickinson and at nearby Harrisburg Community College. Before Dickinson, he spent over 23 years as an Army officer; the last three as chief of the institutional research and analysis branch at the U.S. Military Academy. While on active duty, Mike also taught calculus, probability and statistics and math modeling for seven years at the Academy. He earned a B.S in mathematics from Central Washington University, an M.S. in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Central Florida.

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You’ll be able to see Dr. Conway’s slides, and hear his presentation through your computer. If you don’t have speakers on your computer, click the green phone icon at top left, and it will give you the call in phone number and conference ID. We will record Dr. Conway’s presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon. We expect to have time at the end for questions, and will un-mute everyone at that time.

On Tuesday, March 17 2020, our lunch speaker will be George Conway, Director, Deschutes County Health Services. George will be giving a presentation regarding COVID-19, the Coronavirus. George leads a department of over 300 public health and behavioral health professionals providing a broad range of services to the people of Deschutes County and central Oregon. Prior to this role, he was Senior Medical Officer and Epidemiologist at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.

On Tuesday, March 3 2020, our lunch program will consist of an update on the campaign to eradicate polio, presented by our own Cort Vaughn. Cort Vaughan is a Polio survivor. 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. Pints for Polio has raised nearly $180,000 for the PolioPlus Fund including matching funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Cort is Past District 5110 PolioPlus Chair and the Zone 27 PolioPlus Coordinator covering 14 Districts and nearly 800 Rotary Clubs. Zone 27 includes most of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Northern California, and British Columbia.

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

Join us in hearing Cort’s inspiring story of growing up with Polio. Cort will also update us on the worldwide effort to eradicate Polio and what it will mean to live in a Polio free world.