Posted by Susan Leetch
Special guest at the Rotary Club of Austintown on October 19 was Butch Temnick, former "Mr. Youngstown" who is now "Mr. Wellness", emphasizing proper eating as a way to achieve better health and lower health costs for businesses and individuals.

. "Mr. Wellness" who spoke on Why Diets Don't Work. His main points emphasized elimination of sugar, white flour, and white potatoes from the diet to increase good things like green vegetables, peas, lentils, beans, fish, and chicken/turkey. Mr. Temnick recommends 9-12 servings of vegetables a day, including canola oil and Smart Balance and vitamin D3 supplements. He encourages people to get their weight and blood pressure under control as health care will be strained in the future with new generations getting sick sooner. Butch is a native of Youngstown, spent many years in the Carolinas, but came back to help his family with their health issues.

. Pictured- Mr. Wellness 004 - Butch Temnick and President Brian Laraway
Oct. 19Gary led the invocation, pledge of Allegiance, and God Bless America.

. Robin followed immediately with the song, "Smile" in honor of our visiting Rotarian, Christina Dailey from Poland, who has a nice one.

. Brian announced Rescue Mission on Oct. 26, thanked all who participated in Make a Difference Day on Oct. 10. More candy was collected for Hope House, with some contributing cash to help too, 100 bags were filled by Interact members Monday afternoon.

. Perfect attendance awards for the first quarter went to Robin, Deanna, Rachel, Gary, Tony, Chuck, Ron Carroll, and Mike Cafaro.

. Christmas Party is Dec. 11 at Fifth Season Banquet Center, mark your calendar.

. Reverse Raffle is Mar. 6, "Save the Date" cards are available to mail to your friends.

. Chuck Baker mentioned the article in Rotary magazine that just came about poverty in the world, noting that the percentage who live on less than $125. a month fell from 52% to 26% in recent years. Bruce Laraway pointed out the article on clean water challenges, noting that Rotary is a leader in this field, including our own Dan Pappalardo in El Salvador, a recipient of help from our club for past 5 years.

. Dave Buttar won the little raffle, but the Queen still lives.

. Rachel Solida was in charge of fellowship, fined all Steelers fans, but nobody admitted it.

. Deanna introducted Butch Temnick, "Mr. Wellness" who spoke on Why Diets Don't Work.Butch is a native of Youngstown, spent many years in the Carolinas, but came back to help his family. His main points emphasized elimination of sugar, white flour, and white potatoes from the diet to increase good things like green vegetables, peas, lentils, beans, fish, and chicken/turkey. He recommends 9-12 servings of vegetables a day, including canola oil and Smart Balance and vitamin D3 supplements. He encourages people to get their weight and blood pressure under control as health care will be strained in the future with new generations getting sick sooner.

. Toby closed with this quote by Abraham Lincoln -- "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves".

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