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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to k MET fourteen ninety am, ABC News Radio
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a show dedicated to highlighting successful Southern California businesses and
the people behind there.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
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and learn about the remarkable leaders doing the work and
is always. I am absolutely honored and thrilled today to
introduce Winn Spiller, who is a dedicated member of the
Rotary Club of Grass Valley, California, with a remarkable commitment
to service since nineteen ninety four. As a former district
governor from two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine,
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she has held various leadership roles within the Rotary community,
including serving as his Zone twenty seven Endowment and Major
Gifts Advisor and the first ever learning facilitator for the
twenty twenty two Council on Legislation. Winn's passion for education
is evident in her work with the International Assembly and
President Elect Training or PETS. Alongside her husband Steve, she
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champions the Rotary Foundation's humanitarian efforts, particularly in areas like
peace building and polio eradication, having participated in a full
projects in India, Uganda and Mexico. A recipient of the
Citation for Meritorious Service when retired as Chairman CEO of
Nevada City Winery and twenty fourteen. Today, she balances her
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roles with family life in Nevada City, where she and
Steve enjoy their three children and two grandchildren while preparing
to serve as Rotary International Director from twenty twenty five
to twenty twenty seven. Thank you so much for being
with us today when and of course we were talking
about our allergies and now my allergies are getting the
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best of me soon. My apologies, I'm going to be
fighting with this tissue here for a minute. But when
as you know, one of my first questions I each
ask each of my guests is to please talk about
your journey. But before we talk about your journey, I
want to start off with your role as CEO of
the Nevada City Winery because there is a huge history
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behind that and I wanted to give you the up
tuned to share that as well.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Wonderful, thank you well, I'm delighted to be here that
joining you today. So the winery, so Nevada City Winery
was founded by a native from Nevada City who returned
home and really wanted to start the wine industry. And
we really were one of the first that started after
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World War Two. So small downtown winery nine partners. My
husband and my father were original partners. As time went on,
my father turned his shares over to me and I
joined the board. At the time, I had a small
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children's clothing store a til were very small. It was
more of a hobby than anything, but they were very
well dressed while they were When they were the ages
that the store covered. So our founding founder decided that
he was going to go back to full time legal work,
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and they sort of looked around the board table to
see who might be able to step in for an
interim period. Our general manager had also decided to retire
at that point, and so I was really the only
one that was sort of available, and so I went
in as the interim CEO and actually became chairman of
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the board. Twenty five years later I retired. It was
it was a wonderful experience. We were very unusual. We
still are in downtown about a city in a historic
building on the same property as Miners Foundry. So the
foundry was an active foundry until about nineteen fifty and
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we were in this small building with stone foundation and
stone walls and ten siding and roof a lot of
tin in Nevada City at that period of time. That
still exists. And so we are a production winery and
we buy grapes and then produce the wine there right
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in Nevada City. Did all do all of our bottling there,
crushing there, which was just an enormous amount of fun.
It's very nice that the wine industry is such a
romantic one because it takes a lot of capital, but
it was, it was. It was a wonderful time, and
we embarked on probably one of the most exciting things
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that was very early on in my time there. We
embarked on an expansion of the winery and re building
pieces we were in. We are in the historic downtown,
but fortunately our particular building was not with historic designation,
which would have made it very difficult to make any
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man any changes too. But anyway, we were allowed to
expand our footprint and create a lovely tasting room with
a deck looking out, and anyway, it was. It was
a good time and I enjoyed it very very much.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And five years is the interim.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's a long time to be an interim, right, But
you're still making wine today. It sounds like the.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Is I'm not involved anymore. We still have a small
piece of it.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But yes, it's a spectable wine that you produce.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So one of the interesting things about sort of restarting
the industry, we endeavored to try to get the kind
of information that is very common in the better known
regions like nap in cinema, where you really know your
little micro climate down to the last yard in the
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vineyard and what varietals are going to grow best there
and so forth. So we were on a multi year
journey figuring all of those things out. And so because
we did sell a lot through our tasting room, we
had quite an extensive lineup, so a number of reds,
white Splash, we did some unusual varietals, but probably wines
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that consistently did well in our area Zenfandel Sarah for sure.
And then in parts we had of course Cabnet mer Low,
the basic Bordeaux, and of course we had always have
to have Charonnay and suvinyald Blanc. And then we had
a very popular, we still have very popular blush wine
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called alp Glow. Beautiful pink color, very light, lovely, lovely
summer wine.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Actually, oh it's wonderful, especially hot summer day like today.
So when how did you make the transition from being
the interim CEO for at a winery for twenty five
years now becoming involved now on at the Rotary International
level as a director.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
So yes, I did graduate from interim of course at
the winery. So I, as you mentioned, joined Rotary in
nineteen ninety four. My father had been a rotarian in Louisiana,
but I really don't remember being very exposed to his involvement,
except when he came to visit and he would make
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up at one of the rotary local rotary clubs. But
I was asked to attend a meeting, and I very
quickly became engaged. I liked the people, friendly, welcoming, doing
good things in our community. And I had long been
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involved in various kinds of community service and other nonprofits,
but rotary was special and I felt that really early on,
and became involved in projects, and then became involved in
international projects, and that really opened my eyes to all
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of the good that rotary really does, not only at home,
but around the world. And there's something special about the
way we partner in nearly everything we do as rotarians,
as rotary clubs, as rotary districts. If we are working on,
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say a grant funded project, we have a partner in
one country and a partner in the other country, a
rotary club or district. And I just found that very
very special and very appealing, and of course that continues today.
So I, just as we do, became more involved and
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always said yes, when the next opportunity came along.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, that must be very exciting because for those that
may not be familiar with those international aspect of rotary
when can you give us a brief landscape of what
the rotary world looks like around the globe in terms
of the number of members, the countries they're in for
those that haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So we're in about two hundred countries and geographic areas
around the world. We've got about a million, one hundred
and twenty five thousand rotarians today and rotary clubs in
all those places. And rotary clubs are gathered into districts
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sort of as an administrative unit. Districts are led by
district governors and a district leadership team, and districts are
gathered into zones. So there are thirty four zones in
the world, and we're all paired, so there are seventeen
pairs of zones around our world, and each payer elects
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one director to sit on the board of directors. So
our pair is Zone twenty six twenty seven. So we
are the thirty Western states including Hawaii, and we include
some of the provinces, a few province pieces of provinces
in Canada. So that forms our what we call the
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Big West out here, and each of our zones, each
part of the payer has an opportunity every other year
to elect a director to again represent you know, be
part B from our paired zones to serve a two
year term. So as a matter of fact, right now,
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so I was elected and twenty three to begin serving
in twenty five by my home zone, which is twenty seven,
and this September is Zone twenty six is convening nominating
committee with one representative from each of the districts in
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Zone twenty six, and they will elect a director who
will follow me. So elected in twenty five, but to
take office in twenty seven. So that's how that works.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I love the layout you gave us, the logistical flow
chart of how Votary International is, the zones and everything
that goes down in a very organized tier system, which
is one of the brilliant things about Rotary that I
really enjoy. So please share what does it mean to
be a Rotary International director? And you mentioned you were elected.
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Now who votes on this.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
The members of that nominating committee. So when I was
elected our Zone twenty seven, we have fourteen districts and
so each district sent a representative to sit on that
nominating committee and they interview all of the candidates and
make a decision, and that's how you're selected.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's exciting. So what are some of the goals or
some of the duties that come with being a Rotary
International Director.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So, of course we are a large international organizations, so
all of the usual items of governance, strategic planning, things
like that are all part of our role. That we
really focus on supporting our clubs worldwide and bringing people together,
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so helping amplify what they do with our larger international
at work. So even though I work most closely the
zones twenty six and twenty seven with the leadership in
the various districts and zone leadership all intended to support
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the work of our clubs and Rotarians, I am sitting
on the board. I represent the world of Rotary and
we look at things from that vantage point what is
best for our international world, all of us.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Right, And recently you conducted one of these planning sessions
to bring you the key members of the Rotary International
representatives for Zone twenty six and twenty seven. Can you
talk a little bit about that weekend what that planning
session was developed to do, and we'll go through some
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of the topics that were established as priorities for Rotary International.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
So, as part of our Zone Leadership team, we have
Rotary Coordinators Rotary Regional leaders that come from our zones
and they work in three key areas, membership, Rotary Foundation,
and public image, and they work to support the district
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leaders in those roles as well. So we came together
first as the Regional leader team to collaborate and plan
for the year ahead, and then we invited our district
chairs in each of those areas to join us and
had a day long workshop that was run by the
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regional leaders and sharing ideas, new information, looking at how
we can help our clubs grow and thrive more fully
engaged with the Rotary Foundation, and that includes not only
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contributions and so forth, but also being engaged in projects.
Talked about our ending Polio initiative and our really it's
our number one humanitarian program. We can talk about that
a little bit more. And then public image. How do
we talk with the greater world and invite them to
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join us. We do some really I think one of
the things is that rotary membership is really extremely rewarding,
and we look forward to people joining us and bringing
their ideas and creativity and helping build a better world.
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That really our overarching mission as Rotarians is building goodwill
and peace. So that is the overarching piece, and in
building piece, we do that really mostly through our projects.
So as you were able to provide clean water and sanitation.
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When you're doing that, you are creating hope, and with
that you begin to create the kind of environment where
peace can flourish. Very difficult when you are without hope
to think or act in peaceful ways. So anyway, so
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public Image a lots of fun new ways to share
our story and involve other people in our communities. So
it was a good time. I felt like that a
lot of energy and it was a it was a
very fun day. I think people left feeling that they
had gotten a lot out of it and they were
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ready to help lead their their clubs and support them
and all the things that they were looking to do.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Absolutely, and so when you talk about polio eratication, which
is at the top of the list for Rotarians, they
I'm a Proudbretarian myself since twenty fifteen, but polioretication has
been the key mission of Rotary for quite some time.
But there's a lot more. Like you said, there's peace building.
Let's go through the different categories of efforts and projects,
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the types of projects that Rotary encourages the members to
participate in or open their horizons to, which, as you mentioned, polioretication,
peace building, but there are also other things like educational opportunities,
humanitarian service. Let's go down the line of the different
opportunities that exist within Rotary in that aspect.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay, so that's a big that's a big question. So yes,
and we can talk a little bit more about peace
building because that is one of our really areas of
primary focus and interest, and in our zones especially, we're
looking to expand our peace building activities right at home,
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not just our larger peace building programs such as peace
centers and our Rotary Peace Fellows, but in addition to those,
we have humanitarian service that we do largely through grants.
Global grants are our larger ones that are again between
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a sponsor in one country and a sponsor in another country,
either club or district, and they support all kinds of
humanitarian service within what we call our seven areas of focus.
Within that, we have global scholars So global scholars are
funded by Global grants, but they are opportuniti for post
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postgraduate work one to four years in a country not
of their own, So they do go abroad a global scholar,
and they work within one of the seven areas of focus.
But the scholarships themselves are quite flexible and can cover
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one to four years, and they are just a wonderful
postgraduate opportunity that is offered within global grants. They are
also vocational training teams, and these are teams of folks
who either travel to share expertise or they bring people
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to them and again sharing expertise and empowering others. One
of the best things I think about our grant program,
which I experienced pretty early on. I can tell you
an interesting story. But they are focused on sustainability. So
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whatever grant work we do, we want it to be sustainable.
And part of sustainability is working with your beneficiary community
and finding out what they really want, not what we
think they might want. For example, it's not successful to
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go into an area and say, well, we would like
to outfit your school's computer lab, and the beneficiaries really
want water, clean water and restroom facilities, so it's really
important to start there and to use the local resources,
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and there's always a component of training learning so that
you're empowering the people to continue the world after the
grant is finished and the rotarian teams are gone. So
I just think it's a wonderful a wonderful way to
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go about international service, which is really a form of
community service. It's just in a community in another part
of the world.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
How can graduates that are listening to this, that are
interested in applying for these wonderful year scholarships where they
need to go to find these applications and apply for them.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So they need to connect with their local rotary club,
so finding them and we hope that you'll be able
to find them easily. That's part of our work in
our public image area is being sure you can find
us and if you have any trouble, there is also
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our Zone website which is www. Zone twenty six twenty
seven dot org. That's pretty easy and their places there
to connect and send messages and we can help with that.
The other piece that is within our area of peace
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building are our piece fellowships. So these are very special
fellowships focused on building a network of peace builders around
the world, giving people the skills and the practice to
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deal with conflict and bring people together. So peacefellows can
work in any any vocation, but they have on top
of that these special skills. And we have two types.
One of them is what's called our Certificate program, which
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is a year long program and it's especially designed for
people who were kind of mid career. So many times
they are coming from sometimes it's law enforcement or other
social services job, and the program is extremely beneficial.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well, when we are coming up on a break, thanks
so much for sharing that, but we will pick up
or we left off. Everybody. Evette Walker with ABC News
and Talks Southern California Business Report Here today with win Spiller,
a dedicated member of the Rotary Club of Grass Valley
since nineteen ninety four, has profoundly impacted community service. As
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District fifty one ninety governor and facilitator for Rotary International.
Alongside her husband Steve, she champions education, youth leadership, and
global health initiatives, notably in peace building and polio eradication.
A retired Winery CEO, Whin's legacy is one of unwavering
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Speaker 2 (28:34):
Welcome back everyone, evet Locker with ABC News and Talks
Southern California Business Support. Here today with Win Spiller, a
dedicated memory of the Rotary Club of Grass Valley since
nineteen ninety four, who has profoundly impacted community service as
District fifty one ninety governor and facilitator for Rotary International.
Alongside her husband Steve, she champions education, youth leadership, and
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global health initiatives, notably in peace building and polio eradication.
A retired Winery CEO, wins legacy is one of unwavering
commitment to progress, community and upliftment. Thank you again for
making the time for share your work with us today
when thanks you so prior to the break you expanded
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on opportunities for graduate students to apply for scholarships that
would be conducive to learning peace building around the world,
and this was something that Rotary offered scholarships for and
you gave us instructions on how to find those resources,
which starts with going to Rotary Zone twenty six and
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twenty seven dot org or finding your local Rotary club
by just googling find my local Rotary Club, which should
pop up your local rotary club all around the world.
So now we're going to switch gears into polio eradication,
which is one of the top missions Rotary and Rotary International.
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When please talk about these polio eradication efforts and what
the funding for that looks like, I.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Will I will just also conclude our last little piece
that for the piece fellowships, best information is at Rotary
dot org, so just Rotary dot org and all kinds
of information there. These are quite competitive, but they are
incredible life changing opportunities. So polio eradication. So we Rotarians
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and encouraging members of our community to join us raise funds.
We also are advocates for our governments continuing to support
our polio eradication efforts. And as I'm sure many of
you know, some of you may even be wondering why
are we still talking about polio. Isn't it gone? That's
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actually a good thing that we do have many parts
of the world where polio is gone, but it's not
gone everywhere. It travels easily, and it's the only way
to eliminate it is to actually reach every child. So
we have a wonderful partnership with the Gates Foundation and
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they match the funds that we raise up to fifty
million dollars each year, so that is a two to
one match that provides funding to support our polio eradication efforts.
We give. We have some of our funds go out
in the form of grants, like to World Health Organization,
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who is one of our partners, UNICEF and so forth.
Our funds mostly go to enabling the eradication efforts, so
they support social mobilization, the cold the things that what
we call the coal chain, because the vaccines, the oral
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polio vaccine must be must be kept cold and so
all the materials for those things. Technical assistance also surveillance.
Surveillance has become more and more important, and we have
about one hundred and forty two labs around the world
that not only screen samples that are taken from sewage
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water sources, particularly in the countries that are still experiencing
outbreaks of one kind or another, and that surveillance labs
also test for other health issues as well, but that
those are kind of where our funds go. We do
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fund some vaccine costs, but that's a small piece. Mostly
we're kind of on the operational side of things and advocacy.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Wynn tell us a little bit about what these polio
immunization projects look like on the ground, what do these
campaigns power they activated, what does the manpower look like,
and what is the result.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's well, I can tell you about my personal experience
in India, and it was just an unbelievable effort to
mount a national immunization Day. So in every part of India,
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every town, every village, every mobile tribe, you know, some
mobile community vaccinator teams went out and vaccinated every child
under the age of five could reach. We were in
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a National immunization Day. It's interesting. It's actually about a week,
it's not just one day. And it kicks off for
us anyway with a lot of fanfare, cars with megaphones
and music and a lot of attention drawn to that
kickoff day with a lot of coverage, lots of kind
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of stations kiosks around cities where people could just stop
in and have their children vaccinated and get their purple pinky.
So we still do this. We mark the pinky with
a purple marks a lot and that indicates that that
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child has been vaccinated in this round. Vaccinator teams, this
is an important part of what we do. Go house
to house and many of the teams that we were
with had been going to the same parts of the
city for many years, so they really knew the families,
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They knew what children should be there, they knew when
new babies were born and things like That does not
mean that it was not still an effort in some
locations for the parents to allow their children to be vaccinated.
That was a number of years ago, but we still
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do find that we only have two countries left that
have the wild polio virus endemic, and that's Pakistan and Afghanistan,
and in those areas there is still an amount of
distrust for vaccines and for allowing their children to be vaccinated.
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It can be very dangerous for the vaccinator teams and
in fact they do travel with armed guards as they
are going out. I remember past President now trustee Jennifer
Jones talking about stopping her tour in Pakistan when she
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had her imagined tours in different parts of the world,
and one of the places that she went was Pakistan,
and she really went there because she wanted to learn
more about the polio eradication efforts there, and so she
spent time in the health facilities. She spent time meeting
and talking with and working with the various health teams,
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and then she went out with a vaccinating team and
she talked about how they were walking, of course, and
they had their blue it looks like a little blue
ice chest, which is basically what it is with the
vaccines in it. There is somebody who always has usually
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a paper that they are keeping track of where they're
going and who, you know, how many children, and whether
a child is not there. Sometimes a child is with
their parents someplace else they wherever. Anyway, she talked about
how challenging it was just in terms of walking long distances,
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was very hot, it was very dusty, and that after
her time was there finished there, she and her team
got into their air conditioned vehicles, but the vaccinator team
walked on and on and on. They our teams are
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true heroes. They have such a commitment to reaching every
last child, and I think we all owe them just
such a great debt of gratitude. Even when my husband
and I were in India, of course it was personally
rewarding to be able to give those two drops, but
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really we were largely there to say thank you because
of all the work they were doing helping get the
world to a safe place, and so that was a
large part of what we were there, and it meant
a lot to them. They had been at this for
some years, mounting these campaigns, and it involved I'm going
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to forget the statistic now, but over a million vaccinators
who had then team captains and so forth. The first
day that we went out again this is in India.
At the end of the day we went back to
the Medical Officer's office and all the team captains arrived
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and reported on all of their stations within the city,
down to someone who maybe didn't show up with lunch
for the volunteers. It was a remarkable debriefing and all
of the papers that had been hand marked had been
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input by that time within just a short space of
time really into the computer and they were able to
review the statistics of how many children had been reached,
and in this particular campaign again going on all over India,
they had reached something like ninety five percent of the children.
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It's an incredible effort, and sometimes I think we don't
really realize the depth and breadth of what it takes
and what it really means to reach every last child,
and so our commitment is still to that. You will
probably know we have some challenges in Afghanistan. They have
stopped door to door immunizations, but we rotarians and our
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partners we adapt and we now are inviting and being
successful at fairly successful, I think, at getting the children
brought out to places that the government will allow them
to be vaccinated. So our commitment remains very strong to
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seeing our promise to the children of the world to
the end, and we look forward to that time, which
we hope is in the near future. We still have
work to do, but I did mention the surveillance labs
and the other thing I would say that it's a
really important part of our legacy that people may not
(40:45):
realize as much. Is this health infrastructure and a process
global partnership in dealing with a health issue. So it's
been several times the polio eradication health structure has pivoted
(41:07):
to respond to a different disease outbreak. Some years ago,
it was Ebola. Just this January, there was a cholera
outbreak Angola and it was deemed to be extremely that
it needed immediate intervention to save people, and our polio
(41:31):
eradication health structure, the surveillance, the door to door really
pivoted supported that effort and within about four days they
had immunized. I believe it was just over a million
children and adults against cholera, so really quite an astounding thing.
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And part of what we do with the surveillance piece
is you ask how some of these things happen. If
the poliovirus is found in an environmental sample, professionals look
at it and assess whether it requires bringing in a
(42:18):
vaccinating event, and if that's the case, then the partnership
comes together, as they did in Gaza last summer in
that very difficult war torn region, but a sample had
been found and it ultimately did turn out that there
was one polio case, but they were able to negotiate
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humanitarian pauses that allowed teams to go into Gaza and
actually immunize a little over six hundred thousand children in
the first and then a second dose some months later.
They weren't able to get everywhere because of the conditions,
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but they was a remarkably beneficial and successful effort, I think,
and something that we all can be very proud of.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
It sounds remarkable the amount of people power behind these efforts,
the testing, the sophistication of tracking, mobilizing these vaccination groups
to go out and administer these vaccines is just so inspiring,
and how the process works and how efficient it has
(43:34):
been throughout all this time and so recently this Every
year there's a different presidential message for Rotary International. This
year is Unite for Good. Let's talk about how that
fits in, particularly with the presidential conference that's taking place
on December eleventh in San Francisco celebrating the eightieth anniversary
(43:56):
of the signing of the United Nations Charter. Please be
to that remarkable goal and anniversary celebration will do that.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
So Rotarians have been involved in peace in various ways
for many years since the beginning really and we also
have been involved in I think it was our convention
in Havana about in nineteen forty where we adopted kind
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of the Bill of Rights that ended up being a
forerunner to other peace declarations that happened after well. In
June of nineteen forty five, delegates from fifty countries came
together in San Francisco. Many rotarians were involved in this effort,
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and we at that time the United Nations was created
by the signing of that charter. So in December, on
December eleventh, in San Francisco, we will be celebrating our
eighty year partnership. We will be in the I'm going
(45:10):
let's see if I can remember the building that Zarah.
I'll probably think of it in a minute, but it
is where the Charter was signed. This is a one
day conference. It's going to of course talk about our
very rich history of peace building and our partnership with
the United Nations. Rotary today still holds the highest consultative
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status that's offered to a non government governmental organization. And
we do have a rotary representative network where we have
rotarians serving on several United Nations bodies, programs, commissions, and
so forth. And every year we have Rotary Day at
(45:58):
the U n It different forms, but it's again an
acknowledgement of how we have partnered on visions for peace
and creating a better world. So it's going to be
a great day. Lots of good information breakouts as well
as some presentations and everyone is invited. This event is
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open to every person who was interested in coming, and
we're really looking forward to having many they are celebrating
this particular anniversary. Our President Francesco will also be with
us in San Francisco, which we're very excited about so
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be able to spend some time with him as well.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
It's very exciting. Thank you for that invitation to the community.
So when with that said, what are just a couple
of goals briefly that you have as international director for
Rotary of Eating Zones twenty six and twenty seven, or
as we call it, Big West.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
So of course, first is to do my very best
at the international level and play my part in helping
guide our organization during the next couple of years, and
particularly in I think if President Francesco were here, he
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would be saying we all have a commitment to peace building,
completing polio eradication, and strengthening our clubs, helping them really thrive.
And so here on the West Coast. That is something
that we are focused on as well. I would add
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a renewed focus of our core values, so who we
are as Rotarians and what we do. We think that
it matters, and it's increasingly relevant in our complex and
often divided world. So that is certainly one of the
foundational pieces. And expanding the use of technology, including AI,
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but through kind of the lens of our core values integrity.
Specifically in terms of our peace building. I think we've
mentioned this but here on the zone level, creating those
resources and connections that allow us to infuse our projects
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and our activities with elements of peace, such things as
kindness and respect. As we are having healthy debate. We
have a wealth of resources that we're gathering on our
Zone website to help all of us. So these are
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people resources. We have program. It's a rotary international program.
It began in partnership with the Institute of Economics and
Peace Peace Activators, connections to peace fellows, simple things like
if you would like to plant and dedicate a peace pole,
and I hope several of you have seen them around
(49:20):
your communities because we are very much enjoying sharing the
peace pol program throughout this part of our world, and
then we've got resources for how you might hold an
event that supports positive peace and those things. I know
I'm getting close to that well.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
You know. And like you said, when peace is something
that we all need in our lives, all you have
to do is turn on the news or sometimes even
look out your door for just a few moments, and
it makes you just want to go back inside or
turn off the television. But all the more reason why
we need to emphasize these efforts, cultivate them, and support them.
(49:59):
And I love that Rotary does just that.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
Where I couldn't agree more. I think it's a really
important thing. There was a wonderful quote that about not
only does piece begin with us and it's up to us,
but we all play a part in world peace. So
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we each, whether you know, a piece of world peace
and our own inner piece. And I think it's bringing
those elements of respect and really listening to understand one
another and the things that bring us together, our desire
for good, which I think is more universal than it
(50:48):
may seem at times.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
I absolutely agree when I thank you so much for
your dedication for your leadership, and I'm absolutely thrilled to
see what happens in Zone twenty six and twenty under
your leadership.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Thank you, delighted to have had this time with you, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
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you have to run to another meeting, So thank you
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to service since nineteen ninety four. As a former district
governor from two thousand and eight to two thousand and nine,
(01:26):
she has held various leadership roles within the Rotary community,
including serving as his Zone twenty seven Endowment and Major
Gifts Advisor and the first ever learning facilitator for the
twenty twenty two Council on Legislation. Winn's passion for education
is evident in her work with the International Assembly and
President Elect Training or PETS. Alongside her husband Steve, she
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champions the Rotary Foundation's humanitarian efforts, particularly in areas like
peace building and polio eradication, having participated in a full
projects in India, Uganda and Mexico. A recipient of the
Citation for Meritorious Service when retired as Chairman CEO of
Nevada City Winery and twenty fourteen. Today, she balances her
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roles with family life in Nevada City, where she and
Steve enjoy their three children and two grandchildren while preparing
to serve as Rotary International Director from twenty twenty five
to twenty twenty seven. Thank you so much for being
with us today when and of course we were talking
about our allergies and now my allergies are getting the
(02:34):
best of me soon. My apologies, I'm going to be
fighting with this tissue here for a minute. But when
as you know, one of my first questions I each
ask each of my guests is to please talk about
your journey. But before we talk about your journey, I
want to start off with your role as CEO of
the Nevada City Winery because there is a huge history
(02:58):
behind that and I wanted to give you the up
tuned to share that as well.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Wonderful, thank you well, I'm delighted to be here that
joining you today. So the winery, so Nevada City Winery
was founded by a native from Nevada City who returned
home and really wanted to start the wine industry. And
we really were one of the first that started after
(03:24):
World War Two. So small downtown winery nine partners. My
husband and my father were original partners. As time went on,
my father turned his shares over to me and I
joined the board. At the time, I had a small
(03:44):
children's clothing store a til were very small. It was
more of a hobby than anything, but they were very
well dressed while they were When they were the ages
that the store covered. So our founding founder decided that
he was going to go back to full time legal work,
(04:05):
and they sort of looked around the board table to
see who might be able to step in for an
interim period. Our general manager had also decided to retire
at that point, and so I was really the only
one that was sort of available, and so I went
in as the interim CEO and actually became chairman of
(04:28):
the board. Twenty five years later I retired. It was
it was a wonderful experience. We were very unusual. We
still are in downtown about a city in a historic
building on the same property as Miners Foundry. So the
foundry was an active foundry until about nineteen fifty and
(04:53):
we were in this small building with stone foundation and
stone walls and ten siding and roof a lot of
tin in Nevada City at that period of time. That
still exists. And so we are a production winery and
we buy grapes and then produce the wine there right
(05:15):
in Nevada City. Did all do all of our bottling there,
crushing there, which was just an enormous amount of fun.
It's very nice that the wine industry is such a
romantic one because it takes a lot of capital, but
it was, it was. It was a wonderful time, and
we embarked on probably one of the most exciting things
(05:39):
that was very early on in my time there. We
embarked on an expansion of the winery and re building
pieces we were in. We are in the historic downtown,
but fortunately our particular building was not with historic designation,
which would have made it very difficult to make any
(06:01):
man any changes too. But anyway, we were allowed to
expand our footprint and create a lovely tasting room with
a deck looking out, and anyway, it was. It was
a good time and I enjoyed it very very much.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And five years is the interim.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's a long time to be an interim, right, But
you're still making wine today. It sounds like the.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Is I'm not involved anymore. We still have a small
piece of it.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But yes, it's a spectable wine that you produce.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So one of the interesting things about sort of restarting
the industry, we endeavored to try to get the kind
of information that is very common in the better known
regions like nap in cinema, where you really know your
little micro climate down to the last yard in the
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vineyard and what varietals are going to grow best there
and so forth. So we were on a multi year
journey figuring all of those things out. And so because
we did sell a lot through our tasting room, we
had quite an extensive lineup, so a number of reds,
white Splash, we did some unusual varietals, but probably wines
(07:22):
that consistently did well in our area Zenfandel Sarah for sure.
And then in parts we had of course Cabnet mer Low,
the basic Bordeaux, and of course we had always have
to have Charonnay and suvinyald Blanc. And then we had
a very popular, we still have very popular blush wine
(07:45):
called alp Glow. Beautiful pink color, very light, lovely, lovely
summer wine.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Actually, oh it's wonderful, especially hot summer day like today.
So when how did you make the transition from being
the interim CEO for at a winery for twenty five
years now becoming involved now on at the Rotary International
level as a director.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
So yes, I did graduate from interim of course at
the winery. So I, as you mentioned, joined Rotary in
nineteen ninety four. My father had been a rotarian in Louisiana,
but I really don't remember being very exposed to his involvement,
except when he came to visit and he would make
(08:31):
up at one of the rotary local rotary clubs. But
I was asked to attend a meeting, and I very
quickly became engaged. I liked the people, friendly, welcoming, doing
good things in our community. And I had long been
(08:52):
involved in various kinds of community service and other nonprofits,
but rotary was special and I felt that really early on,
and became involved in projects, and then became involved in
international projects, and that really opened my eyes to all
(09:15):
of the good that rotary really does, not only at home,
but around the world. And there's something special about the
way we partner in nearly everything we do as rotarians,
as rotary clubs, as rotary districts. If we are working on,
(09:35):
say a grant funded project, we have a partner in
one country and a partner in the other country, a
rotary club or district. And I just found that very
very special and very appealing, and of course that continues today.
So I, just as we do, became more involved and
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always said yes, when the next opportunity came along.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, that must be very exciting because for those that
may not be familiar with those international aspect of rotary
when can you give us a brief landscape of what
the rotary world looks like around the globe in terms
of the number of members, the countries they're in for
those that haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So we're in about two hundred countries and geographic areas
around the world. We've got about a million, one hundred
and twenty five thousand rotarians today and rotary clubs in
all those places. And rotary clubs are gathered into districts
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sort of as an administrative unit. Districts are led by
district governors and a district leadership team, and districts are
gathered into zones. So there are thirty four zones in
the world, and we're all paired, so there are seventeen
pairs of zones around our world, and each payer elects
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one director to sit on the board of directors. So
our pair is Zone twenty six twenty seven. So we
are the thirty Western states including Hawaii, and we include
some of the provinces, a few province pieces of provinces
in Canada. So that forms our what we call the
(11:35):
Big West out here, and each of our zones, each
part of the payer has an opportunity every other year
to elect a director to again represent you know, be
part B from our paired zones to serve a two
year term. So as a matter of fact, right now,
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so I was elected and twenty three to begin serving
in twenty five by my home zone, which is twenty seven,
and this September is Zone twenty six is convening nominating
committee with one representative from each of the districts in
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Zone twenty six, and they will elect a director who
will follow me. So elected in twenty five, but to
take office in twenty seven. So that's how that works.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I love the layout you gave us, the logistical flow
chart of how Votary International is, the zones and everything
that goes down in a very organized tier system, which
is one of the brilliant things about Rotary that I
really enjoy. So please share what does it mean to
be a Rotary International director? And you mentioned you were elected.
(12:55):
Now who votes on this.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
The members of that nominating committee. So when I was
elected our Zone twenty seven, we have fourteen districts and
so each district sent a representative to sit on that
nominating committee and they interview all of the candidates and
make a decision, and that's how you're selected.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's exciting. So what are some of the goals or
some of the duties that come with being a Rotary
International Director.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So, of course we are a large international organizations, so
all of the usual items of governance, strategic planning, things
like that are all part of our role. That we
really focus on supporting our clubs worldwide and bringing people together,
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so helping amplify what they do with our larger international
at work. So even though I work most closely the
zones twenty six and twenty seven with the leadership in
the various districts and zone leadership all intended to support
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the work of our clubs and Rotarians, I am sitting
on the board. I represent the world of Rotary and
we look at things from that vantage point what is
best for our international world, all of us.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Right, And recently you conducted one of these planning sessions
to bring you the key members of the Rotary International
representatives for Zone twenty six and twenty seven. Can you
talk a little bit about that weekend what that planning
session was developed to do, and we'll go through some
(14:52):
of the topics that were established as priorities for Rotary International.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
So, as part of our Zone Leadership team, we have
Rotary Coordinators Rotary Regional leaders that come from our zones
and they work in three key areas, membership, Rotary Foundation,
and public image, and they work to support the district
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leaders in those roles as well. So we came together
first as the Regional leader team to collaborate and plan
for the year ahead, and then we invited our district
chairs in each of those areas to join us and
had a day long workshop that was run by the
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regional leaders and sharing ideas, new information, looking at how
we can help our clubs grow and thrive more fully
engaged with the Rotary Foundation, and that includes not only
(16:06):
contributions and so forth, but also being engaged in projects.
Talked about our ending Polio initiative and our really it's
our number one humanitarian program. We can talk about that
a little bit more. And then public image. How do
we talk with the greater world and invite them to
(16:31):
join us. We do some really I think one of
the things is that rotary membership is really extremely rewarding,
and we look forward to people joining us and bringing
their ideas and creativity and helping build a better world.
(16:53):
That really our overarching mission as Rotarians is building goodwill
and peace. So that is the overarching piece, and in
building piece, we do that really mostly through our projects.
So as you were able to provide clean water and sanitation.
(17:14):
When you're doing that, you are creating hope, and with
that you begin to create the kind of environment where
peace can flourish. Very difficult when you are without hope
to think or act in peaceful ways. So anyway, so
(17:35):
public Image a lots of fun new ways to share
our story and involve other people in our communities. So
it was a good time. I felt like that a
lot of energy and it was a it was a
very fun day. I think people left feeling that they
had gotten a lot out of it and they were
(17:57):
ready to help lead their their clubs and support them
and all the things that they were looking to do.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Absolutely, and so when you talk about polio eratication, which
is at the top of the list for Rotarians, they
I'm a Proudbretarian myself since twenty fifteen, but polioretication has
been the key mission of Rotary for quite some time.
But there's a lot more. Like you said, there's peace building.
Let's go through the different categories of efforts and projects,
(18:28):
the types of projects that Rotary encourages the members to
participate in or open their horizons to, which, as you mentioned, polioretication,
peace building, but there are also other things like educational opportunities,
humanitarian service. Let's go down the line of the different
opportunities that exist within Rotary in that aspect.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay, so that's a big that's a big question. So yes,
and we can talk a little bit more about peace
building because that is one of our really areas of
primary focus and interest, and in our zones especially, we're
looking to expand our peace building activities right at home,
(19:15):
not just our larger peace building programs such as peace
centers and our Rotary Peace Fellows, but in addition to those,
we have humanitarian service that we do largely through grants.
Global grants are our larger ones that are again between
(19:36):
a sponsor in one country and a sponsor in another country,
either club or district, and they support all kinds of
humanitarian service within what we call our seven areas of focus.
Within that, we have global scholars So global scholars are
funded by Global grants, but they are opportuniti for post
(20:03):
postgraduate work one to four years in a country not
of their own, So they do go abroad a global scholar,
and they work within one of the seven areas of focus.
But the scholarships themselves are quite flexible and can cover
(20:23):
one to four years, and they are just a wonderful
postgraduate opportunity that is offered within global grants. They are
also vocational training teams, and these are teams of folks
who either travel to share expertise or they bring people
(20:44):
to them and again sharing expertise and empowering others. One
of the best things I think about our grant program,
which I experienced pretty early on. I can tell you
an interesting story. But they are focused on sustainability. So
(21:07):
whatever grant work we do, we want it to be sustainable.
And part of sustainability is working with your beneficiary community
and finding out what they really want, not what we
think they might want. For example, it's not successful to
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go into an area and say, well, we would like
to outfit your school's computer lab, and the beneficiaries really
want water, clean water and restroom facilities, so it's really
important to start there and to use the local resources,
(21:51):
and there's always a component of training learning so that
you're empowering the people to continue the world after the
grant is finished and the rotarian teams are gone. So
I just think it's a wonderful a wonderful way to
(22:12):
go about international service, which is really a form of
community service. It's just in a community in another part
of the world.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
How can graduates that are listening to this, that are
interested in applying for these wonderful year scholarships where they
need to go to find these applications and apply for them.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So they need to connect with their local rotary club,
so finding them and we hope that you'll be able
to find them easily. That's part of our work in
our public image area is being sure you can find
us and if you have any trouble, there is also
(22:57):
our Zone website which is www. Zone twenty six twenty
seven dot org. That's pretty easy and their places there
to connect and send messages and we can help with that.
The other piece that is within our area of peace
(23:20):
building are our piece fellowships. So these are very special
fellowships focused on building a network of peace builders around
the world, giving people the skills and the practice to
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deal with conflict and bring people together. So peacefellows can
work in any any vocation, but they have on top
of that these special skills. And we have two types.
One of them is what's called our Certificate program, which
(24:05):
is a year long program and it's especially designed for
people who were kind of mid career. So many times
they are coming from sometimes it's law enforcement or other
social services job, and the program is extremely beneficial.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Well, when we are coming up on a break, thanks
so much for sharing that, but we will pick up
or we left off. Everybody. Evette Walker with ABC News
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Welcome back everyone, evet Locker with ABC News and Talks
Southern California Business Support. Here today with Win Spiller, a
dedicated memory of the Rotary Club of Grass Valley since
nineteen ninety four, who has profoundly impacted community service as
District fifty one ninety governor and facilitator for Rotary International.
Alongside her husband Steve, she champions education, youth leadership, and
(28:58):
global health initiatives, notably in peace building and polio eradication.
A retired Winery CEO, wins legacy is one of unwavering
commitment to progress, community and upliftment. Thank you again for
making the time for share your work with us today
when thanks you so prior to the break you expanded
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on opportunities for graduate students to apply for scholarships that
would be conducive to learning peace building around the world,
and this was something that Rotary offered scholarships for and
you gave us instructions on how to find those resources,
which starts with going to Rotary Zone twenty six and
(29:41):
twenty seven dot org or finding your local Rotary club
by just googling find my local Rotary Club, which should
pop up your local rotary club all around the world.
So now we're going to switch gears into polio eradication,
which is one of the top missions Rotary and Rotary International.
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When please talk about these polio eradication efforts and what
the funding for that looks like, I.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Will I will just also conclude our last little piece
that for the piece fellowships, best information is at Rotary
dot org, so just Rotary dot org and all kinds
of information there. These are quite competitive, but they are
incredible life changing opportunities. So polio eradication. So we Rotarians
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and encouraging members of our community to join us raise funds.
We also are advocates for our governments continuing to support
our polio eradication efforts. And as I'm sure many of
you know, some of you may even be wondering why
are we still talking about polio. Isn't it gone? That's
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actually a good thing that we do have many parts
of the world where polio is gone, but it's not
gone everywhere. It travels easily, and it's the only way
to eliminate it is to actually reach every child. So
we have a wonderful partnership with the Gates Foundation and
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they match the funds that we raise up to fifty
million dollars each year, so that is a two to
one match that provides funding to support our polio eradication efforts.
We give. We have some of our funds go out
in the form of grants, like to World Health Organization,
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who is one of our partners, UNICEF and so forth.
Our funds mostly go to enabling the eradication efforts, so
they support social mobilization, the cold the things that what
we call the coal chain, because the vaccines, the oral
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polio vaccine must be must be kept cold and so
all the materials for those things. Technical assistance also surveillance.
Surveillance has become more and more important, and we have
about one hundred and forty two labs around the world
that not only screen samples that are taken from sewage
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water sources, particularly in the countries that are still experiencing
outbreaks of one kind or another, and that surveillance labs
also test for other health issues as well, but that
those are kind of where our funds go. We do
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fund some vaccine costs, but that's a small piece. Mostly
we're kind of on the operational side of things and advocacy.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Wynn tell us a little bit about what these polio
immunization projects look like on the ground, what do these
campaigns power they activated, what does the manpower look like,
and what is the result.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's well, I can tell you about my personal experience
in India, and it was just an unbelievable effort to
mount a national immunization Day. So in every part of India,
(33:42):
every town, every village, every mobile tribe, you know, some
mobile community vaccinator teams went out and vaccinated every child
under the age of five could reach. We were in
(34:04):
a National immunization Day. It's interesting. It's actually about a week,
it's not just one day. And it kicks off for
us anyway with a lot of fanfare, cars with megaphones
and music and a lot of attention drawn to that
kickoff day with a lot of coverage, lots of kind
(34:30):
of stations kiosks around cities where people could just stop
in and have their children vaccinated and get their purple pinky.
So we still do this. We mark the pinky with
a purple marks a lot and that indicates that that
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child has been vaccinated in this round. Vaccinator teams, this
is an important part of what we do. Go house
to house and many of the teams that we were
with had been going to the same parts of the
city for many years, so they really knew the families,
(35:12):
They knew what children should be there, they knew when
new babies were born and things like That does not
mean that it was not still an effort in some
locations for the parents to allow their children to be vaccinated.
That was a number of years ago, but we still
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do find that we only have two countries left that
have the wild polio virus endemic, and that's Pakistan and Afghanistan,
and in those areas there is still an amount of
distrust for vaccines and for allowing their children to be vaccinated.
(35:56):
It can be very dangerous for the vaccinator teams and
in fact they do travel with armed guards as they
are going out. I remember past President now trustee Jennifer
Jones talking about stopping her tour in Pakistan when she
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had her imagined tours in different parts of the world,
and one of the places that she went was Pakistan,
and she really went there because she wanted to learn
more about the polio eradication efforts there, and so she
spent time in the health facilities. She spent time meeting
and talking with and working with the various health teams,
(36:44):
and then she went out with a vaccinating team and
she talked about how they were walking, of course, and
they had their blue it looks like a little blue
ice chest, which is basically what it is with the
vaccines in it. There is somebody who always has usually
(37:05):
a paper that they are keeping track of where they're
going and who, you know, how many children, and whether
a child is not there. Sometimes a child is with
their parents someplace else they wherever. Anyway, she talked about
how challenging it was just in terms of walking long distances,
(37:29):
was very hot, it was very dusty, and that after
her time was there finished there, she and her team
got into their air conditioned vehicles, but the vaccinator team
walked on and on and on. They our teams are
(37:54):
true heroes. They have such a commitment to reaching every
last child, and I think we all owe them just
such a great debt of gratitude. Even when my husband
and I were in India, of course it was personally
rewarding to be able to give those two drops, but
(38:15):
really we were largely there to say thank you because
of all the work they were doing helping get the
world to a safe place, and so that was a
large part of what we were there, and it meant
a lot to them. They had been at this for
some years, mounting these campaigns, and it involved I'm going
(38:36):
to forget the statistic now, but over a million vaccinators
who had then team captains and so forth. The first
day that we went out again this is in India.
At the end of the day we went back to
the Medical Officer's office and all the team captains arrived
(38:57):
and reported on all of their stations within the city,
down to someone who maybe didn't show up with lunch
for the volunteers. It was a remarkable debriefing and all
of the papers that had been hand marked had been
(39:17):
input by that time within just a short space of
time really into the computer and they were able to
review the statistics of how many children had been reached,
and in this particular campaign again going on all over India,
they had reached something like ninety five percent of the children.
(39:38):
It's an incredible effort, and sometimes I think we don't
really realize the depth and breadth of what it takes
and what it really means to reach every last child,
and so our commitment is still to that. You will
probably know we have some challenges in Afghanistan. They have
stopped door to door immunizations, but we rotarians and our
(40:02):
partners we adapt and we now are inviting and being
successful at fairly successful, I think, at getting the children
brought out to places that the government will allow them
to be vaccinated. So our commitment remains very strong to
(40:22):
seeing our promise to the children of the world to
the end, and we look forward to that time, which
we hope is in the near future. We still have
work to do, but I did mention the surveillance labs
and the other thing I would say that it's a
really important part of our legacy that people may not
(40:45):
realize as much. Is this health infrastructure and a process
global partnership in dealing with a health issue. So it's
been several times the polio eradication health structure has pivoted
(41:07):
to respond to a different disease outbreak. Some years ago,
it was Ebola. Just this January, there was a cholera
outbreak Angola and it was deemed to be extremely that
it needed immediate intervention to save people, and our polio
(41:31):
eradication health structure, the surveillance, the door to door really
pivoted supported that effort and within about four days they
had immunized. I believe it was just over a million
children and adults against cholera, so really quite an astounding thing.
(41:55):
And part of what we do with the surveillance piece
is you ask how some of these things happen. If
the poliovirus is found in an environmental sample, professionals look
at it and assess whether it requires bringing in a
(42:18):
vaccinating event, and if that's the case, then the partnership
comes together, as they did in Gaza last summer in
that very difficult war torn region, but a sample had
been found and it ultimately did turn out that there
was one polio case, but they were able to negotiate
(42:43):
humanitarian pauses that allowed teams to go into Gaza and
actually immunize a little over six hundred thousand children in
the first and then a second dose some months later.
They weren't able to get everywhere because of the conditions,
(43:04):
but they was a remarkably beneficial and successful effort, I think,
and something that we all can be very proud of.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
It sounds remarkable the amount of people power behind these efforts,
the testing, the sophistication of tracking, mobilizing these vaccination groups
to go out and administer these vaccines is just so inspiring,
and how the process works and how efficient it has
(43:34):
been throughout all this time and so recently this Every
year there's a different presidential message for Rotary International. This
year is Unite for Good. Let's talk about how that
fits in, particularly with the presidential conference that's taking place
on December eleventh in San Francisco celebrating the eightieth anniversary
(43:56):
of the signing of the United Nations Charter. Please be
to that remarkable goal and anniversary celebration will do that.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
So Rotarians have been involved in peace in various ways
for many years since the beginning really and we also
have been involved in I think it was our convention
in Havana about in nineteen forty where we adopted kind
(44:27):
of the Bill of Rights that ended up being a
forerunner to other peace declarations that happened after well. In
June of nineteen forty five, delegates from fifty countries came
together in San Francisco. Many rotarians were involved in this effort,
(44:47):
and we at that time the United Nations was created
by the signing of that charter. So in December, on
December eleventh, in San Francisco, we will be celebrating our
eighty year partnership. We will be in the I'm going
(45:10):
let's see if I can remember the building that Zarah.
I'll probably think of it in a minute, but it
is where the Charter was signed. This is a one
day conference. It's going to of course talk about our
very rich history of peace building and our partnership with
the United Nations. Rotary today still holds the highest consultative
(45:35):
status that's offered to a non government governmental organization. And
we do have a rotary representative network where we have
rotarians serving on several United Nations bodies, programs, commissions, and
so forth. And every year we have Rotary Day at
(45:58):
the U n It different forms, but it's again an
acknowledgement of how we have partnered on visions for peace
and creating a better world. So it's going to be
a great day. Lots of good information breakouts as well
as some presentations and everyone is invited. This event is
(46:21):
open to every person who was interested in coming, and
we're really looking forward to having many they are celebrating
this particular anniversary. Our President Francesco will also be with
us in San Francisco, which we're very excited about so
(46:42):
be able to spend some time with him as well.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
It's very exciting. Thank you for that invitation to the community.
So when with that said, what are just a couple
of goals briefly that you have as international director for
Rotary of Eating Zones twenty six and twenty seven, or
as we call it, Big West.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
So of course, first is to do my very best
at the international level and play my part in helping
guide our organization during the next couple of years, and
particularly in I think if President Francesco were here, he
(47:30):
would be saying we all have a commitment to peace building,
completing polio eradication, and strengthening our clubs, helping them really thrive.
And so here on the West Coast. That is something
that we are focused on as well. I would add
(47:50):
a renewed focus of our core values, so who we
are as Rotarians and what we do. We think that
it matters, and it's increasingly relevant in our complex and
often divided world. So that is certainly one of the
foundational pieces. And expanding the use of technology, including AI,
(48:17):
but through kind of the lens of our core values integrity.
Specifically in terms of our peace building. I think we've
mentioned this but here on the zone level, creating those
resources and connections that allow us to infuse our projects
(48:39):
and our activities with elements of peace, such things as
kindness and respect. As we are having healthy debate. We
have a wealth of resources that we're gathering on our
Zone website to help all of us. So these are
(48:59):
people resources. We have program. It's a rotary international program.
It began in partnership with the Institute of Economics and
Peace Peace Activators, connections to peace fellows, simple things like
if you would like to plant and dedicate a peace pole,
and I hope several of you have seen them around
(49:20):
your communities because we are very much enjoying sharing the
peace pol program throughout this part of our world, and
then we've got resources for how you might hold an
event that supports positive peace and those things. I know
I'm getting close to that well.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
You know. And like you said, when peace is something
that we all need in our lives, all you have
to do is turn on the news or sometimes even
look out your door for just a few moments, and
it makes you just want to go back inside or
turn off the television. But all the more reason why
we need to emphasize these efforts, cultivate them, and support them.
(49:59):
And I love that Rotary does just that.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
Where I couldn't agree more. I think it's a really
important thing. There was a wonderful quote that about not
only does piece begin with us and it's up to us,
but we all play a part in world peace. So
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we each, whether you know, a piece of world peace
and our own inner piece. And I think it's bringing
those elements of respect and really listening to understand one
another and the things that bring us together, our desire
for good, which I think is more universal than it
(50:48):
may seem at times.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
I absolutely agree when I thank you so much for
your dedication for your leadership, and I'm absolutely thrilled to
see what happens in Zone twenty six and twenty under
your leadership.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Thank you, delighted to have had this time with you, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
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