VISITING ROTARIANS: Vickie Connor from the Noontime Club

GUESTS OF ROTARIANS: Jeff and Robin Wingell and Tori Ortiz​​​​​

 

Mike Buhring's step-down party is on Saturday, June 15  at the Testa’s.  Please respond to Mike Gibson as to whether or not you are attending.  

 

The Tony Award winning musical Million Dollar Quartet features four legends and one night of a whole lot of rock ‘n’ roll June 20 - 29 in Santa Maria’s Marian Theatre and July 5 – 28 in the outdoor Solvang Festival Theater.

 

George Mackey’s service is Sat, June 8, at 4:00 at St. Peter’s Episcopal  Church

 

 

A check presentation was made for the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) program.  This check from our club sponsored 5 students for the STEM Industry Event in Santa Maria.  The event promotes awareness of STEM careers for kids from low income homes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program for the Visually Impaired from the

Santa Barbara County Education Office

 

Our program today was presented by Jeff and Robin Wingell, instructors from the Santa Barbara County Education Office program for the Visually Impaired. They are itinerant teachers; they go to where the kids are, and follow them all the way through their academic year. They service all of northern Santa Barbara County.  Their main job is to develop curriculum to help visually impaired students.  This includes teaching Braille and mobility skills.  Seventy percent of what we learn comes from watching things, so this is a challenging assignment.  

Each year, they take the students on a special adventure.  They have gone skiing, kayaking, a tour of San Francisco’s lead by a blind person, and various other activities.  This year they went to Big Bear Skiing at the U S adaptive center. This is a purely volunteer staff that comes out to work with kids.  

Attending with them was Tori Ortiz, a student from Fessler Jr. High School.  Tori discussed her experience skiing.  She loved it.  Her favorite part was inner tubing, it felt like being on a roller coaster. It was so cool to feel the snow on the ground and experience things that she has never experienced before.  She realized that she can do so much more than she thought she could do.  The thing she didn’t like was cleaning the house.  Kids help in the food prep and the cleanup, which are some of the things they don't get to do in a normal school day.  

 

 

Mark Bachman and Peter Sterling