American Cancer Society manager to speak at Rotary

Molly Strobel, health programs manager at American Cancer Society, Stockton field office, is the speaker for today.

Strobel will bring you two kinds of information:

1. What are the steps to take to prevent cancer in your system and in the systems of the people you hold the dearest?

2. If you find you have the condition, how do you proceed?

She will probably talk about the progress being made in the work being done to help us all to understand the disease and help us displace the frustration cancer confers on everyone connected to it in every sense of the word.

Cancer is not the automatic death sentence it once was. I am certain there is more cancer discovered than there once was; part of it has to do with better detection methods and a better understanding of the various kinds of cancers that were totally misdiagnosed in the old days and people died because they died and nobody knew why.

Gotta hand it to Eric Daegling. He has been my almost favorite program chairman. (I put it that way so as to not hurt the feelings of my not-so-favorite program chairpersons.) Eric is diligent in the procurement of programs, but more importantly, takes the time to get in touch with your aging editor to make certain he has the information needed to write what is about to transpire. I appreciate you. You da man, Eric.

The sermon of the week has evolved back to the matter of getting the membership back into the fold (that there is preacher talk) and the addition of more members from the community who, by all that’s right and holy, belong in this club because they are an asset to the town and by virtue of that, rightfully belong with us in the promulgation of all that is right and benevolent both here and abroad.

In talking to many of the esteemed members of this club, I have been able to conclude that the two things that attract people into a Rotary club are service to the community and camaraderie within the club itself. Other important things include food (we are learning to love sandwiches), conversation and rubbing elbows with those whose company we have learned to enjoy over the years. Many of us have friendships right here in the club that have endured literally decades and still retain the freshness of new acquaintance.

Enduring friendships all start on day one. It is time to introduce more people to the joy and blessing that is Rotary â€" Lodi Rotary, that is. And your own blessed self, of course.