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Guido Adelfio is a charter member and past President of the Metro Bethesda Rotary club. He is a fellow prostate cancer survivor who has made many presentations to Rotary clubs around the District to raise awareness of this #2 killer of men in the U.S.

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer that develops in men other than skin cancers, and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. In 2015 the American Cancer Society estimated over 220,000 men were newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 27,800 men died from the disease -- though many of them had lived with the disease for years prior to their deaths.

• The prostate is a gland that is a part of the male reproductive system that wraps around the male urethra at its exit from the bladder

• Common problems are BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia), acute and chronic bacterial prostatitis and chronic prostatitis (non-bacterial)

• Prostate cancer is common in men over 50, especially in African-Americans and in men who eat fatty food and/or have a father or brother with prostate cancer

• Symptoms of prostate problems (and prostate cancer) include urinary problems (little or no urine output, difficulty starting (straining) or stopping the urine stream, frequent urination, dribbling, pain or burning during urination), erectile dysfunction, painful ejaculation, blood in urine or semen and/or deep back, hip, pelvic or abdominal pain; other symptoms may include weight loss, bone pain and lower extremity swelling

• Prostate cancer is definitively diagnosed by tissue biopsy; initial studies may include a rectal exam, ultrasound and PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels

• Treatments for prostate cancer may include surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy, and hormone therapy

• PSA testing is considered to be yearly PSA tests; not all agree this should be done

• Identify prostate problems early is a way to reduce future prostate problems

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Health education has become a widely popular subject in recent years, but there’s one area of the health sector that remains somewhat of a taboo topic: psychiatry. That hasn’t prevented Tom Schmidt, BSN, RN, nurse manager of Howard County General Hospital’s (HCGH) Psychiatry Inpatient Unit, from establishing both community- and hospital-based speakers bureaus on the topic. In fact, it’s fueled his ambition.

“Psychiatry always has been behind closed doors. Nobody really knows what we do or how we do it. My group is very experienced; most have been here 20 or more years. I thought, let’s share our experience,” Schmidt explains.

Combining his expertise as a public speaker with his desire to promote the knowledge of HCGH’s psychiatry unit staff members, Schmidt decided about a year and a half ago to launch the hospital/community speakers bureau. It’s been well-received by community members and HCGH staff alike.

To date, inquiries for lectures by the community speakers bureau have varied greatly by subject and audience. Two senior groups affiliated with local church organizations have requested and heard lectures on topics relevant to their demographic: sleep disturbances and spirituality in aging. On the other side of the spectrum, the community speakers bureau also has responded to inquiries from school groups.

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At this Friday's meeting, Doug Miller from Fair Elections Howard County will talk about this local effort and how it fits into the larger movement for election reform.

Numerous citizens groups are pushing for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and other Supreme Court rulings of recent years that have resulted in a flood of cash for campaign coffers and super PACs that has all but drowned out the voices of ordinary voters.

As the arduous task of amending the U.S. Constitution continues, though, citizens are working toward other measures to restore balance and integrity to our political system within a largely unregulated environment. Local and state governments across the nation have begun to implement systems to amplify the effects of small donations from citizens to candidate campaigns.

This November, Howard County voters will decide by referendum whether to amend the Howard County Charter to allow for the creation and operation of the Citizens Election Fund, which would match small donations to candidates who forego the big ones.

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Edith Mayer Cord, born in Vienna in 1928, Edith moved to Italy with her family to escape the rise of Nazism in Austria. In 1938, Italy passed the same anti-Jewish laws, similar to the Nuremburg laws, and the entire family was asked to leave. Unable to receive a visa for any country, Edith and her family entered France illegally in April 1939 where they received political asylum. 

At the outbreak of World War II, her father was arrested as an enemy alien and sent to Les Milles, a camp near Marseille. Released in 1940, both he and her older brother were arrested again and sent to Gurs. After several other camps, both were deported to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942. Neither returned. 

During that time, Edith and her mother remained in Nice from where they were eventually kicked out as Nice was forbidden to Jews. They received a residence permit in a small village in France where Edith and her mother did farm work. When the mass deportations occurred, Edith was encouraged to go underground. At fourteen, Edith accepted because she was afraid of what would happen to her if she were arrested and sent to a concentration camp.

In July 1943, Edith went into hiding with false papers with the help of the Jewish scouts of France and their clandestine arm, the Sixième. She spent a year on the run, hiding in different schools, until she was smuggled into Switzerland in May 1944 with a group of thirty Jewish children. In Switzerland, still deprived of schooling, she worked as a nanny until the end of the war when she was able to rejoin her mother, who had managed to survive in a village in France. 

Back in France, the truth about the death camps and the Gestapo torture chambers became fully known. Edith was faced with the triple task of making a living, coming to terms with man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man, and getting an education. What followed were seven years of struggle, intense study and hard work. In 1949, Edith passed both baccalauréats with a major in philosophy and in 1952, she earned the Licence ès Lettres from the University of Toulouse before coming to the United States. 

Arriving in New York, Edith was self-supporting within two weeks. She went to night school and continued to take courses with an eye toward earning a PhD. In 1954, Edith married and had three children and now has seven grandchildren. From 1962-1979, she worked as a professor of French and German in the department of foreign languages at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This was followed by a career change in 1979 when Edith started working in the financial services industry. In 1984, Edith earned her CFP designation and she continued her work as a financial advisor and securities broker until 2006, when she retired in order to write her book. She then translated her book into French and L’Éducation d’un Enfant Caché was published in 2013 by L’Harmattan. 

Edith now lives in Columbia, MD. During all these years, Edith has been a frequent speaker in schools, universities, churches, civic groups, and to government and military audiences-primarily in the Baltimore Washington area-where she shares her experiences and the lessons learned the hard way: how to rise above difficult circumstances, transcend hatred, find meaning and protect our freedom.

For more information about Edith, please visit her website www.edithcord.com

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Darren Easton darreneaston@me.com

Mavis Lewis receives community service honor and donates $3,500 to

Claudia Mayer/Tina Broccolino Cancer Resource Center.

The Rotary Club of Columbia/Patuxent has selected Mavis Lewis as the recipient of its fifth annual Community Service Above Self Award. The award recognizes a non-Rotarian who gives back to the community in a way that reflects the Club’s spirit of having fun through community service.

Mavis Lewis, a person of exemplary character and the ability to work with diverse populations has made a tremendous impact upon the community around her. Mavis has given unselfishly of her time, talent and financial resources in a myriad of ways, expecting nothing in return except the satisfaction of serving wherever she is needed.

A model of compassion, Mavis has provided food and transportation to the sick, given spending money to students attending her alma mater (Hampton University), helped an individual of another culture with his writing skills, and made provisions, on two occasion, to bring a student from Darfur, currently attending Hampton University, to Howard County to share his story. Through contact with the above mentioned student, Mavis was introduced to the Lost Boys Foundation, Outreach Africa. Through this organization, she and her late husband, William, sponsored a young boy in Darfur by providing tuition, meals and uniforms, enabling him to attend school in a safe environment.  Mavis has continued this sponsorship since her husband’s demise.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Mavis has served for twenty-one years as Campaign Chairperson for the Howard County Foundation for Black Educational and Cultural Achievement, Inc. where she has served as Program Chair and as Secretary for a number of years.

Served twelve consecutive years as President of the Columbia Alumni Chapter, Hampton University.  Under her leadership, the chapter participated in the “Adopt-a-Road program in which members were involved in community clean-up efforts.

Currently volunteers at the Food Bank whose mission is to feed the hungry. This activity is sponsored by St John Baptist Church of which she is a member.

Appointed by the County Executive, served as Chairperson of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission.  Led the Commission in two successful MLK observances, and a day of service by the members at the local Food Bank.

Co-authored a book entitled “Are Your Affairs in Order?”  As a function of their mission to educate the public, Mavis and her co-author give free workshops for community groups, churches, conferences, family reunions, etc. She also edited and published a book in 2012, entitled, OUR STORY, which is a Collection of Inspirational Messages from Past Scholarship Recipients from the Howard County Foundation for Black Educational and Cultural Achievement, Inc.

Established the William H. Lewis Memorial Endowment Fund at The Community Foundation of Howard County and Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia This annual book scholarship award will benefit deserving, full-time students who are residents of Howard County, Maryland while attending Hampton University.

Inducted into the Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame for her involvement in a multitude of county, state and national programs to feed the hungry, helping to ensure a brighter future for Howard County youth by providing funding for higher education, helping older adults plan their last Will and Testament, and helping to bring justice and economic empowerment to people all over the world.

The Community Service Above Self Award includes recognition at the Club’s Annual Grant Day Event on Friday, June 17, 2016 and $3,500 to be donated to a local non-profit in Mavis’s name.

The Rotary Club of Columbia/Patuxent

Chartered in 1986, the Rotary members of Columbia/Patuxent are a diverse group of business and professional leaders from the Columbia and Howard County area who take an active role in their communities while enriching their personal and professional lives. They volunteer in communities at home and abroad to help those in need, support education and job training, provide clean water, combat hunger and improve the health and lives of so many. They are the county’s largest club and each year are active in the most service projects and raise and give more money than any other club in the county.

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Living in Recovery (LIR), Howard County helps men and women reclaim their lives and break the cycle of addiction-rehab-relapse by combining affordable housing free of alcohol and drugs with peer support and a climate of personal accountability.

Too often people leaving drug and alcohol treatment programs quickly relapse because they return to their former housing and associates that supported their addiction. Recovery Housing helps stop the cycle of addiction-rehab-relapse and increases the chance for sustained recovery.

Living In Recovery was organized in 2010 as a nonprofit corporation – a group of volunteers committed to a dream of bringing the first recovery housing to Howard County. We now have three houses for men and one for women and have served over 100 people with 65% remaining sober while in residence. Experience has shown there is a need for more recovery housing in Howard County and that our housing model is effective.

LIR operates two houses for men in zip code 20794, one for men in 21042, and one for women in 21046. Each house has five residents.

Joe Willmott has been a volunteer, board member and pro bono consultant for human service organizations since 1999, focusing on housing and homelessness.

Prior to that time he served in marketing and general management positions with Baltimore Aircoil Company in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He served five years in the U.S. Navy.

Joe was one of the authors of the Howard County Plan to End Homelessness and currently serves on two oversight committees. He is a member of the Association of Community Services Public Policy Committee, Full Spectrum Housing Coalition, a Director of Living In Recovery and a weekly volunteer at the Grassroots Day Resource Center.

Joe holds degrees of Bachelor of Science (Physics) from Villanova University and Masters in Business Administration from Loyola College in Maryland. He is a member of Leadership Howard County Class of 2000. The Rotary Club of Pikesville recognized him as a Paul Harris Fellow in 2005.

Joe and his wife, Donna, reside in Columbia Maryland.

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Vanita Leatherwood from Hopeworks visits.

Hopeworks is Howard Counties Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center. Since 1978, the Domestic Violence Center of Howard County has been providing critical services to families affected by domestic violence and raising awareness in the community. In 2010, we added to our mission comprehensive services for survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse.

Prevention takes an entire community working together – challenging and changing the beliefs, attitudes and culture that allow them to exist. And it takes hope. Hope builds momentum and momentum creates change…when we work together.

Our community can be stronger and better and safer when we are all engaged in this work together. This is the spirit of our new name. It is a name we believe says as much about us as an agency as it does about us as a community.

Vanita will discuss several topics with us:
· Advocacy Services
· Crisis Shelter and Transitional Housing
· Counseling Services
· Abuser Intervention Program
· Pet Safe Program
· Pantry Service Needs
· Volunteering Opportunities
· Youth Leadership Project

Vanita Leatherwood joined the staff of HopeWorks of Howard County as the Director of Community Engagement in 2011. She has over 30 years of experience in developing, managing and facilitating community education programs. Ms. Leatherwood is the mother of two adult sons, an award-winning poet, and Transformative Language Arts educator. Her volunteer experience includes: nonprofit Board membership, tutoring in adult-literacy, facilitating wellness workshops, and mentoring youth. She holds a M.A. in Community Psychology and is a graduate of the 2013 Leadership Howard County Premier Class.

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Kim Eggborn Visits

Kim Eggborn is currently the Coordinator of Elementary Social Studies for the Howard County Public School System.  She began her career as a 5th grade elementary school teacher and has since grown to become involved both nationally and internationally with teachers regarding civics education. However, her primary love remains teaching elementary students and figuring out ways to make learning more meaningful for them. One of her proudest accomplishments is bringing We The People’s Simulated Congressional Hearings to all forty-one elementary schools in her district for all fifth grade students. Howard County has become a national leader in this program.

Simulated Congressional Hearings 

The Simulated Congressional Hearing (SCH) is a culminating activity for fifth grade social studies. The SCH is an authentic, performance-based assessment where students demonstrate their understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Students display their expertise on topics ranging from colonial life and government to the contemporary rights and responsibilities of citizens in our country. The students present prepared oral statements before a panel of simulated congressional committee members (“judges”). Following the formal presentations, students respond to follow-up questions from the panel. For more information about this program, visit: sch.hcpss.org

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This Week: Learn about Sandy Hook Promise

Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) is a national, nonprofit organization based in Newtown, Connecticut. The organization is led by several family members whose loved ones were killed in the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 that claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and 6 educators. 

Sandy Hook Promise is focused on preventing gun violence (and all violence) BEFORE it happens by educating and mobilizing parents, schools and communities on mental health and wellness programs that identify, intervene and help at-risk individuals. 

SHP is a moderate, above-the-politics organization that supports sensible non-policy and policy solutions that protect children and prevent gun violence. Our intent is to honor all victims of gun violence by turning our tragedy into a moment of transformation.

A Baltimore native, Mandy Weinman graduated from The Bryn Mawr School, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her Masters in Teaching from The Johns Hopkins University. An elementary school teacher in the Baltimore County Public School System until the birth of her first child, Mandy has also spent the last 17 years working for the Walt Disney Company. While with Disney, Mandy has worked in various capacities from Entertainment to Youth Markets to Human Resources. Still under the umbrella of Human Resources, Mandy is currently an Interview Partner with the Disney Campus Recruitment Team. In her spare time, Mandy volunteers as a Promise Leader for Sandy Hook Promise -- an organization working to protect children from gun violence. Mandy has 3 wonderful boys: Dillon (6), Benjamin (5) and Dennis (41).

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Woody Merkle – HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY

“Connecting People to Nature”

The Howard County Conservancy is a local, non-profit environmental education center and land trust. The Conservancy was founded by a group of local citizens in 1990.  Our mission is to educate children and adults about the natural world, preserve the land and its legacy and model responsible stewardship of the environment.

HoCo Conservancy Mission:

• Educate children and adults about our natural world

• Preserve the land

• Model responsible stewardship of our environment

Woody Merkle is a lifelong resident of Woodstock in Howard County.

Retired as a senior personnel manager from the Maryland State Department of Budget and Management – Office of Personnel Services and Benefits.

Volunteer Naturalist and member of the Board for the Howard County Conservancy.

Also a volunteer with the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Howard County Bird Club and Howard County Watershed Stewards Academy.

Completed training with the University of Maryland Extension Service as a Master Naturalist and Master Watershed Steward.

Served as a member and Chair of the Howard County Personnel Board.

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As the County’s human service agency, the Department of Citizen Services touches the lives of children and youth, their parents, people with a disability, consumers who have complaints about a business, individuals in crisis, and older adults – not to mention the child care and assisted living providers who receive training, the organizations seeking information to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and many others.  

Their mission is to ensure that Howard County residents have the resources they need to grow, thrive, and live with dignity.

The Department of Citizen Services is comprised of the Office of Children’s Services, Office of Consumer Affairs, and the Office on Aging. Other components of the Department include:  Disabilities Services, the Community Service Partnerships program (which provides County funding to non-profit human services agencies), and Homeless Services. 

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Christine O’Connor is a certified teacher and has been a substitute in the Howard County Public School System for the past nine years.  She has served on the PTA Executive Board for Elkridge Elementary School, Elkridge Landing Middle School, and Howard High School.


Ms. O’Connor has volunteered in several capacities in the community. She has served as a basketball coach, commissioner, coordinator, and board member for the Elkridge Youth Organization since 2006. She is also a member of the Greater Elkridge Community Association (GECA), the League of Woman Voters, and the Howard County Citizens Association.


Ms. O’Connor received the “Good Sports” award from the Howard County Recreation and Parks on October 21, 2014.


Along with her husband and children, Ms. O’Connor has resided in Howard County for 18 years. She has two children currently in the Howard County Public Schools and a 2014 graduate from Howard High School.

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Senator Gail Bates Stops by...

Join us as state Senator Gail Bates visits and gives an insight on the upcoming legislative session.

Gail H. Bates is a Republican member of the Maryland State Senate, representing District 9. She was first elected to the chamber in 2014.

She is a lifelong Maryland resident, a small business owner, a daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother.

For the past 14 years she has served in the Maryland House of Delegates and most recently in the Maryland State Senate. During that time, she led on our state's most important issues with fiscal discipline, integrity, and bipartisanship.
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Bates served in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 9A from her appointment to the chamber on February 4, 2002, to January 14, 2015.

Bates's professional experience includes working as a Certified Public Accountant, and Chief of Staff for Delegate Donald E. Murphy - District 12A and Assistant to Howard County Executive.

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Bates served on the following committees:

• Education, Health & Environmental Affairs
• Audit
• Children, Youth, and Families
• Protocol

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Bates served on these committees:
• Appropriations
• Oversight Committee on Pensions
• Oversight Committee on Personnel and the Subcommittee on Public Safety and Administration

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Blessings in a Backpack visits

This week we are pleased to welcome Cindy Scruggs and Carol Grady and hear all about this great Howard County program.

Blessings in a Backpack (BIAB) provides food for students on the free and reduced lunch program who might not have enough to eat on weekends. There are currently five Howard County elementary schools which offer this program:  Cradlerock, Jeffers Hill, Running Brook, Swansfield, and Talbott Springs. Over one hundred students in Columbia, Maryland receive BIAB meals each week.

Blessings in a Backpack is a national organization that provides organizational support and guidelines for the participating schools. However, each program must raise its own funds, of which 100% goes to purchase food. In accordance with guidelines set by the national organization, $80-$100 per student per academic year is budgeted. Each year since it began in Howard County in 2012, the need for the program has continued to grow. They hope to sustain the program by garnering financial support that the group can count on from year-to-year.

Carol Grady has been a teacher at East Columbia Preschool for 15 years.  She also volunteers as a docent at the Baltimore Museum of Art.  She is a long-time school volunteer, chairing a variety of PTA committees and holding several offices, including PTA president.  Carol was awarded the Friend of Education Award by the Howard County Board of Education in 2001.

Cindy Scruggs works in the Teacher Education Department at Howard Community College as a mentor for early childhood development students.  She also chaired several PTA committees, served as PTA president, and was awarded the Friend of Education Award by the Howard County Board of Education in 2003.

Both Carol and Cindy became involved in the Blessings in a Backpack program in 2013.  They coordinate the program at Swansfield Elementary School in Columbia, MD.

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Matt Fink discusses Mechanic Apprenticeships

Mechanic Apprenticeships is a program sponsored by the Washington Area Auto Dealers that assists High School seniors that are looking for a trade in mechanics and do no want to pursue degrees.

Young people without college degrees struggle to find jobs and many companies find it difficult to locate skilled workers. Matt's Rotary club supports a program that addresses both of these problems.

WANADA provides young people with education, training, and career positions as auto technicians. It is highly successful, placing over 300 young men in women as technicians in dealerships. The program receives funds from the Association, foundations, and 21 rotary clubs.

Matt Fink was employed by the mutual fund trade association, the Investment Company Institute, from 1971 to 2004 and served as the Institute’s President from 1991 to 2004. He is the author of a history of mutual funds, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider’s View. Mr. Fink is an honors graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School. He and his wife Ellanor live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  They have three grown children and three grandchildren. His hobbies include tennis and sailing his day sailor on the Severn River. He is a new member of the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club.

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Kellie Lego's awesome Interact kids stop by!

Through Rotary, Interact is a club for young people ages 12-18 who want to join together to tackle the issues in their community that they care most about. Through Interact, you can:

• Carry out hands-on service projects
• Make international connections
• Develop leadership skills
• Have fun!

The Hammond HS Interact Club is all about meaningful community service projects that benefit their school and their community. They are involved directly to ensure a say in their future!

Their theme this year is PARTNERSHIP. Kevin Baker is the President and Emily Hwang is the Vice President.

They are currently partnering with two students in their Leadership U project for the LGBTQ community, the event is called SAFE SPACE, and will be held tomorrow evening. The students made art work and advertisements for the event and will be volunteering/attending the event.

They are also partnering with the National Art Honor Society for their Fall Blend, an evening of talent and art. They have made art work and advertisements and will attend the event to support the organizations.

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Rich is the Founder / Executive Director of Generosity: Global (formerly A Friend To Homeless) – www.generosityglobal.org

Born and raised in Cameroon, West Africa, Rich was deeply impacted by the poverty that negatively impacted the lives of people (both adults and children) in his community, his country and throughout Africa. Because of this, he developed a profound desire to serve and make a positive difference in the lives of people who are less fortunate. His natural dislike of seeing people suffer was a strong driving force for the creation of an organization that will help bring awareness to the problems faced by the marginalized in society as well as galvanize a movement to change the lives of millions of people around the world.

Though his primary intent for starting Generosity: Global was to serve and provide resources to the homeless in Baltimore, MD, his vision for the organization has expanded into building a global organization that is impacting the lives of the homeless, orphans, and underserved persons around the world.

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Summer Enrichment Program

Supporting Head start and Summer Enrichment Programs is Investing in Quality Early Childhood Education in Howard County. CAC’s Head Start programming is aligned with National Education Goal #1 which provides for Children Entering School Ready to Learn.

Their purpose is to ensure that all children will have an opportunity to enhance their skills, knowledge, and abilities by participating in classrooms and field trip activities  that are recognize individual differences, cultivates their strengths, and help them become problem solvers. Promoting school readiness in these critical years of life is essential for establishing a foundation for learning and school success for years to come. 

In Howard county we give our children that opportunity through the summer enrichment program. 152 HS students began a 7 week intensive program from May 26th to July 10th. Offered at two of the centers, Ellicott City and Dasher Green. Monday through Friday, 6 hours a day. 

The goal is to promote the school readiness of children by enhancing their cognitive and social emotional development and have them enter school ready to learn.

The program adds an additional element of enrichment to the Head Start program by offering a diverse array of cultural  and field trip activities, guest visitors and local artists throughout the 7 week period.

Students transitioning to kindergarten in the fall were administered a pretest at the beginning of the program based on a check list of topics from the Howard County Public Schools. At the end of the 7 week program, the students were given a post test to determine if students improved with their scores:

Pretest average 73%

Posttest average 85%

Overall improvement 12%

The assessment of young children is about promoting learning, not simply measuring it. Through Head Start and the Summer Enrichment program young children have the ability to work through activities, to solve problems, to work independently, and to reflect on their thinking. They are active, spontaneous, creative, curious, and capable of self-direction.

These are the qualities that make all of us good students and leaners and set the path for success for our children who are our future.

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Howard County Fire and Rescue, Hands-Only CPR 

Brad Tanner visits to tell us all about this CPR program. This course is a one-hour, quick, upbeat, and informal class designed for community awareness of SCA, and will teach participants how to start CPR right away and continue doing chest compressions until help arrives. Participants will learn about cardiac arrest and how to recognize it’s happening, the three simple steps of Hands-only CPR for victims over 8 years old, and receive a basic overview of an automated external defibrillator (AED)*. Training in Hands-Only CPR gives members of our local community the ability to help save a life without using mouth-to-mouth ventilations or obtaining a certification card!

HCDFRS offers Hands-Only CPR to groups of 20 or more people including families, organizations, and community groups. Training is scheduled by appointment, and the instructors may be available to come to you. To inquire about a training class for your group, please contact our Hands-Only CPR team at handsonlycpr@hcdfrs.org with a proposed date, time, location, and number of participants for your training. You may also call (410) 313-2016 for more information.

Brad Tanner, Community Outreach Specialist has been with Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services 2011. A local product of the Howard County Public School System and a graduate from UMBC in Mass Media and Communications. In his current role, he has helped with the creation, implementation, and evaluation of the Department's community CPR program, smoke alarm education program, and formalizing a community risk reduction plan.

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District Governor, Ken Solow to visit!

Ken Solow
DG 2015-2016, District 7620

Ken joined the Columbia-Patuxent Rotary Club in September of 1996.  He served as Club President in 2001-2002 and won the Donal Lee Chamberlin award for Best Club President.  Ken has served District 7620 as Chair or member of the Leadership Training team since 2003.  He has been a featured speaker at Chesapeake PETS and other District Conferences.  He is a Paul Harris Fellow, a Paul Harris Society Member, and a Major Donor to the Rotary Foundation.

 

Ken is a founding partner of Pinnacle Advisory Group, Inc., a private wealth management firm serving clients in the Baltimore-Washington area and around the world.  Ken currently serves as Chair of Pinnacle’s investment committee, which oversees the management of $1.5 billion of assets for more than 850 families.  He is the author of the book, Buy and Hold is Dead (Again), the Case for Active Management in Dangerous Markets.

 

Ken is married to Linda and resides in Ellicott City, Md.  They have a son and a daughter, Danny, who lives and works in Boston, Mass, and Carly, who just graduated from the University of Maryland.

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