MEETING RECAP
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By Donn IrwinMonday, September 4, 2023
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The Lakewood Key
The family lunch……. uh, the Lakewood Rotary weekly meeting began promptly at 12:30 with President Mary (PM) ringing the lunch bell.
Yorleny Clapper gave the invocation and our future speaker: Kris Peterson led us in the pledge.
Housekeeping stuff:
Rob Erb and his band of experts - Wynn Hoffman, Terry Roarke, Rick Selden and Tom George - set us up.
Scott Buser took our foundation dollars while Gary Barton collected the raffle ticket $$ and acted as the SAA (Sergeant At Arms). (Just so ya know – the Club took in $1,000 for the Rotary Foundation today. You continue to amaze!)
The Lakewood Key
The family lunch……. uh, the Lakewood Rotary weekly meeting began promptly at 12:30 with President Mary (PM) ringing the lunch bell.
Yorleny Clapper gave the invocation and our future speaker: Kris Peterson led us in the pledge.
Housekeeping stuff:
Rob Erb and his band of experts - Wynn Hoffman, Terry Roarke, Rick Selden and Tom George - set us up.
Scott Buser took our foundation dollars while Gary Barton collected the raffle ticket $$ and acted as the SAA (Sergeant At Arms). (Just so ya know – the Club took in $1,000 for the Rotary Foundation today. You continue to amaze!)
Treasurer John Lowney kept track of the fines.
Phil Eng was the person with the camera and Donnnnnn Irwin had the quill and ink pot ready to record what he could.
On this day in history:
31 BC – Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) beat Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium
Guests, etc.:
Steve Mazoff introduced his brother David. David is visiting from Florida.
Phil Eng introduced Dave Cotant from Clover Park Rotary
Kris Peterson introduced a guest but I didn’t get the name.
Zoomers included Carl Bronkema, Barlow Buescher, Ole aka John Magnuson and PP Jim Rooks. (There were more but I didn’t get them…apologies).
PM had the Puffins present stand to be recognized after which she shared the basic info from two thank you letters from past grant recipients Sister Cities and Mary Moss, President/CEO of Lakewood Multicultural Coalition. (See message/letter below).
1666 – The Great Fire of London started.
PM announced that this month’s Rotary Focus is Basic Education and Literacy
Announcements – John Lowney talked about fires all over the world and then brought home to us all the need for help right here in our own backyard. We had a fatal fire in Lakewood’s Woodbrook neighborhood that destroyed homes and left our neighbors in need. He announced he was willing to put up $500 if he could get a match. Jim Sharp stepped up with the match and presto! – a thousand bucks happened just like that. Others then added to the kitty, which was over $3,000! This all will be handled by Diane Formoso from Caring for Kids.
Wendy McGowan announced her birthday (she gave an age but I am reluctant to mention the number in this epistle….), a trip to Michigan and catching Covid. Dare I say she coughed up a hundred bucks for all that.
1838 – William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) passed away.
Yorleny Clapper announced that a Spanish camp for kids to learn English is expanding from 1 camp to 6 camps. Rose Stevens followed up with a positive testimony for these camps.
PP Gayle Selden gave us an update on our exchange student Emilia Babazada– attended first three days of school and will be going to Bumbershoot and NW Trek.
PP Potter (Bill that is) paid a few bucks to announce that his son got a surprise scholarship to PLU!! Congrats to the Potter family!
1901 – Teddy Roosevelt, running for VP, delivered the “walk softly and carry a big stick” speech.
Jim Sharp gave up some more money announcing that he has shipped his son off to St. George, Utah to attend school.
PM shared that she had run across an article that told the story of isolated senior citizens in Canada are using some sort of inexpensive little cycle to get around and that might be something to look into for us to pursue locally. She then asked the collective to guess how long it takes for a single use plastic water bottle to breakdown/decompose. Turns out it takes 450 years. Perhaps there is a better way?? And finally, PM mentioned something about walking on fire to raise money. Personally, I’d rather just write a check.
1914 – The last known Passenger Pigeon died in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Zoo.
1933 – Germany invaded Poland
1945 – Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent from France.
Anne Enquist, subbing for Greg Horn, introduced our speaker, Kris Peterson. Kris is a Lakewood Rotary Club member and the son of member Bob Peterson. Oh, and Kris served in the military and is a very smart guy! He retired as a full Colonel.
The title for today’s presentation is “Treatments for Treatment Resistant Depression.
Kris mentioned that he is not here that often and is glad to be back.
The business name he uses for the type of depression treatment he will talk about is Touchstone TMS. Touchstone uses two types of treatments: TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) and a drug named Spravato (esketamine).
TMS is a technological breakthrough in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety, and other mood disorders. It is an FDA-approved, non-invasive treatment that has been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in its ‘Best Practices Guidelines’ as an effective treatment for major depression.
NeuroStim TMS is a safe and effective outpatient treatment for individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or similar disorders who have not experienced satisfactory improvement from antidepressant medication or other treatments.
Kris treats patients that have not responded successfully to more conventional types of treatment for depression. Typically, his patients have had to have gone through counseling and two types of anti-depressant drugs without success before using TMS or Spravato.
With the TMS treatment, a magnetic coil is affixed to the patient’s head. The device then generates pulses that pass into the brain. The pulses are used to modulate certain areas of the brain that need to be “adjusted”. Single pulses of electrical energy are used to locate treatment areas. Multiple, repetitive pulses are used for the actual treatment.
This particular treatment method takes 30-40 office visits of 15 minutes each daily. Insurance covers 36 visits. TMS has been in clinical use for over 20 years and has been found to, in some cases, also be effective in treating migraines and tinnitus.
Spravato is basically an antidepressant nasal spray that gets you seriously high. It is a prescription drug administered in a controlled setting. A course of treatment consists of 15 total visits. The drug is used to increase efficiencies in the brain that have been inefficient in the past. In other words, it appears to wake up parts of the brain that have been kind of taking it easy. The increased efficiency is what drives the cure.
There is a list of side effects that come with the use of this drug.
Kris mentioned that there is a 70% success rate when using these treatments and then he said that his wife was in the wings waiting for him and he had to go catch a plane. Before his quick departure though he did offer money for those affected by the fires in Lakewood.
(Hopefully most of this information is correct – there was a lot of technical jargon and information given that may have been misinterpreted and / or misstated by this writer.)
For more information about these treatments, I am sure that Kris would be happy to talk to you.
And please, don’t mess around with depression. This writer lost a son because of it.
The drawing was for $435. Chuck Hellar had the winning ticket, and he drew a white chip. Congrats Chuck.
Other fun facts on this day:
1954 – The movie “Rear Window” opened in American theaters.
1973 – J.R.R. Tolkien, author of “the Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” passed away.
1969 - A group of young army officers led by Muammar al-Qaddafi deposed the king and made Libya republic.
Lily Tomlin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Conway Twitty and Dr. Phil McGraw were all born on September 1.
Ancient Egyptian architect: "Do you know how to build a pyramid?"
Ancient Egyptian builder: "Well, err yeah, up to a point."
What do you call a man in debt?
Owen.
Writer’s note: There isn’t a single mention of anything Nordic in this version of the Lakewood Key in honor of your writer for next week. You are going to have to wait 7 days to find out.
Thank you letters:
Jan Gee and committee Members,
On behalf of the Lakewood Multicultural Coalition Board of Directors and general membership, thank you so much for supporting the efforts of the LMCC.
We look forward to bringing the community together to celebrate while focusing on our present and future leaders in the Greater Puget Sound area.
Your support makes a difference.
Thank you,
Mary Moss
President/CEO
Lakewood Multicultural Coalition
The family lunch……. uh, the Lakewood Rotary weekly meeting began promptly at 12:30 with President Mary (PM) ringing the lunch bell.
Yorleny Clapper gave the invocation and our future speaker: Kris Peterson led us in the pledge.
Housekeeping stuff:
Rob Erb and his band of experts - Wynn Hoffman, Terry Roarke, Rick Selden and Tom George - set us up.
Scott Buser took our foundation dollars while Gary Barton collected the raffle ticket $$ and acted as the SAA (Sergeant At Arms). (Just so ya know – the Club took in $1,000 for the Rotary Foundation today. You continue to amaze!)
The Lakewood Key
The family lunch……. uh, the Lakewood Rotary weekly meeting began promptly at 12:30 with President Mary (PM) ringing the lunch bell.
Yorleny Clapper gave the invocation and our future speaker: Kris Peterson led us in the pledge.
Housekeeping stuff:
Rob Erb and his band of experts - Wynn Hoffman, Terry Roarke, Rick Selden and Tom George - set us up.
Scott Buser took our foundation dollars while Gary Barton collected the raffle ticket $$ and acted as the SAA (Sergeant At Arms). (Just so ya know – the Club took in $1,000 for the Rotary Foundation today. You continue to amaze!)
Treasurer John Lowney kept track of the fines.
Phil Eng was the person with the camera and Donnnnnn Irwin had the quill and ink pot ready to record what he could.
On this day in history:
31 BC – Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) beat Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium
Guests, etc.:
Steve Mazoff introduced his brother David. David is visiting from Florida.
Phil Eng introduced Dave Cotant from Clover Park Rotary
Kris Peterson introduced a guest but I didn’t get the name.
Zoomers included Carl Bronkema, Barlow Buescher, Ole aka John Magnuson and PP Jim Rooks. (There were more but I didn’t get them…apologies).
PM had the Puffins present stand to be recognized after which she shared the basic info from two thank you letters from past grant recipients Sister Cities and Mary Moss, President/CEO of Lakewood Multicultural Coalition. (See message/letter below).
1666 – The Great Fire of London started.
PM announced that this month’s Rotary Focus is Basic Education and Literacy
Announcements – John Lowney talked about fires all over the world and then brought home to us all the need for help right here in our own backyard. We had a fatal fire in Lakewood’s Woodbrook neighborhood that destroyed homes and left our neighbors in need. He announced he was willing to put up $500 if he could get a match. Jim Sharp stepped up with the match and presto! – a thousand bucks happened just like that. Others then added to the kitty, which was over $3,000! This all will be handled by Diane Formoso from Caring for Kids.
Wendy McGowan announced her birthday (she gave an age but I am reluctant to mention the number in this epistle….), a trip to Michigan and catching Covid. Dare I say she coughed up a hundred bucks for all that.
1838 – William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) passed away.
Yorleny Clapper announced that a Spanish camp for kids to learn English is expanding from 1 camp to 6 camps. Rose Stevens followed up with a positive testimony for these camps.
PP Gayle Selden gave us an update on our exchange student Emilia Babazada– attended first three days of school and will be going to Bumbershoot and NW Trek.
PP Potter (Bill that is) paid a few bucks to announce that his son got a surprise scholarship to PLU!! Congrats to the Potter family!
1901 – Teddy Roosevelt, running for VP, delivered the “walk softly and carry a big stick” speech.
Jim Sharp gave up some more money announcing that he has shipped his son off to St. George, Utah to attend school.
PM shared that she had run across an article that told the story of isolated senior citizens in Canada are using some sort of inexpensive little cycle to get around and that might be something to look into for us to pursue locally. She then asked the collective to guess how long it takes for a single use plastic water bottle to breakdown/decompose. Turns out it takes 450 years. Perhaps there is a better way?? And finally, PM mentioned something about walking on fire to raise money. Personally, I’d rather just write a check.
1914 – The last known Passenger Pigeon died in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Zoo.
1933 – Germany invaded Poland
1945 – Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent from France.
Anne Enquist, subbing for Greg Horn, introduced our speaker, Kris Peterson. Kris is a Lakewood Rotary Club member and the son of member Bob Peterson. Oh, and Kris served in the military and is a very smart guy! He retired as a full Colonel.
The title for today’s presentation is “Treatments for Treatment Resistant Depression.
Kris mentioned that he is not here that often and is glad to be back.
The business name he uses for the type of depression treatment he will talk about is Touchstone TMS. Touchstone uses two types of treatments: TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) and a drug named Spravato (esketamine).
TMS is a technological breakthrough in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety, and other mood disorders. It is an FDA-approved, non-invasive treatment that has been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in its ‘Best Practices Guidelines’ as an effective treatment for major depression.
NeuroStim TMS is a safe and effective outpatient treatment for individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or similar disorders who have not experienced satisfactory improvement from antidepressant medication or other treatments.
Kris treats patients that have not responded successfully to more conventional types of treatment for depression. Typically, his patients have had to have gone through counseling and two types of anti-depressant drugs without success before using TMS or Spravato.
With the TMS treatment, a magnetic coil is affixed to the patient’s head. The device then generates pulses that pass into the brain. The pulses are used to modulate certain areas of the brain that need to be “adjusted”. Single pulses of electrical energy are used to locate treatment areas. Multiple, repetitive pulses are used for the actual treatment.
This particular treatment method takes 30-40 office visits of 15 minutes each daily. Insurance covers 36 visits. TMS has been in clinical use for over 20 years and has been found to, in some cases, also be effective in treating migraines and tinnitus.
Spravato is basically an antidepressant nasal spray that gets you seriously high. It is a prescription drug administered in a controlled setting. A course of treatment consists of 15 total visits. The drug is used to increase efficiencies in the brain that have been inefficient in the past. In other words, it appears to wake up parts of the brain that have been kind of taking it easy. The increased efficiency is what drives the cure.
There is a list of side effects that come with the use of this drug.
Kris mentioned that there is a 70% success rate when using these treatments and then he said that his wife was in the wings waiting for him and he had to go catch a plane. Before his quick departure though he did offer money for those affected by the fires in Lakewood.
(Hopefully most of this information is correct – there was a lot of technical jargon and information given that may have been misinterpreted and / or misstated by this writer.)
For more information about these treatments, I am sure that Kris would be happy to talk to you.
And please, don’t mess around with depression. This writer lost a son because of it.
The drawing was for $435. Chuck Hellar had the winning ticket, and he drew a white chip. Congrats Chuck.
Other fun facts on this day:
1954 – The movie “Rear Window” opened in American theaters.
1973 – J.R.R. Tolkien, author of “the Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” passed away.
1969 - A group of young army officers led by Muammar al-Qaddafi deposed the king and made Libya republic.
Lily Tomlin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Conway Twitty and Dr. Phil McGraw were all born on September 1.
Ancient Egyptian architect: "Do you know how to build a pyramid?"
Ancient Egyptian builder: "Well, err yeah, up to a point."
What do you call a man in debt?
Owen.
Writer’s note: There isn’t a single mention of anything Nordic in this version of the Lakewood Key in honor of your writer for next week. You are going to have to wait 7 days to find out.
Thank you letters:
Jan Gee and committee Members,
On behalf of the Lakewood Multicultural Coalition Board of Directors and general membership, thank you so much for supporting the efforts of the LMCC.
We look forward to bringing the community together to celebrate while focusing on our present and future leaders in the Greater Puget Sound area.
Your support makes a difference.
Thank you,
Mary Moss
President/CEO
Lakewood Multicultural Coalition
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