Our program on the 5th was presented by Howard Preston who is an expert on highway safety. He’s been a consultant for over forty years, and had a PowerPoint that described the sophistication that exists now in the field of highway safety..JPG)
He described the way statistical info is now broken down to help design safer roads. The accident reports filed with the states are screened, and the info is used to build safer roads. For example, data shows that 70 % of the accidents occur I metropolitan areas, but 60% of the fatal accidents occur on local roads, and the most dangerous spots on roads are curves and commercial intersections. Those areas are where the highway departments are focusing their efforts to reduce hazards.
Remember: (1) Next week, we meet at Scenic Heights School for our service project. (2) Make your annual commitment to the Rotary Foundation.
Fun Facts: > A million dollars’ worth of $100.00 bills weighs only 22 pounds. > Music has the ability to repair brain damage and restore lost memories. > Tuesday is the most productive day of the workweek. > There is a town in Norway called Hell, and it does freeze over every year. > In the 1600s, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury. > The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
Many Hands Many Meals Update: Congratulations Excelsior Rotarians for packing 3,240 meals on January, 22nd!
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Nick discussed 8 characteristics with the STRIVE students: 1. You have a Choice. 2. Take Responsibility. 3. Convert Failure to Success. 4. Choose Words Carefully. 5. Fuel Your Attitude. 6. Accept Life’s Challenges, Lessons. 7. Look Beyond Self. 8. Express Attitude. As part of his multi-media presentation he show a couple clips of Nick Vujicic who is a motivational speaker and was born without arms and legs but an incredible attitude to succeed. The students were touched by is life with many brushing away tears. The group then met in small groups to hear the Mentor’s most challenging situation and how they dealt with it and also to have students share their stories and the kids really opened-up. Simply stated – It was 
out what our club has done internationally in recent years, and told us of the reading program that he is working with. The program gets books to kids at an early age, and gets them “tuned” to learning.
STRIVE held its first student meeting with Tim Liftin Presenting on “Attitudes” and as always it was out of sight! We had four more students join the group to bring our total up to 18 students. Tim totally engaged the students with a multi-media presentation emphasizing that it all starts with having a positive attitude in life. He explained happiness and that you start with it and not end with it and how to set-up a “to do list” and how to take the first step to make things become a reality and not to procra
stinate. He spoke about dreams and had the students write down what they wanted life to be like at 30 years old and to stick their dream in a drawer and keep going back to it over and over again. Most importantly he explored famous people that didn’t let failure stop them from reaching their goals. He ended with a competition on their cell phones that asked questions from his presentation and Chinaka Ihekweazu was the fastest with the most correct answers and got the prize. Who said that kids don’t listen. (Photo- Will Carlson, Tim and Gisell Varela)
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