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October 16, 2025 |
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Welcome to this week’s meeting of the eClub of the State of Jefferson.
Hello eClub Members, and welcome to this week’s weekly meeting.
So very sorry for my absence these past few weeks or has it been longer?!? I have been so busy that I have lost track of time.
I am vacating my house in Bremerton because I am going to rent it out for the next year to two. In the meantime, I am going to be visiting friends and family before I head down to Mazatlán for the winter. I am not exactly sure where I will end up when I get back, but my brother Scott suggested that I rent/buy an RV so I can go to different places, and not feel like I am intruding on my friends and family.
I am currently in Bend, Oregon visiting a friend, and also looking at small low maintenance houses/condos.
My next stop is to San Antonio, Texas to visit my niece and family and to also look at condos. I will be there for a couple of weeks, and then I will be off to Las Vegas, Nevada to visit my sister Lea and her husband John Bushnell for another couple of weeks.
I will then fly to Santa Barbara, California to stay with my other sister Kelly and her husband Chris (and family) Brand for a month before I fly south to Mexico. I plan to fly back to the U.S. on March 28, 2026.
The best part is that I belong to the State of Jefferson Rotary eClub, and I can attend a meeting or Coffee Chat wherever I am!
I hope you all enjoy this week’s meeting, and if you don’t hear from me for a couple of weeks, it just means I am enjoying family and friends.
Yours in Rotary,
Jackie
Jackie Oakley
2025-2026 Club President
The Four-Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at club meetings:
Of the things we think, say or do
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
email president@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
I wanted to update everyone on the success of No Borders Rotaract in recent months! We are now in excess of 30 members and have PDG Bill coming to speak at our next meeting in ten days. Because we have so many new members who have never been a part of Rotary and are spread out all over the globe, I thought we could foster a sense of team spirit, fulfilment, and familiarity with State of Jeff and WASH members by hosting a pumpkin carving competition, to fund raise for each member to have a No Borders Rotaract t-shirt wherever they are in the world (which is actually surprisingly inexpensive - but some of our members are in countries where their dollar does not go as far as ours, so it is more difficult for them). We did this pumpkin carving idea a few years ago with a New Zealand Rotaract club, and it was very fun for all involved. This isn't so much about the money, it's more about the engagement (if needed I can boost the proceeds myself to have enough to order the shirts, which we'll do in November - our VP Daniel's little sister Elena is working on the design). I would simply absolutely love to have as many State of Jefferson members there as possible because this is a great way to allow our new members to actively socialize with established Rotarians and meet you all! I also hope that there will be a few members of the WASH e-club there too (fingers crossed). We'll send out a zoom link closer to the date along with a proper 'order of operations' but for now it looks like everything is good to go! I've included a few images from when we did this a few years ago, though it was on a smaller scale then, but so much fun. And of course, I would like to thank you all for your continued support and interest in No Borders. I'm absolutely thrilled with the growth of the club. We already have a president elect, secretary elect and treasurer elect, so the continued success of the club looks assured for next year, too! We helped run a soup kitchen in Vienna back in August that fed 150 people, with plans to do so again on the 6th December, and that has everyone quite energized. So, all is going great. Can't wait to have everyone in the same Zoom room! All my best, and yours in service, 
No Borders Rotaract
Essentially, our Treasurer Karl and I will be teaching the Rotaractors how to hollow out and carve a jack-o’-lantern after our meeting with PDG Bill. (Our members in Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, India and Singapore will be carving watermelons or other kinds of gourds). Then, on October 25th at 3pm EST, we could all have a big zoom session and our members will go around and introduce themselves, their country, and what they chose for their design and why! Voting would happen via PayPal donation (recommended $5 - 10, ish, but less is OK too!) while we share some spooky stories, and then the winner will be announced. The idea now is to put the candidate you're voting for in the subject line or the PayPal transaction but this will be finalized before the meeting. 
Sarah Atkins (President '25-'26, No Borders)
Weekly eClub "Coffee Chat" Zoom meetings
Tuesday at 12:00 PM PDT
I believe these “fellowship” meetings have been valuable. They are informal opportunities to get acquainted with our members. If it fits your schedule, I look forward to “seeing” you at the meetings.
October is Economic and Community Development Month
Nearly 1.4 billion employed people live on less than $1.25 a day. Our members promote economic and community development and reduce poverty in underserved communities through training, well-paying jobs, and access to financial management institutions. Projects range from providing people with equipment to vocational training. Our members work to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.
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- Rise of the female Honduran entrepreneur
- New Ugandan club takes on challenges of a growing economy
- Free vegetable gardens sprouting up around France
Rotary connections help students in Ukraine
A Ukrainian student with her used laptop, provided through a service effort between Rotary clubs in the US and the Rotary Club of Kharkiv.
By Sergii Stavitskiy, Foundation Chair for the Rotary Club of Kharkiv-International, Ukraine
Before the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I met with Randy Bretz of the Rotary Club of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, and we agreed to coordinate a service effort we hoped could become a large-scale global project to provide small, stream-driven hydroelectric generators to remote villages in South America. I was visiting Lincoln, Nebraska, on a business trip and reached out to the Lincoln club to discuss the potential of engaging many clubs around the world on the project.
Later that year, we connected again at the Rotary International Convention in Toronto and discussed some more details. We were both excited by the idea and began to talk with people in our respective clubs and districts. But then COVID-19 hit and pretty much shut down the idea as one after another country went into quarantine. We stayed in touch via email and WhatsApp.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, my club began to realize that students were missing school either because they were sheltering or their families had evacuated to safer locations. We began to explore the challenge and soon realized that students could remain current on their studies if they had working laptops. Our club began to collect the names of families and children that could use a laptop and soon we had 20,000 names. That’s when I began to contact fellow Rotarians around the world, including Randy.
To date, a dozen clubs have sent money to our club to purchase used laptops and distribute them to students that need them. When Randy heard of our need, he went to his club’s foundation and asked for a grant. That’s what Rotarians do, they connect with one another and when need arises, they take action. His club even produced a video to inform other clubs.
We have received about 5,000 used laptops, marked them with a Rotary sticker, and distributed them to students. They are using them to keep up with online classes and even stay in touch with their fellow students. Through our global Rotary connections, the project has touched members in the United States, the UK, Europe, and South America.
World Polio Day Oct 24th
Each year on 24 October, Rotary and Rotaract clubs around the world join with our partners, health organizations, and public health advocates to mark World Polio Day. You have a critical role in this by hosting events and activities to increase awareness about polio and raise funds toward eradicating it. To build on the success of last year, we need your help!
It’s no secret that global health programs like the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are facing unprecedented funding challenges amid changing government priorities, rising rates of vaccine hesitancy, and the spread of misinformation. So why should Rotary members continue to care about polio eradication and World Polio Day? The simple answer:
Rotary launched the PolioPlus program in 1985 with a promise to children everywhere that one day; they won’t have to fear being paralyzed by polio. It has been a long and challenging endeavor to contain wild poliovirus to just two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And as in any marathon, the final mile of polio eradication is the most challenging.
This is why it’s so important for Rotary and Rotaract clubs to use World Polio Day on 24 October as an opportunity to raise awareness. Remind your communities about the incredible progress we’ve made toward eradicating this disease and emphasize that polio anywhere will always be a threat to children everywhere. Together, we end polio.
Through our collective voices and actions across the world on 24 October, we can maintain our momentum toward fulfilling that promise.
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7. View your report. You have the ability to download and print the report from the small printer icon.
That's it! Many clubs are having events for World Polio Day (Oct.24) and the easiest way to give is through My Rotary. Giving in this way is called Rotary Direct.
Navajo Solar Lights
Bringing solar powered lighting to at-risk populations on the Navajo Reservation.
The Navajo Solar Light Project is a program that brings solar powered lighting to at-risk populations on the Navajo Reservation, including elders over 70 years old. The project was initiated by the Rotary Club of Durango Daybreak by Joe Williams.
The Navajo Nation, bigger than the state of West Virginia, sprawls across Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. It is a harsh but beautiful land.
Over 15,000 Navajo homes don’t have access to electricity. Nearly a third have no running water, and more than half lack kitchen and toilet facilities.
A solar panel the size of a baking sheet mounts onto a roof with a pole. A wire runs from the panel into the house where up to three rechargeable lights hang from hooks on the ceiling. To turn on the lights, the resident need only touch a button. The light can be detached and used as a flashlight for going outside at night. The kit includes a charging outlet for cell phones which enhances the resident’s safety and contact with family. Each solar light kit costs about $300.
The impact of the COVID pandemic on Navajo children has been significant. Children have been out of school and many lack reliable internet for access to online education.
Chinle Plants Hope (CPH) is a project that can take the Navajo Solar Lights Project to a new level, offer significant assistance to the Navajo people and meet the challenges of Covid. It is a community-based program that is also being supported by the Durango Daybreak (CO) and Glenwood Springs (AZ) Rotary Clubs.
This project will expand the reading and learning opportunities for both the children and the community of Chinle, Arizona.
Now, and for the past 9 years, Rotarians led by the Rotary Club of Durango Daybreak have teamed with the Navajo Nation to bring solar lights to remote, off-the-grid homes on the country’s largest Native American reservation. Volunteers from all over the United States have not only pitched-in to make solar light a reality to Navajo residents but have had the opportunity to sample regional food and learn about a vastly different culture. Among the Rotary Clubs that have supported this project are:
- The Rotary eClub of the State of Jefferson
- Durango High Noon Rotary Club (CO)
- The Rotary Club of Eugene Airport (OR)
- Boise Rotary Club (ID)
- Denver Rotary Club (CO)
- Rotary Club of the Caldwells (NJ)
- Rotary Club of Five Points (SC)
In addition, an important part of the project has been to involve local Interact Clubs and Youth Exchange students.
The Colorful, Scandalous, True History of the Machine That Created American Pop
The jukebox got its start earlier than you might think, but it truly became iconic when rock ‘n’ roll took over in the 1950s
In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder. Electrical sound amplification was still years away, so customers had to insert stethoscope-like tubes into their ears to hear anything, ideally toweling down the tubes afterward to remove earwax ahead of the next listener.
Despite this unwieldy setup, the machine reportedly brought in more than $1,000 (some $34,000 today) in less than six months, and coin-operated music machines soon proliferated in bars, at drugstores and even in new listening parlors across the country. Alas, poor sound quality meant selections couldn’t be soft or subtle, so popular offerings included such earsplitting numbers as John Philip Sousa marches and the novelty whistler John Yorke AtLee performing popular ditties of the day. By the early 1900s, the machines struggled to compete against player pianos and other automated instruments that could entertain whole venues with higher-quality audio—and without requiring patrons to stick foreign objects into their delicate ear canals.
But record players continued to improve in quality and volume, and pay-to-play phonographs made a huge comeback in the 1920s, paving the way for the jukebox era. In 1927, the Automatic
Musical Instrument Company unveiled the first amplified, multi-record coin phonograph. Jukeboxes—they took on this nickname in the 1930s in reference to African American “juke joints” of the South—introduced the world to music on demand, for far less than buying a record (and on better equipment than people had at home). The boxes also reshaped the recording industry, as labels began releasing music specifically designed for post-Prohibition barrooms and cafés. Danceable big-band numbers and tunes like the “Beer Barrel Polka” were early hits, and the irrepressible popularity of jukeboxes soon rocketed artists like swing impresario Glenn Miller to national fame, creating an audience for loud, catchy, rollicking tunes, often played on newly electrified instruments, shaping what would become country, R & B and rock ’n’ roll.
(Photo left by Max Tcvetkov on Unsplash)
Jukebox operators came to account for a majority of record sales, as they frequently changed out selections to keep customers dropping nickels. Using meters within the machines, operators could track which tunes were most popular at which locations, and they programmed boxes accordingly, offering a mix of national hits and more regionally specific selections. The latter included many tunes by Black and working-class musicians, in folk genres such as country and blues that tended to get scant airplay on the radio of the day but soon found appreciative listeners on jukeboxes.
By the early 1940s, about 500,000 jukeboxes dotted the country, sometimes inspiring too much of a ruckus: Newspapers frequently reported on bar fights over music selections and complaints about noise. Snootier critics, meanwhile, voiced more petulant grievances: “The contrivance is everywhere and is always booming its inanities,” one Los Angeles Times writer lamented in 1941.
But jukeboxes had a chance to prove their patriotic bona fides during World War II, when they provided vital entertainment on military bases and at troops’ canteens, sometimes on machines donated by public-spirited American operators—not a single nickel required. “Not even the cacophony of war can dull the magic power of Wurlitzer Automatic Phonograph music,” boasted a 1944 ad. At the same time, a number of jukebox manufacturers, including Wurlitzer, retooled factories for weapons production.
After the war, stylish and streamlined jukebox cabinets in diners let teenagers listen to rock ’n’ roll at volumes generally impossible (or at least inadvisable) to achieve at home. Jukeboxes became indelibly associated with 1950s youth culture, the songs selected as easily as ordering a diner burger or milkshake. Jukebox operators now furnished teenage canteens, modeled after the military rest spots where the boxes had helped entertain the youth of the previous decade. The format of hit-after-hit music queues also helped inspire teen-friendly Top 40 radio, replacing older formats that defaulted to playing several songs in a row by a single artist. (Photo Right by Anastasiya D on Unsplash)
Over the next couple of decades, jukeboxes would see their numbers dwindle as fans turned to other sources of entertainment, including increasingly high-fidelity home stereos, television and the transistor radio, where Top 40 countdowns now introduced listeners to hits. “Sound of jukebox is fading melody,” reported one Associated Press headline in 1982, estimating jukebox numbers in the United States had fallen by more than half since the 1950s, while video games became the main draw in coin-operated entertainment. Yet decades later, jukeboxes—many now digital—continue to ring out across the U.S. And the idea that public establishments should offer a curated selection of recorded music, whether individual patrons like it or not, has become nearly ubiquitous. We’re living, and listening, in a world these machines created.
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How to Easily Transfer Your Phone's Data to Your New iPhone 17
About to unbox a new iPhone 17? Here's how to safely and quickly move all your information from your current phone, whether that's an older iPhone or an Android phone.
By Jeff Carlson
You can safely get all your data onto your new iPhone without any hiccups.
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Getting a new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air or really any new-to-you iPhone is an exciting moment -- which is then interrupted by the annoyance of moving all of your information safely from the old phone to the new. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to shift data to a new iPhone from the phone you have now -- even if it's an Android model.
I'm here to explain the four ways to easily transfer data from your old phone to your new iPhone.
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1. The convenient method: Restore from iCloud
During the setup process, you'll be asked if you want to directly transfer apps and information from your old iPhone to your new one using Quick Start. This feature was first rolled out with iOS 12.4, so if it's been several years since you've upgraded phones, it'll be the first time you've seen the option.
The easiest and quickest method to set up your new iPhone is to restore from a recent iCloud backup. As you walk through the initial setup process, tap Restore from iCloud Backup, sign in with your Apple Account (previously called Apple ID before iOS 18) and then pick the most recent backup of your old iPhone.
If the backup is more than a day or two old, take an extra few minutes to create a new backup. To do so, open the Settings app on your old phone, search for iCloud Backup in the Search field at the top of the screen and then click the matching result. Click Back Up Now to update the cloud backup.
Once that finishes, go back to your new iPhone and select the backup you just created as what you want to use to restore from.
Your phone will then restore your settings and preferences, and you'll be able to start using it in about 15 minutes. It will continue downloading your installed apps in the background.
Once everything is restored, you'll need to sign back into any accounts you added to your phone, as well as go through your apps and make sure you're still signed in.
You've got several options when it comes to setting up your new iPhone.
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2. The speediest method: Apple direct transfer
If you do not have a recent iCloud backup or your internet connection is slow, you can transfer everything from iPhone to iPhone, either wirelessly or via cable. When the Quick Start process asks for the source, choose the direct transfer option.
Using a cable rated for fast data speeds, the process can be surprisingly swift, and is my preferred way to upgrade to a new iPhone. Connect both phones via the cable; note that you might need an adapter if your current phone is an iPhone 14 or earlier with a Lightning port. Apple has more details on how to make a wired transfer work.
If you opt for the wireless route, make sure both phones are plugged in and charging to ensure they don't run out of battery, and that they are connected to your Wi-Fi network (it's part of the setup process on the new phone). And also make sure you have enough time for the process to finish -- it could take over an hour.
The more information you have on your phone, like photos in your library, the longer it will take. When the transfer starts, the phones will show you a time estimate. Every time I've used this tool, that estimate has been accurate within a couple of minutes. It's worth taking the time if you don't use Apple's iCloud service to back up your phone.
3. The longer, comprehensive method: Use a Mac or PC
A longer but safer method is to restore from an encrypted backup using a Mac or PC. Not only does this process transfer all of your apps, settings and preferences, but it also means you don't have to sign into the countless apps you have on your phone.
Before you can use this method, you'll need to create an encrypted backup of your current iPhone. I know that may sound intimidating or overly complicated, but it only means you have to check an extra box and enter a password.
On a Mac, you'll use Finder to back up your old iPhone -- and make sure you take the steps to make an archive backup. Check the Encrypt backup box and enter a password you'll remember when prompted. Then let your Mac go to work, creating a backup file. It will let you know when it's done.
Restore your data from a backup of your old iPhone using your computer.
Jeff Carlson/CNET
On a PC, you'll need to use iTunes (it's not completely dead) or the Apple Devices app to create a backup, as explained here. Again, you'll need to make sure the Encrypt backup box is checked and enter a password.
To restore your new phone, open Finder or iTunes, and connect your phone to your computer. Click Trust when prompted, and then follow the prompts, selecting the backup you just created as what you want to use to restore the phone. You will need to enter the backup's password before the process begins, so make sure you don't forget it.
Once it's done, your new phone will be an exact copy of your old phone and you won't have to spend any time signing into apps or random accounts.
4. For Android users: Move to iOS
Apple doesn't have many Android apps listed in Google's Play Store, but Move to iOS is one of them. This free app will connect your Android phone to a new iPhone and allow you to transfer the most important information from one phone to the other.
Here's the entire step-by-step process, as well as some caveats, like the fact that it won't transfer any locally stored music or PDF files.
Apple made an Android app called Move to iOS that makes moving your messages, photos, videos and more from an Android phone to an iPhone easy.
Patrick Holland/CNET
Apple said it has redesigned Move to iOS to make it faster and easier to migrate from your Android phone to your new iPhone. The company goes on to say it has sped up Wi-Fi migration with transfer speeds up to 5GHz, and you can use Wi-Fi on your iPhone to connect to your Android phone. You can also connect your Android phone to your new iPhone with a USB-C or USB-C to Lightning cable to move everything over more quickly, Apple said.
No matter the process you used to set up your new phone, you're in for excitement and fun as you explore what it can do.
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