For his acts of bravery in saving his own property during the recent fires, President Joe dubbed Chuck Carmichael Fireman of the Year. Glad you, your wife, and your property are safe Chuck!

 

YES! - Youth Empowerment Summit is a one day workshop for high school students where they will be inspired by a diverse group of exceptional speakers, make life-long friends through fellowship activities, and discuss the ethical and social issues they are faced with daily. Tonight we had one of the activity counselors, Rob Sherman, use us (think guinea pig) as testing for new activities. Although, it seems like our club members made it through unscathed, we can assure you that we did not follow all the rules. And more rules were made up afterwards. Fun night! And the YES! attendees are going to have a great time.

When the District Conference is in a good location, our club tries to make the most of it. This year's conference in Santa Ynez (Chumash Casino/Solvang) didn't disappoint. A good size group (and our significant others) made it out. We had a blast!

 

 

    

 

Phillip Minton is an EU Commercial Readiness / Operational Excellence consultant at bluebird bio (an intentional lower-cased name of a biotech company). He and his guest spoke about Cell Therapy and how it is transforming our lives. Cell therapy is therapy in which cellular material is injected, grafted or implanted into a patient; this generally means intact, living cells. For example, T cells capable of fighting cancer cells via cell-mediated immunity may be injected in the course of immunotherapy. Phillip mentioned several ground breaking cases where cell therapy is helping those with life threatening illnesses. Be on the look out for huge success stories. Phillip says bio-technology is about to explode.