WELCOME & TRADITIONS

President Mary Kane called the meeting to order, followed by the Four-Way Test.

• Brandi Remington, TST-BOCES, guest of Angela Sullivan and our speaker
• Gail Smith, Community Coalition for Healthy Youth
• Callyn Patilla, Tompkins Community Bank, guest of President Mary and Frank Towner

• We passed around George Gull’s photo album from the Costa Rican water project, supported by a grant from our club and Rotary International.
• The next board meeting is March 21
• March 22 is the rescheduled tour of the Alcohol and Drug Council's new detox facility, immediately after the Rotary meeting.  Please contact Angela Sullivan if you would like to attend.
• March 29 is our Business of the Club meeting where Rotary Leadership Institute participants will be sharing what they learned; we will celebrate our Coltivare homecoming; and discuss the calendar reorganization.
• The virtual Global Grants Seminar is Saturday, April 1^st.  Register here.
• Registration is now open for the Spring Highway Cleanup for the Ithaca Rotary and Sunrise Rotary on April 22, 2023.  Celebrate Earth Day with us.  Meeting in the parking lot of Top’s Friendly Market at 8:45 AM and we’ll conclude at 11:00 AM.  Wear sturdy shoes and bring gloves and water.  We will provide hard hats, colorful vests, and bags.  Register here.  Bring friends and family, too!
• We are meeting at Coltivare from now on!  Coltivare is supporting the club, and we should do the same for them, including buying lunch when here.

This survey has evolved from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, but we are now using the CLYDE survey that measures risk and protective factors.  There is a dashboard available online to allow anyone to see this data for 2021, which includes 3488 valid responses for students in grades 7–12.  See https://clyde.catalyst-insight.com/public/dashboard/tompkins_ny.

• Why do students use substances?  Four reasons:  to Feel Good, Feel Better, Do Better, and Curiosity and social pressure (usually the first 3 by far).
• For past 30 days, Tompkins County shows alcohol use (14%), pot (10%), and vaping (9%)—lower than the national average (pre-2021 data).
• There’s a high level of self-reporting on mental health measures, which are increasing from 2014–2021—around a 25% increase.  This could be an actual increase and/or because there is more open talk about mental health and new vocabulary to reference “anxiety”
• Only 43% of youth said they have an adult who they can trust to help with problems.
• 30-day use of pot has not increased dramatically since 2012, but with the first dispensary opening in Ithaca, this is expected to increase, partially because of the reduced perception of risk.
• Pot is higher in THC now, up from 1-3 % in the 1970s to up to 23% now!
• There is a danger of edibles in fancy packaging that make people believe there is oversight.  Packages are purchased on Amazon and filled in people’s basements!
• Fentanyl has been found in edible products in Tompkins County and is very dangerous.

• Joe Cassaniti: $5 for his daughter who was invited to interview at Cambridge for a full professorship
• Warren Allmon: $20 for the 20^th anniversary of the Museum of the Earth, including a new exhibit called New York Rocks
• Stacy McNeil: $2, happy to be back to Rotary
• Angela Sullivan: $6, tour of new detox building next week; thank you to the speaker and BOCES partnership; and a thank you to Brandi, who is taking on some of the survey work that Angela has been doing
• Jean McPheeters: $15 for Brandi as speaker, and $5 because one of Jean’s students at Cornell put the Four-Way Test as an answer on their exam.
• Jack Roscoe: $10 for the Savage Club presenting an April Fools Concert on April 1 at their Performance Arts Center in Lansing
• Sarah Segal: thank you for speaker Brandi, and Sarah’s husband Dan is presenting a photo essay about his visit to Cuba at the Lansing Library
• Nancy Potter: excited about the work of our speaker, and it’s a gorgeous day!