I am honored to serve as your president this year. As all of you know we are members of the best club in Utah and I will do my best to keep that honor. We are very much a service oriented club and I plan to keep that as our main focus. We do have a new board and several new committee chairs in place and they will lead us into the new year. I ask everyone to give them your support. They have a tough job, but with your help they will all be successful.
I have two major goals for this year. My first goal is to complete the merger of the Dixie Sunrise and Red Rock clubs into the Saint George Sunrise Club. Our two clubs are a perfect match. We have many issues to work through and none are impossible. We will from a merger committee to work through all the issues and to keep the club informed on their progress. The second goal is to continue supporting the veterans club and help the club grow in membership and expand their influence in the community. We will accomplish this with the excellent leadership of the club's president, Doug Walker and his team.
So as you know I have asked all of you to just give the club at least two hours a month. Some already do a lot more and if we can add more hours IMAGINE how much more we can accomplish.
IMAGINE ROTARY!
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Thursdays at 7:30 AM
Bloomington Country Club
3174 S Bloomington Dr
St George, UT 84790 United States of America
As you are aware, our Club sponsored the Rotary Satellite Club of Southern Utah Veterans.
We are happy to see members of their club joining us from time to time and hope perhaps some of you would like to attend a meeting with them.
They meet the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month at 6 pm at the Elks Lodge.
Thank You Veterans Club for your service!
Greetings Polio Warriors:
• WILD POLIO VIRUS, TYPE 1 (WPV1) - ONCE AGAIN, NO NEW CASES of Wild Polio Virus Type 1 anywhere in the world, now for the last 19 weeks.
There were however, 4 WPV1 positive environmental samples collected this last week, 3 in Afghanistan on New Years Day and 1 in Pakistan on January 2nd. And actually, as our Chief Polio Information Officer Reg Ling points out, although we would rather not have any positive samples anywhere, when they do show up they are the necessary tools to help the polio teams pinpoint those areas needing coverage. The total count of Positive Wild Environmental Samples for 2022 remains at 63, (41 in Pakistan and 22 in Afghanistan), and we now have 4 Positive Wild Samples to date for 2023.
• CIRCULATING VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO - On our other battlefront in the war on polio, the circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio, there were only 2 new cases reported this last week both Type 1, compared to 40 the week before. One case occurred in
Malawi and one in Mozambique. Since both occurred last year, this brings 2022 year to date case totals to 656. As of this report date, there have been no cases reported for the 2023 year so far. Of particular note is that there were no cases reported from DR Congo this week. There were also 9 Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Samples (ES) collected, 6 in Nigeria, 2 in Canada and 1 in Botswana. All were Type 2. However since they all occurred in 2022, it brings the 2022 total number of Positive
Vaccine Derived Environmental Samples (ES) to 340 for the year. None have been reported yet as being collected in 2023.
*Note: our community has an endless number of absolutely critical needs and needs help from our citizens. However, as a Rotary Club we cannot be all things to all people. So only those service opportunities approved by the Board will be listed in this bulletin. If you have project you wish our members to support, please submit your request to President Dave prior to the Board Meeting each month. Thank you!
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