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!
Club Information
IMAGINE
Thursdays at 7:30 AM
Bloomington Country Club
3174 S Bloomington Dr
St George, UT 84790 United States of America
and members of our Club welcome you to share in the work of this great group.
This week; February 16, 2023
The 50/50 table will be manned by:
Sondra Dailey & Joanie Ayers
Meeting will be conducted by
President, Dave Nelson
Doug Walker will lead the Club in the Pledge of Allegiance
Greg Aldred will lead us in the
4 Way Test
Joanie Ayers will offer a moment of blessing.
Our program this week:
Myron Lee, Director of the Dixie Metropolitan Planning Organization.
The MPO coordinates transportation among the cities county ad state throughout the urbanized ares of Washington County.
Upcoming events:
The Rotary District 5420 Annual District Conference
will be held May 4th-5th, 2023 in the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center. More details as we get closer. BUT, this will be an event to remember so MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!
And, the Rotary International Convention will be held May 27-31 in Melbourne! How awesome! Hope some can take advantage of this great opportunity.
Upcoming meetings:
The next Board Meeting will be held on March 1st - WEDNESDAY - th at the Bloomington Country Club at 5:30.
Upcoming Opportunities for
Service Above Self.
The Food Bank:
Workdays on February 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. Please see Pam's invitation for details.
Please come lend a hand if you can.
Snow Canyon Cleanup:
March 11th. Pease see invitation from Sandi for time and place to meet.
The Washington County Fair is coming up April 14-22. There will be various opportunities to pitch in a helping hand including ticket taking and, of course, THE BEER GARDEN!
Susi and Lil will keep us pudated.
And, of course,
May 6th
Mark your calendars for the following events offered by the Veterans Rotary Club:
ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY-THREE - The number of days since the last case
of WPV1 occurred in Pakistan (September 15th, 2022).
ONE HUNDRED & SIXTY-NINE - The number of days since the last case of
WPV1 occurred in Afghanistan (August 29th, 2022).
ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTY-NINE — The number of days since the last case of
WPV1 occurred in Mozambique (August 10th, 2022).
FOUR HUNDRED & FIFTY-THREE — (ONE YEAR +) - The number of days since
the last case of WPV1 occurred in Malawi (November 19th, 2021).
FORTY-SIX - The number of days without any WPV1 cases reported for the year
2023.
THIRTY - The total number of WPV1 cases that occurred in 2022 (2 in Afghanistan,
8 in Mozambique and 20 in Pakistan).
SIX - The total number of WPV1 cases that occurred in 2021 (1 in Pakistan, 1 in
Malawi and 4 in Afghanistan).
ONE HUNDRED & FORTY - The total number of WPV1 cases that occurred in
2020.
There were, however, 2 WPV1 Positive Environmental Samples reported this
last week, one in Nangarhar, Afghanistan and the other in Kunar, Afghaistan. So
the 2023 total increases to 9 Positive Wild Samples to date (7 in Afghanistan
and 2 in Pakistan). The total count of Positive Wild Environmental Samples for
2022 remains at 63 (41 in Pakistan and 22 in Afghanistan)
CIRCULATING VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO - On our other battlefront in the war on
polio, the circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio, there were 18 new cases of CVDP2
reported this last week compared to 34 total cases the week before. 7 were from
•
PolioPlus Weekly Update
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 22 weeks.
Chad, 6 in DR Congo, 4 from Nigeria and one from Indonesia. However, 16
occurred in 2022 bringing the 2022 year to date case totals to 716. The 2023
count increased by 2, bringing the 2023 count to 3.
There were also 11 Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Samples (ES)
collected, 10 in Yemen and one in Benin. Both were Type 2. However since they
were all collected in 2022, it brings the 2022 total number of Positive Vaccine
Derived Environmental Samples (ES) to 356 for the year. None have been
reported yet as being collected in 2023.
TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUPS (TAG’S). Technical advisory groups review
progress towards polio eradication at country or sub-regional level and give
technical advice on local strategy, priorities and program operations. They
make recommendations on actions required to achieve success and review
implementation of previous recommendations.
In October 2022, the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Afghanistan and Pakistan
met in Muscat, Oman, to conduct a thorough review of ongoing polio eradication
efforts in these two remaining polio endemic countries. During the 6-day meeting
they also provided strategic technical guidance on steering efforts towards
successful interruption of the poliovirus in both countries in 2023. In a January 16th
report from GPEI, here’s some of what the TAG group found:
Members noted the high level of sustained political commitment to
polio in both countries.
In Afghanistan, since the political transition, nationwide campaigns
have allowed the polio program access to almost 10 million children,
3.5 million of whom were previously inaccessible.
In Pakistan, intensified vaccination activities and strategic
approaches were used to reach missed children in spite of floods that
affected almost 33 million people.
Remarkable improvements in epidemiology in Afghanistan and
Pakistan provide a window of opportunity for interrupting
transmission of wild poliovirus.
In Pakistan, the virus is endemic only in the southern districts of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
in Afghanistan both cases have been reported from the eastern
region. However, no cross-border transmission was recorded in 2022
In addition to the limited geographical spread, the biodiversity of the
genetic clusters is also at an all-time low:
In Afghanistan, down from 8 in 2020 to 2 in 2022.
In Pakistan, down from 11 in 2020 to one in 2022.
There has been no detection of circulating vaccine-derived
poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in either country in the last year.
In Afghanistan, the last case of cVDPV2 had onset of paralysis on 9
July, 2021.
In Pakistan, the last case of cVDPV2 had onset of paralysis on 23
April, 2021.
To read the complete report from GPEI’s website, go to Report on TAG findings.
Bob and Greg
Your Big West “End Polio Now” Coordinators
THAT’S IT FOR THIS WEEK FOLKS. Hang in there and, as always, continue to
keep Ukraine in your thoughts, along with polio.
Bob Rogers
Rotary Club of Sebastopol
District 5130
PolioPlus Chair (2020/23)
Past District Governor (2017/18)
Zone 27
End Polio Now Coordinator (2020/23)
(707) 766-4636
*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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