Welcome to the 2021-2022
Rotary Year!
This is our Club's 25th Anniversary Year!
The Rotary Club of Dixie Sunrise was chartered on September 5, 1996
President, Charlotte Shelley
and members of our Club
welcome you to share in the work of this great group!
This week's meeting, March 24, 2022
President Elect, Dave Nelson, conducting
Greg Grajek will lead The Pledge of Allegiance
Richard Schwartz will lead the 4 Way Test
Ayanna Franzen will provide blessing
Unless we have an occasional need or things change dramatically, we will not offer Zoom connections into our meetings The technology always seems to be a challenge and the attendance via Zoom has dropped to little or none.
Please join us in person!
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:
What do you know about publishing?
Did you know we have a publisher in our midst?
Paula Bell Christie, Publisher, and JJ Abernathy, Editor, of St. George City Lifestyle will give us some insights into the magic of taking an idea through to a publication. Can't wait to learn more!
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
The next monthly Board Meeting will be Tuesday, April 12th at 5:00.
The Golf Committee will be meeting on Wednesday, March 23rd at 5:30 at the Bloomington Country Club.
Rotary District 5420 Annual Conference:
SERVICE ABOVE SELF*
Food Bank help.
The schedule for working with the food bank this month is:
Friday, March 25th: Bagging and Boxing at the Food Bank
Wednesday, March 30th: St. George Food Distribution
Thursday, March 31st: Washington City Food Distribution
Please refer to e-mail from the service committee for details.
Come lend a hand if you can!
Road clean-up!
April 2nd. Meet at Tonaquint Park and Richard will lead us in making a difference in our community!
And, since all good events require food, we will meet up at DeDe's for breakfast after Dixie Drive is all cleaned up!
The Washington County Fair - a major funding opportunity for us as well as just plain fun - will be April 20-24th.
The Parkinson's Walk will be on April 23rd. Stay tuned for details.
The Second Annual Dixie Sunrise Rotary Club
Golf Tournament is coming up. Wow, this year it will be a Cinco De Mayo event! May 5th!
IRONMAN! May 7th!
The signup link is live NOW, please sign up for your preferred shifts for Run Aid Station 7! That is us! It is a new location this time around because the race takes a different path. LOTS of spots open, pick one that suits you!
Here is the sign-up link for Ironman:
https://ironman.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=59923
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 Thursday of the month at 5:30 at the Elks Lodge.
Thanks Veterans Club for your service!
And, finally, a weekly update on the
war on polio......
Greetings Polio Warriors:
• WILD POLIO VIRUS, TYPE 1 - The good news is no new cases of the wild
poliovirus this week.
SIXTY-TWO - The number of days since the last case of WPV1 occurred in Afghanistan.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN – The number of days since the last case of WPV1 occurred in Malawi.
ONE YEAR AND 48 DAYS - The number of days since the last case of WPV1
occurred in Pakistan.
ONE - The total number of cases of WPV1 that has occurred in 2022 year-to-
date (In Afghanistan on January 14th).
SIX - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in 2021 (1 in Pakistan, 1 in Malawi and 4 in Afghanistan).
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in 2020.
Also, once again, there were no new cases of wild Positive Environmental Samples (ES) reported as well. So the total count of wild ES for 2022 remains at zero, and for the year 2021 remains at 66 (65 in Pakistan and 1 in Afghanistan), with the last ES discovered in Pakistan on December 6th.
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CIRCULATING VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO - Our other battlefront in the war on polio, the circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio (cVDPV) reported 4 cases this last week, however one actually occurred in 2021. This means we ended the 2021 year with 638 cases vs the 637 reported last week, and the 2022 count is now 9, compared to 166 last year at this time, continuing our big year over year improvement in 2022 numbers.
And another positive piece of news. There were no Positive Environmental samples (ES) of the vaccine-derived polio reported this last week as well.
• 2.9 MILLION CHILDREN TO BE VACCINATED
AGAINST POLIO IN MALAWI - In response to the
recent case of Wild Polio Type 1 (WPV1) that
emerged in Malawi on November 19th of last year,
but only just reported last month, UNICEF, one of
Rotary’s partners in GPEI (Global Polio Eradication
Initiative), has announced a mass immunization
campaign to vaccinate 2.9 million children under the
age of 5. It takes multiple doses of the polio vaccine to achieve full immunization against polio, and they are planning to administer 4 rounds of the vaccine to all children. They will procure an initial 6.9 million polio vaccine doses to start the campaign in the upcoming weeks. To supplement the effort, UNICEF is also installing 223 new vaccine refrigerators, repairing 51 old ones, distributing 200 vaccine carriers and 38 cold boxes to health centers across the country in preparation for this campaign. For the full story, click here.
• DENMARK SENDS 150,000 POLIO VACCINES TO POLAND - Of concern to many is the abrupt interruption of the vaccination campaign that was taking place in Ukraine to combat the recent outbreak, when the war started. So it was heartening to hear that, according to Anette Lowert, EPNC for Region 19 (Zone 18 Denmark), the Danish Ministry reported that Poland asked for polio vaccines (through the European Union) for Ukrainian refugees passing through the border to Poland. Denmark responded by sending 150,000 doses with more to follow. Thank you
Denmark 😊 .
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Our Club Officers and Directors
President: Charlotte Shelley
President Elect, Dave Nelson
Immediate Past President, Suzanne Leonelli
Secretary: Ayanna Franzen
Treasurer: Steve Quinn
Club Administrator: Marla Shelby
*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 Charlotte prior to the Board Meeting each month. Thank you!
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