Our program this week:
Kent Perkins (Retired St. George City Leisure Services Director and driving force behind the All Abilities Park and Thunder Junction)
And, Craig Morley, Owner, Managing Partner (Accurity Valuation/Morley & McConkie, LC) Certified General Appraiser
will be with us to discuss the future of trails and parks in the St. George area.
January 12, 2023
Our Program will be member focus on the recently elected future Presidents of our Club!
Learn the history (and deep dark secrets?) of
Mike Branum
Darrin Hallman
Ron Wilhelm
Upcoming events:
An opportunity to participate in our work in Mexico is coming again from the 10th-17th of February. Stay tuned for details.
Friendship Exchange with Colombian Rotarians will be March 10th thru 22nd next year. More fun to be had for sure.
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 has been rescheduled to Thursday, January 19th at the Bloomington Country Club at 5:30.
Upcoming Opportunities for
Service Above Self.
Road Cleanup:
Dixie Drive cleanup lead by Richard Schwartz will happen on Saturday, January 14th.
Richard will be sending details in an invitation.
Snow Canyon trail repair will be on Saturday, January 21st. Sandi will be our fearless leader on this project and will send details with an invitation.
The Washington Country Fair is coming up in April. We will have service opportunities on April 14 & 15 (The Rodeo) and on April 19-22 (We will be manning the entry gate AND a beer garden!)
This project is a major source of revenue for our Club and our charities, please note the dates now so you can help make it a great service project!
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:
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ONE HUNDRED & FOUR - The number of days since the last case of WPV1
occurred in Pakistan (September 15th).
ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY - The number of days since the last case of
WPV1 occurred in Afghanistan (August 29th).
ONE HUNDRED & FORTY — The number of days since the last case of WPV1
occurred in Mozambique (August 10th).
FOUR HUNDRED & FOUR — (ONE YEAR +) - The number of days since the last
case of WPV1 occurred in Malawi (November 19th, 2021).
THIRTY - The total number of cases of WPV1 that have occurred in 2022 year-to-
date (2 in Afghanistan, 8 in Mozambique and 20 in Pakistan).
SIX - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in 2021 (1 in Pakistan, 1 in
Malawi and 4 in Afghanistan).
ONE HUNDRED & FORTY - The total number of cases of WPV1 that occurred in
ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY-SIX - The total number of cases of WPV1 that
During the last week there were NO new Wild Positive Environmental Samples
collected anywhere in the world. The total count of Positive Wild Environmental
Samples, year to date remains at 58, 41 in Pakistan and 17 in Afghanistan.
CIRCULATING VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO - On our other battlefront in the war on
polio, the circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio, there were 5 new cases this last week
compared to 2 reported the prior week. Three cases occurred in Chad and one each in Cameroon and the DR Congo. All were type 2 except for DR Congo’s, which was
Type 1. This brings year to date case totals to 566. DR Congo remains our
biggest problem, with 259 cases representing 46% of the total 566 worldwide.
WILD POLIO VIRUS, TYPE 1 (WPV1) - NO NEW CASES of Wild Polio
Virus Type 1 anywhere in the world, now for the last 15 weeks.
WHO reports that outbreak responses to both the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 continue to
be intensified in that country.
There were 14 Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Sample Type 2 (ES)
collected in the following countries: 7 in Yemen, 3 each in Algeria and Chad and 1
in Nigeria. That brings the total number of Positive Vaccine Derived
Environmental Samples (ES) to 301 for the year.
NO DOUBT MAY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE TALIBAN’S EDICT IN
BANNING WOMEN FROM WORKING WITH NGO’S IN AFGHANISTAN. (see
details of this story in the December 29th issue of the UN News). I’ve received
inquiries from many of you wondering how this’ll affect our polio workers, many of
whom are women and play a vital role in our vaccination efforts.
Forwarding this inquiry to Mike McGovern, Rotary’s Chair of the International
PolioPlusCommittee, he responded that the UN had just released a message that
“the ban does not apply to the health sector or UN Agencies.” So although this
exemption bodes well for our Polio work, it is devastating news for all other women
working with NGO’s and the interruption of their vital work in that country.
Of course, as related in the above article UN agency officials and civil society
organizations heads have joined forces urging the Taliban to reverse their decision.
THAT’S IT FOR THIS WEEK FOLKS. We want to wish each and everyone of you a
Happy and prosperous New Year 😊 . Hang in there and, as always, continue to
keep Ukraine in your thoughts, along with polio.
Bob and Greg
Your Big West “End Polio Now” Coordinators
Rotary Club of Sebastopol
PolioPlus Chair (2020/23)
Past District Governor (2017/18)
End Polio Now Coordinator (2020/23)
*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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