Our program this week:
Meet the incoming Presidents!
a member focus on:
Mike Branum
our President for the Rotary Year
2023-24
Darrin Hallman
our President for the Rotary Year
2024-25
Ron Wilhelm
our President for the Rotary Year
2025-26
Come learn about the journeys that have brought these gentlemen to
the point of taking on the leadership role in this Club.
(We might even learn some deep dark secrets???)
January 19th
Rotarian Mo Sbai will be telling us about The Zahra Charity, Inc.
Zahra is An American Non-Profit Dedicated to Neuro-Rehabilitation Access in Morocco, North Africa
January 26th
Art Haines will be introducing us to some key players in the local water conservation efforts.
February 2nd
MAKERSPACE
at UTU Atwood Innovation Plaza.
Jeff Stewart, Director, will bring us up to date on how this awesome project is going in 2023.
And, on February 9th, our own Charlotte Shelley will be sharing details of this year's
St. George Area
Parade of Home
Upcoming events:
(Please note, the trip to Mexico has been cancelled.)
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 & ELEVEN - The number of days since the last case of
WPV1 occurred in Pakistan (September 15th).
ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY- SEVEN - The number of days since the last
case of WPV1 occurred in Afghanistan (August 29th).
ONE HUNDRED & FORTY-SEVEN — The number of days since the last case of
WPV1 occurred in Mozambique (August 10th).
FOUR HUNDRED & ELEVEN — (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 (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
While the lack of new wild polio cases is encouraging, of great concern is the
continued presence of the wild poliovirus Type 1 collected in environmental
samples. Last week there were 3 new Wild Positive Environmental Samples
reported from collections in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, near the common border with
Pakistan, where the majority of the 2022 cases have occurred. The total count of
Positive Wild Environmental Samples for 2022 increases to 61, 41 in Pakistan
CIRCULATING VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO - On our other battlefront in the war on
polio, the circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio, there were 15 new cases reported this
last week, 11 occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2 of which were
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 16 weeks.
Type 1 and 9 were Type 2). The remaining 2 cases were 1 each in Algeria and the
Central African Republic (both Type 2). This brings year to date case totals to 581.
DR Congo continues to remain our biggest problem, with 272 cases
representing 47% of the total 581 worldwide. WHO reports that outbreak
responses to both the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 cases continue to be intensified in the
There were also 15 Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Samples (ES)
collected in the following countries: 11 Type 1’s in Madagascar, 2 Type 2’s in DR
Congo and 1 each of Type 2 in the Central African Republic and Sudan. and That
brings the total number of Positive Vaccine Derived Environmental Samples
(ES) to 316 for the year.
NO DOUBT THE CONTINUING NUMBERS WEEK AFTER WEEK CAN, AT
TIMES, BE DEMORALIZING. But I urge you to do the following. In the
accompanying PowerPoint to this newsletter, flip back and forth between the two
maps that show Polio cases for the last 12 months and then the last 6 months
(Slides 2 & 3). There you will see a graphic representation on the progress we are
making against this disease. Yes, there are some setbacks globally, but there is
definitely more positive than negative illustrated in this little exercise 😊 . We will
*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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