Jim Dunny
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Program for Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The program for Tuesday February 17, 2015 is our local Four Way Speech Contest. Past President and now honorary member Rex Teets will be the moderator for this program. Because of the number of contestants, we will not have a Who am I or a Cheer for Rotary assignment for this meeting
Date
Who Am I
Cheer for Rotary
February 17, 2015
None
None
February 24, 2015
Carl Kruse
John Schmidt
The assignment for the Who Am I includes providing the positive thought at the beginning of the meeting and introducing guests and visiting Rotarians during the meeting.
Cheering for Rotary assignment includes selling opportunity drawing tickets.
Richard Lederer, a contributor to the Union Tribune on language and the author of a book about Presidential Trivia will be the featured speaker. He has funny stories about the quirks of our English language and fun trivia about our American Presidents.
The meeting will be held at the La Jolla Marriott at 4240 La Jolla Village Drive just west of the UTC shopping center. There will be a social time beginning at 5:30 pm which will be followed by dinner and the program. This should be an entertaining evening. There is still time to register by clicking on this link District Council by the close of business on Monday, February 16.
District 5340 Training Assembly, March 21, 2015
District 5340 will be holding the annual district training assembly on Saturday, March 21, 2015. The meeting will be at the Joan Kroc Center for Peace and Justice on the campus of the University of San Diego (USD). The meeting will begin with registristration and continental breakfast at 8:00 am. After welcoming remarks at 9:00 am, there will be three breakout training sessions. The meeting will adjourn at noon. Registration is available on the District website.
Female polio health workers providing the polio vaccine during the National Immunization Days in Kano Northern Nigeria. Photo Credit: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Rotary International released an additional $34.8 million in grants to support polio immunization activities in 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, the three countries where the disease has never been stopped.
The funds, whose release was announced 20 January, will be used by the World Health Organization and UNICEF for polio immunization and surveillance activities in the 10 countries, as well as to provide technical assistance in several other countries in Africa.
The grants include $8.1 million for Nigeria to support its final push to eradicate the disease. Nigeria experienced a nearly 90 percent reduction in cases in 2014 compared with the previous year, and hasn't registered a new case of polio in the last six months.
Rotary e-club member Linda Elliott visits fellow member Paul Alexander in his home. Alexander is among a small number of people in the world today who rely on an iron lung to breathe. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Linda Elliott, a member of the Rotary E-club of District 5810
This interesting story tells about a man who is one of the few people in the world who still must use an iron lung. An iron lung is a device which helps the paralyzed person breath.
One might think a man living with polio in an iron lung would know about Rotary. But it wasn't until Paul Alexander had a business meeting with a member in Duncanville, Texas, earlier this year that he learned Rotary fights to eradicate the very disease that left him almost completely paralyzed.
For more on this story, click this link: Rotary News
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