Rotary Club of Stawell Newsletter :
International Pres: Garry Huang – District Pres: Geoff James
Club Pres: Vaughan Williams – Club Sec: PE Pauline Sherrifs
December 2, 2014
Board Meeting Dec 2.
See Secretary Minutes for detail.
Malcolm Hooper the new Lions President has asked Rotary if we would be prepared to re-instate an Annual Service Club Meeting/Dinner.
Avenue of Honour Project: Lions have also sought to join in this worthy project. Members generally supported the idea as it always was intended as a Community Project.
President Vaughan noted that the Rotary / RSL / Shire public meeting was well received. One issue raised was a request that we need to be careful who is covered in the lists of those who served in WW1.
Great Western Race Club BBQ – Rotary have been invited do a BBQ at the Australia Day Race meeting to be held at Great Western Race Track on 25/1/2015
President Vaughan reported on the proposed on the proposed Trail Bike Ride. As it is supposed to be a family day so looking at a ride of about 15 Km. Shire looking at detail of the itinerary. Suggestion that Rotary sell drinks at the half-way mark.
Rotary Christmas Party : Dec 16 at John Artz, 11 Thrythamine St off Grampians Rod Stawell side of Halls Gap . Gals bring sweets, Guys bring salads. Rotary to supply snags.
In the Pipeline >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
6/12 Woolworths BBQ 10-1.00pm – Ned will start preparation at 9.30am
9/12 General Meeting and Last day for Toys for Tots
16/12 Christmas Break-up at John Artz –last day for Christmas Hampers – 16 items of same.
18/12 Thursday North Park Little Aths BBQ Set up from 3pm. BBQ from 5:30pm. Meat, Bread, Sauce etc all purchased and provided by NGSC.
January 10 2015 : Raquel’s 18th birthday
Jan 25 – Great Western BBQ
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Courtesy of our Sec “The Drover at the Pearly Gates A drover from a huge cattle station in the outback appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. “Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St. Peter asked. “Well, I can think of one thing,” the drover offered. “Once, on a trip to the back blocks of Broken Hill out in New South Wales , I came across a gang of bikers who were threatening a young sheila. I told them to leave her alone, but they wouldn’t listen. So I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed bikie and smacked him in his face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground. I yelled, “Now, back off!! Or I’ll kick the s**t out of the lot of ya!” St. Peter was impressed, “When did this happen?” “A couple of minutes ago.”
And yet again beyond those Pearly Gates
One day God was looking down at earth and saw all of the rascally behavior of the retirees… So He called His angels and sent one to investigate earth for a time. When the angel returned, he told God, ‘Yes, it is bad on earth; 95% of retirees are misbehaving and only 5% are not.God thought for a moment and said, ‘Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion.’ So God called another angel and sent her to earth for a time. When the angel returned, she went to God and said, ‘Yes, it’s true. The earth is in decline; 95% of retirees are misbehaving, but 5% are being good…’
God was not pleased. So He decided to e-mail the 5% who were good, because he wanted to encourage them, and give them a little something to help them keep going.
Do you know what the e-mail said?
Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn’t get one either.
ROTARY MARKS WORLD POLIO DAY WITH US$44.7 MILLION IN GRANTS TO FIGHT POLIO IN AFRICA, ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
21-Oct-2014
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS: Vivian Fiore – Vivian.fiore@rotary.org, Phone: +1 (847) 866-3234 (US)
HUMANITARIAN GROUP’S OCTOBER 24 LIVESTREAM EVENT FROM CHICAGO FEATURES TOP GLOBAL HEALTH EXPERTS, POLIO-SURVIVOR MINDA DENTLER, POP STAR TESSANNE CHIN, REGGAE’S ZIGGY MARLEY AND MORE
EVANSTON, Ill. (Oct. 21, 2014) — With the world “This Close”—99%—to eliminating polio from the planet, the effort is receiving an additional US$ 44.7 million boost from Rotary to support immunization activities, surveillance, and research spearheaded by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which aims to end the disabling viral disease worldwide by 2018.
Polio is set to become the second human disease ever to be eliminated from the world (smallpox is the first). To date, Rotary has helped 193 countries stop the transmission of polio through the mass immunization of children. Rotary’s new funding commitment, announced in advance of the Oct. 24 observance of World Polio Day 2014, targets countries where children remain at risk of contracting this incurable, but totally vaccine-preventable, disease.
“It is fitting that this round of Rotary grants coincides with World Polio Day, which we use to raise awareness of — and support for – the global campaign to end this terrible disease once and for all,” said Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko, the organization’s top executive. “Rotary is committed to relegating polio to the history books, and we welcome everyone’s support as we move ever closer to our goal of a polio-free world.”
He noted that the end-game strategy against polio includes the introduction of inactivated, injectable polio vaccine to supplement the progress achieved through the immunization of 2.5 billion children with the oral polio vaccine. Leading that effort is Sanofi Pasteur, the largest manufacturer of polio vaccine and co-sponsor with Rotary of a special program in Chicago on World Polio Day.
“As more than 120 countries in the world are introducing the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV), we are beginning the last chapter on polio eradication,” said Olivier Charmeil, Sanofi Pasteur chief executive officer. “At Sanofi Pasteur, we have had a long-term vision of IPV as the ultimate public health tool able to finish the job started with Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). Today we are honored to stand alongside Rotary, the historical partner in the battle against polio.”
About $18.5 million will go to the three remaining polio-endemic countries: Afghanistan ($7.4 million) Nigeria ($8.4 million), and Pakistan ($2.7 million). An endemic country is one where the wild poliovirus has never been stopped.
Another $9.5 million is marked for previously polio-free countries currently reporting cases “imported” from the endemic countries: Cameroon ($3.5 million), Ethiopia ($2 million), and Somalia ($4 million).
And $10.4 million will go to polio-free countries that remain at risk of reinfection: Democratic Republic of Congo ($1.5 million), India ($4.9 million), Niger ($1 million), South Sudan ($2 million), and Sudan ($1 million).
The remaining $6.3 million will go toward polio eradication research.
Rotary provides grant funding to polio eradication initiative partners UNICEF and the World Health Organization, which work with the governments and Rotary club members of polio-affected countries to plan and carry out immunization activities. Mass immunizations of children via the oral polio vaccine must continue until global eradication is achieved.
To date, Rotary has contributed more than $1.3 billion to fight polio. Through 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will match two-to-one every dollar Rotary commits to polio eradication (up to $35 million a year). As of 2013, there were only 416 confirmed polio cases in the world, down from about 350,000 a year when the initiative launched in 1988.