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What a great group, with four visiting Rotarians and five guests!  Our former meeting spot, upstairs at Ocean Grill, was damaged in a fire recently, so we met on the lower level--nothing slows us down on St. John.  Dr. Joe DeJames, primary physician and administrator of the Myra Keating Smith Community Health Clinic, was our speaker.  Joe thanked us for helping our Interact club paint the helipad (thanks Bill Willegerod!) and brought us up to date on some important changes at the clinic.  Apparently there is a new administrative finance team in place and we are now included with St. Thomas in budgetary planning and consideration.  The good news from up on the hill is that Chikengunya seems to be fading away.  Thank heavens, eating papaya leaves was a positively awful remedy!  Doc DeJames asked us to work on some initiatives to help protect our youth--using seatbelts and not drinking and driving campaigns can both save young lives.  Not to mention that we need some signs warning of DEER crossings all over.  Lloyd Hoover from sunny but cold Chicago suggested we ask bars to offer free soft drinks to designated drivers.  We can work with the Department of Health and their responsible beverage business training as well as with rental car agencies on this.