1. There will be no more Sergeant and the Chairman of the evening will be responsible for introductions.
    
2. The club needs to be more progressive and attract younger members.
    
3. Greater interface with our guest speakers is required.
    
4. Information on the outcomes of Board meetings will be conveyed at the following regular meeting.
    
5. Discussions are underway to have more local and secondary schools in our area assigned to us.
    
6. We are to be part of forest building at Calperum.
    
7. Mavis is unwell and will be away for 4 weeks; she is currently in Flinders Private Hospital.
    
8. Louise of Damien catering fame is celebrating a meaningful birthday…..happy birthday Louise.

Thrift Shop
Pam Trimmer advised that it becomes touchy in the shop on occasions. Members need to be more engaged with volunteers when we enter the shop and the Saturday tasks of vacuuming, toilet cleaning and compacting of cardboard boxes must be completed. Lists of other tasks will be compiled. Members should consult shop managers before changing prices and discounting is to be discouraged. Books have become the second best money-earner. While sales have been strong, net revenue has been reduced by investments in shop improvements. Saturday rosters are to be re-examined.

 

Attendance Desk
Stephen Baker noted that the people assigned to set-up and welcome at our regular meetings rarely fulfilled their duties. Please check the bulletin - if unable to make it by 6pm that night, organize a replacement. It is important that members and guests are welcomed, provided with badges, and their wallets lightened for the formidable squares.

 

Club Programs
Graham Beckett questioned whether we are spending too little given the sizeable and growing bank balance. Pam mentioned that program allocations had risen from $21K to $39K in this last year. Bunnings revenue was stronger ($15-22K). Heather undertook to provide regular feedback from the Board on this issue. She would also wish to see a video shown of the club’s programs and achievements on a screen in the Thrift Shop.
 

Fundraising and Special Events
Valerie Bonython urged club members to provide stronger support given the effort being made.

 

Communication
David Middleton wants the club to get smarter with digital communication…..fingers are good. Club Runner is due to be launched.

Ken Haines announced that the Detmold BBQ is on again on 20-21 July…..lots of help needed.

 

Sheila Evans asked the club to support the next White Ribbon event by providing a table on 24 November: cost $60pp. There will be an international speaker and net proceeds will be dedicated to White Ribbon projects.

 

Understanding the recent polio outbreaks
By Ryan Hyland and Teresa Schmedding

 

Outbreaks of vaccine-derived polio have been reported this month in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria, according to the World Health Organization.

 

At least 22 cases were identified in Syria and at least four in Congo. In both countries, health officials are working with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to respond immediately to the outbreaks with supplementary immunization activities and field investigations.

 

To prevent the virus from spreading further, investigations and immunizations are also being strengthened in neighboring countries, the World Health Organization said.

Despite the new cases, the push to eradicate polio is stronger than ever, with fewer cases reported so far this year than ever before. It also got a boost last week at the Rotary International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where donors pledged $1.2 billion for the effort.

 

Vaccine-derived cases are rare, and they differ from wild cases. Here’s what you need to know to understand these outbreaks.

 

Q: What are the two kinds of polio cases?

 

A: Wild cases of polio are caused by poliovirus that is circulating naturally in the environment. Vaccine-derived polioviruses are extremely rare and exist under specific circumstances. Oral polio vaccine contains live virus that is weakened so that it will prompt the body’s immune response without causing paralysis. The vaccine is ingested, and the weakened virus replicates in the child’s gut and is then excreted. In areas with poor sanitation, this excreted vaccine virus can spread to other children. This can actually be good because it then immunizes them. When the strain no longer finds susceptible children, it dies out.

 

The problem occurs in areas of low vaccination coverage. There, such vaccine-derived strains of the virus can continue to circulate as long as they continue to find unvaccinated or otherwise susceptible children. While they continue to circulate, they mutate. Eventually, if they are allowed to circulate long enough — at least 12 months — they can mutate into strains that are strong enough to cause paralysis.

 

Q: Is the vaccine safe?

 

A: Yes. The oral polio vaccine has reduced the number of polio cases by 99.9 percent since 1988. The risk posed by wild poliovirus is far greater than the risk of an outbreak caused by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus. Once wild polioviruses have been eradicated, use of oral vaccine will be stopped.

 

Q: Are vaccine-derived cases common?

 

A: Polio cases caused by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus are extremely rare. Wild poliovirus remains the far greater risk. Nevertheless, because of the small risk of vaccine-derived outbreaks, use of oral vaccine will be stopped when wild polioviruses have been eradicated.

 

Q: Are wild cases common?

 

A: Wild poliovirus occurs only in the countries where polio remains endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Only six cases of polio caused by the wild virus have been reported so far in 2017. That’s the lowest number of polio cases in history, with fewer cases reported in fewer areas of fewer countries than ever before.

 

Q: How are polio cases detected?

 

A: Polio surveillance has two parts: Doctors and health workers monitor children for the virus, and authorities test sewage samples from sewer systems or elsewhere, in areas that don’t have adequate sanitation facilities.

 

The detection of these most recent cases demonstrates that polio surveillance systems are functioning in both countries.

 

Q: What is the science behind the vaccines?

 

A: There are two types of vaccine: oral and inactivated-virus. The original oral vaccine protected against types 1, 2, and 3 of the virus.

 

Type 2 wild poliovirus was eradicated in 1999 so the current vaccine contains only type 1 and type 3. This allows it to provide quicker and better protection against the two remaining types. The inactivated-virus vaccine, administered by injection, contains virus that is dead. Because the virus is dead, the vaccine cannot cause polio outbreaks.

 

 

Early Shift: 10.00am to 12.30pm    Late Shift: 12.30pm to 3.30pm

 

Week 1: 5 August

Early: David Middleton & Jerry Casburn  |  Late: Bob Laws & Robyn Carnachan

 

 

Week 3: 15 July 2017

Early: Nathan White & Vera Holt  |  Late: Pam Trimmer & Ken Haines

 

Week 4: 22 July 2017

Early: Bob Laws & Stephen Baker  |  Late: Sheila Evans & Ken Haines

 

Week 5: 29 July 2017

Early: Bob Mullins & David Pisoni  |  Late: Jerry Casburn, Lachlan Reid, Reno Elms

Next Date: Monday 17 July

Morning shift: 8.30am – 12.30pm | Afternoon shift: 12.30 – 5pm

Size Counts

The body builder takes off his shirt and the blonde says, "What a great chest you have!' He tells her, 'That's 100 lbs. of dynamite, Baby.'

He takes off his pants and the blonde says,' "What massive calves you have!' The body builder tells her, ‘That's 100 lbs. of dynamite, Baby.'

He then removes his underwear and the blonde goes running out of the apartment screaming in fear.

The body builder puts his clothes back on and chases after her. He catches up to her and asks why she ran out of the apartment like that.

The blonde replies “I was afraid to be around all that dynamite after I saw how short the fuse was!”

 

Young people have them, now Seniors have their own texting codes: