Jeff Tideman will update us on the club's international service projects.
Today is also Food Pantry Day. Remember your non-perishable food donations for the Northfield Township Food Pantry. Items most needed at the Pantry include: cereal, beverages, paper products and canned tomatoes.
Last Regular Meeting- Patrick Irwin shared facts about mosquitos and the diseases they carry, mainly West Nile Virus. He also talked about how the Northwest Mosquito Abatement District studies and controls the mosquito population and what we can do to reduce the number of mosquitos in our backyards.
4/29:Chicagoland Korean Rotary Club's Annual 7K Run/3K walk at Forest Way Grove in Glencoe. For more information or to register visit www.rotary7krun.org.
5/1: Taking Language from the Rich and Giving it to the Poor: Lessons Learned in Nottingham with Jean Irwin Hatfield. Monday, May 1st from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 3rd floor auditorium at One Rotary Center. Registration is not required but seating is limited. Questions: Steven Solomon (Senior Annual Giving Officer with Annual Giving) 847-866-3195 or email steven.solomon@rotary.org.
5/8: Fireside Meeting at Sheraton Chicago Northbrook Hotel, 1110 Willow Road (by Pinstripes) at 5:00 pm. We will NOT meet on Tuesday, May 9th.
5/20: Community Blood Drive at Sunset.
6/9: Chamber Golf Outing. Volunteers are needed to man the hole our club sponsors.
6/22: Installation Dinner at Mission Hills.
8/1: Rotary International District 6450 Family Fun Day. White Sox vs. Blue Jays. For more information or to order tickets visit www.rotary6450.org
The discovery of the poliovirus in Nigeria last summer shocked eradication efforts. Here’s how Rotary is making sure it doesn’t happen again. The polio surveillance system, carried out mostly by WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), two of Rotary’s partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, consists of several parts. First, doctors and other community health workers such as healers and traditional birth attendants monitor children for paralysis. If they discover a paralyzed child, the health workers report the case to WHO, which sends a surveillance team to collect stool samples from the child and his or her siblings for testing. The second part of the surveillance process involves local authorities collecting samples from sewage systems or, in places that don’t have adequate sanitation facilities, rivers and bodies of water near large settlements...
Atlanta embraces its sports history, and when you’re there for the Rotary International Convention from June 10th- 14th, you might want to plan on a few side trips to local shrines of sports.
Even if you don’t make it to the Host Organization Committee’s special event baseball game hosted by Hank Aaron, you should check out the Braves’ old and new homes. Sculptor and Rotarian Ross Rossin’s iconic statue of Hall of Famer Aaron stands outside Turner Field, where the Braves played until this year. With the team moving into its new SunTrust Park, Rossin sculpted another statue of Aaron for the new stadium.
Georgians love their college football, and Atlanta is University of Georgia country. (Their love extends to Ugo, the bulldog mascot with a proud 10-generation lineage.) And in college football, Coach Vince Dooley, an honorary Rotarian for many years, is a legend. He was the head coach at UGA for 25 years. Under his leadership, the school had a 70 percent winning record.
If the mention of football gets your blood pumping, you’ll want to visit the College Football Hall of Fame, which has acres of exhibits and even a 45-yard indoor field. The host committee is hosting a special evening there on June 12, but if you can’t make it then, the hall is just steps away from the convention.
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