Veterans Day
Posted by Maria Mac Lean
on Nov 13, 2014
Because this past Tuesday was Veterans Day the park was closed so we had our meeting outside underneath the big tree which was really nice. We celebrated our Rotary Vets which are pictured; Jim Schreiber, Bill Pellegrino, and John Berg. Bea Boersma was dressed in honor of Veterans Day so she made a great addition to the photo. Missing from the picture is John Rodgerson and Gary Endo. We thank you for our Freedom!
President John just gave us some heads up on upcoming events, one being the Thanksgiving senior luncheon on Thursday, November 20 at Paramount Park. Rotarians have helped with this event for many years, helping serve food, helping with the music and set up for the event.
Golf Tournament Update!!!
John Rodgerson was happy to report that we made $14,200 on this year’s golf tournament. We did over $1,200 more than last year's golf tournament. We definitely look forward to raising that amount next year.
Discussing the Rotary War on Polio John Boogaard reported:
In polio now we are extremely close to making history by eliminating one of the world’s most devastating diseases Polio. Over the last 30 years Rotary International has been very instrumental in eliminating Polio throughout the world. When the initiative started more than 350,000 people were stricken by Polio every year. That amount fills the Coliseum up 3 1/2 times. There were nearly 1,000 new polio cases every day. In 2013 there were only 400 cases in the world for the year, a 99% reduction of the cases. Today only three countries Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan have never stopped the transmission of the wild Polio virus however in 2014 several Polio operations prompted the world health organizations to declare Polio a public health emergency of international concern. The decision puts additional measures in place to ensure we protect our incredible progress against Polio in the remaining 1,000 cases.
Check out some more photos to see what a wonderful lunch day it was.
