Our regular Rotary Club Meetings are at the Lake Stevens School District Educational Service Center located at 12309 22nd St NE. We start at 7:30 am. There is a robust continental breakfast available beforehand. Visitors are always welcome. Our mailing address is PO Box 908 Lake Stevens, WA 98258.
Come to this week's meeting to find out what we've got going on.
Our Corks & Kegs Committee is meeting this week, Thursday evening at Kevin & Nancy O'Brien's. Click on the event to let them know you're coming.
PHOTO CONTEST: Be the first person to correctly identify the building in the photograph at the top of this bulletin by 7:30 am, Friday, February 9th. You must include what the original use was of the building in your entry. Send your guesses to the Editor.
David Truman and Lee Harman, District Foundation Committee PolioPlus Co-Chairs, presented an update on the PolioPlus program at our meeting on February 2, 2018. The PolioPlus Foundation Fund is one of the three Rotary Foundation funds, along with the Annual Fund and the Endowment Fund.
David started with a history of Polio from the 1900’s to 1960’s. At one time, 500,000 new polio cases were being reported worldwide per year. The U.S. epidemic of Polio was from 1948-1956 and began the era of the Iron Lung.
Rotary first became involved with Polio in 1979 with a successful pilot program in the Philippines. In 1985 Rotary committed $120,000,000 to the program with collaborating partners; Center for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and 125 Nations worldwide. In 1984 there were 125 endemic nations with 350,000 cases per year.
One of the current concerns is the recent occurrence of 113 cases of Polio through December 31, 2017 with 22 cases of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in Pakistan and Afghanistan and 91 cases of Circulating Vaccine Derived Paralytic Virus (CVDPV), a virus created from the wild virus that has concentrated in the environment where there is a low rate of vaccinations and poor sanitation. The CVDPV has shown up in the countries Congo and Syria where there’s been large civil conflict.
Total contributions to date in millions are: $3,105 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $2,904 USA, $1,625 Rotary, $1,482 United States, $1,321 India, $913 World Bank, $565 Canada, $546 Japan, $545 Germany, $480 Private Philanthropy, $300 Pakistan and $254 UNICEF with a total over $15 billion. The current Global Polio Eradication Initiative five year plan is to commit 5.5 Billion dollars to the cause. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is matching every dollar 2 for 1, up to 35 million per year per for five years. Please consider donating to the PolioPlus Fund.
The Rotary Club of Lake Stevens announces the 2018 Corks & Kegs fundraising event will be held on April 14, 2018 at the Jackson Conference Center at Everett Community College. This will be a Super Cool, Super Fun Elegant Event that will help us raise money that we will then in turn support our local, regional and international communities. Our Rotary Club supports the Lake Stevens Family Center, the Lake Stevens Food Bank, the Lake Stevens Community Supper, the Lake Stevens Senior Center, Cub Scout Pack 88, the Lake Stevens Education Foundation, Hungry Hearts Foundation, the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, the Skate Park at Cavalero County Park, scholarships for graduating high school seniors, and the eradication of polio.
With your help we can continue supporting these organizations. Come join us and have a great time! With your ticket you will get four tastings for wine and/or beer plus raffle tickets for some door prizes. You can purchase additional tastings and raffle tickets. In addition, you will have the opportunity to bid on wonderful items in the silent auction. Trips, vacation get-a-ways, personal care items, baskets with all sorts of theme packages, sports related items, even a book by a local author.
We're are still looking for ideas for the name of this weekly bulletin. We've had one submission in the seven and a half years that we've been asking. And, that was from someone outside of our Club! Send your ideas to the Editor. Thank you!
"I think kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else...Kindness - that simple word. To be kind -it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind, that's it."
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