Vice President’s Report following 17 September 2024 Meeting
Fellow Rotarians & Friends,
I am pleased to report that President Neil and Carol have successfully moved into their new retirement home and are now pondering what needs to be done to get everything just as they wish for the long term.
It was a pleasure to stand in for Neil at our meeting last week. We were fourteen in number including guests Barbara and Denise and honorary members Kevin and Uwe.
Thanks to Bob & Denise and Peter & Roslyn for their efforts in ensuring everything at The Hub was shipshape for our meeting.
As always we were treated to a gourmet delight by chef Koumar. Good company, fine food and quality wine always makes for an enjoyable evening. Having no business on the agenda also contributes to a very relaxed meeting.
Uwe won the door prize and David won Heads and Tails.
Another fantastic fellowship night at The Hub.
President Neil will be back for our next meeting on1 October and looks forward to you joining him on that occasion. In the meantime enjoy the week ahead.
Rotary commits funds to polio outbreak response in Gaza
The recent detection of variant poliovirus type-2 isolates in environmental samples and the confirmation of a 10-month-old child who has contracted polio in Gaza is a stark reminder that as long as polio exists anywhere, it is a threat everywhere.
The ongoing crisis in Gaza has contributed to reduced routine immunization rates and an increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio. The crisis also poses a significant challenge to fully implementing disease surveillance and vaccination campaigns.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers there to be a high risk for the spread of this polio strain within Gaza and internationally, particularly given the current situation's impact on public health services.
A humanitarian pause has allowed a two-round polio vaccination campaign that began in Gaza on 1 September. Initial reports indicate the campaign started successfully, with teams showing strong commitment and high levels of community participation.
Rotary is committing US$500,000 to bolster the initiative, channeling these funds through a dedicated Polio Outbreak Response Fund. This contribution represents Rotary's sustained support to the WHO in combating polio globally.
Rotary will continue to work with its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and other agencies as vaccination efforts unfold.
Financial contributions to the PolioPlus fund will help Rotary and its Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners achieve a world in which no child is paralyzed by polio again.
Members & Guests enjoying fellowship and a wonderful meal at The Hub
Uwe won the door prize David won Heads & Tails
Just what are these four plotting?
WEEKLY LAUGHS
Some Wise Political Quotes
We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.~ Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.~ Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.~ Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defence' by Irving Stone.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.~ John Quinton, American actor/writer
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them".~ Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.~ Texas Guinan. 19th-century American businessman
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.~ Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924Olympic Games
I am reminded of a joke: What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown? That is a solution! I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are lawyers and three or more are the government. ~John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Government. But then I repeat myself.~ Mark Twain (1835- 1910)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)
I contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~ Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)
The problem we face today is because the people that work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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