GOOD NEWS!!!!! We are starting to meet every Thursday at 5:30pm at the WL Community Center. This will be a hybrid style that Zoom will still be offered as well. The 1st and 3rd Thursdays will be a social style meeting of getting together with refreshments. Programs will take place on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. Board meetings will be on the 4th Thursday of the month following the normal club meeting.
Meeting Link below here:
Our Zoom room has a new address. You can access our Zoom room by clicking on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8010716532?pwd=L2RkOGxiMWI0M1ZSclJhNnllNzFodz09 or by entering Meeting ID: 801 071 6532 and Passcode: tip0Fn [After the p is a “zero,” not the letter “O”].
Anyone that has a great program they would like to have our club hear, please contact Sara Sedlacek and Cliff McFerren with more details.
OPERATION WARM **** –

RED KETTLE RINGING CAMPAIGN STARTING SOON!!!! BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR DETAILS!!!!!!
VAC Christmas Box distribution December … anyone interested in volunteering please coordinate with Bill Koellner.
Volunteers will be needed Friday December 17th afternoon 4-7 and Saturday December 18th morning 9-11 to load cars and make deliveries. Fruit sacks will be delivered Saturday morning to senior citizens as in the past.
Spring 2022 Gala! please contact Sara Sedlacek if you served on a committee in the past GALA events and/or are wanting to help out in 2022!!!!
OUR COMMUNITY GRANT WAS APPROVED SO BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR MORE DETAILS COMING FROM PRESIDENT ELECT SARA SEDLACEK
Ringer update:
Anyone wanting something posted in the weekly ringer news please email Gretchen by Friday EOD weekly.
Here is a link to our club calendar of meetings and events for 2021-22:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QxMY3N3KrE5QFKZQo4OItbWyQ2ddAHtg6egeviCk36Y/edit?usp=sharing
Rotary D6000 News
District Leadership Directory for 2021-2022 at this LINK
SAVE THE DATE FOR NCPETS
Greetings Rotary Club Presidents Elect and Nominees,
SAVE THE DATE to attend the North Central President Elect Training Seminar (PETS) on Thursday, February 24 – Friday, February 25, 2022 in Prior Lake, MN at the Mystic Lake Center https://mysticlakecenter.com/
Registration will be coming soon!
District Governor Elect
Steve Wieneke
Rotary R.I.S.E. (v18)
Dear District 6000 Rotarian
On Monday mornings you will receive a R.I.S.E. email from me, to inspire you for your Rotary week. The R.I.S.E. Action Team will provide Resources for Inspiration and Special Events throughout this new Rotary year. Co-Chairs Joyce Taylor, Rotary Club of Keokuk and Sara Simon, Rotary Club of Winterset are working together to bring this effort to you.
Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.
IN ROTARY FELLOWSHIP
Alka K Khanolkar | District Governor 2021-22 Rotary District 6000
Polio Update 10-29-21 LINK
Dear Polio Eradication Warriors,
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week! See attached report.
What is that Polio Picture? – Luis Fermín, the boy who was the last person to suffer poliomyelitis in the Region of the Americas. © PAHO/WHO.
The last detected case of polio in the Region of the Americas was in 1991. This year we celebrate 30 years without the disease!
I hope all of you, your Club, and your District had a great World Polio Day. Many raised large quantities of public awareness and money before, on, or after October 24, 2021
A Win Against Polio is a Win For Global Health!
House-to-house polio vaccination set to recommence across Afghanistan in November – WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan.
The vaccination campaign, which begins on November 8, will be the first in over three years to reach all children in Afghanistan, including more than 3.3 million children in some parts of the country who have previously remained inaccessible to vaccination campaigns. A second nationwide polio vaccination campaign has also been agreed and will be synchronised with Pakistan’s own polio campaign planned in December.
2021 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total – 432 Afghanistan
– 43 (308 in 2020), Angola – 0 (3 in 2020),Benin – 2 (3 in 2020), Burkina Faso – 1 (65 in 2020), Cameroon – 1 (7 in 2020), CAR – 0 (4 in 2020), Chad – 0 (99 in 2020), Congo – 2 (2 in 2020), Cote d’ Ivoire –
0 (62 in 2020), DRC – 10 (81 in 2020), Ethiopia – 9 (36 in 2020), Ghana – 0 (11 in 2020), Guinea – 6 (44 in 2020), Guinea Bissau – 3 (0 on 2020), Liberia – 3 (0 in 2020),Madagascar – 10 (2 in 2020), Mali –
0 (52 in 2020), Malaysia – 0 (1 in 2020), Niger – 0 (10 in 2020), Nigeria – 266 (8 in 2020), Pakistan – 8 (135 in 2020), Philippines – 0
(1 in 2020), Senegal – 16 (0 in 2020) ,Sierra Leone – 5 (10 in 2020), Somalia – 1 (14 in 2020), South Sudan – 9 (50 in 2020), Sudan – 0 (58 in 2020), Tajikistan – 32 (1 in 2020), Togo – 0 (9 in 2020), Ukraine –
1 (0 in 2020), and Yemen – 3 (33 in 2020).
New This Week – Cameroon – 1 cVDPV2 Case, Guinea Bissau – 1 cVDPV2 case, Madagascar – 1 cVDPV2 sample & 8 samples, Mauritania 1 sample, Nigeria – 42 cVDPV2 Cases and 2 cVDPV2 samples, Senegal 1 cVDPV2 case.
A total of 1,108 Vaccine Derived Polio cases were reported in 26 countries in 2020.
Quote of the Day
Ain’t no sense worrying about things you got no control over, ‘cause if you got no control over them, ain’t no sense worrying. And ain’t no sense worrying about things you got control over, ‘cause if you got control over them, ain’t no sense worrying. Baseball player and accidental philosopher Mickey Rivers
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week.One Wild Polio case reported in 2021. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 1/27/21. Pakistan reported 84 Wild Polio cases in 2020. No WPV1 or
cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. One Wild Polio case reported in 2021 The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 1/01/21. Afghanistan reported 56 Wild Polio cases in 2020. No WPV1 or cVDPV2-Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan.
Our Goal is Global Polio Eradication!!
Terry Ziegler, Endowment/Major Gifts Adviser Rotary Region 36
FOUNDATION MOMENT
Rotary Magazine Update
Rotary Magazine can be delivered right to your E-Mail box if you choose, follow this link to sign up . https://my.rotary.org/en/node/18361
Also note that if your spouse/partner are both members of our club, you are getting 2 copies of the Rotary Magazine, that will change effective January 1, 2021 to where your household will only receive 1 copy now.