RCWL will meet every Thursday at 5:30pm at the WLGCC (West Liberty Golf & Country Club).
please see calendar HERE (click link)
Regular Evening Club Meeting 5:30pm
This Week’s Meeting – We are excited to invite Trees Forever to come present at the West Liberty Community Center at 5:30 PM on Thursday, December 1st. All community members are encouraged to attend! Spread the word!
Next Weeks Meeting – Gretchen Nollman has invited representatives from the United Way and Salvation Army in to talk about their support for the West Liberty community. This meeting will be held at the West Liberty Country Club.
The Rotary Club of West Liberty’s Noon Satellite Club!
This Week’s Meeting –
The Rotary Club of West Liberty will meet at Savor by Chef D Friday 12/2 at 12 p.m. This is a satellite club (not to take the place of the evening Rotary Club) where it will focus on the minute for local business and network. Guests are always welcome. Come check out what we are all about. Please RSVP to Ken Brooks if you will be in attendance by Thursday 12/1 and doing food for this coming meeting.
HOLIDAY PARTY – EVENING AND SATELLITE CLUB MEMBERS INVITED!!!!!
You are INVITED to an evening of fun and fellowship!
Read all about it….. Rotary Club of West Liberty (Evening & Satelite) Holiday Party…. Will be on Thursday 12/15/22 at 5:30pm. Please bring your family, friends and kiddos!
see invite below and RSVP to Gretchen @ 319-541-1462 or email gretchen.nollman@gmail.com by wed 12/7
Operation Warm
Happy Monday, Everyone!
This Sunday will be the first day for handing out the coats that we have been collecting for the past few months.
We need volunteer help throughout the week. People choosing out coats will be assigned a ten minute window in order to limit congestion and make it easy for our volunteers. Volunteers are in charge of directing people to find coats in the sizes they require, and complete a simple form detailing what size coats were taken. It’s easy! Feel free to forward this email to people that may want to volunteer.
Thank you for all of your hard work!
Please respond to this email with what shift you can work. It can be done as an individual, a couple, or a team.
Operation Warm Coats Volunteer Shifts:
Sunday 12/4 At St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
1:30 PM- 4:00 PM
4:00 PM- 6:10 PM
Monday 12/5 At St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Tuesday 12/6 At St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
1:00 PM – 2:50 PM
2:50 PM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 12/7 At St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Thursday 12/8 at WL Public Library
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
1:00 PM – 2:50 PM
2:50 PM – 5:10 PM
Friday 12/9 at WL Public Library
1:10 PM – 4:00 PM
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Saturday 12/10 at WL Public Library
9:00 AM – Noon
Yours in Service,
Ken
Red Kettle Bell Ringing this season:
Please find the link here to sign up to ring this season!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4BADA62EA4F8C70-salvation2
Ringing the bell for the Salvation Army kettle, where all funds STAY within the West Liberty community will start this Friday and run thru Christmas Day as follows:
Friday’s 4-8pm
Saturday’s from 12pm until 8 pm
Monday thru Thursday 5-7pm
Note these will be two hour shifts for ringing
Locations are: Giri BP and Jeff’s
Please contact Bill Koellner if you want to sign up as well as there will be a signup sheet going live later today to sign up!
T-shirts and Polo’s finalized order, Gretchen will be in contact with those members on details for their order and money owed. Thanks!
Food Pantry Needs:
President Sara has challenged us as a club to help out as part of our goals this year, in providing items for the VAC Food Pantry.
Monetary donations are accepted and can be dropped off to Sara, Ken or Bill’s office downtown. Checks are to be made out to West Liberty Food Pantry.
Also items that are needed can be brought to every week’s club meeting OR dropped off at Sara, Ken or Bill’s office downtown.
Items needed at Pantry are:
Chunky Soups, Flour, Sugar, Cooking oil in 48 ounces, Complete Pancake Mix, Toilet Tissue, Cake Mixes, Jello and personal care products.
Fight Against Human Trafficking details following this LINK
Rotary D6000 News
POLIO PLUS SOCIETY FORM
Polio Eradication Update:
Dear Polio Eradication Warriors,
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. See the attached Polio Update report.
What is that Polio Picture? What will it take?
A little history – Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, progress towards eradicating polio was proceeding at a remarkable rate. During the 1940s and ’50s, when polio outbreaks were a common scourge of the summer months, the disease killed or paralysed more than half a million people worldwide each year – mostly children. The introduction of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and, later, live attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) led to a dramatic reduction in the incidence of polio in higher-income countries during the 1960s and ’70s.
But it wasn’t until the 1980s that the battle against polio really commenced. At that time, community- and school-based surveys revealed that polio was the leading cause of paralysis in lower-income countries, with one in every 200 polio infections causing paralysis.
In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of the disease, and a public-private partnership called the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched.
Led by national governments, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, and later joined by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, GPEI has made huge progress in protecting countries’ populations against polio through widespread OPV campaigns.
A Win Against Polio is a Win For Global Health!
2022 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total – 569 Afghanistan – 43, Algeria – 1, Benin – 7 (3 in 2021), Central African Republic – 3, Chad – 22 (0 in 2021), DR Congo – 238 (28 in 2021), Eritrea – 1, Ethiopia – 1, Ghana – 2, Israel – 1, Madagascar – 10 (13 in 2021), Malawi – 3, Mozambique – 16 (2 in 2021), Niger – 11 (18 in 2021), Nigeria – 42 (415 in 2021), Pakistan – 8, Somalia – 4 (1 in 2021), Togo – 0, United States – 1, Yemen – 154 (69 in 2021) .
2021 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total – 689 in 22 Countries. 2020 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Cases – 1,113 in 26 Countries.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported in the last week – Afghanistan – 3
WPV1 Samples, Algeria – 4 cVDPV2 Samples, Chad – 4 cVDPV2 Cases, D R Congo – 3 cVDPV2 Cases, Ethiopia – 1 cVDPV2 Case, Nigeria – 4 cVDPV2 Cases + 2 Samples.
Quote of the Day – “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” Dolly Parton, Singer, Actress, Humanitarian, and Winner of the 2022 Courage & Civility Award The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Twenty Wild Polio cases reported in 2022. One Wild Polio Case reported in 2021. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/20/22. No WPV1 Sample and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Two Wild Polio Cases reported in 2022 . Four Wild Polio cases reported in 2021 The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/10/22. Afghanistan reported 56 Wild Polio cases in 2020. Three WPV1 and no 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 Minute:
| Welcome to the last week of RI’s Foundation Month.“We should not live for ourselves alone, but for the joy in doing good for others.”Arch Klumph, founder of The Rotary Foundation.In this last week of The Rotary Foundation’s Month, let us remind ourselves of the main facts about this most charitable organization.The Rotary Club of Kansas City, Mo made the first contribution to TRF in the amount of $26.50 in 1917In 1947, Rotarians contributed $1.3m in memory of Paul Harris.In 1979, TRF began immunization of 6 million children in the Philippines against Polio.In 1980, Rotary committed to eliminating Polio through immunization.During the past 100 years, TRF has spent $4 billion on life changing, sustainable projects around the world.TRF is Rotary’s own and only charity delivering our vision of a better world.TRF is supported solely by contributions from the public, Rotary members and friends of the Foundation.Those contributions, gifts and donations are transformed into service projects that change the lives of thousands of people across the world.With 91% of funds spent on the programs and projects it delivers, TRF, based at the Rotary Headquarters in Illinois, USA, is globally recognized for its financial efficiency, accountability and transparency.Each year, TRF gives $70 million worth of grants to Rotary clubs throughout the world for humanitarian projects, vocational training and scholarships in Rotary’s cause areas.Ranging from small-scale, short-term activities to large, international projects, Rotary grants strengthen global partnerships and provide sustainable and measurable benefits to communities.Grants from TRF support over 1,000 projects every year.Promoting peace, Fighting disease, Providing clean water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Saving Mothers and Children, Supporting education, Growing local economies, Protecting the environment…These are our noble causes. |
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.
Ringer update:
Anyone wanting something posted in the weekly ringer news please email Gretchen AND Xiomara by Friday EOD weekly.
