Friday lunch bunch meetings be on the following dates below, meeting at Liberty Public House at 12pm, please let Cliff McFerren know if you're coming so that food may be ordered.
Jan 19th - Pulled Pork will be served for lunch
Jan 26th
Link to Rotary Board Meeting Minutes for November board meetingHERE
Greetings, Members of the Rotary Club of West Liberty.
Thursday January 11th, our Rotary club board voted to approve proposal(s) that our membership accept the following people as President for the 2025-2026 year of our club:
Mark Smith
If anyone has an objection to Mark Smith serve as President of our club during the year 2025-2026, please communicate with President-Elect Jacob Burroughs.
If no written objection is received within 7 days, Mark Smith will be considered as having been elected to the position of President for the 2025-2026 year for the Rotary Club of West Liberty
In service,
Rotary Club of West Liberty, Iowa
PO Box 301
West Liberty, IA 52776
100 Year Project update:
As of last Meeting December 8th, 2023 - Ken Brooks has an update of the following for the 100 year project:
1 year away on dec 21,2024 and new logo to kick it off! There will be time to host several committee events for publicizing rotary and fundraising for rotary. So far we have Fair activities along with the Hot Cocoa at WL Holiday Open House
The Ball Drop fundraiser is to be coordinated with when the Football Field and Athletic Complex is opening up next fall. Ask Ken and Jacob for more details or any questions you have.
Also there will be a Spring Fundraiser towards the 100 year which is a Murder Mystery Progressive Dinner that Allie Paarsmith is heading up. Anyone wanting help more with the Spring Fundraiser please get with Allie Paarsmith.
Other Ideas discussed in the coming months.....
Movie theatre for family night or movie nights at Ron de voo
Musicians sponsored with Ron de voo summer of arts group with lph
Free swimming at the pool for summer
Christmas ball in December - celebration, invite entire community, 1920’s theme, community center or school due to having a video with members to be shown
100 banner on poles work with chamber potentially
100 year shirts
Again, any questions please contact Ken Brooks and Jacob Burroughs.
Rotary Theme for 2024-2025 has been announced!
#Rotary President-elect Stephanie Urchick revealed the 2024-2025 presidential theme, The Magic of Rotary, today: "We are not going to end polio or bring peace to the world by waving a wand. It's up to you. You create the magic with every project completed..."
Welcome to Week 3 of RI’s Month of Vocational Service.
At the end of a week-long Rotary International Assembly, (January 7 – 11, 2024) the United Nations and Rotary International signed an agreement on one of TRF’s 7 Areas of Focus: the Environment. According to an online report, “the new partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and one of the world’s largest service organizations, Rotary International, will work to conserve and restore freshwater bodies. The partnership with Rotary International will assist UNEP’s global efforts to support countries in monitoring, protecting, restoring and better managing their freshwater ecosystems, such as lakes, rivers, wetlands and groundwater aquifers, to meet sustainable development, climate, biodiversity and other global commitments. “Great partnerships are key to accelerating water action,” said Leticia Carvalho, Principal Coordinator of UNEP’s Marine and Freshwater Branch. “We very much look forward to working with Rotary with its global reach, close connections to communities and action-focused engagement.”. With more than US$23 million invested by Rotary International’s foundation, Rotary clubs worldwide undertake impactful environmental projects ranging from local clean-ups and tree plantings to large-scale efforts like installing solar power, creating waste management systems and conserving ecosystems. Source: https://www.unep.org/technical-highlight/unep-rotary-partnership-aims-safeguard-freshwater-sources.
In Rotary,
Olabisi Gwamna, PhD
Mount Pleasant Rotary
Editor, Foundation Minute
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. We are now 8 weeks since the most recent reported Wild Polio Case - in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Note - The 2023 Total Case Count numbers will not be final for a couple of months due to discovery and lab testing times.
Novel Oral Polio Vaccine Type 2 Milestone - As we enter 2024, we do so with complete focus and the celebration of a groundbreaking milestone – the WHO Prequalification of the next-generation polio vaccine, nOPV2. Approximately 1 billion doses of nOPV2 have already been administered across 35 countries, and now with its final stamp of regulatory approval, more countries will be able to access and use this vaccine, protecting children from polio’s devastating consequences. As the first-ever vaccine to move from WHO’s Emergency Use Listing to Prequalification, nOPV2 continues to pave the way for other life-saving innovations.
Total Wild Polio cases
Year-to-date 2024
Total
2023
Total
2022
Total
2021
Total
2020
Globally
0
12
30
6
140
- in endemic countries:
0
12
22
5
140
- in post-endemic countries:
0
0
8
1
0
2024 Wild Polio Case Total - 0
2024 Circulating Variant Polio Case Total - 0
2023 Wild Polio Case Total 12 - Afghanistan 6, Pakistan 6
2022 Vaccine Derived Polio Cases – 914 in 26 Countries
2023 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 457 Benin - 3, Burkina Faso - 2, Burundi - 1, Central African Republic - 14, Chad - 50, Cote d' Ivoire - 5, DR Congo - 214, Guinea - 34, Indonesia - 5, Israel - 1, Kenya - 8, Madagascar - 24, Mali - 12, Mauritania - 1, Mozambique - 4,Niger - 1, Nigeria - 64, Somalia - 5, South Sudan - 1, Tanzania - 3, Yemen - 3, Zambia - 1.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported this week -
Afghanistan: two wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1)-positive environmental samples
Pakistan: 14 WPV1-positive environmental samples
Guinea: three circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) (2023) cases
Indonesia: one cVDPV2 (2023) case and one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
Mozambique: one cVDPV2 (2023)case
Nigeria: two cVDPV2 (2023) cases
Tanzania: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
Quote of the Day - "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pine
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. No Wild Polio cases reported in 2024. Six Wild Polio Cases reported in 2023. Twenty Wild Polio cases reported in 2022. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 11/15/23. Fourteen WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. No Wild Polio cases reported in 2024. Six Wild Polio Cases reported in 2023, Two Wild Polio Cases reported in 2022. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/4/23. One WPV1 Sample and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan.
Advocate, Donate & Educate to END POLIO NOW & FOREVER!
20,500,000 Children Saved from the Paralysis of Polio
Our Goal is Global Polio Eradication!!
Terry Ziegler, Polio Update Newsletter Editor
Rotary Region 36 END POLIO NOW Coordinator 2024-27
Welcome to 2024 and snow is beginning to arrive as well! Our Annual Meeting has been postponed to January 15th- starting at 5pm. If you haven't RSVP'd - you still can and we understand with prior engagements that some may not be able to attend. $20 per person.
Our Membership online form is below- we have started our membership drive and can't wait to have all our members join us this year. Great events and gatherings are happening! Paper form is in the Chamber chat for this month- attached below.
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.
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