Jackie Henderson and Madison Edwards presented us with a community service opportunity: Senior Day - a day that the West Liberty High School senior class gets together at the fairgrounds for food, fun, fellowship and to gather and inquire about resources
for after graduation.
Senior Day is Wednesday, October 16th. Our club will serve lunch to participants and staff. We will meet at the fairgrounds at 10am. Those who are interested in volunteering, please contact:
Krista Lanier - rotaryclubwestliberty@gmail.com / (910) 714-8787
Father Guillermo is entering his tenth year of priesthood and 7th year living in West Liberty. He loves God, pro wrestling, traveling, going to comic cons, movies and concerts!
The thing he loves most about Rotary is the variety of people, individuals from all different backgrounds working together for the common good! His favorite Rotary events are the annual coat drive and lunch every Friday at noon.
Thank you for your incredible work in our community, Father G!
Congratulations to our Rotarian of the Week, Diane Brooks!
While Diane only joined Rotary last year, she has been attending Rotary events her whole life, as her father, Charlie Largent, was a lifelong Rotarian.
Diane is a retired educator, and now owns Diane's Dozen, a local small business that specializes in baked goods and other homemade items. Diane appreciates Rotary's opportunities to network with other local business owners, and loves to volunteer with Rotary service projects, especially our projects in the schools.
When not volunteering with Rotary or baking, Diane can be found volunteering with NAMI, the West Liberty Food Pantry, the Brick Street Art Gallery, and spending time with her grandchildren.
October 26 at 10 AM will be a workday at the West Liberty Heritage Foundation campus. We will have projects from painting, taking the canopy off the carousel and covering the horses, adding Christmas lights to the caboose, and brush and tree removal along the trail. Also, we will be trying our hand at leveling the signal house up the trail by the football field entrance. We will have enough projects for 10 to 15 people. Weather permitting of course, we will be grilling outside to feed the hungry and happy workers.
Diane celebrated her 1 year anniversary on Sept. 4th!
Nathan celebrated his 18th anniversary on Sept. 6th!
Brad celebrated his 9th anniversary on Sept. 8th!
Ethan celebrated his 13th anniversary on Sept. 20th!
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Rotary Foundation Minute: September 16, 2024
FOUNDATION MINUTE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2024.
Welcome to Week Three of Basic Education & Literacy Month.
The report this week is from South East Asia, where several Rotary Clubs, in partnership with TRF, have been doing great things to improve the lives of fellow human beings. With focus on screening and testing patients for tuberculosis, RC Rasipuram, RID 2982, has donated a molecular testing machine to the Government Hospital, a fluorescent microscope to GH, Namakkal, and a microscope each to 10 primary health centers in and around Rasipuram to enhance the TB testing facilities through a Global Grant project worth ₹27.4 lakh (about $33,000 USD). Rasipuram is a town in the revenue district of Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. RC Cornette-Furquim Castro, RID 4630, Brazil was the global partner. As the National TB Elimination Programme mandates the supply of nutritional diet consisting of pulses, eggs, cooking oil etc to boost the immunity of patients under treatment, “we have arranged for the monthly supply of pulses worth ₹600 ($7.15 USD) to 20 TB patients for six months, costing ₹72,000 ($858.34 USD),” said N P Ramaswamy, project chairman. In another report, RC Kottayam East, RID 3211, along with RC McKinney, Texas, RID 5810, provided an ambulance and kidney dialysis equipment worth $118,450 to two hospitals in the city. Over
40 underprivileged people are benefitting from the facilities.
In Rotary,
Olabisi Gwamna, PhD
Editor, Foundation Minute
End Polio Update September 14, 2024
Terry's Polio Eradication Update
For the week ending 9/14/24
Dear Polio Eradication Warriors,
One new Wild Polio case reported this week. We are now 3 weeks since the Onset of Paralysis of the most recent reported Wild Polio Case in Pakistan.
The Gaza Humanitarian Pause campaign which started in central Gaza with a three-day pause in fighting, and then moved to southern Gaza for another three-day pause, followed by northern Gaza, was completed yesterday. 195,747 children were immunized in central Gaza, 250,694 in southern Gaza, and 106,110 in northern Gaza for a total of 552,451 children vaccinated. Communities were enthusiastic about the vaccination efforts, with a large number of families bringing children to the 117 fixed sites to receive nOPV2. There are plans for a second round of immunizations in about four weeks.
No cVDPV2 cases were reported in Gaza this week. There has been one case from Gaza reported this year.
Novel Oral Polio Vaccine Type 2 - In a significant step towards a polio-free world, India-based vaccine manufacturer Biological E received World Health Organization Pre-qualification for their novel oral polio vaccine, nOPV2. Joining Bio Farma as the second supplier of this next-generation vaccine, Biological E will help ensure there is a consistent supply of nOPV2, playing a critical role in stopping outbreaks and protecting millions of children from the devastating effects of variant type 2 poliovirus.
Total Wild Polio cases
Year-to-date 2024
Total
2023
Total
2022
Total
2021
Total
2020
Globally
35
12
30
6
140
- in endemic countries:
35
12
22
5
140
2024 Circulating Variant Polio Case Total - 165 Angola - 6, Benin - 2, Chad - 8, DR Congo - 17, Ethiopia - 12, Guinea - 5, Indonesia - 7, Liberia - 1,Mali - 1, Mozambique - 1, Niger - 9, Nigeria 49, Occupied Palestinian Territory - 1, Somalia - 3, South Sudan - 8, Yemen - 33
2024 Wild Polio Case Total 35 - Afghanistan 18 - Pakistan 17
2023 Wild Polio Case Total 12 - Afghanistan 8, Pakistan 6
2022 Circulating Variant Polio Cases – 914 in 26 Countries
2023 Circulating Variant Polio Case Total - 524 Benin - 3, Burkina Faso - 3, Burundi - 1, Central African Republic - 14, Chad - 55, Cote d' Ivoire - 6, DR Congo - 223, Guinea - 47, Indonesia - 6, Israel - 1, Kenya - 8, Madagascar - 24, Mali - 15, Mauritania - 1, Mozambique - 5,Niger - 2, Nigeria - 87, Somalia - 8, South Sudan - 3, Tanzania - 3, Yemen - 8, Zambia - 1, Zimbabwe - 1.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported this week -
Pakistan: one WPV1 case and 15 positive environmental samples
Algeria: 1 cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
DR Congo: one cVDPV2 case
Ghana: 1 cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
Quote of the Day - "Together We End Polio." Rotarians, their Partner Organizations, Polio Survivors everywhere, and all concerned citizens
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan One new Wild Polio case reported this week. Seventeen Wild Polio cases reported in 2024. Six Wild Polio Cases reported in 2023. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 08/18/24. Fifteen WPV1 Environmental Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Eighteen Wild Polio cases reported in 2024. Six Wild Polio Cases reported in 2023. The Most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 08/12/24. No WPV1 Environmental Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan.
Advocate, Donate & Educate to END POLIO NOW & FOREVER!
Over 3 billion Children Immunized
21,000,000 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
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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