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February 3, 2022 |
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Welcome to this week’s meeting of the eClub of the State of Jefferson.
Morning Rotary Friends! Thank you for joining us today for this week's State of Jefferson Weekly Meeting.
Sorry I haven't contributed my own updates since starting my quarter as president, but I have been traveling around for the last few months and managed to have some type of internet wherever I was staying, but once I arrived in Mesa with my trailer at a 55 and older RV/Golf Park, I found getting internet has been a problem. It took over 3 weeks to get it hooked up, and now that I have it, I have lots to catch up on.
I would like to thank Bruce Garrett for filling in for me these past few weeks, and I really appreciate what he posted for me last week, especially the story about "Whose Job Is It Anyway?", which is ironic, in that a group of us met a week or so ago on ZOOM (I was the one on the phone) with PDG Cindi to discuss future visioning for our club, and the discussion came up about the ongoing problem we have to get our members involved in participating in as Board Members and Directors.
Not to bore you with my past, but when I was invited to join this club, I said to myself, "If I am going to join this club, then I am going to participate, not only by attending the weekly meetings, but also get involved". I think I had been a member for about 6 months when I was asked if I would be interested in being Treasurer, and I said, "Yes!" Not only did I get the club's books on QuickBooks, which made it easier to track membership dues, and other items, but it made it easier in sending out annual Dues Invoices.
After my three years as Treasurer, I was asked if I would be interested in being President for a year, so I said, "Yes!" During my term as President, I assisted John Cox in his role as Treasurer, and filled in for the next Treasurer after his term was up. I also took on the role as Foundation Treasure after my term as President was over, something I have been doing now for over four years, because the person that was to take over as Foundation Treasurer is not well, and low and behold, nobody wants to take over the position, which is a very easy job!
This article that Bruce posted last week in the President's Corner was an inspiration to me, but hopefully to you too. So, do not be surprised if a Board member or someone from the Membership Committee contacts you to step up to the plate, and volunteer to be a Board or Director member.
Just to remind you of the story Bruce posted last week, I have attached it to this message:
Whose Job Is It, Anyway?”
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
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Please welcome our newest member Jonathan Bilden! Johnathan is from the Crater Lake Academy, and his membership was approved at the January Board Meeting. Welcome Jonathan!
Hope you enjoy this week's program, and thank you again Bruce for making our weekly meetings so entertaining!
At the July 15 Board of Directors meeting it was agreed that past presidents would fill the vacated President’s position.
January, February, and March – Past President - Jackie Oakley
April, May and June – President-Elect DeVere Wolsey
email president@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
SoJ Board Meeting
Thu, Feb 17, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (PST)
February is Peace and Conflict Resolution Month
Today, over 70 million people are displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution, and human rights violations. Half of them are children.
We refuse to accept conflict as a way of life. Rotary projects provide training that fosters understanding and provides communities with the skills to resolve conflicts.
Rotary creates environments of peace
As a humanitarian organization, peace is a cornerstone of our mission. We believe when people work to create peace in their communities, that change can have a global effect.
By carrying out service projects and supporting peace fellowships and scholarships, our members take action to address the underlying causes of conflict, including poverty, discrimination, ethnic tension, lack of access to education, and unequal distribution of resources.
Our commitment to peacebuilding today answers new challenges: how we can make the greatest possible impact and how we can achieve our vision of lasting change. We are approaching the concept of peace with greater cohesion and inclusivity, broadening the scope of what we mean by peacebuilding, and finding more ways for people to get involved.
Rotary creates environments where peace can happen.
Editor’s Note: The following is a proposed project within the Navajo Nation. COVID put the Navajo Solar Lights Project (NSL) on hold when the Navajo Nation barred non-Navajo from entering the Nation. The Chinle Planting Hope project will benefit the Navajo people during this difficult time.
A project, to be successful requires a “champion,” someone to take responsibility and ensure that the project is completed. The eClub has had several service champions. We need your help. If you have a service project, you would like to champion, please contact Past President John Allman.
Projects that request District Matching Grant funds need to be submitted to the District before June 1st. If there are two or more projects the projects need to be defined as High, Medium, or Low priority and are funded in that order
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Sign Up for the Benefits of Rotary's Biz Network
By Mike Corwin
One of the great benefits of Rotary is to be surrounded by people who have integrity, are leaders, respect diversity, are wonderful friends, and are dedicated to serving others in need. Well, wouldn’t you also want to do business with one of those grand associates?
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- A portion of the funds generated from this program are used to support important service work in our local communities.
- Using vocation and friendship as an opportunity to serve others in need.
- You will receive a Rotary Business Network plaque to showcase in your place of business.
- Potential to have your business spotlighted and honored in this District eNews!
So join us, sign up today a Rotary Business Network registration. PDGs Cindi O’Neil and Bill Grile have remained steadfast and dedicated to networking Rotarians who love doing business with other Rotarians! Click here for their letter of endorsement.
Visit the Rotary Business Directory if you have questions.
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- Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus.
- The virus spreads from person to person and can infect a person’s spinal cord, causing paralysis (can’t move parts of the body).
Most people who get infected with poliovirus (about 72 out of 100) will not have any visible symptoms.
About 1 out of 4 people (or 25 out of 100) with poliovirus infection will have flu-like symptoms that may include:
- Sore throat
- Fever
- Tiredness
- Nausea
- Headache
- Stomach pain
These symptoms usually last 2 to 5 days, then go away on their own.
A smaller proportion of people (much less than one out of 100, or 1-5 out of 1000) with poliovirus infection will develop other, more serious symptoms that affect the brain and spinal cord:
- Paresthesia (feeling of pins and needles in the legs)
- Meningitis (infection of the covering of the spinal cord and/or brain) occurs in about 1 out of 25 people with poliovirus infection
- Paralysis (can’t move parts of the body) or weakness in the arms, legs, or both, occurs in about 1 out of 200 people with poliovirus infection
Paralysis is the most severe symptom associated with polio, because it can lead to permanent disability and death. Between 2 and 10 out of 100 people who have paralysis from poliovirus infection die, because the virus affects the muscles that help them breathe.
Even children who seem to fully recover can develop new muscle pain, weakness, or paralysis as adults, 15 to 40 years later. This is called post-polio syndrome.
Note that “poliomyelitis” (or “polio” for short) is defined as the paralytic disease. So only people with the paralytic infection are considered to have the disease.
Polio has been around since ancient times. This ancient Egyptian tomb painting shows a man with a withered leg unable to bear weight without use of a walking stick. This means that most muscle fibers are replaced with scarring (muscle-wasting) that is permanent.
If someone had polio as a child or young adult but had kept or recovered some or all movement of weakened arms or legs, even to the point of being athletic afterward, they can risk becoming weaker in late adulthood. That is post-polio syndrome (PPS), a condition that can affect polio survivors decades after they recover from their initial poliovirus infection. Some PPS patients become wheelchair-bound when they had not been before.
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