Our faithful chronicler of meeting minutes, Frank Wooldridge, was unavoidably detained this week, leaving the recounting of our 9/29 gathering to the junior assistant Beacon editor, Jeff Bell! Things started off wonderfully with warm greetings from Jackie Maxwell & Michele McClure the moment everyone walked through the door, but shortly thereafter we could tell our meeting was different as our typically punctual President Jeff Haynes delayed the initial ringing of the bell until 7:02am. Then Ron Nelms graced us with a lovely invocation, Heath Niemeyer led us in a patriotic pledge, and songstress extraordinaire Carol Smith directed us in a rousing rendition of My Country, '5Tis of Thee. Finally, Michael O'Doherty tried to introduce our visiting Rotarians, however none could be found.
Normally Pres Jeff would next ask Pete Leveroni to introduce our guest speaker, however the booked and confirmed program presenter was MIA- leaving our fearless leader in a bit of a bind! Drawing on his PERLS training, he adeptly pivoted to celebrating birthdays, wedding and club anniversaries. Cheryl Scott brought along the ever-handsome Darren Scott to celebrate their 32 years of wedded bliss- and it was Darrin's birthday today to boot! Denise Haynes acknowledged the 17th anniversary of her wedding to Scott Haynes. Finally, our very own MJ Pasek celebrated her silver 25th Rotary anniversary this week.
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Polio has been on the earth for thousands of years, with depictions disease in ancient art, such as in the carvings inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid, portraying a priest with a withered leg.
In the early 20th century, polio was one of the most feared diseases in the industrialized world. It paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. Effective vaccines against polio were introduced by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, in the 1950s and 60s. Polio was brought under control and practically eliminated as a public health problem in the United States and other countries. As of 1979, the United States was polio free; in 1988 the global polio eradication initiatives began. Since then more than 25 billion children have immunized, Thanks to the cooperation more than 200 countries, backed by an international investment of more than US $11 billion. The timeline of the history of polio may be found at www.polio.org, as well as www.endpolio.org.
, Jeff Bell! Things started off wonderfully with warm greetings from Jackie Maxwell & Michele McClure the moment everyone walked through the door, but shortly thereafter we could tell our meeting was different as our typically punctual P
resident Jeff Haynes delayed the initial ringing of the bell until 7:02am. Then Ron Nelms graced us with a lovely invocation, Heath Niemeyer led us in a patriotic pledge, and songstress extraordinaire Carol Smith directed us in a rousing rendition of My Country, '5Tis of Thee. Finally, Michael O'Doherty tried to introduce our visiting Rotarians, however none could be found.
itis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most
