President's Message for August 14

Posted by Dan Monson 
on Aug 14, 2015
 
Good day,
Our next club board meeting is August 21st, immediately after the regular meeting.  We meet on the 3rd Friday of every month, and our board meetings are always open to club members.   Anytime you have something that you would like to present to the board, please let me know in a timely fashion so that I can get it on the agenda for the upcoming board meeting.  We try to keep the meetings to an hour.
 
If you are planning to participate in the Health Fair Service Project, please let Ed Wilson know.  You can email him at edkarenwilson2003@yahoo.com or you can text or call him at 713-302-9771.   If you want to sit in the booth (which will be inside a large air-conditioned room) and hand out goodies to the kids, let him know that.  If you want to take a more active part in the service project, let him know that as well.  We need to let the event organizers know how many volunteers they can count on from us…and we need to do it right away.
 
Two new cases of Polio reported this week – 1 in Pakistan and 1 in Afghanistan. These numbers show only the number of people who get polio so bad that they are paralyzed.  Only about 2% of the polio cases are paralytic, yet 100% of the cases are communicable!  So this means that because we had 2 cases of polio reported, another 98 are running around thinking they have a bad cold and spreading the virus to people who have not been inoculated.  Think about that.  That’s why we are having a resurgence of whooping cough and measles right here in this country. Measles and whooping cough have never been eradicated.
YRS
Gwen
The object of Rotary is to encourage & foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:[3]
  1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
  2. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
  4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.