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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning October 17, 2022
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning October 17, 2022
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Complete the form for a make-up!
Please leave a donation to assist our club to do Rotary's good works!
Greeter this week
Rotarian David Werrett
Inspirational moment
Rotarian David Werrett
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Canadiana
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Comments from our guests and members
Members and guests attending our weekly meetings are very important to us. Based on your comments we are able to produce many more educational, inspiring, and entertaining weekly meetings.
Following are some of the comments we have received. Would you please send us your comments?
August 20. Many interesting facts in General Secretary John Hewko’s speech, but for me the fact that Rotary membership has increased in Ukraine since the war began is quite remarkable.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
August 15. Enjoyed the Rotary speaker – John Hewko.
-- Brenda Race, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
August 20. Great message from John Hewko.
-- Jim Ferguson, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
August 20. Inspirational Moment, Canadiana – Sable Island National Park, Food for Thought, Speaker program – Loved the Variation in topics in which all are very interesting, especially the speaker program which tells us not to be set in our ways.
-- Martin Secker, Rotary Club of Kingston, District 7040
August 22. Chris Wells was a perfect keynote speaker for an International Conference - Dogoodery! Also really enjoyed the Riverdance segment as my daughter was involved in Irish step dancing at just about that time. Another well-put-together meeting. Thanks!
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
How to break bad management habits. Just a very good balancing of subject matter.
-- Gary McLelan, Rotary Club of Campbell River (Noon), District 5020
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Announcements
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24
WORLD POLIO DAY 2022
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...submitted by Rotarian Vicki
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Material Suggestions and Greeter Messages Always Needed!
Please feel free to forward an approx. 150 - 200 word message or any material suggestions in an e-mail, or in a Word document, along with a JPeg picture or two, to E-Club Administration Chair, Kitty Bucsko.
We'd love to hear from you!
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Real-time meetings
Each 3rd Tuesday of the month is our Fellowship Assembly, and we often invite interesting speakers or Rotary Leaders for this entertaining, educational fun event. Plan to join us.
Everyone is welcome to attend and we encourage your participation.
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For further inquiries or suggestions please contact: info@rotaryeclubcanada.ca
All our videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel.
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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
10430 135 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5N 2C6
(780) 267 4547
Environment
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Humour
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And the best was Angel's T-shirt recently!!!
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New members' corner
PRESERVING EVERY DROP OF THE POLIO VACCINE
From the cold chain to children in hard-to-reach areas
Following a presidential declaration of a national public health emergency, after Malawi confirmed a case of wild poliovirus in February, UNICEF Malawi supported the Ministry of Health to immediately procure and distribute 6.9 million polio vaccine doses for approximately 2.9 million children under the age of five in Malawi.
To ensure that vaccines are safe and accessed by all under-five children regardless of their geographical location, UNICEF assisted the Ministry of Health to install 223 new vaccine refrigerators, repair 51 vaccine refrigerators and distribute 200 vaccine carriers and 38 cold boxes to health centres across the country in preparation for the mass vaccination exercise.
“For the success of this programme, the use of potent and safe vaccines is of utmost importance. To ensure all health centres have the vaccines and that Health Surveillance Assistants carry the doses deep into hard-to-reach areas, it is recommended that ice-lined refrigerators, deep freezers, and refrigerators maintain a temperature of ≥2° to ≤8° centigrade for Oral Polio Vaccines, hence the significance of ensuring a smooth cold chain linkage from the central source to the last beneficiary," said Ghanashyam Sethy, UNICEF Malawi Health Specialist.
Click here to read more.
Typically, in patients with poliomyelitis, muscles of the legs are affected more often than the arm muscles. More extensive paralysis, involving the trunk and muscles of the thorax and abdomen, can result in quadriplegia. In the most severe cases (bulbar polio), poliovirus attacks the motor neurons of the brain stem - reducing breathing capacity and causing difficulty in swallowing and speaking. Without respiratory support, bulbar polio can result in death. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50% of all cases).
In May 1988, at its annual meeting in Geneva, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO), resolved to eradicate polio from the world. The global eradication initiative is concerned both with stopping new cases of poliomyelitis caused by poliovirus throughout the world as well as implementing mechanisms to prevent its reintroduction. In the ensuing years, the number of poliomyelitis cases have been reduced by over 99%, and as of the beginning of 2003, only 7 countries worldwide had any detectable level of poliovirus transmission.
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To ensure that vaccines are safe and accessed by all under-five children regardless of their geographical location, UNICEF assisted the Ministry of Health to install 223 new vaccine refrigerators, repair 51 vaccine refrigerators and distribute 200 vaccine carriers and 38 cold boxes to health centres across the country in preparation for the mass vaccination exercise.
Good to go: Health Surveillance Assistants at Mitundu Community Hospital
with a loaded cold box that they carry
to administer the vaccine in their outreach areas
Click here to read more.
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Rotary minute
Poliovirus is transmitted from one person to another by oral contact with secretions or faecal material from an infected person.
Once viral reproduction is established in the mucosal surfaces of the nasopharynx, poliovirus can multiply in specialized cells in the intestines and enter the blood stream to invade the central nervous system, where it spreads along nerve fibres. When it multiplies in the nervous system, the virus can destroy nerve cells (motor neurons) which activate skeletal muscles. These nerve cells cannot regenerate, and the affected muscles lose their function due to a lack of nervous enervation - a condition known as acute flaccid paralysis (AFP).
In May 1988, at its annual meeting in Geneva, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO), resolved to eradicate polio from the world. The global eradication initiative is concerned both with stopping new cases of poliomyelitis caused by poliovirus throughout the world as well as implementing mechanisms to prevent its reintroduction. In the ensuing years, the number of poliomyelitis cases have been reduced by over 99%, and as of the beginning of 2003, only 7 countries worldwide had any detectable level of poliovirus transmission.
Food for thought
“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thigh bone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thigh bone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.
We are at our best when we serve others.”
Rotary's mottoes
Service above Self.
One profits most who serves best!
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Food insecurity for thought
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Rotary Jukebox
For a small donation, your favorite musician will be featured on one of our next e-meetings for everyone to enjoy.
Every week we'll have a draw and the lucky person will see their song featured!
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Literacy is important all year, not just during September, Literacy Month.
Four-way Test
To close the meeting, Rotarian Nance recites the Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.
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