High School Speech Contest

Monday, April 6, 1998

Memorable Beginning

President Jim Valinoti clanged the bell. Bob Marigo announced that Ellie Lowery will be the new Chairperson for the Save Our Students project sponsored by the Club. Save Our Students was selected by the Santa Rosa Board of Education for the second time as the "Volunteer Group of the Year" With closer questioning by President Jim, Bob gave Jim the directions "up Yours" but was not clear where the town of Yours was.

Mark your calendars...

April 11 - Spring fling dance. 7-11:30 PM. Flamingo. Reserve with Marc Matson
April 17-18 - District Assembly
April 20 - Club Assembly
May 15 - Sunrise club golf tournament

Announcements:

Mark Matson announced he is in need of ten more couples to have the minimum for the "Spring Fling." The
event as planned will have dancing and live music. The Spring Fling, a dance and dessert party will be April 11, starting at 7:30 PM at the Los Robles Lodge. Contact Mark Matson for details and reservations.

The Santa Rosa Sunrise Club's golf tourney on May 15 still has some available spots. If interested call Jeff Lyon?
575-5200 or Steve Herron 524-3102

Raffle

The winning raffle ticket 000-49-7520 was held by Henry Von Der Maden, but he picked one of many black marbles
in the bag.

News from Rotary International on PolioPlus

What is PolioPlus Partners?
Through PolioPlus Partners, Rotarians in polio free countries can walk side by side with Rotarians who are actively working in the villages and cities of their countries to find the children, educate their parents and bring vaccine to the children. PolioPlus Partners provides the necessary tools to make the goal of a polio free world a reality.

Guaranteeing Integrity
To ensure the integrity of these important polio eradication projects, only two sources may authorize projects for submission to the PolioPlus Partners Program. National Immunization Days projects are submitted by Rotary National PolioPlus Committee Chairmen. Laboratory projects are submitted to the Partners program after careful review and authorization by the World Health Organization.

Rotarians Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Individuals, Clubs and Districts can provide the tools of immunization and eradication for PolioPlus Partners projects through:
Direct Contributions of any amount (eligible for Paul Harris Fellow Recognition)

Use of District SHARE funds Matching Grants
Clubs and Districts around the world are becoming PolioPlus Partners with their fellow Rotarians. Here are examples of how they participated:

Rotarians in Districts 6490, 9100, 3330, 3480, 3810 and 3800 (Illinois, USA, Cote d'Ivoire, Thailand, Taiwan, and The Philippines) joined together to apply for a Matching Grant totaling US$20,910 in support of the purchase of equipment to collect and analyze stool specimens for a laboratory project in Cote d'Ivoire.

Rotarians in District 2640 (Japan) contributed funds to purchase two four wheel drive vehicles for the 1997 NIDs in Cambodia. The vehicles will be used to distribute vaccine and immunization materials to remote areas of this war torn country.

To commemorate its 85th anniversary, the Rotary club of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., purchased 85 vaccine carriers for Indonesia's National Immunization Days.

Donations to the Ghana National Immunization Day project by Rotary clubs in District 6440 (Illinois, United States) were matched by that district's SHARE funds. In this way, each contribution had twice the impact.

Your contribution can help achieve the goal of a Polio-Free World

Here is how your gift can help:

US$30 can provide ten vaccine carriers which keep vaccine at the right temperature.
US$100 can provide a bicycle to distribute vaccine to villages.
US$250 can provide 25,000 pamphlets to inform the public about an NID.
US$500 can provide a sterilizing oven for a polio laboratory.
US$1,000 can purchase a benchtop autoclave for a polio laboratory.

Prices for items may vary from country to country. Please consult the current PolioPlus Partners Open Projects List for precise project information or contact PolioPlus Partners Staff. (phone: 847-866-3460 or fax: 847-866-0269)

"We are very grateful for your contribution which gave us the feeling that we are all brothers in the big Rotary family. We hope that by the year 2000 all children in the world will be saved from the dreadful disease called polio."

Abidin Kartasoebrata, Chairman
Indonesia National PolioPlus Committee
(The above message is from the Rotary International Website. Check it out

Program

Jeff Bolle from the Sebastopol Club conducted the Third Annual Speech Contest for local high school students. The
contest was won by Gilsey Bell sponsored by the Sebastopol Club. Darcy Dummond-Lusk placed second and
Allie Meacham third.

This Bulletin was written by Steve Kay.

Santa Rosa West Rotary Club

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Bob Harris (bob@hlenv.com), Secretary
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