PRESIDENT'S CORNER
President Will MacArthur's Welcome Message
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs, I welcome you to visit our club and experience the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs' hospitality and energy. We meet on Monday for lunch at 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Hilton Perimeter Suites, 6120 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Sandy Springs, GA 30328. You can reserve a spot by going to our website at www.sandyspringsrotary.org. Join your fellow professionals, and community and business leaders, and learn how Rotary can fit in your future. Experience Rotary Making A Difference!
LAST WEEK'S PROGRAM
October 2, 2017 Dr. Cynthia Abbott on Leprosy and Other Dermatological Conditions
On October 2, 2017, Dr. Cynthia Abbott spoke about dermatological conditions, including leprosy, in Papua New Guinea, and what she and others are doing to help relieve these serious conditions.
BRINGING HEALTH CARE TO ISOLATED ISLANDERS, BY CYNTHIA ABBOTT, MD
Monday, June 15th, 2015
My 18-year-old son is serving 6 months of a GAP year with MV YWAM PNG Ship (Youth With A Mission) as a volunteer on a medical ship in Papua New Guinea. This is a new ten-year project funded largely by the Papua New Guinea government along with private donations from Australia, New Zealand, and around the world. I was accepted as a their first volunteer dermatologist on one of the pilot outreaches this summer and was given the amazing opportunity to bring my whole family on this partially refurbished medical ship bringing health care to isolated islanders. I was asked to make recommendations for refit stage 2 to include dermatologic diagnosis and treatment. I saw and treated amazing things including diagnosing 3 new cases of leprosy, yaws, psoriasis, HIV, cutaneous TB, and various jungle infections. My teens assisted in the dental clinic with suction and education, taught personal skin and body hygiene to school-age children, demonstrated how to throw an American football, played games, and sang songs. My husband designed a mobile iPad app to assist in data collection and tracking from the over 300 villages the ship will be serving through each year. Overall, it was a life changing experience serving these generous, friendly, adaptive and attentive villagers who have lived through Stone Age to Rocket Age in less than a generation. We saw villages built on stilts above tides that washed trash from nearby cities shores, villages built on stilts above muddy river beds that flooded monthly so villagers painted themselves with mud to prevent mosquito bites and malaria, villages on pristine island paradises 5 hours by canoe from a store with only a solar charger to power a single light bulb. Amazing contrast! Amazing people! Amazing experience. Dr. Abbott is fundraising to help get "Donations for dermatologic ...needed for sustainable dermatologic care. [and] This equipment could also be utilized by general practitioners or gynecologists with minimal extra training or adaptations." To donate follow the link to her indigog site. https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/dermatology-equipment-for-papua-new-guinea
UPCOMING PROGRAM
October 16, 2016 - Annual Public Service Awards Program
On October 16, 2017, the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs will hold its Annual Public Safety Awards during which the First Responders of Sandy Springs Fire, EMS and Police will be recognized for outstanding service of 2017. This is an annual program which follows last week's three evenings of Public Service Dinners and Lunches, where local restaurants and caterers bring the meal to the firehouse on Sandy Springs Circle for three nights of dinners. Lunch is also brought to the Sandy Springs Police Department to accommodate those on a different shift. Here are some photos from prior years.
UPCOMING EVENT
October 18th and 23rd Dictionary Project Distribution!
Please plan to support the annual Dictionary Project. At least 5 volunteers are needed for each school, so make it your goal to pick a date. Bring a friend to help out, if you wish. We often have nonRotarians participate because it is fun and takes less than an hour.
Volunteers are needed for the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs annual "Dictionary Project," where 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in all Sandy Springs public schools receive dictionaries, thesauruses and word building books. The distributions will take place on Wednesday October 18 and Monday October 23 between 8a.m. and 10a.m.except at the Woodland which is scheduled for 9:30 a.m.
Dunwoody Springs Oct 18 Jim Squire and Will McArthur
High Point Oct. 18 Bill Snellings and Ed Ukaonu
Spalding Drive Oct. 18 Gene Jordan, Malcolm Kirkpatrick
Woodland Oct.18 Reginald Thomas, and Mike Lindstrom
Heards Ferry Oct. 23 Rick Doyle and Julia Bernath
Ison Springs Oct. 23 Tamara Carrera and Steve Jordan
Lake Forest Oct. 23 Gene Jordan
ROTARACT NEWS
October 25, 2017 World Polio Day
From Rotary.Org:
World Polio Day 2016 highlights Rotary’s progress to end polio
Where are we in the fight to eradicate polio? What's left to do? And why does it cost so much? Rotary's World Polio Day event on 24 October will answer these questions and more.
Health officials from our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative will join Rotary leaders and special guests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, to give a status update on the eradication campaign.
The wild poliovirus has caused fewer new cases of the disease so far this year than this time last year, but recent setbacks in Nigeria — which was re-classified as polio-endemic in September 2016 — underscore the need for vigilance.
Yet the detection of new cases in northern Nigeria also demonstrates that surveillance efforts are reaching children even in areas affected by conflict. The challenge now is to contain the outbreak and boost immunity in affected areas until the virus is eradicated worldwide.
This year also saw the largest and fastest vaccine rollout in history, as 155 countries and territories switched from the trivalent oral polio vaccine to the bivalent oral polio vaccine. The bivalent oral polio vaccine protects against the only two strains still in circulation and reduces the likelihood of vaccine-derived cases.
- Stream the 24 October event live at endpolio.org.
- Register your World Polio Day event for a chance to be recognized in Atlanta.
- Share the live-stream and educate your social networks about the campaign to #endpolio.
CLUB ESSENTIALS
GREETERS/INVOCATION
Next Week's Greeters and Invocation
October 16, 2017
GREETER A: Reginald Thomas
GREETER B: Steve Soteres
INVOCATION: Chris Burnett
If you are unable to serve as a greeter or give the invocation, please be responsible for finding a replacement.
ROTARY MONTHLY THEME - OCTOBER - ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MONTH
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