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We meet every Friday from 1:00 to 2:00pm at Wanderers Club, Illovo, Johannesburg. You can also join us on Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86496040522.

Tuesday 13 October 2015

A Quiz, Rotary Family Health Days, Youth Leadership Course & Gordon Froud.

Last Week
Steve Anastopoulos entertained us with a challenging "Mind Trap Quiz"last week.  It was great fun and we all laughed a lot but the accountants definitely had the mathematical advantage.  There were only two tables of Rotarians present because of the Rotary Family Health Days and the Club's Youth Leadership Course being held in the Magaliesberg over the weekend but it didn't matter.  Expert scoring ensured that the result was a draw.  Many thanks, Steve for providing such good entertainment and it was a pleasure meeting your wife, Vicky.

 Rotary Family Health Days a Short Report from David Bradshaw
Our Club helped Kyalami and Morningside Rotary Clubs at their venues.

Kyalami was based at Ivory Park and the venue was far from ideal, 144 people were seen on the Wednesday, 324 on the Thursday and 269 on the Friday, giving them a total of 737.The Dept of Health had their yellow gazebo's with staff offering various services.  
I assisted on the Wednesday and Mark Franklin on the Thursday. They will certainly discuss with the Dept of Health an alternative venue for 2016.

Morningside held their's at the Diepsloot Methodist Church Hall which was packed with providers and offered a wide range of services including a large eye testing unit with over 40 people assisting, and with the opportunity to purchase new modern framed spectacles for R200. 
There was a mobile clinic outside the hall, private HIV testing and counselling, etc etc.
On the Wednesday they assisted 220 people and Rosebank members, Ken and Melodene Stonestreet, Jos Tsosa, Lyn Collocott, John Symons and myself assisted on the Thursday when 409 were seen.
Friday was their busiest day when 617 people were seen, giving them a grand total of 1246.
Arnold Bell of Morningside, the Club Champion for the Health Days did a wonderful job with his team in putting this all together.
There will be a full report from District going into more detail.

Youth Leadership Course
This took place over the weekend.....see President Neville's comments.  We'll put the pictures on next week.

 Rotary Leadership Institute Course
There is a course on Saturday 24th October at the Rotary Centre.  If you are interested, please let me know. peter@pjsfood.co.za  I have an application form.

This Week
Our speaker is Gordon Froud, Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg.  he has been actively involved in the South African and international art world for more than 30 years as an artist, educator and curator.  He regularly shows on more than 20 exhibitions a year and he has just returned from Beijing where he curated an exhibition of South African work for the Beijing Biennial.  That will be the subject of his talk to us.

DG's Regional Dinner Thursday 19th November

When we have more details I will send round a circular for those who would like to go.  
We will have our normal lunchtime meeting on the following day.  
Please diarise the 19th as it is important to show our support for our Club at this event and also our support for DG David Grant.




 is the newest face to join Rotary's 'This Close' public awareness campaign for polio eradication. 
Bell joins Rotary's fight against polio as the service organization and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative enter the final push to eliminate the vaccine-preventable disease. With the historic removal of Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries last month, just two continue to report polio cases: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"I am overjoyed to work with Rotary at such an important moment in history," Bell said. "To help create awareness about this horrible disease is exhilarating."
Bell is best known for her roles as the quick-witted, sassy title character in the hit series Veronica Mars, razor-sharp Jeannie van der Hooven of House of Lies, and the voice of Princess Anna of Arendelle in Disney's third highest-grossing film Frozen. She became interested in the importance of vaccines after the birth of her two daughters, Lincoln (age two) and Delta (age one).
"As the mother of two young girls, I can't emphasize enough how important it is to make sure every child is safe," she said. "Polio can be prevented with just 60 cents worth of vaccine - there's absolutely no reason any child should suffer from it. Hopefully by lending my voice to send this message, I can help rid the world of polio forever."
As part of the  campaign, Bell will be featured in ads raising her thumb and forefinger in the 'this close' gesture with the tagline 'we're this close to ending polio.' Since the initiative launched in 1988, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year to less than 400 confirmed in 2014.  is the newest face to join Rotary's 'This Close' public awareness campaign for polio eradication. A paralyzing and life altering disease, polio is on the verge of becoming the second human disease ever to be eliminated worldwide after smallpox.
The actress joins other public figures and celebrities participating in Rotary's public awareness campaign, including Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;  Supermodel Isabeli Fontana;  Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; action movie star Jackie Chan; boxing great Manny Pacquiao; pop star Psy; golf legend Jack Nicklaus; conservationist Jane Goodall; premier violinist Itzhak Perlman; Grammy Award winners A.R. Rahman; Angelique Kidjo and Ziggy Marley and peace advocate Queen Noor of Jordan.
Bell's ad will debut during Rotary's World Polio Day livestream event, taking place on Friday, 23 October at 6:30 p.m. EST at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City.  to view the streaming event.
Rotary launched its polio immunization program in 1985 and in 1988 became a spearheading partner in the  Initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and more recently the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rotary's roles within the initiative are fundraising, advocacy, raising awareness and mobilizing volunteers. To date, Rotary has contributed more than $1.4 billion and countless volunteer hours to fight polio. Through 2018, every dollar Rotary commits to polio eradication will be matched two-to-one by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation up to $35 million a year. To date, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunized against the paralyzing and sometimes deadly polio virus.
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