District Governor, Bob Patison, visited Austintown Rotary and shared some basic facts. Bob picked out six points of importance for Rotarians to dwell on and emphasize in the coming year: Time, Sports, Energy, Health, Character and Membership.
He informed us that every day 30,000 children under the age of 5 die - most for reasons such as diseases and malnutrition. In parts of India 75% of children die before the age of 5 and 40% of their women die during birth. Immunization against measles would help in most of these cases.
President Michael Cafaro opened the meeting and called on Gary Reel to give the Invocation, Pledge and leading of God Bless America.
Guests were: Christina Daley from Canfield, and of course, our special guest, District Governor, Bob Patison from the Canton Club.
Hilliary led us in singing "America The Beautiful" and we did a fair job.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
September 20 Normal Cleanup plus Celebration Grove to pull weeds. We will vote to see if we want to work straight thru or take a break.
Rescue Mission: Do we want to do it September 29 or just make a donation??
It's really not too late to apply for the GSE Team. Deadline for non-Rotarians is September 30 and you must be between ages 25- 40.
Dictionaries have been ordered. When they're in they'll be labeled by Toby Mirto at Rhiel Supply and will be ready to go.
District 6650 collected 50,000 hard-bound books and have distributed same to various countries as well as the US.
Thank you has been received from Ron Carroll.
This year Austintown Rotary will celebrate its 40th year. We're planning a Reunion Meeting to celebrate.
Air Force Base Open House this Saturday. Chris will be there. Good chance to check it out.
Social Meeting September 25 at Salvatore's
CNN had a program on heroes. The man who made the Rotary Shelter Boxes was mentioned on CNN. Rotary, however wasn't that lucky.
FELLOWSHIP: Leanna Mathes fined anyone who watched the Browns game.
RAFFLE: Robin Stock won the little one but lost the big one.
PROGRAM: District Governor, Bob Patison from the Canton Club.
Bob was born and raised in Gering, Nebraska, a small farming community in Western Nebraska. He is married to Janice who was from Minerva, Ohio and who can be held responsible for bringing Bob to Ohio in 1966.
Bob graduated from the University of Nebraska and Kent State University with a Masters Degree in Public Administration. He has been involved in public health for more than 46 years and is recently retired as the Health Commissioner for the Canton City Board of Health.
He picked out six points of importance for Rotarians to dwell on and emphasize in the coming year: Time, Sports, Energy, Health, Character and Membership.
He informed us that every day 30,000 children under the age of 5 die - most for reasons as diseases and malnutrition. In parts of India 75% of children die before the age of 5 and 40% of their women die during birth. Immunization against measles would help in most of these cases. The campaign of Rotary to eliminate Polio wiped out almost all of this dreaded disease. There are only four countries left in the world that still has Polio victims. The World Health Organization credits Rotary and is thankful for this program to eliminate Polio. He stated that the progress of civilization relies on men of good character performing good deeds.