Please go through your medicine cabinets and take you expired or unneeded drugs to one of the drop off locations for the Wyoming County Drug Take Back Event on Apr 24.

 

 

 

Vaccination Clinic Volunteer Committee Chair Ann Way and her excellent team have been soliciting and providing volunteers from Rotary and the community to support several Emergency Management Agency (EMA) coordinated COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Wyoming County in recent weeks. Additional clinics are being planned for our region. 

 

Rotary’s help has been mentioned in several Wyoming County Press Examiner articles recently where Wyo Cty EMA Director Gene Dziak has noted Rotary’s help with these clinics.  In addition, the back sides of Tunkhannock Rotarians (Terri Detrick and Jodi Crimmel in their yellow Rotary hats) were shown on Channel 16 recently as they reported on one of the clinics.

 

It has been reported that the help provided by the volunteers has allowed the clinic staff to immunize 2 times the number of people than they would normally have been able to handle in one day.

 

Below are some photos provided by Rotarians Terri Detrick and Mary Tempest of the clinics and the Team leaders meeting with EMA.

 

Back row left to right at Rural Health Corporation - Monroe-Noxen Health Center: David Carichner, EMA Operations Training Officer, Dean Detrick - Rotary, Cheryl Reeves, Pam Caany, Beth Miner, Dr. Gunner Kosek, Terri Detrick - Rotary, Gene Dziak, EMA Director.   Middle row left to right: Jodi Crimmel - Rotary Mary Beth Fino, Matt Pompey – Rotary.   Front row:  Lyric Womer, Joann Dutko, Sara Mead

 

 

 

The importance of this involvement by Rotary in helping staff these clinics was applauded by Rotarian Ann Marie Steven, CEO of Tyler Hospital in an e-mail (below) that she sent to Committee Chair Ann Way and is reprinted here with Ann Marie’s permission.

 

 

President Terri Detrick (on Zoom) and Pres. Elect Mary Tempest (at Shadowbrook) brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM at Shadowbrook and via Zoom.  Glenn Holcombe led the Pledge of Allegiance, Jon Buxton gave the invocation and Bill Milligan led the recitation of the 4-Way Test.

 

 

Marcia Loughman - guest speaker, District Rotary Foundation Committee Chair

 

 

Advertising Buck – Carol Ziomek reported that the Wyoming County Community Health Foundation is sponsoring a 50/50 raffle for $20 per ticket (check, cash or PayPal to purchase) with the prize announced at their golf tournament on Monday June 7.  Hole sponsors and teams are also being solicited.  Check their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Wyoming-County-Community-Health-Foundation-WCCHF-455088904690483) for more info.  Proceeds will benefit the Foundation and CHOP.

 

Rick Miller gave a happy buck for Paul Harris birthday on Monday, April 19.

 

Rick said that Jennifer Williamson she lost a few family members and is feeling very down.  So, send her your thoughts and prayers.

 

 

There will be a Board Meeting via Zoom and in person at Towne & Country Grille on Tuesday 4/20 at 7:30 AM.

 

 

 

RI Virtual Convention starts June 12, cost is $49 for full conference if registered soon, otherwise fee goes up to $65.

 

PE Mary asked “Who was the last guest that you brought to a meeting”?  See if we can get a few new members.  They can Zoom or invite someone to our next event.  They will not have to pay any dues until June 30, 2022.

 

 

Carol reported that Rotary was mentioned again in yesterday’s Examiner (4/14) in the article on the vaccine clinics.

 

 

We received a nice thank you from Ann Marie Stevens for the club supporting the Wyo Cty vaccine clinics (see above).

Please check with Ann Way, if you can volunteer for one of the next 2 vaccine clinics.  The next vaccine Clinic will be at Monroe Noxen Clinic on 4/16.

 

 

President Elect Mary Tempest adjourned the meeting.

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PDG Marcia spoke about District 7410 Rotary Foundation.  RI Fdn is a 4-star charity for 13 years now and in the top ten charities. The Rotary Foundation transforms our gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. 

 

The Rotary Foundation will be auditing District Grants over the last 5 years due to one or more Districts not keeping the appropriate files on their grants.  Norm Kelly (District Grant Chair) is working to ensure that our District has everything in place and up to date.  A neighboring District has been suspended over this non-compliance and they have to dig up 7 years’ worth of data.

 

More than $.92 of every dollar goes directly to service projects. The typical distribution for funding is local projects (75%) and global projects (25%).

 

Marcia cited that there are 2 common ways of giving to the Foundation: personal giving or fundraising to jointly contribute.  You can direct your donation to the 4 funds that are available: annual fund (share), polio fund, endowment fund (interest comes back to District annually) and the donor advised fund.

 

Recognition for a fundraising event can be at the club level or distributed among the members.  Each $1000 Donation gives the Donor 1000 Paul Harris Points. When a Donor accumulates 1000 points, they can honor someone with a Paul Harris award for Humanitarian Service. As a club, we have almost 18,000 points now, so the club can award up to 18 Paul Harris Fellows.

 

 

Polio is still present in 2 countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - 143 cases YE 2019, 140 cases YE 2020. Assure 3 years without a case to certify a country as “ Polio Free”.

 

If we stop now, prediction is that within 10 years the world will be back to a 200,000 cases per year again.

 

PDG Marcia then ended her presentation with the following 2 slides summarizing Tunkhannock’s Giving to Foundation and then she issued the challenge on the final slide.

 

PDG Marcia Loughman