Our guest this week will be Nic Nelson, Executive Director of Idaho Rivers United.

 

 

 

This Tuesday, October 24, is World Polio Day and District 5400 is holding an event in downtown Boise. Starting at dusk, we'll project a giant End Polio Now message onto the Hoff Building! Put on your End Polio Now gear (or just wear red) and join us as Rotarians around the Treasure Valley "shine a light" on polio. Meet at 8th and Bannock at 7:30 pm for a club photo in front of the building!

 

 

 

Our Indonesian friends left Boise on Saturday morning; they should be home by now! What a great time we had! Thanks to Janice Fulkerson for arranging the week's activities, Cornelia Sprung for finding our host families, and John and Linda Biggs for hosting Yoga. The five delegates were here under the auspices of the Congressional Office for International Leadership's "One World" program. Their theme was "Judicial Rule of Law". They spent the week visiting State/County/City courts to witness our procedures. They met with supreme court justices, attorneys general, and even met with Gov. Little. They discovered that our judicial systems are quite different. Theirs is based on Dutch common law since Indonesia was a Dutch colony until after WWII.  (Bet you didn't know that!)  Let's watch for another Open World opportunity in the future!

We hope you had a chance to hear Janice and Cornelia on "Idaho Matters" on Public Radio on Wednesday. They joined Dr. Pate to talk about vaccines in general and Polio in particular. You should know these dates:

 

1954 - Jonas Salk prefects the Polio vaccine

1979 - Rotary International joins with the Philippines Ministry of Health to administer oral vaccines to 6 million children

1985 - R.I. launches Polio Plus to coordinate private sector support

1988 - R.I. joins with WHO, UNICEF, CDC and Gates Foundation to start the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

 

Join the party for World Polio Day in Tuesday!

November 13-14 JEMfriends painting project

 

December 19 JEMfriends Christmas gift wrapping.

 

December - Gardens Aglow? Date TBA.

 

No meetings Thanksgiving week, Christmas week or New Years week,

Congrats to Mary and Paul who got hitched this weekend!!  We don't have a picture to prove it........Our speaker canceled last week, but we found things to talk about!... Dave told us about Rotary clubs in Nigeria working on maternal health......John told us about Idaho Senior Games....Mary's dog got a bone stuck in his stomach; cost $3800 to yank it out!........Allan and John related Dictionary experience - "Chaos at its Finest!"..... Good job Cornelia and Janice on Idaho Matters.....seemed short, didn't it?