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PITTSFIELD ROTARY CLUB   District 6460   4-25-07

BACK!!  Good to have Ralph Newman back in town and at our Rotary Meeting.!!

CONGRATULATIONS:   To our Pittsfield Rotary Club for putting on a very informative Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco Awareness Day at PCS.  Over 300 youth participated.  (West Pike was the only no-show school)….

The shirts given out with DEAD on them, and the subliminal message 0f ‘Drugs End All Dreams’, was designed by a local student, and were very popular, since many showed up at the school  round up that evening…

Participation appeared to be rather wholehearted on the part of the students….

Illini Foundation provided generous funding for the project, and John Teuscher, President, said that “This is one Rotary Program that is really effective, and IMPORTANT to the entire community.  I feel that the Illini Foundation will probably continue funding their part of the expense”…..

Judge Drummond reported to Rotarians at the even that this is the very best program of its type in the state and he works with many of them…….

Congratulations to President Ann, Committee Chair Murray Martin and all participating Rotary members for a great event!!!

President Ann reported that Rotary will receive a Rotary Grant for Literacy in the amount of $500.00.  This will be turned over to John Wood Community College to utilize in the Adult Literacy program…

Make-ups:  Several from Eldon Atwood out in California, one on Internet and one for Roberta at our Board meeting. (Come on folks, you too can make up on the internet…..or at other regular Rotary meetings in the area….let’s have one month this year with perfect attendance somewhere)…..

Student Guests from Griggsville/Perry:   Kyle Garrett, son of Michael and Linda.  Student Council Treasurer, National Honor Society Vice President, on Scholastic Bowl team; participates in Track and field and cross-country. Works for Burrus Seed in the summer as a supervisor… Plans on attending Illinois College in Chemistry.

Alyssa Hobson, daughter of Todd and Shelly.  SADD president, National Honor Society President, Scholastic Bowl Team; and a Cheer leader..

Alyssa works at Subway, tutors children, takes classes at John Wood and Plans on attending SIU in Pre-Med…

Program:  Jan Bleich introduced Nancy Gleckler, RN, from the Pike County Health Department.

Nancy spoke on Pandemic Influenza, ands other flu…

Flu isn’t something to be taken lightly, it is seasonal and about 36,000 die every year from it…so it’s nothing to sneeze at…(no pun intended)

We try to protect ourselves from flu by getting shots each year,   (they don’t protect you against stomach flu)…

Bird Flu, is rampant in all segments of the world but the Americas…It can get here, by crossing over from Asia at Alaska by migrating birds….

Our Health Department has a plan in place to handle an outbreak, but hopefully, the plan won’t be necessary…..There IS a meeting at the Health Department this Wednesday at 3:00 p.m…….

Johnson Stilwell is a patient at Illini……