Our speaker on 27 March was Najeeb Syed, of the Rotary Club of St. Catharines South (Ontario). He talked about his club's global grant project of providing Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food to treat severe malnutrition in children in Pakistan.

 

Our speaker on 20 March was Liz Midkiff, creator of Stolen Angels, an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the prevalence of human trafficking.

 

At our March 6th meeting new members Aaron Carlson and David Wohleben gave their bios.

 

Our meeting today was held at the Kenan Center's Taylor Theater building. Before the regular meeting, Mayor Anne McCaffrey delivered the annual State of the City address.

 

At our meeting this week, we were entertained by honorary member and magician extraordinaire Bob Geckler, shown here with audience volunteer John MacDonald.

 

On 9 January, John and Marlene Gehl spoke about their experiences on the Camino de Santiago Compostello in Spain.

 

From DeSales Catholic School: "This summer we received a grant from the Rotary Club of Lockport for a literacy program using the Osmo Learning Systems with iPads. As part of the grant, Lockport Rotarians are helping our Kindergarten students work with the Osmos. Last week we introduced the students to the Rotarians and the Osmo Learning Systems, as you can see from all the smiles in the photos- it was a perfect match! Thank you to the Rotary Club of Lockport!"

 

 

 

 

Monday Rotary Club of Lockport had a good turn out of volunteers from the club and 4 fine Interact youth from Lockport High School - to cook turkeys and serve a meal to at least 185 visitors to Salvation Army's facility. Thank you, Pat Burrows for organizing this...and Maria Biano, Cynthia Cotten, Steve Cotten, Julie Coy, Tracy Ferrell, Dave Greenfield, Larry Kalinowski, Dave Kinyon, Paul Lehman, Sue Lougen, Maynard Lowry, John McDonld, Ellen Roth, Ellen Schratz Chris Smith and Elane Sobieraski. Last photo of LCHS Interact Club (right to left) [Maria Biano peaking in !] Julie LaRose, Jared Pellicano, Hanna Sobieraski, Alyssa Edbauer, and Ben Flaherty.

 

At our meeting today, David Kinyon recognized John Rosenberg and Jim Currie as second-time Paul Harris fellows and Steven Sinclair as a first-time Paul Harris fellow. Congratulations to all three!

 

Lockport's Historic Palace Theater marked World Polio Day on its marquee.

 

 

As of the end of July, there were only 8 new cases of polio in the world. But, polio rises its ugly head anywhere there is an unvaccinated population.The Gates Foundation is matching Rotary's goal of raising $50 million each of the next 3 years with a 2:1 match (with match, that's up to $450 million!) to rid the world of polio. The rest of the world and private foundations are giving $905.304 million. The U.S. Government...$0.