Hello Rotarians and Guests.

If you missed last week's program with Sue Rueb, a communications expert and consultant, who founded B.R.A.I.N., a nonprofit organization that helps families who have been impacted by the brain injury of a family member. You missed a wonderful presentation and make sure to review this session in the up coming Rotarygram .

This next week we are hosting Terrance J. Roberts, a member of the Little Rock Nine. He will be discussing desegregation and current issues. Make a reservation for your guests in the events section of our website or to the right of this page. You can listen to a recording of our last presentation by clicking the the audio link below this message. Start a new habit for 2012 and plan to be there every Wednesday!\Special alert please note our next speaker and join us for an extraordinary  meeting next week.

Blake Christian, President

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BREAKING NEWS. India Goes One Year Without A New Case of Polio - Gates Foundation pledges an additional $50 million

Rotary club members worldwide are cautiously celebrating a major milestone in the global effort to eradicate polio. India, until recently an epicenter of the wild poliovirus, has gone one year without recording a new case of the crippling, sometimes fatal, disease. "With the support of their Rotary brothers and sisters around the world, Indian Rotarians have worked diligently month after month, year after year, to help organize and carry out the National Immunization Days that reach millions of children with the oral polio vaccine," says RI President Kalyan Banerjee, of the Rotary Club of Vapi, Gujarat.[ More]