Today, at our first meeting during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we were visited by Valerie Robinson of the American Cancer Society. Valerie shared the facts, including that 1 in 8 women in the US can expect a diagnosis of breast cancer sometime during her life, that men can get breast cancer, too and that the best measure for early diagnosis is regular mammography. Valerie conducted a quiz on the disease in which some Rotarians got some answers right. And President Steve Barton donned a pink boa in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.
Our member, Ben Porter, is in Zambia with Rotary Malaria Partners (RMP) and sends back these photos. One is of the location, two hours by car from Ndola, the nearest town. Another shows the malaria test kit and the last, a child getting a pin-prick for a blood sample. The testing is being done by a local resident, trained as part of the RMP project. Thanks for participating in this important work, Ben!
At this week’s meeting we were joined by 18-month-old Adam accompanied by his dad, Jeff, longtime friend, Devon Ahud and her soon-to-be daughter and Becca, from the YMCA. Speaker George Roe of the University of Alaska, spoke about the many necessity driven innovations in energy technology and their potential for applications here in the “lower forty-eight” and beyond.
It was a beautiful morning as University Sunrise convened for this week’s meeting at Ivar’s Salmon House.After a 10-year hiatus, UW climatologist Cliff Maas returned to our club to review issues of climate, climate change and, most particularly, the challenges of getting factual information about climate change. Maas is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He says that climate change/global warming is definitely a problem. But, he states, it’s currently very hard to derive an accurate picture from the press and social media in the current super-heated political environment. It was an engaging and stimulating talk!
Our program next Thursday morning will feature University of Washington atmospheric sciences Professor Cliff Mass who is creating some new waves. Thursday morning at Ivar’s Salmon House on Lake Union, 730-830 a.m. https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html
Today, at our first meeting during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we were visited by Valerie Robinson of the American Cancer Society. Valerie shared the facts, including that 1 in 8 women in the US can expect a diagnosis of breast cancer sometime during her life, that men can get breast cancer, too and that the best measure for early diagnosis is regular mammography. Valerie conducted a quiz on the disease in which some Rotarians got some answers right. And President Steve Barton donned a pink boa in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.
This morning District Governor Bill McElroy, accompanied by Assistant DG Basant Sing, visited University Sunrise and shared his vision of the strength of the Rotary community, the need to spread the work and boost the fun, the value of service to people we will never meet, and in one instance someone he did, and his excitement for next year’s district conference, to include a Guinness Book of World Records attempt. Thanks for coming by, Bill!
How awesome is this? Great to see our club’s support in action benefiting Outdoors for All Foundation!
