Lander Wyoming
Club Information
Welcome to our Club!

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m.
Oxbow Restaurant
170 E Main St
Side Meeting Room
Lander, WY 82520
United States of America
Club Leadership
President
President Elect
Immediate Past President
Polio Chair
Treasurer
Bookkeeper
Secretary
Director
Director
Director
Rotary Foundation Chair
RYLA/YRYLA Chair
Club Administration Chair
Grants Chair
Program Chair
Public Relations Chair
Membership Chair
Service Projects Co-Chair
Service Projects Co-Chair
Here is what is happening in our club
Rotary is facing a membership crisis and is at a crossroads in many parts of the world, especially in North America,  John Hewko, the General Secretary of Rotary International, warned Rotary leaders in the western United States at a meeting this week in Spokane, WA.
The greatest challenge Rotary faces, Hewko said, is in membership. Globally, Rotary membership has remained flat at 1.2 million for the last 20-25 years, “and the only reason we haven’t lost membership is because our numbers have been growing in Asia, Africa and parts of eastern Europe. In North America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Latin America, we have a membership crisis.”
 
For the first time in Rotary’s history, membership in North America has fallen below 30% of worldwide membership, and if present trends continue, North America’s membership will be around 15% of the worldwide membership and Asia will have about 50%, he said.  “Particularly here in North America, we are facing a crisis.” Over the last few years, Hewko said, about 150,000 new members join Rotary each year, but about the same number leave.
Seven Lander Rotarians spread tarps, set up ladders, stirred large buckets of stain, and ran out loonngg roller poles to tackle the job of staining the ceiling of the gazebo in City Park on Friday, September 6 – and they got it done in about three hours!  Our thanks to Lisa Dawson (who organized the work crew and brought yummy peach cobbler and apple pie), and Ron Fossen, Bryan Neely, Jackie Nelson, Bill Alley, Joe Quiroz, and Jerry Venters, all of whom wore the stain afterwards!
The Lander Rotary Club’s largest international service project ever – and its first Global Grant project – is going full strength in Rwanda, in eastern Africa, despite challenges from food poisoning, spider bites, broken toilet seats, and lukewarm (or no) showers, among other things.
 
Lander Rotarians Maria Kidner and Cassy Venters are leading the Vocational Training Team, which has spent its first four weeks in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, training a “core team” of
nurses to diagnose and treat strep throat in children and help prevent often-fatal rheumatic heart disease in older children and young adults.  This “core team” will then teach these same skills to village nurses in several hospital districts in Rwanda in the final two weeks.

The total grant for the project is $123,096 and is being funded through donations from numerous Rotarians and non-Rotarians, Rotary Foundation funds from various Rotary Districts, Lander and other Rotary Clubs, and $30,000 from The Rotary Foundation.  Its first week in Africa, the team visited Lusaka, Zambia, at the invitation of Zambian government officials, to discuss replicating the training project throughout Zambia.  The Zambian officials were enthusiastic about developing the training program there.
 
You can follow the team’s work on Maria’s blog, https://www.leapleadership.org/blog, and on Cassy’s Facebook page (Cassy Dierking Venters).  Pictured: A school teacher instructing on the use of flip charts (L) and participants engaged in skills practice (R).
 
      
 
 

Polio Immunizations Continue in Gaza

The Gaza Health Ministry said that, as of 2 November, 437,774 children under 10 had received a second dose of the polio vaccine across the whole Gaza Strip, according to the New York Times.  However, several thousand children have been missed because of the continuing military activities there.  One paralytic case of the wild poliovirus has been reported in Gaza this year.
 

2024 Wild Polio Case Total 64 - Afghanistan 23, Pakistan 41

 
 
          
 
 
Mailing Information:
P.O. Box 502
Lander, Wyoming  82520
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays:
  • Joe Quiroz
    November 7
  • John Brown
    November 8
  • Carol Chidsey
    November 13
  • Dominick Weigel
    November 17
  • Linda Hudson
    November 24
Spouse/Partner Birthdays:
  • Walt Seeley
    November 7
  • November 19
  • Suzanne Lilygren
    November 23
Anniversaries:
  • Joe Quiroz
    Andrea Erickson
    November 12