Tag: Rotary Club

October 24 Is World Polio Day. So, What Is Polio?

Dr. Honora Norton, RCSL Public Image Chair Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of five. The virus spreads from person to person, typically through contaminated water. It can then attack the nervous system. Rotary International has been working to eradicate polio for…

Rotary Club: Rotaract Source Book Delivery 2021

Stan Kaufman The Rotary Club completed delivery of the SunBird Community Source Books at 10:30 a.m., on Jan. 30, 2021. It was a beautiful morning, and we were ably assisted, once again, by the team of Rotaract Club members from A.S.U. Club President Adrienne did a masterful job of getting 15 of their club members to assist…

Rotary seeks to eradicate polio

Iron Lung

Norm Noble Since 1985, the program to eradicate polio, called PolioPlus®, has been Rotary International’s primary effort to eliminate this dreaded disease from the world stage. It has been described as the finest humanitarian project by a non-governmental organization the world has ever known. Rotary has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for its…

Rotarian of the Month

Stan Kaufman – May Dick Nelsen The Sun Lakes Rotary Club’s Rotarian of the Month was born and raised in Canada. He was president and CEO of a national insurance company in Toronto. Then in 1991, Stan Kaufman moved his family from Toronto to Fargo, North Dakota, where he established Fargo Western States Life Insurance…

Rotarian of the year

David Mork Norm Noble David Mork has been a Rotarian for 34 years, starting in Woodbury, MN, in 1980 where he served as the club’s first president, and then held many other district positions for over 10 years. David joined Sun Lakes Rotary in 2005 where he has been and is Chairman of the Heritage…

Rotarian of the Month

Dick Nelsen Last month, the Sun Lakes Rotary Club selected a hard-working member, Chuck Deuth – the overseer of two of our biggest programs – the Dictionary project and the Choices project – as the Rotarian of the month for February. The Dictionary project provides a dictionary to every 3rd grader in the Chandler Unified…

Sun Lakes Rotarian of the Month

Dick Nelson Put together Nutrition and Education and you have something pretty special. That is what we have in January’s Rotarian of the Month; Grace Wilson-Woods who utilizes her skills to the upmost. She began her education with a BS degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago; MHS Governor’s State University at Park Forest,…