| Jan 22, 2012 Click on the Calendar link above, or click here, to see a list of coming Rotary Club of Amherst East speakers and programs.
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We meet Thursdays at 12:15 PM
Westwood Country Club
772 North Forest Road
Windows on the Green Restaurant
Williamsville, NY 14221
United States
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| Posted by Paul McAfee on Feb 19, 2012
| | Posted by Paul McAfee on Jan 22, 2012
Click on the Calendar link in the bar above to see who we have invited as our guest speakers, and to learn about our coming events.
| | Posted by Paul McAfee on Jan 22, 2012
Click here to view the photos of our Rotary E-Club of SOWNY dinner that our club hosted, with guest speaker Dr. Scott Martzloff, Superintendent of the Williamsville Central School District.
| | Posted by Paul McAfee on Jan 20, 2012
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. India’s last reported case was a 2-year-old girl in West Bengal State on 13 January 2011. The country recorded 42 cases in 2010, and 741 in 2009.
A chief factor in India’s success has been the widespread use of the bivalent oral polio vaccine, which is effective against both remaining types of the poliovirus. Another has been rigorous monitoring, which has helped reduce the number of children missed by health workers during National Immunization Days to less than 1 percent, according to the World Health Organization.
If all ongoing testing for polio cases recorded through 13 January continues to yield negative results, WHO will declare that India has interrupted transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus, laying the groundwork for its removal from the polio-endemic countries list, which also includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria. However, because non-endemic countries remain at risk for cases imported from endemic countries, immunizations in India and other endemic and at-risk countries must continue. Neighboring Pakistan, which has reported 189 cases so far for 2011, is a major threat to India’s continued polio-free status. Last year, an outbreak in China, which had been polio-free for a decade, was traced genetically to Pakistan.
"As an Indian, I am immensely proud of what Rotary has accomplished,” says RI President Kalyan Banerjee. “However, we know this is not the end of our work. Rotary and our partners must continue to immunize children in India and in other countries until the goal of a polio-free world is finally achieved.”
http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/120112_news_indiapolio.aspx
| | Posted by Cynthia Munschauer on Dec 29, 2011
The Rotary Club of Amherst East donated $2,000 to Vive, Inc., the non-profit organization that runs Vive la Casa. For more information, visit: http://www.viveinc.org/
| | Posted by Paul McAfee on Dec 08, 2011
Amherst, N.Y. – December 8, 2011 – Gerry DeSimone, Presidentof the Rotary Club of Amherst East, presents a check for $1,000 to Anne MarieHoward, Director of the Amherst Meals on Wheels. Also in the Photo is Sally Draper, Services Sub-Chair for Club Service & Events for the Rotary Club of Amherst East. | | Posted by Johannes Olsen on Dec 04, 2011
JohnYurtchuk, President of the Rotary Club of Amherst East's Foundation, presented a $1,000 check to theAmherst Symphony at it's concert on Sunday evening, December 4, 2011.
| | Posted by Paul McAfee on Dec 01, 2011
Amherst, N.Y. – December 1, 2011 – Cindy Munschauer, Past President of the Rotary Club of Amherst East, presents a check for $2,000 to Diane Rowe, Chief Professional Officer of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo, N.Y.
| | Posted by Paul McAfee on Oct 14, 2011
The Rotary Club of Amherst East held its annual wine tasting fund raiser at the Windows on the Green restaurant at Westwood Country Club on Friday, October 14, 2011. The event was a great success, earning several thousand dollars that the club will use to support local non-profit programs. |
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