Kentland Rotary hears about six areas of service - Newsbug.info

Kentland Rotary hears about six areas of service - Newsbug.info

Kentland Rotary hears about six areas of service - Newsbug.info

Posted: 15 Feb 2021 11:56 AM PST

KENTLAND, Ind. — The Kentland Rotary Club met virtually Feb. 9 with a District Governor from Mexico City in attendance. A video was presented that reminded the local club of the six areas of service. The first area is promoting peace throughout the world. The second area is the fighting of disease, which the effort to eradicate polio has been a focus of Rotary International since 1985. Two countries remain to be fully treated for polio, both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last year the club learned that the continent of Africa was free of the wild virus.

The third area of service is providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene. The fourth area is saving mothers and children. The fifth area is supporting education and the sixth area of service throughout the world is growing local economies. The video also revealed protecting the environment as a seventh area of service that has been added recently.

The members of the local club were reminded that the Rotary International membership is utilized as distribution and implementation of the polio eradication effort around the world. Identified as Polio Plus, the same individuals are utilized to treat other diseases such as the COVID 19 Virus. Areas of the world that lack the expertise and infrastructure needed to implement vaccination plans are utilizing the already trained Rotary International membership for that purpose.

Kentland Rotary Club continues to meet remotely every Tuesday at noon.

Memories of surviving a deadly pandemic 70 years ago – Gazette Journal - Gloucester Mathews Gazette Journal

Posted: 17 Feb 2021 11:01 AM PST

C.W. Hudgins was 5½ years old in the summer of 1950, playing barefoot at his grandfather's house in Mathews County, when "suddenly I couldn't walk."

The family went into a panic, naturally, and everyone suspected tetanus, and he got a shot; but other relatives said C.W. should be taken to the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He was examined there, and "they diagnosed me with polio."

Polio, also called infantile paralysis, was a dreaded disease for generations, and in 1950, a vaccine had not yet been developed. Some children ended up completely paralyzed, some partially paralyzed, and some affected for the rest of their lives.

"The whole family went ballistic and I was scared too," Hudgins recalled. His uncle Coles Hudgins linked the family with Dr. Lee Sutton, a Richmond pediatrician, who treated young C.W.

"They put me in a ward with about 25 children and about 10 of them, mostly girls, were in iron lungs. They could talk, and they could eat, and they had a mirror...

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