Thermal Breeze 8/24/09
LAST MEETING: August 10, 2009.
President Ann Crandall presided over the meeting that was
held at the Chamber of Commerce building in Lynn, NC
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GUESTS OF THE CLUB:
Jennifer Wychock, Hospital Development Specialist of
LifeShare of The Carolinas
Frank Ortis, Rotary Club of Tryon
August Birthdays:
20: Ed Kan
23: Artie Hamilton
COMING EVENTS:
August 31, District Governor Carol King will be visiting
our club on August 31. There will be a pot-luck dinner at
6 pm at the Chamber of Comerce meeting room.
Our club will help build the privacy fence for Steps-To-Hope
before the leaves fall.
NEED A MAKE-UP? CHECK OUT THE CYBER CLUB.
Log in to the District Website at www.rotary7670.org and
click on "e-club One" of the listed web links at the left of the
screen. Do an "on line make up" and follow up with an e-mail
to the secretary for attendance record purposes.
Program Agenda
August 24, 2009
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM: Our former member Gloria Underwood will be our guest speaker. Her topic is the History of Polk County. Rueben Greenburg is responsible for refreshment.
August 10: Meeting Highlights:
The August 10 meeting was attended by 10 members at the Chamber of Commerce. Our speaker Jennifer Wychock spoke about organ, eye, and tissuee donation in the US. Of the patients waiting for organ donation, 80% is for kidneys. Other include heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, small intestine, whole eye, corneas, skin, bone, veins, tendons and ligaments, heart valves and associated cardiovascular tissues. There are waiting lists for different organs and tissues. She also spoke about the mechanism to coordinate between the donor's hospital and the receiving hospital. Teams of professionals are involved to carry out the process. Because of the different length of time each organ can survive, geographic distance between the hospitals is a factor in who will receive the donation. Different hospitals also have different waiting lists. A person can get on more than one waiting lists to increase the chance of receiving available donations. In South Carolina, the family of the donor can override the donor the wishes to donate, whereas the laws in North Carolina honors the wishes of the donor. Currently there are 80,000 on the waiting list for kidneys. Several success stories of receipients were told.
Sgt. At Arms Highlights: Ed Britton sold raffle tickets and collected happy dollars for Polio+, and sad, birthday dollars.
AREA ROTARY CLUB MAKE-UP LOCATIONS:
Tuesday:
HENDERSONVILLE-FOUR SEASONS meets 7:00 a.m.at Dixie Diner-Laurel Park Hwy 64
HENDERSONVILLE meets 12:00 noon at Charlot Restaurant
ASHEVILLE-BREAKFAST meets 7:30 a.m. at Asheville Country Club
Wednesday:
ASHEVILLE-WEST meets 12:30 p.m.at Shoney's of Enka, 425 Smokey Park Highway
Thursday:
ASHEVILLE meets 12:30 p.m.at Renaissance Hotel
Tryon Rotary Club meets 12 noon at Tryon Presbyterian Church
Steve Rosenberg
