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Club Meeting Information

Our next meeting will be Friday (8/2) at Newcastle Place 12600 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53092.

Our program the week will be a club assembly.

The greeter will provide either the thought, a Rotary minute, share a family moment or a cultural tradition ... anything they would like to start off the day positive.

Upcoming "It's your Rotary moment" assignees:

  • Kay Newell (8/2)
  • Dan O'Connor (8/9)
  • Lance Parve (8/16)
  • Steve Peterman (8/23)

Note: If you are unable to act as "It's your Rotary moment" assignee when scheduled please arrange for your replacement.

Visit our website at mtsunriserotary.org.

Thought of the Week

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln

The Rotarian Conversation: Jonathan Quick

When it comes to addressing epidemics, the public health expert says we have the solutions. We simply have to embrace them.

This story originally appeared in the August 2019 issue of The Rotarian magazine.

Jonathan Quick thinks on a grand scale. His book The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It argues that we can end not just one particular epidemic, but all epidemics. He lays out a seven-point call to action (e.g., “Invest wisely, save lives”; “Active prevention, constant readiness”) to prevent the inevitable outbreaks of diseases from growing into epidemics that kill thousands or even millions. The scale of his ambition is matched only by the scale of the problem and the price tag on his proposed solution: Quick calls for an investment of $7.5 billion annually for the next 20 years in prevention, but he points out that a severe pandemic — when an epidemic goes global, something made more likely by our interconnected world — could cost the global economy up to $2.5 trillion.

When it comes to public health and disease prevention, Quick knows what he’s talking about. He earned his M.D. at Duke University and spent 10 years at the World Health Organization, working with local governments on access to medicine, particularly AIDS medications, in Pakistan and Kenya. During his time in Kenya, he was a member of the Rotary Club of Nairobi-South and was involved in the club’s polio vaccination efforts. When he returned to the United States in 2004, he led Management Sciences for Health, a nonprofit focused on helping governments develop effective health systems management.

Quick decided to write The End of Epidemics in 2014 during an Ebola outbreak in West Africa. He viewed with alarm the failure of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and affected populations to learn the lessons of recent epidemic outbreaks. “Based on what I’d seen with AIDS, with SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] in 2003, with Ebola, I asked myself where we would be in three years,” he recalls. “And my sense was we’d be just as vulnerable because we tend to go through a cycle of panic and neglect. I fear we’re going to leave my daughters’ generation a world that’s in more danger of pandemics if we don’t really get a good, solid, persistent response.” Senior editor Hank Sartin spoke with Quick about the factors that make for robust public health infrastructure, how engaged individuals have made a difference, what we should be focused on now, and the recent measles outbreak.

A Rotary LOL Moment

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

Pie on the Patio
Event was a lovely summer evening at the Jonathan Clark House Museum

From the News Graphic 7/30/2019

MEQUON — The Jonathan Clark House Museum recently held a celebration for Friends of Jonathan Clark House members and their guests at the historic 1848 museum. Young historian volunteers were in costume as the Clark Family and played vintage outdoor games with the guests.

The Pie on the Patio event gave everyone the opportunity to step back to 1848, if only for a few hours. Tours of the house furnished in period artifacts included conversations about the heritage of southeast Wisconsin’s early settlers. Guests enjoyed delicious fresh-baked fruit pies donated by Outpost Natural Foods as well as wine from Cedar Creek Winery. The event and piano music of Luke Edgewood and his assistant Allison were provided by Jim Marshall at Spectrum Investment Advisors in Mequon. Auctioneer Joe Cielak held a lively auction of items donated by area historical organizations and local businesses. Proceeds will be used for museum educational programming.

The museum, located on the corner of Bonniwell and Cedarburg roads in Mequon, is a stone home built in the Greek Revival-style.

The organization’s summer programming is underway with the next event being Early Settler Chores, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. The event features activities and fun for all ages. Individual and group tours are also available.

For more information, contact Director Nina Look at jchmuseum@gmail.com or 262-618-2051.

Lobsterfest 2019
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Kids Kicking Cancer
Kids Kicking Cancer

Kids Kicking Cancer is a global organization dedicated to lowering the pain of children through the teaching of martial arts as a therapy.  Children learn breath work, meditation and traditional karate movements that empower them to teach others and thus gain purpose within their lives.  Our young cancer patients teach other children with challenging illness and even adults how to “breathe in the light and blow out the darkness”.  This has extended into the creation of a Heroes Circle program dedicated to lowering the pain of all children regardless of disease.

Kids Kicking Cancer began in 1999 with ten children at Children’s Hospital of Michigan and is now empowering over 5,000 children in 48 hospitals in 5 countries.

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