Reported by Will Carter:
Amazingly, we had no visiting Rotarians or Guests of Rotarians at our meeting! President Joan started the meeting with a key-fob presentation and some very kind words for Will Carter for storing, transporting, and cleaning popcorn and candy floss equipment for the Club.
Heather announced that the October 30 meeting will be at the Victoria Golf Club (not the Royal Victoria Golf Club, Heather!). We are welcome to bring guests to this meeting.
Vicky Pitt, our Celebrations Master, just raked in the dough by asking us, table by table, Rotary questions that we were pretty good at guessing at. There is a distinct advantage at having Joan Firkins, Joan Peggs, or Heather Aked at your table when these questions fly around the room!
Mary Canty turns 90 on October 13 and we happily sang the birthday song to her.
Jessica won the small 50/50 draw today.
Mary showed her stuff by introducing the guest speakers, Dr. John Snively and Jacqueline Mealing, the participants in Rotary Dental Project 2012. John started the presentation and a good slide show by thanking in particular member Perry Bamji for his ability to fill out the paperwork required by Rotary International to qualify for grants, and the Rotary Club of Nelson, BC, as well as our own Club for our support.
John and Jacqueline's project was in San Antonio Palopo and Santa Catarina Palopo in Guatemala. They are located on Lake Atitlan in the west central area of the country. John described their work as mainly cleaning, extractions, and filling teeth, fairly elementary work considering that many or most patients have never had their teeth examined and treated, and dental work conditions are basic. For example, there is no Xray which is desperately required to allow him to see past teeth and down into the gums and bone. That would help him to identify serious problems. In a procedure to remove an 11-year-old boy's root from a broken tooth, John was using a burr to remove the root and cyst at the end of the root, and he suddenly saw his instrument poking into the nose of the patient. In another procedure, he kept removing material beneath a cyst and finally finished with leaving a small bridge of jaw bone in the girl's mouth - very little to keep her jaw from breaking.
Jacqueline teaches children to brush and floss, and to avoid sugar-loaded treats which are part of the culture. Through teaching children, she feels that the parents will in turn follow the example. Training a child can change the community. Jacqueline thanked a Safeway manager for helping to
prepare a display of correct foods to improve health. A Guatemalan custom of decorating teeth can be a problem, as the teeth sometimes become become infected.
Ted Chambers thanked our member/speakers.
Before adjourning, Joan circulated a thank you note from the Paddington Station Playground for our work there.
Amazingly, we had no visiting Rotarians or Guests of Rotarians at our meeting! President Joan started the meeting with a key-fob presentation and some very kind words for Will Carter for storing, transporting, and cleaning popcorn and candy floss equipment for the Club.
Heather announced that the October 30 meeting will be at the Victoria Golf Club (not the Royal Victoria Golf Club, Heather!). We are welcome to bring guests to this meeting.
Vicky Pitt, our Celebrations Master, just raked in the dough by asking us, table by table, Rotary questions that we were pretty good at guessing at. There is a distinct advantage at having Joan Firkins, Joan Peggs, or Heather Aked at your table when these questions fly around the room!
Mary Canty turns 90 on October 13 and we happily sang the birthday song to her.
Jessica won the small 50/50 draw today.
Mary showed her stuff by introducing the guest speakers, Dr. John Snively and Jacqueline Mealing, the participants in Rotary Dental Project 2012. John started the presentation and a good slide show by thanking in particular member Perry Bamji for his ability to fill out the paperwork required by Rotary International to qualify for grants, and the Rotary Club of Nelson, BC, as well as our own Club for our support.
John and Jacqueline's project was in San Antonio Palopo and Santa Catarina Palopo in Guatemala. They are located on Lake Atitlan in the west central area of the country. John described their work as mainly cleaning, extractions, and filling teeth, fairly elementary work considering that many or most patients have never had their teeth examined and treated, and dental work conditions are basic. For example, there is no Xray which is desperately required to allow him to see past teeth and down into the gums and bone. That would help him to identify serious problems. In a procedure to remove an 11-year-old boy's root from a broken tooth, John was using a burr to remove the root and cyst at the end of the root, and he suddenly saw his instrument poking into the nose of the patient. In another procedure, he kept removing material beneath a cyst and finally finished with leaving a small bridge of jaw bone in the girl's mouth - very little to keep her jaw from breaking.
prepare a display of correct foods to improve health. A Guatemalan custom of decorating teeth can be a problem, as the teeth sometimes become become infected.
Ted Chambers thanked our member/speakers.
Before adjourning, Joan circulated a thank you note from the Paddington Station Playground for our work there.
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