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Each week we ask a community leader to come speak to the club.  Guests are Welcome !! If you would like to speak at a future meeting, email us at RotaryofNorristown@gmail.com. Include your contract info and a brief description of your topic.
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The club will donate a wine basket in support of the Spring Fling for the Foundation fundraiser, those wishing to donate....please bring a bottle of your favorite red or white wine to the next in person meeting on March 16.
Please Help the Ronald McDonald House
The Board has decided to ask our members to collect aluminum can zip tabs or 'pop tabs'. These can be found on not only soda cans but all sorts of canned drinks. The local chapter of the Ronald McDonald House still collects them to turn in for recycling and proceeds go to help local families by paying family expenses to stay will their child is in the hospital. Start a jar, they add up.
According to the RMHC:"We collect tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because it’s easier and more hygienic to store the tabs than cans. There is also a higher concentration of aluminum in the tab itself, so those little tabs can really add up!" Tabs bring on average about .75 per pound. and they have collected more than 350 tons of them. At the end of the year we will accumulate our collections and donate them to the Ronald McDonald House. Please see Vanessa Cossari for more information
BRICKS NEEDED
As our garden work begins this year, we are in need of and are looking for about 100 standard sized red brick pavers 8" x 4" x 2.25" for outdoor use, preferably solid, no holes. If you have some pavers laying around, email the Garden Committee (subject "Bricks") RotaryofNorristown@gmail.com and we will arrange to pick them up. Thank you.
New ParaDragonBoat Club
Robin Parker visited the meeting and announced a new local sports group forming, focused on fun for those physically disabled, who are interested in Dragon Boating. Similar clubs exist today for individuals with full upper body use interested in competing and getting some exercise. Robin has spoken to the Norristown Borough who support her cause so the group is forming at Riverfront Park. If you or anyone you know is interested, please contact Robin Parker at (610) 724-7925 or you can email her at number2@gmail.com.
No Meeting on March 30th
While March 30th is the 5th Thursday of the month, the club will not meet at the Hyatt hotel that week. Instead the club is pursuing possibly hosting an open house. Stay tuned for details.
Garden Work / Earth Day Planned
March 25th - Cleanup Day
April 22nd - Planting Day
President Sunanda is encouraging all club members to get out and participate on Sat April 22nd, (the first Garden Work Day). Additionally, Diane Helm has contacted the Girl Scouts who also indicated interest in helping this Spring at some of the other workdays.
Thursday Mar. 9, the Club was treated to a presentation by STEPHEN FINE of The MELANOMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION on the subject of skin cancer: the prevention, detection, treatment, and outcomes. He detailed that skin cancer comes in three major types: Basal Cell, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma, and Melanoma. He presented examples of each, explaining the various degrees of danger, early formations, and later stages, pointing out that early detection is important in all cases. With over 190,000 new cases of melanoma each year, it remains one of the least understood diseases due to limited education on the subject. This is where his foundation comes in ,to spread the word and raise awareness on the dangers of skin cancer. Melanoma can strike persons of any age and should be high on everyone's personal health agenda.
He centered his discussion on melanoma showing examples of the two types- radial and modular and detailed the differences. He warned about the use of tanning beds stating that their use could lead to a possible 22% increase in the risk od contacting skin cancer. Self check is imperative and visiting a dermatologist at the earliest sign of trouble is imperative. Melanoma can appear on all areas of the body, even areas that are normally covered. Stephen stated that blocking sunscreens should be Broad Spectrum and be applied generously to achieve proper protection and cautions the most primary care physicians and not trained sufficiently in skin cancer and people with questionable growths on their bodies should consult dermatologists.
We thank Stevhen for this informative and important talk.
Further information on the subject of skin cancer and melanoma can be found at:
President Sunanda has officially kicked off the 'Each One, Bring One' member campaign.
Rotary Clubs need to continue to grow in order to enhance our ability to dedicate resources to solving a community or global issue.
This year, President Sunanda is asking every Club member to bring a visitor, spouse, family, friend or acquaintance to our meeting and introduce them to Rotary.
If everyone brought a guest it would double our meeting size, and if half of the visitors discovered Rotary and became a member, the club would grow by 50%.
Please think about it this week and identify someone you would like to introduce to Rotary. Bring them to a meeting and tell them why you joined.
Is some of your expected gmail missing from the Inbox?
Aside from regular spam filtering, sometimes Google also takes a guess at your incoming gmail and pre-categorizes it in order to cut down on spam. The Tabs 'Social' and 'Promotions' capture some of your email instead. Well, Google doesn't always get it right.
Fortunately, even though that is the default setting, you can change the setting and control your pre-categorization completely and get all your mail back in the old inbox. YOU can select select the problem email in 'Promotions' and drag it to the inbox, OR.... A more reliable way is to control your own categories or simply have none at all. If you uncheck the 'Social" and 'Promotions' categories in settings, your future email will not appear in those virtual folders but rather in your old inbox as expected.
Here's what you do to fix it. Go to your inbox settings link. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/inbox Uncheck the boxes 'Social' and 'Promotions', AND CLICK SAVE From now on it will appear in the old inbox as expected.
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