Today Jeanne DeRoche updated us on what is happening with the school and activities in Guo, Ghana, and we discussed "Feeding the Front Lines".

 

The Canton Rotary Club is cancelling all meetings through April 6, 2020, due to the Coronavirus.  We will re-evaluate conditions for the April 13th meeting, and we will make a decision going forward at that time.  This decision was made based on the fact that our Club has a large older membership of Rotarians who are more at risk for becoming ill with the Covid 19 virus.  We understand that an older person's immune system doesn't function as efficiently as a younger persons does.  We also feel that maintaining social distancing during a Rotary meeting and in our meeting place would be very difficult and would not be conducive to fellowship.  Our Board of Directors is committed to the health of all our members, and feels that this course of action is the best at this time.  We urge our members to check in with fellow members often, and we ask that if any member needs help during this time, please call one of your fellow Rotarians.  We're all here to help each other.  

 

Please see our list of speakers and special events on our webpage and in our bulletin, and note which speakers and events have been cancelled.  We invite you to visit our webpage at http://www.cantonrotary.com for more information and any special updates.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at the number listed in the heading of our webpage or the footer of our bulletin.

 

The Canton Rotary Club met with the Plymouth AM and the Plymouth noon Club to hear a final report on our combined District Grant for the High School Safety Project.  Above are the Presidents of the three Rotary Clubs - Carol Souchock of Plymouth, Mary Wolfe of Plymouth AM, and Lisa Kennedy of Canton, along with Superintendent Monica Merritt from Plymouth Canton Community Schools, Township and City Officials, and Representatives from the three police departments.

Today Dr. Jessie Potter from Canton Chiropractic spoke to our Club on digestion and the "gut to brain" relationship.  Dr. Potter's goal is "to help as many people as possible through health education."  She talked about heartburn and "symptoms vs. cause", the liver and gall bladder and their functions in the body, how stress can shut off the digestive function, how antibiotics indiscriminately kill good bacteria, probiotics, nutrition, and the ill effects of sugar - just 300 calories of sugar can decrease the immune system up to 50% for 2 hours.  Thank you for your very informative presentation Dr. Potter.  

 

Guests today were Karen Parks from Experimac and Charlotte Tarwacki from the Wayne Rotary Club.  Our Sergeant today was Ken Beardsley.  

The Canton Rotary Club started the New Year off with a report on a polio survivor from India who we were able to help start his own business.  This was a joint project of several Rotary Clubs in District 6400: Windsor Roseland, Adrian Morning, Plymouth, Livonia, and Canton.  Asar is shown above driving his rickshaw with his first passenger.

 

On December 9th the Canton Rotary Club gathered at the home of Mike and Lisa Kennedy for a Christmas Party.