ROTARY CLUB OF WYNBERG
Vol. 65 No.32
ss PRESIDENT
EDITORIAL
Karen Overbosch (082) 574 5952
SECRETARY Stephen Bredenkamp (082) 570 4440
TREASURER Mike Schreiber (021) 689 4466
EDITORIAL BOARD Barry Cleveland (021) 788 6781 Biffy Danckwerts (081) 3259570 Mervyn Wetmore (084) 5856055
27th March, 2014
Submitted by Aubrey Michalowsky RISK OF TRANSMISSION OF HIV The following information has been provided by Path Care laboratories and as the incidence of HIV is high in Southern Africa, I thought the following information was worth sharing with my fellow Rotarians.
Estimated Per-Act Probability of Acquiring HIV from an infected Source, by Exposure Act Type of Exposure Risk per 10 000 exposures Parenteral Blood transfusion 9 000 Needle-sharing during injection drug use 67 Percutaneous (needle-stick) 30 Sexual Receptive and intercourse 50 Receptive penile-vaginal intercourse 10 Insertive anal intercourse 6.5 Insertive penile-vaginal intercourse 5 Receptive oral intercourse low Insertive oral intercourse low Other Biting negligible Spitting negligible Throwing body fluid (including semen or saliva) negligible Sharing sex toys negligible Initial actions after exposure Immediate cleansing of exposed site if possible. Wash with soap and water or clean with antiseptic such as an alcohol-based hand hygiene agent. Other antiseptic (Eg chlorhexidine). Irrigate mucosal surfaces with water or saline.
Ideally post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) should be initiated within 1 or 2 hours (or sooner) after exposure to body fluids from HIV-infected person. It is still offered up to 72 hours after exposure and in rare cases up to 7 days post exposure.
MEETING OF 20 MARCH 2014
ATTENDANCE Membership: Present: Make Ups: Apologies: Attendance:
28 17 6 6 85%
Attendance to Biffy 0813259570 or [email protected]. Visitors: Susan Wishart (guest speaker), Dottie Leveque, Wencke Hovstad. Loyal toast to our country South Africa was done by Jackie. International toast by Dennis Gowdy was with thoughts of our cricketers as they start their T20 crusade in Chittagong. We then toasted the Rotary Clubs of Chittagong in India and RI. Karen welcomed all the visitors and thanked the club for their efforts towards a successful Proms and especially the Proms committee that worked so hard. Karen also reminded the club that there is no meeting on 3 April during RFHD but please all to do a share of the duties required. SLOTS Biffy: A list is being passed around for RFHD duties. Please assist. String: The swindle is going around. Mike: The finance side of Proms is looking healthy and it is hoped to surpass last year’s profit. Fellowship: Happy Anniversary to Don and Francois. Happy Birthday to Mervyn. MINUTES OF MEETING Roche introduced fellow Toader Susan Wishart who works at Learn to Earn and has a law degree and is passionate about the environment, particularly the Western Leopard Toad. Susan looks after a sector near Kirstenhof and co-ordinates volunteers, promotes conservation, citizen science and communities. The TOADNUTS are a group in Noordhoek called the Noordhoek Unpaid Toad Savers. Their status is endangered. Their habitat is diminishing, the breeding site is fragmented and urbanization is encroaching. The Gutteral Toad is not indigenous but has also found its way to the WC and they out-compete the Western Leopard Toad. As an indicator species, the Western Leopard Toads show that there is a problem with their numbers declining. They live in gardens on land and not in water. They go to water only to breed and can drown in swimming pools. (Please nail or glue some shade cloth to a portion of the wall of your pool to enable them to “escape”). They do need permanent bodies of water for breeding. The sound like the Snoring Toad and are sometimes called the Snoring Toad due to their sounds particularly in July / Aug when they start breeding and become active. They have not been traced more than 300m from their usual spot but can apparently travel longer distances. Western Leopard Toads do not hibernate and are active all year round and return to their turf. Toads have dry skins and frogs have wet skins. The population of Western Leopard Toad is about 2 000 in the Peninsula. Western Leopard Toads can be poisonous and you will see where they have been at night by the trail of pellets that they leave in the morning.
Mervyn thanks Susan for an interesting talk and told us that he has 2 Western Leopard Toads living in his garden. The one in the front garden is called Barry (maybe that is where Barry was tonight??) and he has yet to name the one in the back garden. PRESIDENT’S QUOTES “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl ROTARY CORNER
DUTY ROSTER
DUTY
3 April
27 March
10 April
17 April
Sergeant
Van Eeden
Van Wyk
Schrieber
Attendance Officer
Danckwerts
Danckwerts
Danckwerts
Wynpress Editorial
Michalowsky
Murphy
Schrieber
Cleveland
Danckwerts
Wetmore
Cleveland
Munday
Schrieber
Gavin
Schrieber
Smith
Schonegevel
Lidgley
Michalowsky
Hovstad
Jackson
Wetmore
Van Wyk
Munday
NA
Bird
Gowdy
NA
Minutes for Wynpress
Wetmore
Compilation of Wynpress Door Duty Grace Loyal Toast International Toast
Danckwerts Lidgley
Speaker Introduction Speaker Thanks
No Meeting. Please all do a duty at RFHD.
JACKPOT: The Murphy had his name drawn again but all he could find was the Q♥. Ag shame. Mike won the attendance prize of R20 (sticking to tradition - all in coins). PROGRAMME March 2014
Committee: van Wyk, Gowdy, Overbosch, Todd, Murphy, Klotz-Gleave, van Niekerk
27 March
Retreat Rotaract meeting
27 March
Normal meeting – speaker: Drs Mark van Rensburg & Cathy Spargo: ‘Myths & other things you should have asked your doctor about or should never have asked’
28 March
School holidays start
April 2014
Committee: Knight, Bredenkamp, Cleveland, Munday, Howard, van Eeden, Du Plessis
2-4 April
Rotary Family Health Days
2 April
Wynberg Rotaract meeting
3 April
No meeting
7 April 10 April
Board meeting / School term starts Retreat Rotaract meeting
10 April
‘Wine Tasting – Truths and Lies’: Dennis Gowdy and Fred Kuys
11-13 April
Interact Camp – WRC on duty on Sat 12 April
16 April
Wynberg Rotaract meeting
17 April
Business meeting
18-21 April
Easter
24 April
Retreat Rotaract meeting
24 April
Normal meeting – Mercy Ships
27 April
Freedom Day
28 April
Public holiday
29-30 April
School holidays
1 May
Workers Day public holiday / No meeting
1-4 May
District Conference
TAILPIECE
And this is what one of my family of Rotary (club) (nameless) members thinks of me !!