We hosted District Governor Marlene Frisbie at our November 12 meeting. She spoke of her personal journey to becoming a Rotarian vs being a member which occurred when her Woodstock Rotary Club spearheaded a community wide effort to deliver 1100 holiday meals and gifts to people living below the poverty line. As District Governor for District 6440 (which includes 1870 members in 61 clubs) she spoke of the Rotary Action Plan located on the District 6440 website. The Action Plan includes increasing our impact, expanding our reach to grow and diversify our membership, enhance our member engagement by looking at unique skills our members may have and by increasing our ability to adapt as we did when Covid occurred. She suggested a three year horizon for projects. One of her personal goals is to increase awareness of cervical cancer which is 100% preventable with the HPV vaccine. She noted that men are also impacted by HPV which is connected to throat and oral cancer.
