Hypertension Program at Rotary
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Gallipolis Rotarians and guests learned about the dangers of hypertension at the regular weekly meeting of the Gallipolis Rotary Club. Past President Lou Ellen Werry presented as our speaker, Dr. Michael Englund, from the Holzer Cardiovascular Institute. Pictured above are Past President Lou Ellen, Dr. Michael Englund, and Club President Shirley Doss.
Rotarians had the opportunity to check their blood pressure and received a heart shaped stress ball and a ‘Know Your Numbers’ health test recorder. Ann Carter, Director of Nursing for the Cardiovascular Institute handled the BP checks. Dr. Englund presented a fact filled, interesting talk and 
Rotarians learned that high blood pressure is the most common cardiovascular problem. Known for years as the silent killer, high BP strikes over 74 million people. Heart disease is the number one cause of death associated with high blood pressure. Dr. Englund stressed the importance of knowing your numbers and living a lifestyle that can lower your risk to heart disease and diabetes. Rotarians enjoyed asking our speaker many questions about lifestyles, nutrition, and vitamin supplements. Thank you, Dr Englund and Past President Lou Ellen, for this interesting program!
President Shirley welcomed club members and guests to our meeting. April Rice, from Farmer’s Bank was a guest of Heather Crum. Welcome, April. Rotarian Jodie McCalla, ‘Skyped’ in from her temporary office in Baltimore.
Fellowship—In the time remaining Fellowship Chair, Gordon Amsbary, led our club fellowship starting off with some Belushi trivia. There were a no fines, but Jim Morrison offered a Happy Buck for something, which the Secretary could not hear. Gordo’s words of wisdom concluded with Siddhartha.
Split-The-Pot—Shana Booher ran our STP for our meeting. The small and large pot were both at $7.00 today as Clyde Evans pulled the Queen of Hearts last week. Our lucky winner today was Kurt Dailey, and this actually makes twice in a row he has been drawn—the problem being his ticket last week was given to Clyde! Kurt narrowly missed the big one by drawing the King of Clubs. Kurt assessed the foundation fine against anyone who hasn’t taken their blood pressure in the last week!
Rotary Readers—Project Chair, Emily Dailey asked for additional readers for our successful reading project for the first grade classes in the Gallia Local Schools. There are only two more opportunities to read this year—February and March, so if you haven’t participated in this great project, be sure to see Emily!
Finally, here are the program assignments for the next few weeks:
Jan 31 Zac Fosler
Feb 7 Kevin Petrie
Feb 14 Valentine Dinner
Feb 21 Lee Bauman
Have a great week, everyone, and see you back next Tuesday!