This week at the Purple Iris Dawn Pingley, President of the Berkeley County Youth Fair Association, will talk to us about the Youth Fair, which will be held August 1st through August 9th. The Youth Fair differs from a regular county fair in that all the exhibitors are young people. Berkeley County’s Youth Fair is one...
This is Kevin Knowles final program. We will have Rotarians Bill Wortley, Marilyn Schoon, Pam Curtis, and Ross Curtis talk to us about their adventures in Africa. The scariest sight they encountered was Mike Hornby’s brother trying to load the six suitcases full of clothes for orphans into a small car. Last Week At the Installation Banquet, we...
When you hear of plastic surgery, what do you think of? A Hollywood star trying to delay the effects of aging? People who want to change the size of their stomachs, breasts, or other body parts because they see it done so easily on TV? Those are common images of plastic surgery, but what about the...
When CROP began in 1947 (under the wing of Church World Service, which was founded in 1946), CROP was an acronym for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Its primary mission was to help Midwest farm families to share their grain with hungry neighbors in post-World War II Europe and Asia. Today, rather than thinking of...
Rotarian Lisa Poland will talk to us about the children’s preventive dental care program at WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Division. Perhaps she’ll also use Buzz to demonstrate root canal techniques without anesthesia. Last Week The only downside to having exchange students is that they inevitably leave and go back home. Mora Garay, our exchange student from...