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Page 14A,The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Photo by Rob Collins
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Albany were the recipients of a gift from
local Kiwanis organizations on September 29. Shown, B&G Clubs
executive director Ed Deming accepts a check for $5,000 from Kiwanis
Club of Dougherty County secretary Tommy Gay and past Albany
Kiwanis Club president (and Past District Governor) Dewey Smith.
The Boys & Girls Clubs provide after-school activities and programs
in support of literacy and good citizenship for youth in the community.
The presentation took place during the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty
County’s annual officer installation dinner.
The Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County recently presented its second
gift this calendar year to the Family Literacy Council. Pictured, Alan
Greer (right) is shown accepting on behalf of the council a check for
$500 from Kiwanis DoCo president Mike Bertram. The donation was
made during the Kiwanis club’s annual officer installation dinner, held
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New Board members, (left to right), Felix Revills, Mary Teter, Mari
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Melanie Thornton.
Albany Kiwanis inducts
new officers for 2012
The new officers and
board members for the up
coming year were inducted
by the Kiwanis Lt. Gover
nor for the third district.
Gene Goldsmith, on Sept.
28th at a special ceremony.
Incoming club officers
are:
Roger Marietta President
Jim Brackin, President
Elect
Edwin Green, Secretary
Ronnie Henry, Treasurer
Chuck Owens, Immediate
Past President
Incoming board mem
bers:
Felix Revills
Gene Goldsmith, right, inducts Roger Marietta
as the new Albany Kiwanis Club President
Dewey Smith Melanie Thornton,
Mary Teter Mari Wright
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Darlene Butler explains “The Eliminate Project” to stop maternal/
neonatal tetanus in developing countries around the world.
Kiwanis Club Helps in Ridding
World of Medical Scourge
Special to the Ledger
By David Shivers
The Kiwanis Club of
Dougherty County is play
ing a supporting role in
an international effort to
rid the world of a medical
scourge.
On October 3, Darlene
Butler, wife of recently-
installed Kiwanis DoCo
president Todd Butler,
briefed the club on “The
Eliminate Project,” a part
nership between Kiwanis
International and UNICEF
to eliminate maternal
and neonatal tetanus, a
disease that inflicts tens of
thousands of women and
infants in some 38 nations
ranging the alphabet from
Afghanistan to Yemen.
According to Kiwanis
International’s website,
“This deadly disease steals
the lives of nearly 60,000
innocent babies and a sig
nificant number of women
each year. The effects of
the disease are excruciat
ing - tiny newborns suffer
repeated, painful convul
sions and extreme sensitiv
ity to light and touch.”
The Butlers represented
Kiwanis of Dougherty
County at the Kiwanis
International convention
in Geneva, Switzerland,
in August and while there
attended workshops on the
project.
Among the facts present
ed by Darlene Butler:
One baby dies every
five minutes from tetanus,
and approximately 160
babies die every day of the
disease.
Maternal/neonatal teta
nus has been eliminated in
20 countries since 2000.
Three doses of the teta
nus vaccine will result in
immunity from the disease.
One woman getting the
vaccine can mean a pro
tected future baby.
A minimal amount of
$1.80US protects a mother
and her future children.
The Eliminate Project
saves and protects millions
of moms and babies.
Elimination equals less
than one case of MNT per
1,000 live births.
In response to an audi
ence question, Butler noted
that the tetanus prevented
by vaccinations in the
U.S. is of the same strain
as MNT, but developing
nations generally don’t
have the medical resources
that are familiar here, a
situation compounded by
hygienic and sanitary con
ditions that are too often
inadequate or nonexistent.
Darlene Butler explained
that a distinction is drawn
between eliminating MNT
and eradicating it. Vac
cination can prevent the
disease from infecting a
patient, but conditions that
lead to it still exist and the
bacteria remain in the skin
pores.
The Kiwanis Club of
Dougherty County has
already invested in The
Eliminate Project. At its
officer installation dinner
on September 26, the club
announced that member
Ben Lockett is a recipi
ent of the Kiwanis Hixon
Award, an honor through
which the club donated
$1,000 dollars to the
Eliminate effort in Lock
ett’s name.