BY LOREEN BERLIN: Do you know your Rotary Club?
If you don’t, maybe it’s time to update you. Especially since the club recently helped saved a high school student’s life.
More on that later.
The Garden Grove Rotary Club meets weekly on Wednesdays at noon in the Marriott Hotel at the southwest corner of Harbor Boulevard and Chapman Avenue.
Speaker for July 20 was Tom Moon, with Pacific Moon Real Estate, addressing current real estate issues and detailing how club members can avoid the myriad of scams threatening the community.
BY LOREEN BERLIN: Do you know your Rotary Club?
If you don’t, maybe it’s time to update you. Especially since the club recently helped saved a high school student’s life.
More on that later.
The Garden Grove Rotary Club meets weekly on Wednesdays at noon in the Marriott Hotel at the southwest corner of Harbor Boulevard and Chapman Avenue.
Speaker for July 20 was Tom Moon, with Pacific Moon Real Estate, addressing current real estate issues and detailing how club members can avoid the myriad of scams threatening the community.
Moon was informative, interesting and entertaining, holding the audience's attention for the length of his talk, with much laughter; his father was a Rotarian before him. Each week, the club invites different professionals to speak.
What is a Rotarian? Do they act or look different? Would you know one if you saw him or her?
Rotarians have a motto and a "Four Way Test."
The Rotary motto is, “Service Above Self” and the Four-way Test is the cornerstone of the group’s work.
During each meeting, Rotarians remember and repeat: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build good will and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Rotarians are ordinary business and professional leaders throughout the world who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards and help to build goodwill and peace in the world.
It's in that vein that the Garden Grove Rotary reported its distribution of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) recently with a very successful outcome, according to member Scott Weimer.
Weimer said that as part of the Rotary’s ongoing Public Access to Defibrillators (PAD) program, the club donated and outfitted all of the high schools in the Garden Grove Unified School District with AEDs.
Recently, on the athletic field of Bolsa Grande High School, a 16-year-old student experienced sudden cardiac arrest.
"In speaking with the Garden Grove Fire Station following the emergency call to the high school, we were able to confirm the student had been in full cardiac arrest and that the AED was deployed twice by the coach, along with CPR, helping the student regain a heartbeat and pulse before being taken to the hospital," said Weimer.
"AEDs do save lives."
The student is now back home with a new Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator and is doing well.
Weimer said studies reveal that each day in the United States, more than a 1,000 citizens experience sudden cardiac arrest, with more than 50 percent never having heart problems.
"Please keep your skills up and always be ready for the unexpected," he tells other Rotarians.
The Garden Grove Rotary Club also supports two family centers and has programs that offer more than 20 scholarships to sixth graders and high school students in Garden Grove, along with supporting the Miss Garden Grove Pageant and the RYLA Camp program for challenged teens.
There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarian members, with more than 29,000 Rotary clubs in 161 countries. Rotary International’s project has been to eradicate polio worldwide.
