Rotary for Life, Saving Lives through Organ Donation
Rotary for Life is a initiative started by the Rotary Clubs of Columbia and Fulton and endorsed by Rotary District 6080 to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation. Organ transplantation, the procedures used in recovering organs or tissue from one person and placing them into another, is one of the miraculous achievements of modern medicine. As a result multiple organs are now transplanted successfully saving or improving lives. Heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, pancre
Sewer District Proposed by Health Department
Today the club welcomed Kent Wood and Mylene Dunn from the Callaway County Health Department. Wood and Dunn presented a program on a problem facing many rural subdivisions that have their own sewage treatment facility. According to Wood, many of the private treatment plants serving these subdivisions no longer meet DNR standards, which has resulted in a number of large fines to the owners of the private facilities. As Wood put it, these fines are just creating a vicious circ
