Friday, July 21, 2006 - Saving soldiers in Iraqi War

Iraqi War Changes the Face of Military Medicine

      Today, Union City Rotarians welcome  Wayne Rowe, LPN and OR Tech at BMH-UC, who will tell us how battlefield medicine has changed during the Iraqi War. Wayne, who is assigned to the 936 Forward Surgical Team, in Paducah, has completed two tours of duty in Iraq (1990 and 2003).
     Wayne Rowe holds the rank of staff sergeant (E-6) and works in the intensive care (post-op) section of the FST as a Licensed Practical Nurse. He is also cross-trained in the military and professionally as an operating room tech.
     On today’s battlefield, mobile mini-hospitals, place the operating room literally at the heels of foot soldiers. The almost immediate medical attention and availability of bulletproof vests and armored vehicles are helping save more lives than ever before in military conflicts.
     Wayne has lots of photos to show and stories to tell about taking care of the wounded in Iraq. Welcome Wayne!    

Amy Thweatt to Report on Stroke Awareness

      Next Week, the Union City Rotary Club will hear from Amy Thweatt, Senior Health Service Coordinator and Corporate Trainer for Life Life Screening of West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi.
     Life Line Screening is the largest mobile vascular screening company in the United States—performing well over 60,000 screenings each month. 
     Amy is originally from Brownsville, TN, and is a graduate of Mississippi State University.  She and her husband live in Cordova.  Their daughter, Anna Claire, was born in January.
     Amy has been with Life Line Screening for nearly four years. Since joining this company as coordinator for West Tennessee, she has conducted hundreds of educational workshops on stroke awareness and prevention.  Her talk next week will focus on the warning signs and risk factors for vascular disease and osteoporosis.
     See you next Friday!

Tennessee Chamber Leader Deb Woolley Visits Rotary

      Last week, Rotarians enjoyed “State of Business in Tennessee” report from Deb Woolley, Executive Director of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce.
     Jimmy Cagle, who helped arrange the program, introduced Deb to Rotarians.
     TCOC got its start in 1912, when a group of angry East Tennessee manufacturers and businessmen led a campaign and caravan to Nashville to impress on lawmakers their disdain for pending legislation.
     “The message was, ‘leave us alone’,” Deb said. “We’re still in that same mindframe today—just leave us alone.”
     Deb said her main job at the TCOC is to look out for the business community in Tennessee and to encourage economic growth and job creation.
     “We’re not anti-tax and anti-regulations,” Deb said. “We’re pro-business and pro-jobs.”
     The TCOC worked hard to help launch the Tennessee Scholars Program, saying the time had come to devise an educational program where students challenged themselves and exposed themselves to the disciplines they will need to be successful in college or in the work force. 
     She called the Scholars Program an exciting project and complimented Obion County for adopting the program for our local students.
     “Business and education should be working together,” she said.
     Deb concluded her talk with a report on various bills before the General Assembly last year—some which were approved, some which were rejected. She hailed efforts to open up government through enhancements to the “Sunshine Law.”
     “I want a government that tells you want it is doing,” Deb quipped.
     She identified specific bills that would have had a direct impact on the business community. The ones she worked against through the TCOC were characterized as “jobs-killer bills.”
     “Overall, it was a very good year for business in Tennessee,” Deb said. “We got through the session with no new taxes, the Tennessee Scholars Program was funded, money was earmarked for higher education and we passed a new state budget without having to raise taxes.”

Coming Attractions

7/28     Amy Thweatt—Life Line Screening & Stroke Awareness
8/4       District Governor Scheley J. “Slick” Frazer
8/11     Obion County Fair Youth Musical, We are Family—A Motown Review
            

Happy Birthdays

7/22     Bill Flood
7/25     Al Creswell
7/26     Jim Rippy, Jr.
7/27     Victor Castro

Happy Anniversaries

7/24     Jerry and Norma Bailey
7/25     Al and Laura Oliver

Thought for the Day

“God didn’t promise days without pain,
Laughter without sorrow,
Sun without Rain.
But He did promise strength for the day,
Comfort for the tears,
And light for the way.”

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