The Rotary Balita no. 755 (October 7, 1954)

The third avenue of the Object of Rotary is, as Rotarians know, Community Service, and in its name is performed a wide variety of activities. In Salem, N. J., for example, the Rotary Club there recently contributed $1,000 to its community's ambulance fund. The money was donated entirely by Club members... In Dalton, Ga., the Rotary Club has long been active in promoting plans aimed at improving its community's health, and toward this goal it recently bought an $11,000 X-ray unit for use by the local health department in its campaign against tuberculosis. The Dalton Club also has under way a project that will give the community a recreational area for underprivileged children. Opened not long ago in Windsor, Ont., Canada, was a new wing of a hospital, and in Room 232 of the addition was a plaque stating that the furnish- ings in the four-bed ward were provided by the Rotary Club of Windsor ... A local hospital in Warwick, Va., now has a solarium for convalescing patients, and the Rotary Club there helped to build it with a donation of $100. In Taipeh, China, the Rotary Club has sponsored for several years a free eye clinic and an anti trachoma campaign. At a recent meeting of the Club's Community Service Committee it was decided to continue both these projects on a more extensive scale. All fees were cancelled in the operation of the clinic, and efforts were begun to obtain an educational film on trachoma prevention for wide exhibition on the island... When the Rotary Club of Truro, N. S., Canada, set up its budget for the year, the Community Service portion of it included the following expenditures: $2,000 for erippled children, $500 for its school program, $250 for a milk fund, $100 for a clinic, and $150 for a youth program for better citizenship.