WBV Meeting 4/15/2026
Art Festival
May 15 price for artists goes up from $95 to $125
June 29 banner exchange
Apr 18 - speech contest, wine & culinary event
Next week Wisdom Addo
May 13 - over 90’s event in Westlake - still need volunteers
June 2 - Jeff installation
Ordering t-shirts
- Large sizes?
- Tall sizes?
Speaker - St. John Medical center
- Paul Forthoover is community outreach manager of at Elyria and St. John Medical center
- He was an inner city school teacher and had a gun pulled on him
- Wayne and Paul have some overlap in some of their responsibilities
- Our donation will go to A1C machines
- They do have glucose and cholesterol machines, but this is a new type of machine
- Pre-diagnosis is really important
- Paul will have signs at each location with sponsored by Rotary
- Staff - 10 prn, 1 teacher, 1 phlebotomist
- UH has some money for west side organizations doing programming
- Rivian is Lorain county drug/alcohol abuse and also beds for behavioral health - Paul is on board
- Community outreach
- Focus areas:
- Schools - germ costumes and teach about hand washing
- High schools - drug awareness, vaping; use goggles that demonstrate what impairment is like
- Schools - Promote careers in health care
- Senior centers - screenings
- Businesses - flu shots and screenings
- Library series - get physicians out of the office to give talks
- Works with Cuyahoga Board of Health
- Focus areas:
- Big problem coming up is to prepare for medicaid changes
- Looks like people will only get one month warning
- Trying to create program to help people understand the changes
- One of the changes is that people will need volunteer hours - likely Nov/Dec
- Think about how we can help in Rotary
- Will be age requirements and work requirements
- Out doing CPR and carseat installs at forestations
- Will get dates once Paul gets the machines and trains staff on the A1C
- Big safety event at community center - probably around July 14 and we could have a booth or volunteer
- How many people show up at these events
- It varies - some events only 7 people show up; others like safety day there is 100
- Paul wants some A1C specific events and some multi screening
- Jeff Appel asked how they attract the people that actually need the screening