Glynis Wray and Melissa Nadzan gave another presentation about all the services provided by the 

Ocean County Library

.

Topics covered included Universal Class, Reference USA, databases, library cards, Librarian by Appointment, museum passes, Census, Friends of the Library book sale, social media devices and downloads.

Thank you to Patty Nolan of the

The Arc, Ocean County Chapter

for speaking to our club. She brought us up to speed on the latest from their organization and educated our new Rotarians on our involvement over the years.

Today some of our members were at the Jay & Linda Grunin Center for the Arts supporting the

To learn more visit their website: https://oceanmhs.org/

 

 

On Tuesday we had the privilege of having Dr. Pirchi Waxman from Israel speak at our meeting. Dr. Waxman is partnering with Rotarian Christine Girtain on the Global STEM Wolbachia Project visiting Toms River Regional Schools and the Central Ocean Rotary Club. Israeli students and Toms River Authentic Science Research students are exchanging data on the prevalence of a bacteria called Wolbachia in local mosquitoes. Wolbachia has been shown to block the spread of Dengue Fever and Zika Virus. She teaches Biology at Shimon Ben-Zvi High School in Givatayim, Israel.& is a professor in the Biology Education Center at Bar Ilan U. in Israel.