Rotary's Theme for 2015-16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dotty Overly, wife of member Don Overly, Michael Haubrock, insurance agent with Marsh and Mclenn Agency, a prospective new member of the club; and Paul Scaglione, Sanitarian Supervisor for Environmental Health, Public Health, Dayton & Montgomery County.

 

 

 

 

President Brad Thorp said information on the Paul Harris Awards program was being handed out to members and Ron Hollenbeck noted that for $85 a month, members could sign up to become members of the Paul Harris Society, giving a $1,000 a year pledge. He said forms must be returned in the next two weeks.  Ron said he also was out at the VA, where they have been working on restoring the gardens with the help of some funding from our club and volunteers from various groups. He brought back some red and yellow tulip bulbs shared by the VA with our club.

 

Ray Merz said they had heard from Design Outreach in Columbus that they had received matching funds from World Vision for the water pumps our club is providing to help bring clean water to one or more African villages. The two pumps should be ready by 2016, he was told. They will be placed where they can find water, said member Vas Appalaneni.

 

 

Sgt.-at-Arms Erich Eggers collected Happy Bucks for Reclaiming Futures, and many members contributed to that, with club president Brad Thorp donating a generous $20 to the cause.

 

Member Ann Blackburn, who has worked with the Reclaiming Futures group, taking pictures for them, said she has been impressed with the group and seen those who had been in trouble before come back as mentors to those in the program now.

 

Carol Kennard, who has been serving as an interim director for the Clark County Park District said she was happy to see that their park levy passed and said that 85 percent of Ohio's park issues passed in last Tuesday's election, showing the support Ohioans give to their parks.

 

Rick Terhune passed around thank you letters from area third graders who had received dictionaries from the club. All were charming and included words they had looked up and learned about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Club member Peachy Metzner introduced our speaker Paul Scaglione, who said he was asked to talk about three related subjects: Food trucks, temporary food service, and Norovirus. Centerville has it's own program, Scaglione said, but the county's licensing program is good in all of Ohio.

Peachy said Paul Scaglione  is a WSU graduate in Environmental Health. As a supervisor in the Division of Environmental Health, he oversees inspections of programs in South Montgomery County, such as: restaurants and grocery stores, schools, pools, hotels, smoke-free workplace act enforcement, tattoo parlors, food vending machines and mobiles. He has been with the PHDMC for 36 years. 

Scaglione started his fifteen minute presentation by stating that washing one's hands, cooking food properly, and wearing gloves, and storing food at the right temperatures can help prevent the problems with Norovirus. Hot things should be kept at 135 degrees or more and cold things should be held at 41 degrees or below.

He talked at first about Mobile Food Service in which a truck goes to one location. Hot dog stands, pizza and sub and other food carts need to get licensed. He said there are 180 food trucks but only one guy...Mikey...to inspect them. They get a permit on the passenger side of the truck, which tells whether they are licensed or not, he said. The back of the license shows the layout of the truck and what it is supposed to be selling. This allows anyone in the state to check and make sure the vendor is selling what he is licensed to sell and that the layout is what has been licensed.

Scaglione said there are also dependent food carts that do not have to have all the things needed to be independent. At the end of the day they have to go back to the shop to have things cleaned or to discharge liquid waste, or to get ice cream and dry ice, etc. 

Independent food trucks have to have commercial grills and ovens, ice makers, hand sinks and three compartment sinks.

Portable tear-downs have to have commercial grills, mechanical refrigerators that keep cold food above 41 degrees, three department sinks, a food grade hose bucket and a storage tank for fresh water and hot and cold water, but not scalding hot as from a coffee pot. The name, locality the truck is from, and the phone number is to be on the truck.

Various types of vehicles can be converted into food trucks inside, and often small campers are used, he said.

Temporary Food Services are for those that stay for no more than five consecutive days, such as for Holiday at Home celebrations, etc,

These groups may use coolers and ice but must have dispensed water for hand washing.The food must be from a licensed commercial source or made on site, he said. The inspector issues a temporary license for these.

Norovirus is very contagious, which is why hand washing is very important, Scaglione said. It usually occurs within 12 to 48 hours of eating or touching food or surface that contains the virus. Fever, headache, body aches and diarrhea are the symptoms and recovery is usually in one to three days. It is a highly contagious virus, he said. It can be spread by a food handler, touching a contaminated surface, contact with an infected individual, in close quarters, as on a cruise ship or in a daycare center, he said. Chlorine bleach should be used to help disinfect contaminated surfaces, he said. Linens should be washed thoroughly and dried in a drier.

Scaglione described a local outbreak of Norovirus. A Wright Patt group was holding a going away party and ordered from a pizza and a sub shop. Thirty of forty people that ate part of a six-foot sub got sick,. By using stool samples they were able to trace the problem to the sub shop where two of the sub shop's children, one in diapers, had also gotten sick.with the same virus.

Another service club had eight of twelve people at one table ill, having used the same place for their meal some time later. They had sat where the others who got sick had sat, he said. Contaminated surfaces proved the culprit.