We have spent $300 of club money, and are applying for additional grant funding from the GlobalFoundries-Town of Malta Foundation, to acquire face masks for Malta businesses in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Rotarians are now contacting businesses in town to encourage them to participate in the program, supplying each with free emergency masks for potential customers or clients who left home without one.
Rotarian and former town Supervisor Paul Sausville, who is spearheading the effort, said "The masks are a three-ply, high density layered screening system." Posters (see above; they also have information on the back) are being distributed to businesses willing to display them.
The current Malta supervisor, Darren O'Connor, said in an email: "Thanks very much for taking the initiative members!!! Great work. I'm copying the Town Board."
Also involved in the effort are former Saratoga County Public Health Director Helen Endres, a Rotary member, and club President Larry Levine. For more information, contact Sausville (engineer@nycap.rr.com; 518-885-4533) or Levine (llevinepe@gmail).
In other recent business, we allocated $200 for a Schuylerville family whose uninsured home was destroyed by fire, after being contacted by a relative who is a former member and president of our club.
And we got an update from a Lesotho project which we have helped support. One of our members at Thursday's meeting said she noticed an improvement in the writing of a student from that African country with whom she has corresponded.
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