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PHOTO: Bridgton-Lake Region Rotarians Amy Dugas, Julie Forbes, Lisa Ryan, Carol Madsen and Bridgton Hospital’s Jill Rollins assembled at Bridgton Hospital grounds. (Submitted photo)
BRIDGTON — Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club members in October planted crocuses at Bridgton Hospital, and on April 15, a group of Rotarians and hospital officials gathered at the planting site to check their progress.
Rotarians Amy Dugas, Julie Forbes, Lisa Ryan, Carol Madsen and Bridgton Hospital Director of Nursing and Patient Services Jill Rollins checked the delicate blooms, concerned they would not survive the impending Nor’easter the following day. The hospital is the club’s first corporate member.
“Only a third of the bulbs we’d planted in October had bloomed and they looked a little bedraggled,” Forbes said. “But we wanted to check on them.”
Forbes is a polio survivor, and thus personally committed to the progress Rotary worldwide, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, is making towards the eradication of the disease. Only two countries in the world continue to report new cases, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In parts of the world, the polio vaccination infrastructure has been enlisted to address the COVID pandemic.
Bridgton Hospital was the first corporate member of the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club, and the club has actively participated in three projects with the hospital in the past year.
Bridgton Hospital Rotarians Peter Wright, CEO, and Amy Dugas, director of regional practices and specialty services at the hospital will be inducted later this month.
The club hopes to do another Purple for Polio planting in October at the club’s second corporate member, Norway Savings Bank, in Bridgton and Naples.
The hill in front of the bank in Naples would look even more beautiful with purple crocuses blooming across it in the spring,” said Carol Madsen, past president and Membership Committee member. “That’s in our plans.”
For more information on Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary, email LakeRegionRotary@gmail.com.
