L-A Rotary Club members hold End Polio Now fundraiser

Mar. 12018

AUBURN — L-A Rotary Lunch Club and A-L Rotary Breakfast Club members recently helda joint fundraising event at Gritty’s Restaurant benefiting Rotary International’s End Polio Now efforts.
The event raised $478.50 through door prizes, raffle tickets and other donations benefiting the Rotary Plus Foundation.

“Rotary, along with support through fundraiser endeavors with local community partners, and weekly contributions from Rotarians, has seen polio cases reduced by 99.9 percent worldwide since Rotary’s first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979,” said L-A Rotary President Monica Millhime. “The goal of Rotarians world-wide is to continue raising awareness and supporting eradication of polio with local, state and global efforts to make a difference by impacting and protecting children against polio.”
L-A Rotary Lunch Club meets every Thursday, noon to 1 p.m. at The Village Inn, Auburn. A-L Rotary Breakfast Club meets every Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. at the Auburn United Methodist Church on Park Avenue. For more information, visit facebook.com/lewistonmainerotary/ and www.auburn-lewistonrotary.org. Visiting Rotarians and community guests are welcome.

PHOTO: Rotarians Cheryl McKeone and Don Grant at Gritty’s Restaurant for a fundraiser to support the fight to end polio worldwide. (Monica Millhime photo)

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