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Rescheduled END Polio Now RVA GAME – June 14
Yes, more than a little rain fell on May 16th as area Rotarians in District 7600 attempted to assemble at the Diamond to watch the annual End Polio Now Baseball game. Even the Flying Squirrels decided to take their acorns home for the evening. Many End Polio Warriors made it to the Diamond and others were caught in downpours or traffic tie-ups attempting to get there.
Norm & JoAnn Meaker
Club baseball ticket organizers should contact Garrett Erwin at the Flying Squirrels at 804-359-3866 x327. The same number of tickets previously purchased by the club will be reprinted with the June 14 date.
Additional tickets may be ordered as well. Remember that $2 of each ticket goes to End Polio Now and is matched 2:1 by the Gates Foundation. If you do the math that means that $6 for every ticket purchased goes to EPN.
And many thanks to the Rotarians who made the effort among whom were AG JoAnn and Norm Meaker above and below, AGE Shel Douglass, District End Polio Now Games Organizer Stan Wall, and District Polio Plus Chair Colleen Bonadonna.
More to follow soon.
Shel Douglas (L), Stan Wall, & Colleen Bonadonna
announce new pledges toward the polio eradication effort at the Rotary Convention in Atlanta. During the session, we heard the news that world governments and other donors have pledged to contribute US$1.2 billion total to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for polio eradication efforts. The government funding will substantially help to close the US$1.5 billion funding gap, allowing partners to immunize 450 million children every year and support rigorous disease surveillance in both endemic and at-risk polio-free countries. While the government funding makes considerable headway in the fight to end polio, continued support from donors remains vital to achieve a polio-free world.
have red ‘End Polio Now’ t-shirts for sale, $10 for most shirts and $12 for the fulsome 2x and 3x sizes. A dollar from each shirt sale goes back to End Polio Now.
more to the Annual Fund will be matched dollar for dollar with district recognition points. This is only on Tuesday. Not Monday. Not Wednesday. Tuesday!
You’ve heard there have been changes in Club Giving Banners. What happened to Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY)? What about Sustaining Members? With these changes how does a club encourage giving to The Rotary Foundation? Rudy Garcia and the Development team has answers to these and other questions.This is a great chance to meet the entire Development team.
there any clubs in the district that we can join with in a big global grant? My club did apply for a District Grant, if we get the grant, how and when do we document our progress? Everything is online now. Isn’t that hard to do? SuAnne Hardee Bryant and her Grants team will answer those questions and allay those concerns.
The first of our two End Polio Now Baseball Games in Richmond on July 7 was a huge success. Game Coordinator and now Assistant Governor Stan Wall and Debbie Wall, District Secretary, sold 1016 tickets, a record for the Richmond Squirrels Game. Two dollars from each ticket was a donation to End Polio Now, the Squirrels threw in a bit more, and Debbie’s employer Sabra Dipping added another $2 for each of the 400 tickets that Debbie sold. Add the matching contribution from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and our Richmond Squirrels game raised over $8000 for End Polio Now. At left District Polio Plus Coordinator, Colleen Bonadonna, under the watchful eye of that giant Squirrel, Nutzy.
, Zoe Romano, Skyped in from Maine to share her plans for her two-year graduate program which will span three South American countries and will include academic semesters and semesters of volunteer teaching in under-served schools. She especially praised Delmar Dayton of the South Richmond Club for his patience and persistence in the two years it took to steward her acceptance as a global scholar.
So two weeks in and there is another fantastic End Polio Now Baseball Game in Norfolk on July 27th being organized by David Mansfield. There is still time to get tickets for this Triple-A game. Join in with hundreds of area Rotarians doing their bit to eradicate Polio and have a heck of a lot of fun. Rip Tide will be so disappointed if you don’t show. Check the 
Chuck Arnason, incoming District Rotary Foundation Chair, introduced his 
