[FLPERMACULTURE] Fwd: Polio fundraiser

[Joseph Wetmore]

--- Phil White <phil at downtownithaca.com> wrote:

> Subject: Polio fundraiser
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:32:48 -0400
> From: "Phil White" <phil at downtownithaca.com>
>> 
> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> 
> For Immediate Release  June 9, 2008
> > 
> Contact: 
> 
> Bettsie Park, Secretary, Ithaca Rotary Club,
> 607-272-4902,
> bpark43 at twcny.rr.com <mailto:bpark43 at twcny.rr.com>  
> Ken Jupiter,
> co-owner, 15 STEPS, 607-272-4902, 15steps at danica.com
> <mailto:15steps at danica.com>  
> 
> Dale Flinn, President, Ithaca Rotary Club,
> 607-533-4671 (evenings),
> bigd at starflinn.com <mailto:bigd at starflinn.com>      
>        
>   
> COMMUNITY SALE DAY, JUNE 14, 2008
> 
>   
> The Ithaca Rotary Club, in partnership with the
> Center Ithaca Merchants,
> announces a fundraiser to finish the job of
> eradicating polio from this
> planet.
> 
>   
> The Center Ithaca Merchants - 15 STEPS, The Goat
> Boy, Fibers, 
> 
> 10,000 Villages and Habitat - will donate 10% of
> their sales on Saturday
> June 14, to the Ithaca Rotary Club, towards the very
> attainable goal of
> eliminating the wild polio virus, once and for all.
> 
>   
> 15 STEPS co-owner, Ken Jupiter, has personal
> experience with this
> dreaded disease.  His mother contracted polio in
> 1952, and although she
> was completely cured, the physical agony for her and
> the stress on the
> family was huge.  When hearing of the opportunity to
> help Rotary wipe
> out polio, Jupiter was enthusiastic and knew that
> fellow Center Ithaca
> Merchants would love to be on board.
> 
>  
> 
> Rotary International has been in the forefront of
> the battle to
> eradicate polio from our world.  In the 1980's, the
> disease infected
> children in over 125 countries.  Today, polio cases
> have declined by 99%
> and the wild polio virus has been reported in only
> three countries.
> 
>  
> 
> Rotary's US $100 Million Challenge, a three-year
> fundraising commitment,
> is the Rotary Foundation's response to the $100
> million grant from the
> Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help support
> polio eradication.
> Every dollar given to Polio Plus during the next
> three years will be
> counted toward the $100 million match.
> 
>