{"id":16479,"date":"2018-10-30T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:40:44","slug":"thank-you-wawa-goose-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/30\/thank-you-wawa-goose-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Wawa Goose Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Rotary Club of Wawa wishes to thank the Wawa Goose Club for providing the venue for the END POLIO NOW bake sale held on the afternoon of October 24th.\u00a0 The club also waived their portion of the proceeds, for which we are very grateful.\u00a0 Together we raised approximately $600.00.<\/p>\n

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October 24th was Rotary International\u2019s End Polio Now Day, worldwide.\u00a0 All clubs in the world, over 35,000 in 200 countries jointly made an effort to raise funds specifically for Polio Eradication.\u00a0 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged two dollars for every dollar raised, and in Canada our Federal Government also donates one dollar for each dollar raised, so every dollar donated becomes four.\u00a0 This means that the $600 raised by the Rotary\u00a0 Club of Wawa will become $2400.00.<\/p>\n

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For an entire country to be declared Polio free, it must have no polio cases for three consecutive years. Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan are still to be declared polio-free.\u00a0 The good news is that Nigeria has already gone two years without any cases of polio being detected.\u00a0 Hopefully, this time next year it will also be off the list.<\/p>\n

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We must still immunize every child three times per year in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u00a0 These two countries have large populations living in remote areas under non-democratic rules, along with many other challenges that make it difficult to achieve the necessary immunization.<\/p>\n

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Once polio is eradicated, it cannot return.\u00a0 It is like Smallpox, in that once it is gone it cannot return.<\/p>\n

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We must think like a marathon runner.\u00a0 We are in the last mile of this marathon, we are tired, sore, and there is yet another hill to climb.\u00a0 So we take a deep breath, focus, draw on all of our strength and we know that we will succeed.
\nThis is END POLIO month.\u00a0 There are donation boxes on the counters of many businesses around town.\u00a0 We ask you to be generous and help us with this\u00a0 last hurdle.\u00a0 We will be picking them up at the end of October.<\/p>\n

We are \u201c\u2014”\u00a0 this close.<\/p>\n

Thanks again<\/p>\n

John Morrison, Rotary Club of Wawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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