Rotary NEWS RELEASE

Dear Chief of Staff 

Attached is the Media Release and the Rotary Polio Ute Relay Staging posts with over 30 events in 30 days and the map of the trip. 

Rotary District 9520 Rotary Polio Ute Relay starts tomorrow at Broken Hill, Helping to Eradicate Polio Worldwide. 

The Relay is designed to increase the awareness of polio and raise critically needed funds to eradicate this crippling disease. 

The Mazda BT50, Rotary Polio Ute will travel from Broken Hill to Wentworth, then onto Mildura and into SA’s Riverland region, visiting the townships of Renmark, Loxton and Waikerie.  It will then pass through Murray Bridge, before heading to the Southern Fleurieu, followed by a number of Adelaide venues.  The Relay will conclude on Sunday 25th October, to coincide with World Polio Day. 

Rotary 9520 District Governor, Dick Wilson said that this Rotary Polio Ute Relay comes at an important time in the fight to eradicate polio, which would be only the second human disease to be eradicated. Case numbers of the disease have never been lower, and only three countries (Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan) have never stopped transmission of the wild polio virus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotary Polio Ute key handover with Kevin Bew of Paradise Motors and Sarah Walsh who instigated this Rotary Polio Ute Relay.