World Polio Day at St Peters

St Peters is supporting Mental Health Hat Day with an extra tall hat!!

Great advertising for the Polio Ute Relay on World Polio Day

St Peters Gala Shed Sale

St Peters Rotary Club is promoting the Polio Ute Relay at their  shed sale this morning.

Norwood collects Polio donations and meets survivors.

The Ute is nearing the end of the relay as it arrives in Norwood. Rotarians collected donations for the End Polio Now campaign while chatting to Polio survivors. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is matching all donations made to the Rotary Foundation  2:1. A $10 donation immediately becomes $30 and a $5 raffle ticket becomes worth $15, providing sufficient funds to vaccinate 25 children.

Unley hosts the Polio Mazda Ute

The Rotary Clubs of Unley and Hyde Park displayed the Polio ute at the Unley Shopping Centre on Tuesday and. Thursday this week. As expected, it created a lot of interest and questions from the public. What is Rotary? What is Polio?

Ute meets The Lord Mayor of Adelaide at the Eastwood Business Breakfast

The Rotary Club of Eastwood held another successful Business Breakfast on Wednesday 21 October. Over 70attendees heard Adelaide Lord Mayor, Martin Haese, speak about his business life and his visions for Adelaide and SA. Guests also admired the End Polio Now Ute strategically parked on the footpath, at the front of the venue, onDequetteville Terrace (as did the thousands of cars passing).

Martin Haese spoke of his approach in business – when it is working well, change it. He was “always tinkering” and stressed the need to never be complacent. He successfully ran a chain of retail stores in Adelaide and Melbourne, was a board member of the Rundle Mall Authority, then its General Manager. Until earlier this year he was the chair of the Bay to Birdwood rally. His wish is to see more export businesses in SA – we are the lowest per capita in Australia. He is also passionate about renewable energy, and has been invited to Paris to speak on a Carbon Neutral City.

Edwardstown Book Exchange

The Mazda ute visited the Edwardstown book shop on Monday, providing an extra topic of conversation to all those book lovers in the area.

DG Dick welcomes the ute to Stirling.

DG Dick And Liz welcomed the Mazda ute to their home club of Stirling. 

Visiting Guest Speaker at Illuminate II, Noel Trevaskis OAM and his wife clamoured on board for a special photo shoot while Rotarians from Stirling and Onkaparinga sold raffle tickets and looked after the sausage sizzle on a sizzling hot day!