Posted on Mar 01, 2019
Randy Sproule from Downtown Rotary talked to our Club about Rotary’s commitment to Polio Plus (since 1985) and just how close we’re getting to eliminating polio in the world. We’ve raised more than $1.5 billion to fight polio. Randy than played Jerry Apps’ Limping Through Life video about his life growing up in rural Wild Rose and contracting polio ion 1947 when he was 13 years old. It was a common scourge, especially of young people in those times after the war. He survived and flourished, despite the challenge.

 

Next Week’s Speaker: Tom Gross & Lou Ann Novak on The Ice Age Trail