Dear Spinning Teammates:
I want to thank you for participating in last Saturday's World Polio event; Spinning to Eliminate Polio. It was a big success for our District and ultimately, toward our efforts to raise funds to eliminate polio in the last two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
I personally enjoyed getting to visit with fellow Rotarians from various clubs, several that I have spoken with on the phone or emailed back and forth for various reasons over the years.
I want to provide you with some results of Saturday's event:
- We had 38 Rotarians and Interactors participate either spinning or volunteering.
- We hammered our original $1000 goal with a donated result of $2500 PLUS funds are still coming in which may take us over the $3000 mark.
- Together we rode those stationary bikes for 12 hours STRAIGHT.
- Several spinners used Facebook to draw in additional donations.
- We had one non-Rotarian walk up and make a $250 donation because he was aware that one of his good customers is a Rotarian and he had seen them there on the bike spinning. He told me that "it just felt like the right thing to do". That one lone encounter made it all worth it to me.
- Just at our event alone, we had 9 different Rotary clubs all working together toward a common goal for a very worthy cause.
- THAT's JUST WHAT WE DO AS ROTARIANS.
- Total donations for our District 5790 are presently at just over $17000 with funds still coming in via checks and other means.
Thank you all again for helping me make our event a success.
Grady