The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor in cooperation with the University of Michigan School of Public Health will light up the Rackham building (915 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109) with the "End Polio Now" logo and the School of Public Health logo to bring attention to World Polio Day, Monday, October 24, 2016. We are having an event at 6:45pm with speakers from Rotary and SPH. Then the lights go on from 7-10pm.
What an opportunity for photos and selfies to post on social media to bring awareness to the End Polio Now campaign! Rotary International has lit iconic structures all over the world including the House of Parliament in London; the Opera House in Sydney, Australia; and the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Now it is our turn to light the very building where Thomas Francis, Jr. of the University of Michigan School of Public Health made the announcement of the Salk vaccine in 1955: “The vaccine works. It is safe, effective and potent”.
We are announcing that we are "This Close" and will continue raising awareness and donations until polio is eradicated from the globe. Won't you join us?
October 24th, at 6pm Eastern time, don't miss the Live stream event. One Day. One Focus: Ending Polio
Join us for our fourth annual World Polio Day event, co-hosted with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We’ll be streaming live from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, to bring together more than 50,000 viewers around the world. We’ll be joined by celebrities and experts to share our progress on the road to polioeradication.
A horror movie could not be more dramatic: A disease seeks out mainly children and terrorizes them and their parents each summer. They no longer go to pools or movie theaters for fear they might contract the potentially fatal disease that often cripples
its victims. A beloved, polio-afflicted U.S. President inspires the country's men, women, and children to send their dimes to fund research - some of which would go to an ambitious, but unknown 33-year-old physician, Dr. Jonas Salk, and his team at the University of Pittsburgh, who would change the course of medical history.
This Movie Night being shown on Oct 24th (World Polio Day) is showing the movie documentary describing the development of the Salk vaccine and the subsequent world wide distribution saving potentially millions of children from this dreaded disease. The theater will be open at 6:30pm.
Rotary and their partners are working to finally eradicate the Polio virus from the face of the earth. Funds are still being raised to vaccinate millions of children specifically in the remaining two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan. We are really very close, but the task is not yet over.
Come and view this wonderful movie at the fabulous Civic Theater in downtown Farmington. The Civic Theater is in downtown Farmington at the corner of Grand River and Farmington Road. Address is 33332 Grand River Ave, Farmington, MI 48336.
Your ticket price will go towards the End Polio Now cause through Rotary International. Tickets are only $10 each. You will also have an opportunity to make a donation to the cause on the night.
Veterans Hire Event For Veterans and Family November 3, 2016 at Washtenaw Community College- Morris Lawrence Building
Hiring Event specifically designed and organized for veterans and their families. If you are seeking employment, please register on this website to attend this excellent event.
Employer Panel: 9 - 9:40 am.
Special Speakers: 9:40 to 10:00 am
Hiring Event: 10 am - 1 pm
EMPLOYERS INCLUDE:
Verizon Wireless
FEDEX Ground
Consumer's Energy
Quicken Loans
City of Ann Arbor
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Zingerman's Community of Businesses
Kroger
PGK Services - SPONSER
St. Joseph Mercy Health System
Thomas Reuters
HORIBA Automotive Test Systems
United Methodist Retirement Community
NSF International
Starbucks
Tenneco
Speedway
Emergent Health Partners/HVA
Heavy Equipment Training of Oklahoma
Michigan Theater house lights dim and suddenly you are not in your seat but instead at the controls of a B-17 Flying Fortress next to Army Air Force Lieutenant John Clark trying to get back across the English Channel…...And all four of your engines have quit. Below and off course, you see a grass runway cut into a heavy woods. It’s for fighters, and far too short for a massive, high-flying, long-range bomber heavy with armor plates and bristling with machine guns. With another injured B-17 right behind you.
Welcome to the second annual Service Above Self—Honoring Our Veterans. Doors open 7:00pmWednesday November 9 at the Michigan Theater. Stephen Schram, General Manager of Michigan Radio and Director of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, will emcee five stories of combat and compassion framed by four live performances of the music that defines that our wars.
The mission: continue to inspire funding for Michigan’s First Fisher House, a sort of Ronald McDonald House for veterans and their families undergoing extended short-term care at the VA Ann Arbor Health Care System. For details and advance tickets visit http://vetsinthetheater.org/. The event is free. Donations are encouraged. VIP reception is at 5:30pm in the foyer. Cost is $150/person - all proceeds from VIP go to 'Build It For The Brave', a charitable 501c3 organization.
Major sponsors of 'Service Above Self—Honoring Our Veterans are NuStep, Inc., Masco Corporation, Ardis and Mike Cicchella, Sr., Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundation, and our own Agnes and Stephen Reading. Other community sponsors include Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan Military and Veteran Services, Michigan Theater and Michigan Radio.
Thanks to the many Rotarians who have committed countless hours to our Veterans initiatives - Job Fair and Service Above Self - Honoring Our Veterans. We only begin to understand how much we owe our veterans as we hear their stories. And learn that Service Above Self is quite possibly the biggest thing any of us can do with our lives.
The Service Above Self Honoring our Veterans and the Veterans Inisiative are working to build a Fisher House in Ann Arbor. Take a look at the following linkhttps://www.fisherhouse.org/ and help us build the House.
Fisher Houses are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, close to the medical center or hospital they serve. Fisher Houses have up to twenty-one suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room and an inviting living room. Fisher House Foundationensures that there is never a lodging fee. Since inception, the program has saved military and veterans’ families an estimated $320 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.
Michigan has zero Fisher Houses. Other states have five (5) or more. They are a necessary part of our support network for our veterans.
Michigan residents have been on the front line since the War of 1812. No state has done more to serve our country and ensure our national security than the men and women of Michigan.
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North can be a big part on building a Fisher House in Ann Arbor. If you would like to help contactEric Tindall.
Join us for a special evening as we celebrate and recognize the good works of Rotarians in District 6380.
We will Celebrate the local and international projects that have touched lives and the Rotary Foundation for 100 years doing good in the world! We will look back to our past accomplishments and look ahead to even more Service above Self in the years to come.
John Barfield is a son of an Alabama sharecropper, he dropped out of high school to enlist in the United States Army, serving in Germany and France from 1945-1947. Upon his discharge, he worked as a custodian at the University of Michigan. In 1954, he and his wife Betty, formed the first of many companies, J & B Cleaning Company (later renamed Barfield Cleaning Company) located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. John and his wife Betty sold their first business to ITT Corporation in 1969. It was a breakthrough transaction that led to a relationship with General Motors Corporation and a second career as one of the most successful minority suppliers for GM and other companies. In 1977, Barfield incorporated John Barfield and Associates and by 1984 he had expanded the company and renamed it Bartech Inc. Barfield formed and eventually sold additional businesses, including Barfield Building Maintenance Company and Barfield Manufacturing Company.
John Barfield has been a dedicated longtime area Rotarian that has supported time and money to Rotary's Polio Plus Program. Please support him with a purchase of his book "Starting from Scratch". It would be a wonderful gift for young students in High School and College.
$15 of every Hardbackbook will be donated to Rotary's Polio Plus Program to End Polio Now! PROMO CODE: ROTARY
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North isregistered in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Sign up and start making money for The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Foundation (Kroger Community Rewards #21725).
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