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  Rotary Club members walk Saturday to fund Eradicating Polio. Written by Tom
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  Collins. This article is being read by an automated voice, brought to
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  you by Everlet. Everybody posed for a group photo, and the set
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  off on a fundraiser walk through Rotary Park. The Rotary Club members
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  were raising funds to eradicate polio. Polio? Scott Pelican of LaSalle, a
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  longtime Rotarian, explained that while poliomyelitis was eradicated in the United States
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  and the developed world, the paralyzing disease continues to plague developing nations.
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  Rotary is an International organization, s and people still do stuff suffer
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  from it, in the Third World, said Pelican, who joined dozens of
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  others for the fundraiser. I believe countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan are
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  still fighting it. It's been a long standing cause of Rotary International
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  to cure polio worldwide. Rotary International may have long sought a cure,
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  but local rotary clubs are new to the cause. Saturday's walk was
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  assembled by the LaSalle Rotary Club, Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary Club, and
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  the Peru Rotary Club. A complimentary event also was held in Princeton.
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  Saturday proved ideal for the inaugural walk. Besides temperate weather, october twenty
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  fourth falls reasonably close to the anniversary of Jonas Salk's birth. Salk-1995
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  was a researcher who unveiled an early polio vaccine in 1955, an
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  orally administered vaccine was introduced the following decade, which marked the beginning
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  of the end of polio. In the United States. Now, Rotary hopes
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  to bring those vaccines to the world's poorest. It's an arduous project,
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  but a worthwhile one, said Chris Vasque, president of the LaSalle Rotary
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  Club. Worldwide, we're hoping to raise two million dollars for the possible
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  eradication of polio completely. Nobody's for polio. Everybody wants it to be
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  eliminated. Beth Coleman, president of the Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary Club, counted
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  members from LaSalle, Peru, Mendota and Putnam and Bureau counties. We have
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  lot more people walking than I would have thought, so that's wonderful,
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  Coleman said. To donate visit. Use code five thousand four hundred and
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  four.