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Glennville Rotary Club observes World Polio Day, October 24
Goal of $3000 for eradicating polio
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Seated: Zuber Malek. Front row, standing, l to r: Kim Crow, Aubrey Shirley, Donna Blocker, Tiffany Sittle, Darla Kicklighter holding box with purple icing cake with Glennville Rotary Club President Tim Cooper, Jay Martin, Tyler D’Alto, Dr. Troy Rahn, Dr. Paul Thompson, and Paul Peterson. Back row: Suzannah Williamson, Will Sheffield, Terry Waters, Wayne Terrell, Quentin McArthur, Henry Strickland, Donald Fountain, and Joe Skeens. Not pictured: Lizzie D’Alto. In observance of World Polio Day, October 24, 2026. Photo date October 21, 2026.
Glennville Rotary Club observed World Polio Day at their meeting on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, the meeting date closest to World Polio Day of October 24. Polio is a terrible disease that cripples the person, usually striking children, and often killing children within hours. If the person survives, he/she is crippled for life, and often, the remainder of a person's life to survive was spent in an iron lung. Today, polio is 99.9 percent eradicated (that started in 1979 with the Rotary's first multi-year effort in the Philippines), thanks to the supreme efforts of the Rotary Club in the mid-1980s, along with the World Health Organization (WHO). The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation joined...