There will be a Hershey Rotary Club Board Meeting this Friday at 7:30 AM. All Hershey Rotary Club members are welcome. The meeting will be held at Kinderhaus on the Milton Hershey School campus. The address is 635 Meadow Lane, directly across Route #322 from Founders Hall.
 
There are two important District events in the month of November: 
 
The first is District Training Day on November 4th. Attendees will rotate between a Membership Seminar, Public Image Seminar and Grant Training Seminar. If your Club wants to complete a Grant during the 2018-19 Rotary year, someone will need to attend so your club will be qualified. The training will be held at the Radisson Hotel (1150 Camp Hill Bypass, Camp Hill) from 7:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Cost is $50 per Rotarian and includes a hot buffet breakfast and luncheon. Follow this link to register! http://rotary7390.org/event/membership--public-image---foundation-seminars/. Registration deadline is October 27. The Hershey Rotary Club will pay for members who attend this special training opportunity.
 
The second event is the Rotary Foundation dinner on Wednesday, November 15th. This year’s theme is “Countdown to History” as we are nearing the eradication of Polio. The dinner will be held at the Hershey Lodge (325 University Drive, Hershey). Cocktail hour from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. with dinner and the program from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The speaker will be Rotarian John Nanni who is a Polio survivor. The cost is $65 per person. You can follow this link to register: http://rotary7390.org/event/rotary-foundation-dinner-1/. Registration deadline is November 10.
 
World Polio Day is almost here!  It’s Tuesday, October 24, 2017.  This will truly be a day to celebrate how far we’ve come, as an organization, to eradicating the 2nd disease in human history.  Smallpox was the first to be eradicated.  Rotary began the fight to end polio in 1979 when over 350,000 cases were known in 125 countries worldwide.  Thirty eight years later, there were only 11 new cases tracked globally in 2017 down from 25 the previous year: 6 in Afghanistan; 5 in Pakistan; and 0 reported cases in Nigeria.