Ada Rotary and local businesses to raise funds with sweets

OCT 22 MEDIA RELEASE__The Ada Rotary Club will join Rotary clubs around the world in observing World Polio Day this Friday, October 24, by providing Purple Pinkie Donuts at several local businesses.

These donuts, topped with purple icing, symbolize the purple ink used to mark the pinkie fingers of children who have received the polio vaccine in third world countries.

Purple Pinkie Donuts will be available at the following Ada locations on Friday:

• U.S. Bank
• Middlefield Bank
• Beatitudes
• Mercantile On Main
• Quest Federal Credit Union

The donuts will be available free of charge with donation jars placed at each location to support Rotary International’s ongoing campaign to eradicate polio worldwide. Every dollar donated will be matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Rotary launched its fight against polio in 1979, beginning with a project to immunize children in the Philippines. Since then, Rotary and its partners have helped reduce global polio cases by over 99%, preventing millions of children from paralysis and death.

“Even though polio remains endemic in only two countries, the fight isn’t over,” said Josh Deans, President of the Ada Rotary Club. “Through small community efforts like this, we can help ensure that every child, everywhere, is protected from this disease forever.”

For more information about Rotary’s global effort to end polio or to donate, visit www.endpolio.org/