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Past District Governor Doug Taylor is the District-5100 Chairman for Rotary’s End-Polio efforts. We are now beyond “so close” and working for the complete elimination of polio from the planet. Sure to be an informative morning.

Serving with many others as we help the Living History Farms at Pomeroy.

Tom Iberle, Executive Director, & Duane Sich (Director Emeritus) will give us info on Friends of the Carpenter and it’s mission. Sure to be on the ticket is an opportunity to sign up for their upcoming dinner/auction event on October 20th. More info at http://friendsofthecarpenter.org.

Rick Kemmer will tell us more about Strong Harvest and how it works in partnership with developing-world communities to provide attainable, sustainable, and generational solutions to the issues of malnutrition, unsafe drinking water, and lack of economic opportunity.

Contact Nikki Gaither of the East Portland Rotary Club for tickets. (See District-5100 website for more info.)

Joan will be speaking in Eastern Oregon and Salem areas prior to her visit to Portland. A frequent speaker at PETS, Joan brings a wealth of information about polio and it’s effects. Joan has been invited by our District-5100 in advance of World Polio Day on October 24.

Kraig Holdahl, the West Coast distributor of the action track Chair all-terrain vehicle will be informing us of his organization, and he will be bringing two or possibly three with him for a hands-on demonstration!

An evening social event for Lewis River Rotarians and friends.

Lewis River Rotarians who journeyed to Tanzania in September will give us an update and presentation of the Red Sweater Project and their travels in the Serengetti. Come experience some of the excitement, service, and learning that makes Rotary a world-wide SERVICE organization.