Rotary Club of Plymouth A.M.

On Saturday, September 12, 2009 the Spaghetti Dinner tent will be operating at the N.E. Corner of Kellogg Park.  You can stay and enjoy your dinner with music at the "Italian Street Cafe" in the Park or it will be packaged for you to carry out.  In case of nasty weather, drive up to-go service will be available at the corner of Ann Arbor Trail and Union. 

During the event, tickets will be available at the Fall Festival Ticket Booth located at Main and Penniman.  Rotarians will be on hand to "Paint Your Pinkie Pink" for a contribution of $5 to help Rotary International eradicate polio worldwide.  In 1985, when Rotary set out to wipe out the deadly scourge of polio, an average 350,000 new cases were diagnosed each year.  Today, thanks in large part to the efforts of Rotary Clubs Worldwide, polio is just a memory here in the U.S.A.

In 2008, less than 200 new cases were diagnosed worldwide.  Rotary and the World Health Organization feel that until the last case is certified, this highly infectious disease remains a danger.  Spurred on by a $355 Million Challenge Matching Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, every Rotary Club around the world is doing its part to raise $200 million dollars over the next two years to help wipe out this disease once and for all.  Getting your little finger painted pink at the Fall Festival will signify to all that you were an important part of this last great push!

 Founded in 1996, The Rotary Club of Plymouth AM is one of Plymouth's youngest service clubs.  The group focuses much of its local attention, and the majority of its fundraising efforts, on assistance programs for seniors and for youth and children in the Plymouth-Canton Community - especially those with physical limitations and other challenges.  Early in their existence the AM Rotary adopted the 200+ special needs youngsters and their teachers at Tanger School, as the club's ongoing beneficiaries.  Working in collaboration with Tanger personnel and parents, representatives from the school system and playscape architect Carey Baker, the AM Rotarians are daring to dream the possibility of constructing a multi-use, multi-generational "Boundless Playgrounds" type facility on the idle land surrounding the Tanger school building.