Hook Me Up at Frank Lumber Delivery Store and drink beer to eradicate polio

Hook Me Up
Photo by David Ellison

2013 NORTH CITY JAZZ WALK

Tuesday, August 13, 7-10pm

Hook Me Up to play at the

Frank Lumber Delivery Store

Back by popular demand – this hit band from last year is back. For those who like to sit back with a libation while taking in the music, come and have a glass of wine or beer at the Rain City Rotary Beer and Wine Garden (must have an entry bracelet) and listen to this great group – where jazz meets pop and bebop.

The venue is being sponsored by the Lancaster Law Firm and the Rain City Rotary, and the Beer and Wine Garden is to raise money for Stop Polio Now. 

Rotary International’s PolioPlus Program and Rain City Rotary of Shoreline

“In 1985 there were more than 125 polio endemic countries. The disease killed or crippled more than 1,000 people a day, most of them children. Rotary launched PolioPlus that year, a multi-million dollar campaign to immunize the world’s children against polio. 

In 1988 Rotary joined with the World Health Organization to wipe out polio. Since then, other partners have joined the Rotary and WHO in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: UNICEF, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more recently the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Reported polio cases have dropped 99 percent. Polio remains endemic to only three countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The world is on the threshold of eradicating the wild poliovirus. The last 1 percent of polio cases are the most difficult to prevent because the virus lingers in some of the most hardest-to-reach areas of the world. Rotary and its partners are “this close” to making polio the second human disease, after smallpox, to be eradicated.” (from the Rotary International brochure 940-EN 812). More information on PolioPlus. 

Since Rain City Rotary formed in 2008, members have contributed to the global polio eradication effort. This will be the 4th year in a row that Rain City Rotary has hosted the Beer and Wine Garden at the Jazz Walk. All proceeds from the sale of beer and wine go directly to PolioPlus.

Donna Eggen administering oral polio vaccine
in Africa

In 2007, member Kim Lancaster travelled to Ethiopia with a group of local Rotarians to administer the oral polio vaccine. Donna Eggen made the same trip in 2009. Rotarians go “hut to hut” with local health workers to help administer the vaccine. Kim and Donna have been forever changed by their experiences with the wonderful people of Ethiopia.

Rain City Rotary meets most Thursday evenings either at Shoreline City Hall or a local restaurant. One Saturday a month, members join in doing a local service project such as serving meals to Tent City 3, painting and clean-up at Pathways for Women shelter in Lynnwood. To learn more, visit the RCR website.

More information on Jazz Walk.