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Earlier this year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a grant to Rotary International for $100 million to eradicate polio. The thousands of Rotary clubs around the world responded with gratitude –  and a challenge to each member to collectively match that sum. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi is part of that effort. Tehachapi Rotary Club president Rick Stein invited their foundation representative to address his members with the information. “People ask me, ‘what does Rotary do,’?” stated Stein, “and I explain how back in the 60s and 70s that it was Rotary that lead the “K.O. Polio” campaign here in the United States. Polio still exists, crippling especially young children, in less than a half a dozen third world countries, and this grant is meant to finish the job.” “Then I usually get the ‘what have you done for me lately or locally?’ question, and I invite that person to come to a...
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