Category: Biking

After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Reaching the ultimate goal of a polio-free world presents ongoing challenges, not the least of which is a US$535 million funding gap through 2012. Of course, Rotary alone can’t fill this gap, but continued Rotarian advocacy for government support can help enormously.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.

In an effort to raise funds for Polio Plus and the non-profit foundations of The Rotary Club of Lee’s Summit, the Blue Springs Rotary Club and the Raytown Rotary Club, the three clubs have combined to create Rotary Ride: Pedaling Against Polio. We look forward to your involvement and support in helping raise money and raise awareness.

For more info check out http://kcrotaryride.com/

Lawrence Central Rotary has our 2012 kick-off meeting at the Eldridge Hotel Wednesday 1/4 and we discussed all the exciting events we are working on for 2012.  Just a few of them include:

• Expanding the RideLawrence.com
• The Lawrence Community Bike Ride scheduled for this summer
• A new bike rack design competition and installation for VanGo's facility
• Our Shelterbox fundraising drive

It's exciting to help people both locally and globally and we'd like you to be a part of it!

We meet Wednesday's at noon at the Eldridge hotel in downtown Lawrence.  

For more info on our club Download our two page brochure, just click on the picture in the right margin.

You can also go to our "Reasons to Join Rotary" Page. 

At this year's District 5710 banquet Lawrence Central Rotary was awarded the Significant Achievement Award for our community service project: Ride Lawrence.

Ride Lawrence's intention is to be a clearinghouse for bicycling information in the City of Lawrence and the Douglas County Kansas area.

On July 16th we are also sponsoring a Community Bike Ride that will offer activities for every age and skill level, including a Training Wheels Take-off area for kids wanting to learn how to ride without training wheels.

The event will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 16, at the Lawrence Rotary Arboretum. Several bicycling organizations have already volunteered to help with the event. Contact me if you would like to help or need more information (gbrenner@sunflower.com).