Posted by Terry Rezendes Curran on Feb 13, 2022
Fellow Rotarians…  I hope that you and your club are planning to join us on April 2nd in Gloucester for the Polar Plunge.  As in year’s past it would be wonderful if you would bring your club banners to hang over the railings on the back of the motor inn.  We have revised the registration sheet so that you can add all who are coming to cheer you on.  So, if you are the only member of your club plunging, but you are bringing 5 members/friends/family with you, please go back into the following link and re-register your club.  Clubs can register their participation by clicking here.
 
Donations to this year’s Polar Plunge are being directly made through the donate button in MyRotary or through your club’s Foundation Chair.  Once a club has donated a minimum of $1500 it qualifies them to receive the End Polio Now Certificate from Rotary International.   Last year only four clubs in our district reached that benchmark.  I’m pleased to say that the top four clubs below have already surpassed that level.  Let’s try to get our District back to more participation throughout the clubs.  The list below includes all donations made to PolioPlus from July 1, 2021, as of February 12, 2022.  Year to date we have raised $27,950.01 of our $100,000 goal.  There are 20 clubs in the district who have not started making their donations to Polio through MyRotary.  We cannot count donations if your club doesn’t record them.
 
1.  Marblehead
2.  Rockport
3.  Arlington
4.  Reading
5.  Lynn
6.  Chelsea
7.  Wakefield
8.  Parkway, Swampscott, Amesbury and Gloucester are tied