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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-04 Vail Rotary Club 50 Year Anniversary Proclamation No. 4 Series of 2020 50th Anniversary of the Vail Rotary Club WHEREAS, Rotary International is a world-wide service organization founded in Chicago in 1905, and now consisting of more than 1.2 million professional and business leader members, in over 33,000 clubs around the world; WHEREAS encourage high ethical standards, and promote good will and peace in their local community and the world; WHEREAS, Rotary in 1985 launched PolioPlus and spearheaded the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which today includes the World Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the goal of immunizing all children of the world against polio; and has contributed more than $1.7 billion and countless volunteer hours to help immunize more than two billion children against polio in 122 countries; WHEREAS, Vail Rotary Club, fo -profit service organization; WHEREAS, the Vail Rotary Club annually provides college scholarships for Eagle County youth, significant financial grants to local causes and organizations, and volunteers throughout our community and internationally; WHEREAS, the Vail Rotary Club hosts the iconic Rotary Rubber Duck Race in Gore Creek in the Town of Vail annually each Labor Day weekend to raise funds for the betterment of the Vail Valley; and WHEREAS, the Vail Rotary Club recently donated $50,000 in honor of their 50th Anniversary to support our local community during this Covid19 crisis; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED BY Mayor Dave Chapin and the Vail Town Council, call upon all citizens of Vail to recognize and celebrate the 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the VAIL ROTARY CLUB and congratulate all our local Rotarians for their "Service Above Self" on their Golden Anniversary. Dated this 16th day of June 2020 Vail Town Council Attest: ___________________________ Dave Chapin, Mayor Tammy Nagel, Town Clerk