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8 www.DesertMessenger.com April 16, 2014 Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com /DesertMessengerNews Follow on Twitter @DesertMessenger @QuartzsiteRain IRONWOOD OUTPOST, LLC 225 North Central Quartzsite, AZ 85359-4750 Office: 928-927-8543 Fax: 928-550-7020 Email: ironwoodoutpost@yahoo.com Conveniently located in the Horizon Community Bank parking lot Ironwood Outpost, LLC offers a variety of services including: PRIVATE MAIL BOX Individual mail box (includes forwarding for annual box holders) MAIL PICKUP Full time residents with keys-we will pick up and forward your mail. NOTARY There are two notaries on staff to service our walk-in customers. UPS/FEDEX We ship UPS/FedEx & allow your packages to be delivered to our address. OFFICE SERVICES Copies, fax (incoming and outgoing), email retrieval, etc. COME VISIT US. WE WILL DO ALL WE CAN TO MAKE YOUR STAY IN QUARTZSITE THIS SEASON HASSLE FREE! Contributed by: Violet Kiss We mostly talk about our community service here in Quartzsite, as we should. Today, though, we're talking about our most important inter- national humanitarian project, the worldwide eradication of polio. In 1985, more than 1,000 people (mostly children) PER DAY were crippled or killed by this disease. There were more than 125 coun- tries affected. That year Rotary International began their PolioPlus campaign to im- munize the world's chil- dren. Then in 1988 when the World Health Organiza- tion resolved to eradicate the disease that has crip- pled people for 5,000 years, Rotary jumped in as a major partner. All partners from all Rotarians to UNI- CEF, WHO, the US Center for Dis- ease Control and lately the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lead all initiatives for a polio-free planet. In January of this year, India has proclaimed being polio-free for 3 years now. This formal declaration extends to all of Southeast Asia (which includes 25% of the world's population) as being polio-free. This is huge since only 5 years ago India represented nearly half of all polio cases worldwide! Rotary's goal is worldwide eradi- cation of polio by 2018. There are only THREE countries left in our entire world with polio activity: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Reported polio cases have dropped 99% from 350,000 cases per year in 1988 to just 700 cases a year today. We all are on the last steps of eradicating the wild poliovirus. That last 1% is so diffi cult to stop since this disease is in the hardest areas to reach. Governments, politics, wars, make it also hard to work these areas. As Bill Gates has said, "Rotary con- tinues to be the heart and soul of polio eradication, supporting the program directly while also tak- ing on a larger role in encouraging other donors to give more." On that note, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have extended their Rotary Doings Senior Citizens Center updates DID YOU KNOW.....? That the Quartzsite Senior Citizens Center is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM That lunch is served for a donation of $ 3.50 That you don't have to be a member to join us for lunch That a membership is only $ 5:00 a year That a membership gives you access to WI-FI That there are games. books, crafts, jigsaw puzzles waiting for you or That you are free to sit and gab or just sit in our air conditioned building That the Town Van can deliver you to the door That more information is just a phone call away 927-6496 That we are waiting to see you, soon we hope. The Senior Center is located at 40 Moon Mountain, Quartzsite. For more information call 928-927-6496. Submitted by Audrey Berger donations to Rotary International for "EndPolioNow". Their new pledge covers 2013 through 2018: for every $1 donated as direct sup- port to EndPolioNow, the Gates Foundation will match 2 to 1 (up to $35 Million per year)! Please note the picture shown. This is our billboard on I-95 southbound, on the left side right after Kuehn Street. It's been around for a while and it is in the middle of our Quartzsite Rotary's ADOT dedicated road. We are proud Rotary placed that billboard in our area. For the latest news on this topic, please visit: endpolionow.org. You can always reach us as well: quartzsite_rotary@nethere.com. We have great lunch menus, serving at 12 noon sharp! Suggested donation is only $3.50. There's cards, books, games, puzzles, pool table, Wi-Fi available. Community Services, Volunteers Needed! Come join the fun at Quartzsite SENIOR Center 40 Moon Mountain Ave. For more information call 928-927-6496 Senior Center open all year! Monday - Friday, 9am – 3pm

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