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committed to polio eradication, the organization
has contributed more than $1.5 billion and
countless volunteer hours to immunize children
against the disease. In that time, the number of
polio cases has dropped 99.9 percent, and only
three countries remain where the virus has
never been stopped: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and
Pakistan. While World Polio Day, Oct. 24, serves
as an important opportunity to remind the world
of the need to finish the job, raising money and
awareness is a year-round effort for many.
On July 10, 10 members from Toronto Skyline
and surrounding Rotary clubs plunged earth-
ward in their own tandem skydive, raising sever-
al thousand dollars for polio eradication.
Jackson said he had a sure-fire way to recruit
Bares, Eisen and Rediske.
“I would go up to people and tell them we
were skydiving for polio and give them two
options,” says Jackson. “I would tell them I was
paying $180 out of my own pocket to jump, so if
you are not going to jump, you have to pay $180.
Most people would say, 'OK, you got it.' “
The budget to see zero cases of polio for three
years, the requirement to have the world certi- Gayle and Howard Rediske.l eft, were on hand to support daughter Mackenzie in her skydive for polio funding along with
fied as polio free, is $1.5 billion. Rotary had Wayne Rotary Club members Linda Gable, Pat Rice and Charlotte Tarwacki. Photo by Dave Willett
pledged $50 million a year for the next three
years and The Gates Foundation has pledged to
match the Rotary donations up to $50 million a
year for the next three years, or 33 percent of the
total budget, National governments and public
health organizations from around the world
have pledged the balance of the costs.

Wayne State University Rotary Rotaract members including Mukhi Devanker from Canton Township were on hand to cheer
the skydiving Rotary Club members on. Photo by Dave Willett
Corridor Michigan Department of Transportation,
the American Center for Mobility and the
University of Michigan. Along with Ford,
FROM PAGE 1 General Motors Co., Argo AI, Arrival,
BMW AG, Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor
structure projects and technology compa- Corp., TuSimple and Waymo LLC repre-
nies with innovations that enable and sentatives will comprise an advisory com-
apply to those projects,” according to its mittee to help develop standards that
website. Cavnue, which was selected by don't favor one automaker over another.
the state following a competitive bidding Ford is in the middle of a $750 million
process, would provide up-front financing renovation of the Michigan Central Depot
and would then seek to recoup that and surrounding buildings in the
investment under a revenue-sharing Corktown neighborhood and this project
structure. Other partners in the develop- was part of the initial discussions and
ment include Ford Motor Co., The negotiations regarding that project.