Mt. Pleasant Noon Rotary to hold rummage sale Aug. 29

The Mt. Pleasant Noon Rotary service organization will be participating in the Mt. Pleasant city-wide garage and shopping sales Aug. 27-29. The free will donation rummage sale will be held for one day only on Saturday, Aug. 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Saunders Park Log Cabin in Mt. Pleasant. Everything is free will donation and some items may be marked with a suggested donation price. All funds raised will go to supporting Polio Plus – a Rotary Foundation committed to polio eradication.

As with every service organization, Noon Rotary's regular fundraisers were cancelled due to the pandemic so this rummage sale is to recoup its losses and continue to support causes important to Rotary.

'We're trying something new,” stated a news release from the group. 'So please join us in the fight to end polio, help us save lives and give a child a chance at a prosperous future by shopping at our free will donation Rotarian Rummage Sale on Aug. 29.”

If you have items you'd like to donate to Rotary for our rummage sale, contact Kadie Johannson at sales@kilj.com or (319) 721-2729.

Rotary, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988. Since starting the fight against polio, the group has reduced the number of polio cases by 99.9 percent and reached more than 2.5 billion children with the vaccine.

'There are fewer polio cases today than ever before, but we will not stop until we reach zero,” stated the news release. 'If polio is not eradicated, hundreds of thousands of children could be paralyzed. Global health care costs would rise dramatically, and many children's quality of life would be drastically diminished.”