Newtown Rotarians Hosting Beer Release Party To Eradicate Polio

WARWICK TOWNSHIP, PA —The public is invited to attend an exclusive "Beer Release Party" this week at the Warwick Brewery, 800 Almshouse Road, Jamison.

The Newtown Rotary Club is scheduled to release an exclusive beer for the benefit of Rotary International's mission to eradicate polio around the world.

"Come out and bring your friends to have a great time, purchase (and drink) some beer and raise funds for a really important cause," the Rotarians said.

There will be four-packs of the exclusive beer to go and of course you can drink draft beer on site.

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years with a goal of ridding the world of the disease.

As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotarians have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since its first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.

Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.

Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.