VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The Valley City Rotary Club along with area businesses are hosting the first annual ‘Pints for Pandemic’ in honor of World Polio Day on Saturday, October 24th.
The Rotary club has teamed up with local businesses to spread awareness as well as provide monetary assistance to Rotary International for polio eradication as well as the Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation for the COVID Relief Fund. On Saturday, October 24th you can stop at a participating business to have a beverage of your choice or a specialty item they have chosen. Each location will have a registration box for a gift certificate as well as a free will donation jar. All funds raised will be divided between Rotary International for Polio and the Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation COVID Relief fund.
Valley City Rotary Club spokeswoman Liz Nelson talked about the focus of this event.
She explained how this event will work on Saturday.
The full interview with Liz Nelson and Andrea Nelson is available below.
Participating business include:
Trestles Bar & Grill at the VC Country Club – donating $1.00 for every tap beer from 11 am to 2 pm.
Brockopp Brewing – donating $1.00 for every pint served from 5pm to 8pm
Woodland Steakhouse – donating all proceeds from the sale of 4 different 16 oz tap beers from 5pm to 9 pm
Sabirs – donating $1.00 for each of their 6 tap beers from 6pm to 8 pm
Businesses who will be donating a portion of their sales include:
The Labor Club, The Ashtabula Crossing, City Lights, The Legion and Boomers.
The Rotary Club would also like to thank the Valley City Eagles Club for a very generous donation to Rotary International for Polio.
If you can’t make it out on October 24th and would like to donate you can send your monetary donation to the Valley City Rotary Club, PO Box 501, Valley City, ND 58072.
If you have any questions regarding this event please feel free to call me, Liz Nelson at 701-845-2712.
Rotary International has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years and is closer than ever to ridding the world of this disease. Rotary has helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries and has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward eradicating the disease worldwide. There are just two countries remaining in the entire world that have cases of polio and even with a COVID pandemic, progress continues to be made to achieve a world free of the wild poliovirus.
The Valley City Rotary Club was Chartered in 1921 and has been serving the community for almost 100 years.