Service Above Self
Wenatchee, WA 98801
United States of America
 | Thank you to members of Rotary Club of Wenatchee Confluence and members of the Wenatchee Valley College Basketball Team for helping to pack food bags for Mission View Elementary School as part of the Packing Friendship Program! This Program is a collaboration between local churches and service organizations to provide food to students at schools within the Wenatchee and Eastmont School Districts. Food is provided to students every week of the school year. |
Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”
An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year.
The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic.
Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley.
