The Rotary Penny Press: Pennies for Polio

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Pennies for Polio

Pennies for Polio. The Rotary clubs in District 5040 continue to support the Pennies for Polio challenge from the Rotary Club of Vancouver Quadra to collect PennyWeights to match the weight of DG Penny.

The Rotary Club of Richmond presented me with 129 pounds or 58.5 kg of coins and bills. The bills and loonies and toonies added up to $408 for the eradication of polio. We still have to count the majority of that weight of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters! Thank you to all the Rotarians for their wonderful response to the Polio challenge in District 5040.

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Meet DG Penny

Penny Offer is the Governor of District 5040 for 2010-11. She served as Assistant Governor for the clubs in Vancouver from 2005 to 2008. She was chair of the District 5040 Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) committee and a RLI training leader.

Penny is a member of the RC of Vancouver Chinatown. She has served on a variety of district committees. In 2009 she was invited to serve on a panel at the RI Convention in Birmingham on strategic planning. She is a charter member of the Bequest Society, member of the Paul Harris Society and a major donor for The Rotary Foundation.

She was a Rotary Foundation volunteer in the Philippines delivering humanitarian aid and a volunteer on a Rotaplast mission to Chengde, China assisting a medical team with surgery for children with cleft lips and palates.

Penny's classification is Health Care Administration. She retired in 1998 as a senior health care administrator. She has a BA, MSW & MA.