The Rotary Flame came to Woodstock for one of it's first Canadian stops.
WOODSTOCK - A symbol of the work done by Rotary international to eradicate polio was on display in Woodstock.
The Rotary Flame came into town on Monday.
Last year alone over $200 000 was raised by Rotary Clubs in this district for polio.
Ellen Hutchinson was selected to carry the torch into the Rotary meeting at the Quality Hotel and Suites. She is one of five people from Oxford County who contacted polio in the 1950's and is one of the few polio survivors left in Canada. Hutchinson tells Heart FM she contracted the disease when she was only three years old and spent most of her life struggling to walk and was constrained to crutches as a child. Then in her 20's she had a procedure done that now confines her to a wheel chair. Hutchinson says she was extremely honoured to carry the torch for the Rotary Club and is amazed at the work done worldwide to eliminate polio.
Since Rotary began the Polio Education Campaign back in 1984 they have raised millions of dollars for the disease which is now eradicated in almost every country in the world. Only Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan still have polio. The Rotary Flame started last year after India was declared polio free and has made stops in Australia, Europe, South America and now Woodstock.

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