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Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • 5 days ago • 2 minute read
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PAUL VAN NEST
When Rotary clubs around the world were called into action to fundraise for the newly established PolioPlus program, the Rotary Club of Kingston launched its plan under the guidance of president John Boone and committee chair and past president Reg Shadbolt. We raised $79,000 that year!
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To begin, every member was asked to donate US$100; each donation was enough to immunize 100 children in the world. The committee then developed a public fundraising campaign, and anyone donating more than $200 was given a certificate of appreciation.
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Red Mars is a love novel for a planet. There isn t a page that goes by in which you do not see an intense passion for our red neighbor from the author.
It is this love that, interestingly, provides the major conflict for this novel.
Red Mars is the first of a trilogy (followed by
Blue Mars) that outlines mankind s expansion from Earth to Mars, a step that becomes necessary as the political, economic, and physical environments on Earth begin a dangerous downward spiral.
The conflict here is between the two major perspectives on what man s role should be on the barren planet. Should we leave it as untouched as possible (the red philosophy, so named not necessarily because of Communist tendencies, but due to Mars native color), or should we terraform the planet it to make it livable for human beings (the green philosophy, for obvious reasons)?