October 24 is World Polio Day and Rotary Clubs worldwide will be holding events to mark the occasion.
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The Rotary Club of Boorowa is also marking the occasion by inviting you to the Ex-Services Club in for the screening of the movie "Outbreak".
Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book The Hot Zone.
It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Dempsey.
The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States.
The evening will begin at 6pm with the screening to commence at 6:30pm with all proceeds going to the Rotary End Polio campaign.
At the conclusion of the film, a talk will be given by associate Professor Julian Cox, a microbiologist from the University of NSW.
Professor Cox has lectured based on this movie in the UNSW course "Science and the Cinema" and now takes the course on the road to help finally end Polio.
So please join Boorowa Rotary club on October 24 for what will be an enjoyable and educational night.
