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Source: The Lima News, OhioOct.self storage 27--LIMA -- The Lima Rotary Club was encouraging shoppers at the Lima Mall to hit the pedals as part of its San Salvador 3000 event Saturday. The event allowed the club to highlight its latest international service effort in El Salvador, along with raising funds for future projects."The Lima Rotary Club has recently completed a school rehabilitation in La Libertad, El Salvador, which is a small town on the west coast," said Harold Bischoff, the international service committee chairman for the Lima Rotary Club. "Basically, we rehabilitated the kitchen and restrooms and put a walled playground around the school. This is a way to separate the schoolchildren from the drug gang activity in the area."The name was to highlight the area in which this year's project was held."We worked with the San Salvador Rotary Club, and that's why we called this event the San Salvador 3000," Bischoff said. "It's 3,000 miles from Lima to San Salvador, hence the name."The idea of the event was to have cyclists pedal as many miles as possible in 10 minutes, with the hopes that at the conclusion of the event, the grand total of miles cycled would add up to 3,000. Prizes were given out to the top two male and female cyclists."We had one gentleman that was here shopping and happened to be in his biking gear anyway, and he saw what we were doing and jumpe迷你倉 on a bike and rode 7.2 miles in 10 minutes," Bischoff said.With the aid of several corporate sponsors to host the event, the Rotary Club was successful in raising a sizeable amount of funds."We've raised over $8,000 and we will be able to pay for a Rotary project that we'll do this next year, and that's being finalized right now," Bischoff said.Saturday's event was also an opportunity for the Rotary Club to inform the public on its efforts to eradicate polio."Eradicating polio in the world has been the number one goal for the Rotary for many years now," Bischoff said. "There are only three countries in the world that have polio at this point. We're trying to let people know that we're this close to eradicating polio in the world.""As long as there's one country that has it where people can bring it back and someone here is not vaccinated, it can come back here, and people don't seem to understand that," Rotary member Greta Murray said. "It's not that they don't want to help people, but they think someone else is going to do it."Taking that initiative to help is a trait the Rotary club displayed Saturday."We want the community to know that we are an active and involved club that seeks to do good," Bischoff said.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Lima News (Lima, Ohio) Visit The Lima News (Lima, Ohio) at .limaohio.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage