North Myrtle Beach Times Serving our Community and the Grand Strand for over 50 years
By Diane Billard
The Grand Strand Rotary Clubs will present Concerts For The Cure at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 24, 2025, at The Carolina Opry and Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre to raise money for the eradication of polio and support Alzheimer’s Disease research. This date is Rotary International’s World Polio Day.
Both The Carolina Opry and Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre are offering heavily discounted ticket prices and sharing a percent of the proceeds for these two causes. The Carolina Opry is presenting the last Time Warp Show for the year and Greg Rowles Theatre is presenting the Music and Memories Show.
The Grand Strand Rotary Clubs are Andrews, Carolina Forest Sunrise, Conway, Georgetown, Little River, Little River Sunset Edition, Murrells Inlet, Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach Sunrise, Myrtle Beach Chicora, North Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach Satellite, Pawleys Island and Surfside.
End Polio Now is a campaign dedicated to polio eradication from the entire globe. Friday, October 24, is World Polio Day, which helps educate the public on the importance of this campaign. As part of the World Polio Day event, the Myrtle Beach Sky Wheel will also be displaying the wheel in red and yellow, which are the End Polio Now colors.
Today, 20 million people who would otherwise be paralyzed by polio are walking, and 1.5 million people who would otherwise have died are alive. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
A polio-free world will be a healthier world for children everywhere. Polio surveillance networks and vaccination campaigns also monitor children for other health problems, like vitamin deficiency and measles, so these problems can be addressed sooner.
The global effort to eradicate polio has already saved more than $27 billion in health care costs since 1988 and expects to save $14 billion more by 2050.
Polio eradication will be one of history’s greatest public health achievements, with polio following smallpox to become only the second human disease eradicated from the earth.
The CART Fund (Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust) is dedicated to funding cutting-edge, high-impact research to find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. In October 1995, the Sumter Rotary Club in South Carolina, led by Roger Ackerman, initiated the effort to prove that Rotarians voluntarily emptying their pockets of change for a good cause could produce significant levels of funds to support Alzheimer’s Disease research. Today, the CART Fund is supported by nearly 600 Rotary Clubs in 40 Rotary Districts, mostly on the East Coast, but also across the U.S.
Carolina Opry is offering tickets for $35 and Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre is offering a 20 percent discount. To purchase these discounted tickets, contact the venues or one of the Rotary Clubs.
One of the following discounts codes must be used:
RC10 for Andrews, RC11 for Carolina Forest Sunrise, RC 12 for Conway, RC 13 for Georgetown, RC14 for Little River and its Sunset Edition, RC15 for all Grand Strand Rotary Clubs, RC16 for Murrells Inlet, RC17 for Myrtle Beach, RC18 for Myrtle Beach Sunrise, RC19 for Myrtle Beach – Chicora, RC 20 for North Myrtle Beach and its satellite club, RC22 for Pawleys Island and RC23 for Surfside Area.
