July 30, 2008

After the many long hours put in at a rainy but successful Lumberjack Festival, I feel that I've had the chance to really bond with my fellow Rotarians.  Many members of the Deposit Rotary Club put in hours at the festival under the tent selling clams, shrimp, beer, and duck tickets for the Fifteenth Annual Duck Race in Oquaga Creek.  With 724 ducks sold this year, this was our bestselling race.  Rotary was able to earn about $2,100 for our community projects from the duck sales!  Special thanks must go out to the Village of Deposit workers who very generously cleared fallen trees from the creek just so that we could have the race.  All the Rotarians really appreciated your help!

 

Also, treasurer Nancy Zacharias' preliminary figures from the shrimp, clam, and beer sales suggest that Rotary earned something in the neighborhood of $4,567, which is a really great chunk of change to make sure our club can continue to contribute to Deposit through our various projects.  Thanks to the festival committee and to everyone who helped and everyone who made a purchase under the beer tent at the Lumberjack Festival—you helped support some great services to the community!

 

In other exciting news, Sue Elinsky was happy to report that as a result of the Feinstein challenge,—you might remember our local Food Pantry working hard to collect donations in March and April in order to win a portion of the million dollars given to hunger organizations by the Feinstein Foundation—the Deposit Food Pantry received $302 for its share of the nationwide challenge.  Again, thank you to everyone who donated food or cash during the challenge!  More Rotary news next time!