February 26, 2014 at 2:38 p.m.
Kiwanis and Rotary planning special events in March
Kiwanis and Rotary planning special events in March
By Kayla Thomason-
Tickets are $40 apiece and only 500 tickets will be sold. Dinner will be hot sandwiches, with beer or soda, at 8 p.m.
There will be live and silent auctions and raffles for ticket entries.
Tickets will go in a giant barrel and every third ticket drawn will win various larger items. The second to last ticket of the night will win $1,000 and the last ticket will win $2,000.
Some of the prizes will include cash, sporting equipment, gift certificates from local businesses, jewelry from Wickersham Jewelry and Golden Karat Jewelers, a Kindle from Ripco Credit Union, an Emotion Glide kayak from Mel's Trading Post and Nicolet National Bank, a day of fishing with local guide Lee Bastian, a youth shotgun donated by Dean Bettinger and two season tickets to the Nicolet Concert Series donated by WXPR. Other prizes include a dinner for six prepared by Chef Tom at Holiday Acres, 12 pies from Golden Harvest, Country Fest tickets, a year's membership to the YMCA, a homemade fishing rod with reel donated by Carl Beauchamp, and other items.
"We also do Heads or Tails where you put in $5 and you either pick heads or tails and we flip the coin and if it's heads and you said heads then you keep standing and then it keeps going down until we get to the last two," said Romelle Vandervest, co-chair of Winter Escapes and past president of Kiwanis.
Kiwanis works with youth groups, the food pantry, Northwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing (NATH), and the YMCA's Strong Kid Campaign. Kiwanis and Winter Escapes benefit the community, according to club president Kelli Jacobi.
"It's a huge impact. We raise a lot of money and all of that goes to activities [and] community programs that help the community and the kids of our community," she said.
Over $15,000 was raised during last year's event and over the past 26 years Kiwanis has raised $300,000 to benefit area children.
Kiwanis doesn't have any big projects lined up this year but they do have smaller groups they will be helping.
Rotary Gala
The Rhinelander Rotary Club will hold its annual gala on March 22 at Holiday Acres. The event will start at 5 p.m. with a silent auction and hors d'oeuvres.
"It will be an entertaining, delicious way to support your community," said Pauline Huven, this year's gala coordinator.
There are approximately 140 tickets total, Huven said. Tickets are $40 and that includes dinner, hors d'oeuvres and access to the auctions. People pick which dinner they want when they order their ticket.
Tickets are available from any Rotarian and the final count for meal placement is March 13.
Dinner is at 6:45 p.m. in the banquet hall. The mouth-watering dishes to be served are bacon-wrapped beef loin, crab-stuffed stripped bass, and asparagus chicken roulade.
There will be live and silent auctions as well as a deck of cards draw.
Prizes will include a weekend for four in the Urban Cabin in Minneapolis, an iPod, jewelry, bucket raffles, cash raffles, and Oneida County Fair tickets, to name a few.
The list of raffle items for the gala has not yet been finalized but in the past everything from cheesecakes to gift certificates to spa and hair product gift baskets have been given away.
The fundraising chairs determine which items will go to which auction.
"[The fundraising chair] kind of break[s] everything out. If it's a good silent auction item they feel it's better in that venue then they'll put it out in the silent auctions and the majority of the items are in the silent auction," said Rhinelander Rotary Club President Tim Thorsen.
There are usually 12 to 15 larger items in the live auction. The Urban Cabin is usually one of the larger items to be raffled off in this auction.
There is a card raffle, $20 per card and the card is torn in half and whichever card's half is drawn the winner will get an iPad. The iPad is donated by O'Melia, Schiek & McEldowney law office and Walmart.
Each year the gala brings in between $12,000 and $15,000.
The majority of the Rotary Club's income comes from the gala and 20 percent of it goes toward international projects, specifically secondary education to children in Chimbote, Peru. The rest of the income goes to various local projects such as the foreign exchange program with the schools and the food pantry.
For more information, contact Rotarian Al Hofstetter at (715) 365-3600.
Kayla Breese may be reached at [email protected].
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