Gala to raise money for orphans, among other Rotary projects
The McMinnville Breakfast Rotary Club will holding its eighth annual McMinnville Breakfast Rotary Charity Gala on April 30, 2005 from 7-10 p.m. at the McMinnville Country Club. Tickets are $100 per couple and all proceeds will go to benefit the club’s Romanian Orphanage Project, Habitat for Humanity and the McMinnville Greenway Overlook Project.
For ticket information, or to donate an item for the silent auction, contact Dave Wideman at 473-9615, or Rotary member Robert Newman.
The event will feature a wonderful meal, dancing, with music in several styles, including big band and swing, from the South Jackson Street Band, and a silent auction with a variety of great items to bid on for everyone at the gala. Dress will be coat and tie, or formal if preferred.
With the Romanian Orphanage Project, Breakfast Rotary provides about one-half the support for an orphanage that cares for 12 children, ages 2-15.
For Habitat for Humanity the Breakfast and Noon clubs provide the windows and doors, materials and labor, for the Habitat houses built in McMinnville.
The Barren Fork Dam Overlook Project is an overlook, sitting area, and gathering place at the site of the old generator building on the Barren Fork dam site on the McMinnville Greenway. This project involved many hours of volunteer work and material donations from Rotarians and local businesses.
Bratcher says the gala will be a treat for everyone involved. “It’s a fun evening,” Bratcher said, “and benefits a lot of worthy projects.”