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PHOTO: Michele Prince, KVCAP chief operating officer and Jeff Jolicoeur, Rotary Club of Waterville president. (Submitted photo)
WATERVILLE — The first Rotary Club of Waterville Dine Around Town Raffle achieved its goal of raising money for books for local kids as well as supporting local restaurants, organizers said.
The goal of the raffle program was to support local restaurants as well as to raise money to buy books for the Kennebec Valley Community Action Community Days program (generally held in June).
With the addition of a Rotary District grant and money from ticket sales, the Dine Around Town Raffle proceeds will allow Rotary to buy more than $3,950 in books through The Children’s Book Cellar. Books purchased through the raffle will be distributed by KVCAP, Educare Central Maine, and Waterville Creates!
“KVCAP’s Community Celebration event is a fun, free, and enriching experience for families,” said KVCAP CEO Suzanne Walsh” These books will add an exciting educational element to the event. We are very grateful to the Waterville Noontime Rotary for supporting KVCAP and the families in our community, enhancing the literacy development of young children as well as supporting the Children’s Book Cellar, a valuable local business.”
Rotary Club of Waterville President Jeff Jolicoeur said, “Two of Rotary’s primary areas of focus are basic literacy and economic development. During this pandemic, children from low-income families and local businesses have been particularly vulnerable. This raffle allowed the Rotary to award prizes to local restaurants, to purchase books from a local business and to get the books into the hands of those most in need.”
He added, “Thanks to generous donations from Rotary Club of Waterville members, nearly $1,400 in gift certificates were purchased as prizes for the raffle, all to be used in local restaurants to help support them through these unprecedented circumstances.”
Prize winners for the raffle were drawn on Nov. 30. They are: First prize — $500 collection of gift certificates, Alisha Gillespie; Second prize — $250 collection of gift certificates, Linda Titus; five third prizes of a collection of cards valued at $100 — Ted Helberg (two); Johnna Bowen; Tammy Oakes; Buffy Higgins.
