The Rotary Club of Sidney hosted its annual White Elephant dinner and fundraiser on November 3rd. This highly successful evening brought in over $3800.00 directed and the Rotary Foundation and Polio Plus. There were Rotarians from 4 peninsula clubs: Sidney, Sidney by the Sea, Brentwood Bay and Royal Oak. Many of these Rotarians have been coming for years, as had some of the auction items.
Deb Bartlet, a Rotarian from the Sidney Club and her daughter were lucky enough to go home with the famous lamp this year. The lamp has been at auction every year for as long as most members can remember and one glimpse of this vintage piece will tell you why.
Each November Rotarians from all over the Saanich Peninsula gather together bringing brightly wrapped gifts and open wallets to Glenmeadows Golf and Country Club, for a night of fellowship and fun. With each package is a neatly written poem hinting at the contents inside. After a delicious dinner, the auctioneer and his lovely assistant step forward, the assistant reads each poem and with that the bidding begins.
This year there were 48 items up for bidding and most went for over $60 and many over $150, with all of the moneys going the Rotary Foundation or Polio Plus as the bidder choose. The 50/50 auction was donated by its winner in full to the Foundation adding an additional $210.00 to the total.
I think it is so great that four clubs were able to work together for this fundraiser. It is in keeping with this year's RI President's theme of "Building Communities." No better place to start than building our local Rotary community.
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