2011 Dash for Hunger Raises $14,510.50!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 6^th Annual Cub Foods/Rotary Food Dash on Tuesday, October 4th.  All together, $14,510.50 was raised for the ICA Food Shelf!  Reporters from WCCO and KARE11 were there and both stations gave the event air time and the Lake Shore Weekly and Sun Sailor newspapers also covered the event. 

Cub Foods and Rotary each contributed $6,655.25 to match the amount of groceries gather by the dasher and the teams all contributed their $1,200 Cub gift cards winnings to the ICA Food Shelf.

Here are the team results:

·         1^st place raising $3,055.39  – Stephanie Weiss, Raffle Winner, and Excelsior Mayor Nick Ruehl

·         2^nd place raising $2,269.35 – Kathy Benhardus, ICA Board President, and Tonka Bay Mayor Bill LaBelle

·         3^rd place raising $1,330.51 – Cathy Maes, ICA Executive Director, and Police Chief Bryan Litsey

Great job everyone!  This brings the total contributions to $75,000 from this event to the ICA Food Shelf over the last six years.

Special thanks to Bruce Trippet of the morning club for organizing the event and to the dashers, Club Presidents Love and Ellison, Chris Lizee, Ross McGlasson and everyone else that made this such a successful event.

Thank you all and we hope to see you next year at the 7^th Annual Dash for Hunger!                                      (Story and photo by Steve Frazier)