The 2012 Rotary Golf Tournament and Auction Idea Session with Bill Carlson
Last Week’s Program: Bill Carlson from the Morning Club was the presenter at the June 5th meeting on “The 2012 Rotary Golf Tournament and Auction Idea Session” and was assisted by Karen and Steve Frazier. In Bill’s preliminary remarks he noted that last year we raised $38,000 and after the Food Dash each club received $15,000 for their designated charities. Bill went on to say that this year’s goal is $50,000 and we hope to raise $16,000 on the auction. The Rotary Golf Tournament and Auction will be held at Burl Oaks Golf Course on Monday, August 27th.
To help get everyone involved in the auction, Bill had Karen Frazier hand out discussion sheets to every table and requested each table to have a recorder and discuss ideas for auction items and then to have each table report out their findings. Steve Frazier facilitated the table reports and the response of our Rotarians was fantastic with over 70 ideas presented and several commitments for auction items. Items committed were the donation of an English Telephone Booth by John Gray; a Time-share at Lake Carlos in Alexandria by Jim Cada, a guided Historical Tour of Big Island by Darel Leipold and Bob Humphrey, a weekend Get-Away on Madelin Island by Jim Hillis, Lunch and Tour of the Police Station with Chief Litzey for four people and a Guided Tour of the Lake Minnetonka Area in a Model A Ford with Darel Leipold. Many creative and fun suggestions were brought-up and a complete list will be given to the members the following week when the event flyers and raffle tickets are to be distributed.
Steve also announced that the Rotary Clubs of Excelsior would have a booth on the “Art on the Lake” event on Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10 and that members would be contacted by email to volunteer to do a one hour shift to sell raffle tickets, hand out flyers and talk with members of the public about Rotary.
Bill returned to thank everyone for their great participation and encouraged everyone to get involved in this year’s Rotary August Classic.