Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis held its seventh annual Children’s Holiday Craft Fair in a creative, drive-through fashion on December 5 doubling the number of kids that were provided a Christmas tunnel complete with Santa and Holiday displays. More than 1,000 craft kits and goodie bags were distributed to area children. DGE Gerry Kosanovic was there to provide Holiday music and take pictures. And so was the local paper as the event drew full-page community coverage in the Corvallis Gazette-Times.
In the week following the Fair, club members were “Holidazed” by a special committee of tireless elves from the club. Rotarians were invaded by inflatable Wranglers who placed large holiday snowmen, dinosaurs and St. Nicholas inflatables in front of Rotarians homes in an effort to raise dollars for the Rotary Foundation. By week’s end more than $10,000 had been raised as Rotarians paid out donations to have the inflatable moved to their favorite Rotarians front lawns.
We also learned about Unity Shelters of Corvallis from RCGC Rotarian Jim Swinyard, who is helping to build microshelters for homeless. Several area contractors, including our Rotary PE Dave Henderer, are helping to build these microshelters. This is a City of Corvallis, Church, and Contractor project with local Rotarians in the lead.
Here’s the link https://www.unityshelter.org/sp-microshelters.html.
Rotary Club of Greater Corvallis held its seventh annual Children’s Holiday Craft Fair in a creative, drive-through fashion on December 5 doubling the number of kids that were provided a Christmas tunnel complete with Santa and Holiday displays. More than 1,000 craft kits and goodie bags were distributed to area children. DGE Gerry Kosanovic was there to provide Holiday music and take pictures. And so was the local paper as the event drew full-page community coverage in the Corvallis Gazette-Times.
In the week following the Fair, club members were “Holidazed” by a special committee of tireless elves from the club. Rotarians were invaded by inflatable Wranglers who placed large holiday snowmen, dinosaurs and St. Nicholas inflatables in front of Rotarians homes in an effort to raise dollars for the Rotary Foundation. By week’s end more than $10,000 had been raised as Rotarians paid out donations to have the inflatable moved to their favorite Rotarians front lawns.
We also learned about Unity Shelters of Corvallis from RCGC Rotarian Jim Swinyard, who is helping to build microshelters for homeless. Several area contractors, including our Rotary PE Dave Henderer, are helping to build these microshelters. This is a City of Corvallis, Church, and Contractor project with local Rotarians in the lead.
Here’s the link https://www.unityshelter.org/sp-microshelters.html.