Today was the day for Australia’s Biggest Barbecue, when Rotary clubs from all over Australia held simultaneous barbecues to draw attention to the work of Rotary in the community. Deloraine Rotary’s response was to set up a barbecue at Woolworths with sausages given away in return for a gold coin donation to aid a local charity.
By coincidence, the monthly Deloraine Market was on at the Showgrounds so we decided to set up a jumping castle there for the kids (again for a gold coin). It would have been good to have snags there too but the Market people didn’t want us competing with other food suppliers. Still, the castle was well received and we took nearly $80. It might have been more, but nobody was policing it and a lot of kids probably had a free ride. But there’s no problem with that.
Woolworths was very good, supplying the barbecue, gas and sauces. We bought the sausages and bread and did a roaring trade. At the end of the day, $220 had been donated and a lot of people had a cheap snack. The incoming president says she wants to have a barbecue once every two months, each time for a local charity. If we could make $200 each time, there would be some happy faces among our smaller charities.
I also took the chance while I was in Deloraine to set up an office in the Rotary Pavilion. I only need a table for my laptop and printer and I can pack the printer away at the end of each session. All looks good to this stage.
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