Rotary award winners in raffle
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Those present at Center State Bank Tuesday morning for the drawing of the winners of the raffle the district Rotary Clubs held in helping to get dictionaries for fifth grade students were, from left: Bob Gates from Rotary New Tampa Evening, George Robertson-Burnett from Rotary Club of Bartow, Eric Hoyer from Lakeland-Christian Rotary, Anita Stasiak from Rotary Club of Bartow, Bob Arnold from Winter Haven Rotary, Ken Kitto from Winter Haven Rotary and Carol Robertson-Burnett
from Rotary Club of Bartow.
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Carol Roberts Burnett reaches into the bowl for a name for winning one of the raffle prizes Tuesday at Center State Bank. She handed the ticket to Anita Stasiak, left, who reads the name. With them at the drawing is Bob Arnold with the Winter Haven Rotary and Ken Kitto also from the Winter Haven Rotary.
More than 2,000 fifth-graders in four counties got dictionaries from area Rotary Clubs and a Wauchula woman got an early Christmas present — or money to spend on Christmas — as she won $1,000 from a raffle drawing the clubs held Tuesday from among those who helped sponsor the yearly drive.
Rotary Clubs in Polk, Highlands, Hardee and Hillsborough counties hold the drive yearly and provide dictionaries to fifth- graders in all those counties. In the drive for this last year, the clubs raised $42,000 for the dictionaries. The last delivery of the dictionaries were delivered to Frostproof schools this week.
