A Celebration of Our Heroes

 

Thursday, November 11 will be our annual Rotary Foundation event “A Celebration of Our Heroes” starting at 5:30 PM at the Danversport. The evening will include a social hour, silent auction, dinner, and Paul Harris Fellowship (PHF) presentations.

 

The program for the evening is the following:

05:00             Silent Auction Item drop-off opens
05:30             Registration Opens & Silent Auction Start & Cocktail Hour
06:30             People are asked to enter ballroom and be seated
06:45             Color Guard & National Anthem + Pledge of Allegiance + 4-Way
                            Test + Moment of Thoughtfulness related to Foundation
06:50             District Governor Remarks
07:00             Dinner is served
07:25              Silent Auction Closes
07:30             District Rotary Foundation Chair Remarks
07:40             Start of Heroes Presentations
08:30             District Governor Closing Remarks
08:40             Evening concludes; silent auction items being picked up
                             and paid for at check-out table

All Rotary Club have been invited to nominate a hero (or two) from their community to present them with a PHF recognition at the event. Candidates could be doctors, nurses, teachers, crossing guards, emergency services personnel, veterans, or anyone else whom the Rotary Club believes to be a community hero. The online nomination form has been sent to Club Presidents earlier this summer, and the nomination deadline is October 11th.

We would also like to ask all Rotary Clubs to start thinking about silent auction items: we would ideally like to see items with a minimum value of $100, so that people will be eager to bid high! All monies raised in the silent auction will directly go to The Rotary Foundation! Details about how to submit the silent auction items will be announced in September.

 

 

There will be a program book for the event that will contain the photo and bio for each hero as well as ads from event sponsors and local businesses to help reduce the cost of the event and to support our foundation fund-raising efforts. Sponsorship and program book ad details are now available, and we hope that many of you who run businesses in our communities will consider putting in an ad for your business to help support this event. Please click here to learn more about sponsorship and ad options.