22nd Annual Rotary Ducky Race FUNdraiser at Shermerfest
Shout out to Lunch & Dinner Club Rotarians! Its Yellow Ducky Ticket Sales Days…
Celebrating the 22nd Annual Rotary Rubber Ducky Race coming up on September 15th at Northbrook’s Shermerfest needs to be on your calendar. It also means tickets are now on sale. Each club member is required to sell or buy a minimum of $100 in tickets! If you don’t buy them pre-race your ducks will be sad and embarrassed to not be in the race! So, use the link below and get your $100 Quack Pack (that’s 15 ducks!). Tickets paid for after the race, will not be entitled to have a duck placed in the water or eligible to win any prize.
This is also a club volunteer day! See Gary & Jodi to sign up for various tasks and shifts.
These tickets are fun to sell – a single duck is only $10, a Quack-pack of 3 for $25 and the famous “Flock” includes 15 ducks for $100. Make sure your donors know they are invited to see the ducks go into the water and race at 3 pm, as well as enjoying a full family day of fun at The 46th Annual Shermerfest The Northbrook Historical Society’s event from Noon to 4pm in the Village Green Park and inside the Northbrook History Museum located at 1776 Walters Ave.
Food and Fun for all Ages! “Classic Northbrook” CARavan and Car Show (route details and registration form coming soon) through the streets of Northbrook and on the Village Green. Popcorn, hot dogs, soup lunch, live entertainment and more!
In addition to providing an annual family tradition, the yearly Yellow Ducky Race is one of the fundraisers that supports local grants! This is an opportunity to teach children about being good citizens.
The grant committee interviews and selects recipients for funding. Grants ranging from $500 to $2,500 – totaling about $42,000 are awarded to several local non-profit organizations by the Rotary Club of Northbrook each year.
They have included North Suburban Special Recreation Assoc. Foundation; Northfield Township Food Pantry; Cancer Wellness Center; Friendship Circle of Illinois; Youth Services Glenview - Northbrook; Keshet; Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care; Northbrook Symphony Orchestra; Josselyn; Northbrook Historical Society; C.A.T.C.H.; Special Gifts Theatre; GBN Grad Night; Center For Enriched Living; BSA - Boy Scouts of America; Center on Deafness; Hunger Resource Network; Family Promise Chicago; Total Link 2 Community; and Gratitude Generation and so many more.
Want to be a part of it?
Sponsor a Quack-Pak of 3 Ducky’s for $25; one “Lucky Duck” is $10 or $100 for a flock of 15 chances to win $1000, $500, $250 in cash prizes.
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John Chambers shared his Foundation report - here are some items of interest:
• Northbrook Rotary was #1 in donations to the Foundation in District 6440 for 23-24.
• Our goals for 24-25 are: $24,000 Foundation, $8500 Polio
• There is a new way that you can donate to the foundation directly through RI with a credit card and a receipt is automatically generated (mention club for club credit).
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