Finally a winning double header week end for Rotary, after a long tornado warning induced delay, the Playhouse winning ticket was drawn and the playhouse delivered all within a 24 hour period.

 

The Raffle ticket drawing happened under sunny skies and seemingly late brusque autumn conditions at the Dexter Apple Daze celebration.  Paul Cousins was our masters of ceremony and spoke to the shivering but plentiful crowd a about the work Rotary does for the greater Dexter Community including our DHS Scholarship program, our community garden efforts delivered to Faith in Action, other Faith in Action Program support, Ronald McDonald dinners, supporting library and community events, and numerous other social safety net activities.  The winning ticket was drawn by a very young lady randomly  picked from the assembled crowd.  The winning ticket belonged to Renee and Glen Wiczorek of Dexter.

 

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 Paul Cousins on Rotary Work  The winning ticket being drawn

 

 The second, part of the double header was the quickly arranged delivery of the playhouse to the Wiczoreks. The delivery was  scheduled for late Sunday afternoon. The Rotary delivery crew co Jim Brady, Jeff Brown, Paul Cousins, Steve Feinman and Karl Fink assembled at 4 PM to make the delivery.   As the drive to the delivery got underway, Glen Wiczorek and his father were frantically clearing underbrush and vegetation from the playhouse’s future home.  Lindsey Wiczorek the soon to be playhouse occupant saw her dad and granddad working but wasn’t sure what the sudden flurry of activity was about.  It wasn’t until Jim Brady’s truck with the trailer pulled into her back yard that Lindsey’s  mom told her that they won the playhouse.

 

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  Playhouse on trailer          Lindsey with Rotary delivery crew          Wiczorek family

 

The installation went fairly easily due to Jim Brady’s pin point trailer handling skills and the crew’s ability to avoid injury at all costs.