Everyone, grab your bibs: the Rotary club’s Lobsterfest is coming to town again this year.
On Sept. 10, seafood lovers are invited to happy hour, dinner, a silent auction and dancing to local band Mad Dog 20/20 post-dinner in support of the Grand Forks Rotary Club.
This will be the third year for the popular fundraiser, bringing fresh Atlantic lobster to a dinner hosted at Christina Lake. The fundraiser typically raises over $10,000 when all tickets sell out (as they have been the past two years) between profits and raffle ticket sales.
In conjuction with Lobsterfest, the group is also raffling off two Westjet plane tickets to any destination the airline flies. The group applies for and receieved the prize based on the merit of their charitable project.
For the last two years, the fundraisers benefited the installation of the Rotary Spray Park in City Park, which opened earlier this summer.
This year’s Lobsterfest is a fundraiser for this year’s Rotary project, the playground at the new Women’s Transition Home. The province, city and Boundary Women’s Coalition recently announced over $1 million in funding for the home, which aides women fleeing violence. Rotary will be building the on-site playground.
Tickets for the event have now finished selling in the interest of ordering enough lobster, however Rotary encourages anyone who missed out on the tickets to purchase WestJet raffle tickets.
