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Page 8 NEWFOUNDLAKELIFE.COM August 2024 Celebrate The Bristol Rotary Club's Penny Sale
By: BRittany amalfi
The Bristol Rotary Club Penny Sale will be held on Au- gust 8th at Newfound Regional High School in Bristol, so start feeling lucky! With tickets only being one dollar, one ticket gives you a hundred chances to win some awesome prizes from local businesses. The penny sale con- sists of three rounds: red, white, and blue, and each round has one hundred prizes. When your ticket is called and you claim your winnings, someone will come out and run your prize to you, and the round will continue. Since there will be three rounds on top of a silent auction, the Rotary Club has about three hundred amazing prizes to give away on this fun-filled night! People are welcome to write their bids on those prizes for the silent auction, and may the best bid win!
This will be the Bristol Ro- tary Club’s 71st year holding the penny sale, and each year is
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better than the next. Bob Broad- hurst, a Bristol Rotarian, said that last year’s Penny Sale went exceptionally well. They had an excellent turnout despite cancel- ing the 2020 Penny Sale because of the pandemic. It just shows people were ready to return to the fun event! “Those in at- tendance were very generous,” Broadhurst informed me. “Local businesses were also extremely generous, especially after feeling the effects of going through the pandemic.” The Penny Sale has been a staple in the Newfound Community for 71 years. It gets a highly positive response from the community, with hundreds of people showing up to partic- ipate. “Generations of families look forward to it every year,” Broadhurst said.
The outpouring of support from the community doesn’t dwindle with each year the Penny Sale continues. In fact, Broadhurst noted that many
have talked about how they at- tended as children, and now they can share the experience with their kids and grandchildren. Just as the families are supportive, there’s no denying the fact that the local businesses are just as helpful. “We are always amazed at how supportive our local busi- nesses are from all over the New- found Region and beyond. Local small businesses donate the prizes that we award. They know what Bristol Rotary does to benefit the community and are glad to help our cause.”
When asked about the Bristol Rotary Club's process of putting on the Penny Sale, Broadhurst went on. “The Penny Sale is a lot of work, but it is spread out with our many members. And we really enjoy working together! Having the school allow us to hold the event in their facility is tremendously helpful. And we
havealotoffun!AsIsaid,we work well together as a group, from soliciting prizes to setting up and going through what can be a long evening. It is gratifying for our Club to be able to fund our scholarship program through the Penny Sale fundraiser each year. It feels like we are able to make a difference in the community we love.”
The Bristol Rotary Club continues to do admirable work by putting on the Penny Sale. Broadhurst said that the best things about putting on this popular event are “seeing every- one’s smiling faces, continuing a beloved tradition for 71 years, and being able to give substantial scholarships to graduating New- found High School seniors each year.”
The Penny Sale is not just a fun-filled evening but also a major fundraising effort of the
year, supporting local charities, academic scholarships, and Ca- reer and Technical Education grants for high school seniors. Your participation and donations make a significant impact—last year, thanks to you, the Bristol Rotary Club raised over $10,000, directly benefiting local students pursuing higher education. Join them in giving back to our com- munity and making a difference. Whether you donate items for prizes, gift certificates, or unique items for our Silent Auction table, your generosity will be rec- ognized and appreciated.
Most of the proceeds will go to the Bristol Rotary Club, where they contribute to their scholar- ship fund for the schools. In the past, they have donated about eight to ten thousand dollars for these scholarships and plan to do just that again this year. For more information on the Bristol Ro- tary Club’s Penny Sale, you can check out their Facebook page at @bristolrotaryclub.
For those who are not famil- iar with Rotary, it is a worldwide non-profit organization of more than 1.2 million business, pro- fessional, and community lead- ers. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vo- cations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
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