The Volunteer &
Community Resource Center (VCRC) is
holding its 15th annual “Good Times”
fund-raiser, a raffle that offers weeks
of free groceries and the chance to
support valuable community services.
VCRC is looking for
volunteers to help sell the tickets
outside both Stuart Fine Foods grocery
stores -- the Stuart location and the
new Palm City store. Raffle ticket sales
will run from mid-February through
mid-March.
If you would like
to help sell tickets – or want to buy
some -- please call VCRC volunteer
coordinator Shannon Midkiff at (772)
220-4472, ext. 228.
Good Times raffle
tickets are a bargain at $2 each or 3
for $5. Thanks to the generosity of Joe
Mazzochi of Stuart Fine Foods, the Good
Times raffle once again will offer three
prizes:
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First prize -
$1,300 in groceries.
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Second prize -
$750 in groceries.
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Third prize -
$550 in groceries.
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Bonus - The
person who sells the first-prize
ticket will receive $100.
The winning tickets
are good at either of the Stuart Fine
Foods locations through March of 2007.
The grocery store credit can be used in
any amount throughout the year – not
only on a week-by-week basis -- a plus
for seasonal residents.
The drawing will
take place on March 16, 2006, during the
second recognition luncheon for RSVP
volunteers at Carrabba’s Italian Grill
in Stuart.
The raffle raises
about $6,000 each year for VCRC, which
coordinates such large-scale projects as
the White Doves Holiday Project, the
School Supplies for Students Drive,
disaster services and leadership
development for volunteer coordinators.
VCRC, a program of United Way or Martin
County, also includes the Retired and
Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).
“People often
embrace the myth that volunteers are
free,”
VCRC director Carol Hodnett said. “Yes,
they give their time, but there are
expenses to recruiting, managing,
tracking and recognizing volunteers. And
there are expenses involved in running
the projects volunteers work on.”
For more
information about VCRC, please visit
www.martinvolunteers.org or call
(772) 220-4472.
