Plant City Daybreak Rotary Club President George Banning presented a check for the construction of the downtown train platform, July 15.
David Miller, part of the platform planning committee, accepted the $2,500 check on behalf of the committee.
“I would like to thank the club for this,” Miller said.
Miller recounted a time when the club was much smaller in membership and praised the club for its efforts.
“I’m especially proud of this donation from this club,” Miller said. “I appreciate your gift and am really proud that the club has matured to this point to give a donation like this.”
Construction began on the train platform June 21. Situated next to the depot, the platform is a project under the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce, with help from the city.
Both the chamber and city hope the platform will be a tourism draw as well as an educational tool for history and train safety.
The committee has already raised $130,000. The goal is $200,000.
In other news
The morning Rotary inducted a new member, Gary Sears, July 15.
Sears is from Ogdensburg, N.Y. He has worked at a series of car dealerships and owned his own, Sears, Inc. until the 1990s.
He moved to Plant City in 1981.
Sears has been a past board member of the United Food Bank and the American Planning Association, on the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission, the City of Plant City Planning and Zoning Board and the and Plant City Election Board among other posts.
