For 25 years, Daybreak Rotary Club has been helping its community by providing dictionaries and bicycles to elementary students, supporting the South Florida Baptist Hospital Foundation and the Plant City Family YMCA, and volunteering with the United Food Bank of Plant City.
But perhaps one of its biggest projects is its Country Cracker Feast, to benefit the United Food Bank. The fifth annual Country Cracker Feast will take place from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, at the home of Cassandra and George Banning. The catered event promises fine food, wine and beer, live entertainment, a silent auction and a gift tree, filled with hundreds of dollars of gift cards, to be raffled off.
Tickets to the feast are $75 per person and can be obtained from any club member. Net proceeds will also benefit other Daybreak Rotary local charities.
The club will also celebrate its 25th anniversary in December. It was chartered by the Plant City Noon Rotary Club on Dec. 15, 1990.
Over the years Daybreak Rotary has been a strong and consistent supporter of Rotary International’s effort to eradicate polio across the world. That once seemingly impossible challenge is on the brink of being achieved.
Daybreak Rotary has to its credit two district governors for Rotary District 6890, which spans over 40 clubs in Hillsborough, Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties. The club was instrumental in Rotary’s 2006-07 Caribbean Partnership, which supplied satellite phones to the islands in the Caribbean.
Daybreak Rotarians continue to participate in other international efforts, such as group study and friendship exchanges.
Locally, the club also annually supports the Gulf Ridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Rotary’s Camp Florida and a number of local schools.
In concert with the Noon Rotary Club, Daybreak Rotary is re-instituting the Interact service club at Plant City High School. Each year, both clubs send Plant City High students to Rotary’s Seminar For Tomorrow’s Leaders, as well as the World Affairs Conference held at Auburn University.
Daybreak Rotary meets every Monday morning from 7 to 8 a.m. at South Florida Baptist Hospital’s Community Conference Room, 301 N. Alexander St. The club started out meeting at Buddy Freddy’s, followed by the Red Rose Inn & Suites, before moving to South Florida Baptist.
Please feel free to drop by for a meeting that will surely include a wonderful breakfast buffet and an outstanding and informational program.
George Banning and Rob Evans are both members of the Rotary Club. George has been a member for 39 years, and Rob has been a member for 22 years.
IF YOU GO
Country Cracker Feast
WHEN: 6:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23
WHERE: George and Cassandra Banning’s Home, 2001 Clubhouse Drive
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MEET WITH US
Daybreak Rotary
WHEN: 7 to 8 a.m. Mondays
WHERE: South Florida Baptist Hospital’s Community Conference Room, 301 N. Alexander St.