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The Wake Forest Area Chamber of
Commerce’s biggest fund-raiser is the
March Madness Reverse Raffle, sponsored
this year by The News & Observer. It
will be held on Thursday, March 2, at 6
p.m. at the Wake Forest Civic Center on
Capcom Drive, and about 30 of the $100
tickets were still available early this
week.
“They are going pretty
fast,” Mark Fleming, the chamber’s
executive director, said, urging people
to get their tickets soon. They are
available at the chamber.
A ticket admits two people
for the evening with the food catered by
Burkenstocks restaurant.
The grand prize this year is
$10,000 for the last ticket holder.
This year the chamber hopes
to raise $40,000 from the event, its
general budget fund-raiser. (The annual
Spelling Bee raises the money for the
grants to area teachers, this year
$10,000.)
Fleming knows how the
reverse raffle money will be used – to
pay for the renovations at the chamber
office. The office in what was
originally the town’s fire station has
not been renovated since the building
was totally redone to house the chamber
and business offices.
“Carpet will be laid here
tomorrow,” Fleming said Tuesday. “Last
year we paid off the parking lot debt
(for the lot to the north of the
building), and this year we’re doing
extensive renovations to the conference
room and to the lobby with new shelving,
cabinets, carpet and paint.”
He is grateful to chamber
members. “So many of our members helped,
a lot of them have donated their labor.”
He hopes to have an open
house sometime in April to show off the
new look, and he hope the community will
come out to support the raffle.
There is still time for
businesses and interested people to
donate auction items worth $25 or more.
For more information about
this event, go to
http://www.wakeforestchamber.org/events_dtl.asp?id=5
or go to the chamber site at
http://www.wakeforestchamber.org and
click on Events. |
