Coming right off of another successful Community Christmas Dinner, the Rotary Club of Clear Lake is gearing up for their 12th Annual Seafood Boil and Auction. It will take place at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Highlands Senior Center in Clearlake. The meal includes salad, bread, tri-tip, lobster tail and traditional seafood boil prepared by the Rotarians and delivered by the bucketful to each table by student volunteers. The $75 ticket price includes two drink tickets, bottomless soft drinks and water and for each adult guest, a complementary wine tasting presented by Gregory Graham Winery, and a no-host bar. There will also be a silent and live auction featuring such items as a stay in a cabin in the jungles of Costa Rica and a private fly-over of Lake County.
The Seafood Boil is the club”s main fundraiser of the year, netting over $23,000 which will allow the club to provide community benefits. These benefits include new dictionaries for all third graders in the Konocti Unified School District, college scholarships for high school seniors, support of Lower Lake High School, St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake, the Safe House and the senior center The largest of these community benefits, the Community Christmas Dinner, was held last month and provided 860 dinners including 68 meals-on-wheels for homebound seniors; 270 pictures with Santa were taken and 428 toys given to children.
To purchase tickets to this year”s seafood boil, please contact Jen Totten at 490-5681 or any Clear Lake Rotarian. The event always sells out, with 208 people expected. At the time of this writing, there are 30 tickets left.
