FROMONLINE | 2012-08-07

  • By Tami Lange
  • August 7, 2012
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By Tami Lange Each year, the Millersburg Lions Club is hard at work, raising about $10,000 to cover everything from eyeglasses for the needy, to after-prom activities to scholarships to the Christmas lights on the trees in downtown Millersburg. So when the club decided it wanted to build a structure at the new site of the Holmes County Fairgrounds, it agreed to raise those funds in addition to – not in place of – those it already was making. According to club and building committee member Dan Miller, that meant coming up with a few new ways to get people to open their wallets. One way, a letter campaign, raised $10,000, Miller said. The next project will be a reverse raffle, scheduled for Sept. 15 at the Holmes County Training Center. “Each member has six tickets to sell” at a cost of $50 each, Miller said, between July 15 and Aug. 15. “Then we’ll regroup and see where we are.” Some tickets will doubtlessly still be available through club members, including Miller, who can be reached at 330.763.4653. The event brings to memory, Miller said, the former Car Party, a raffle to benefit the youth football program, in which case a new car was the grand prize. Now, he said, “we will be giving away $5,400 in cash prizes, with a grand prize of $3,000. The tickets are $50 and will include a full chicken dinner and entertainment by the Buffet Band.” Throughout the evening, a total of 20 $100 cash prizes will be awarded. After the grand prize winner is named (that person need not be present, though the ticket must be), Miller said, all the tickets will go back in for a final drawing for $400. Miller said keeping the money coming in is a tall order for the club, with a membership he estimated is “in the 40s.” The budget for the new 32-by-40 building is $60,000, so should the Sept. 15 event be successful, it will most likely be offered again next year, Miller said. The fair board has decreed that all buildings will be of similar style, so Miller said, “we want to build our building” near the grandstand “in with that.” This is a two-year project, as the county fair will remain at its current location through 2013.


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