All About Car Shows and Guatemala Stoves

TODAY IN ROTARY Ken Sizemore shared tentative plans about the upcoming Dixie Rotary Car Show, scheduled on October 9 - 10, the weekend between the two weeks of the Huntsman World Senior Games.  Altough the original plan for this event was to hold it at the old airport facility, because of a conflict with another event being held there, the DRCS will be held at Sunset Corners, thanks to the generosity of owners and former Rotarians Mans and Gilbert Jennings.  

How will money be made from this project?  Ken noted they hope to have 250-300 cars and will charge $5 per person to view the display of vintage, restored hot rods and other vehicles.  There will also be an entry fee for each car (categories and awards to be announced).  Food vendors will be invited to take part, as well.  

SGR’s assignments are registration / admissions and sponsorships.  The schedule of activities to be completed include:

In April:  Identify sponsors, finalize the logo, and distribute Save the Date cards to participants

In May:  commit sponsors

In June:  solicit vendors and tape radio ads

In August:  start the ad campaign

With time to spare, Ken turned his presentation to the Guatemala stove project.  The date for travel to Guatemala this year is May 23-30.  Activities and service projects will include building stoves, training local midwives to provide newborn respiration to babies thought to be stillborn, dentistry, education to help those who speak only the Mayan dialect learn Spanish and distributing food and clothing (including shoes).

For more information about either of these projects, contact Dan Strobell or Ken Sizemore.