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Apr 23, 2021 5:21 AM
Two nights are left in the 71st WHOP Rotary Radio Auction and plans have already been announced this week for new ways the club will make a difference in local young people’s lives.
Middle and high schools presented their fundraising totals last night, with the middle schools giving $2,014 and high schools contributing $6,175 to the auction. The school system’s central office had their own fundraising campaign and gave $1,350.
As a whole, Christian County’s public and private schools gave $29,400 to Rotary.
Auction Chair Cody Noffsinger says the newly formed Hopkinsville Rotary Foundation is committing $75,000 over five years to establish inter-act clubs in local middle schools.
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The Rotary Club of Hopkinsville is looking to the next 100 years. The club marked its 100th anniversary, and 71st anniversary of its hugely successful auction, amidst the pandemic chaos of 2020.
The club was forced to postpone its 70th annual auction in March, 2020. The 2020 auction was eventually moved to September, and conducted virtually. The auction still raised more than $250,000.
Now, the club is using what it learned throughout the tumultuous 2020 to bring its next auction to life.
The 71st annual Rotary Club of Hopkinsville auction will focus on building a better Hopkinsville. The auctionâs âBuilding the Foundationâ theme focuses not only the clubâs goal to keep building its community by funding the Rotary Scholars program, but also to fund its freshly announced foundation.