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VMilton Rotary Club on the go with slew of fundraisers Tise Rotary Club of Milton bas a slow of fundraising esents coming up starting with ita l6th annual golf toumament. That will be hosted in conjunction with the Mississauga-Airpont and Missi ssauga-Di xie Rotary Clubs and will take place Wednesday, Sept. 13 at Granite Ridge Golf Club on Dublin Line. Tise cost is $160 per golfer, whicb includes green fees, lunch, a five-course dinner and power cart as well as putting and chipping contesta. It also includes one fiee draw ticket. Proceeds will go to Peel Partnera for a drug-free community and Erinoak, a support service aimed at helping people with disabilities maintain as much independence as possible. Tise toumnament is only open to 144 golfers, and tise cut-off date to sign up is September 6. Registration will bgin at 11:15 arn. wbile the shotgun stars is sciseduled for 12:30 p.m. Dinner awards will begin at 6:45 p.m. To sign up, or find out more about sponsor- sisip opportunities, caîl Amit Kaia at (416) 616-3014. TV auction in works Also coming up is the Milton club's first-ever TV auction, serving Milton and Acton. tt will take place Tuesday, Nov. 28 from 610o 10:30 p.m. Prior to auction night, donated items will be dis- played via digital photography on the Rotary Club's website at www.rotarymilton.ca. A short description will accompany each item to generate more intorest. Interested buyers will tisen have plenty of time to searcis out their favourite goods, wbicis will ho suc- tioned off on Cogeco Cable 14 on the night of the osent. "Instead of basing tise items hauled in or out of tise studio, people.caîl in and bid on tise items," said Milton Rotary ovents spokesperson Carolyn Keyworth. "Tie phono linos start buzzing." To donato items, catI Ms Keyworts at 878-4636. Forecast 2001 Oct. 30 Now in its fourtis successful year is the upcoming Forecast 2001 financial osent. It will take place Monday, Oct. 30 frora 6:30 10 9 p.m. at Granite Ridge Golf Club. The evening will foature a pantel of linancial experts asailable to snswer questions from the audience. "Thoy do presentations and then tisey're open to questions," said Ma Keyworth. "It includes supper. We've raised quito a bit of money from it in tise past." Tickets for tise osent coat $35 attse door or $30 in advance. For tickets or more information, caîl Tom Dusmet at 876-1530 or Chriatine Sarte at 878-5852. Dragon boat races Dragon boat races will corne to Milton as a firat- time fundraiser for tise local club in partnersisip with tise Knigists of Columbus. That's scheduled for August 4, 2001 at Kolso Conservation Ares. "They're big boas. Tbey're big, wooden, war-like canoos with a big mast in tise shape of a dragon," said Ms Keyworth. During tise race, a teamn of 24 paddlera will row in time to a stesdy dntmbeat. Two 10 four boats will race at a time, and 35 10 40 teas are expected attse osent. "Tisey're becoming quite popular," said Ms Keyworth. "Some teams take thia quite seriously. Othera get togetiserjust for a Isugis." Boats snd know-how will be supplied by Great White Norths, s Toronto company that's isolping put on tise osent. Tise big hoas will ho brougbt in about a weok in advance to gise teams time to practice tiseir moves. Cash is rsised by sponsoring tesms. Putting s team forwsrd costs $600, or $25 per raomhor. That include.s four bours of practice lime and aIl necessary oquip- ment. "There base been seseral enormously successful dragon boat races near bore," ssid Ms Keyworth, cit- ing areas sucis as Strstford and Toronto Island. And Kelso is a perfect location. "When you drive past Kelso you almost salisate because it's just a perfect location," said Ms Keyworth. Sponsorahip of a team costs $1,500, which buys tise chance to ho nsmed as a major Osent sponsor in aIl] prior promotion, literature and dispîsys. And a $ 1,000 option buys tise opportunity to display and promote material on site. To find out more about sponsorssip or how to put together a team, caîl Paul Sciserer at 878-9124 or Great White Norths at (416) 962-8899. 71 Moi StetEeitn 8634 Thse Canadian Champion, Tuesday, August 29, 2000 -9 PONTIAC e BUICK * CADILLAC e GMC LTD. Bryan Hudspeth Maryla Smolinska Peter Smith, General Manager of Wallace Pontiac would like to announce the appointments of Bryan Hudspeth and Maryla Smolinska to their growing sales staff. Bryan is from Milton and bas worked with GMAC, as of recently. Maryla bas worked in retail sales at two other GM dealerships. They welcome their past customers, friends, relatives and neighbours to drop in for any reason, regarding their present or future vehicle needs. We wish Bryan & Maryla much success here at Wallace Pontiac. 409 POmnétc mm M 8NT.EM. BUICIC < jMILTON ~ssbatc' ON.-THURS M ........... :0sAU 8:00 PM FFI. AT. Celebrating 20 years! 1980 -2000 Help us celebrate! *Stop by on Saturday, September 2, 2000 *for cake and coffee. ,,Enter our draw! Prizes! Prizes! Prizes4, <Ballots avoulable in store Saturday> September 2 One ballot per person please') Scratch and save on ail purchaseos * Saturdav. September 2 onlv.' 10% -20% off (In stock only. No -lay-a-ways) Thank-you for your continued support 227 Min StmtE.,iIton (comerodain&"d) 0hn 905-878-050 ToliIFree 1-888.400866 *Fax 905876-1658 E-mailIdelaouts@iatemeLloca