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Rotary Checks Aid ECHO, A Kid's Place, Honor Flight and More
The Rotary Club of Brandon South's annual distribution of checks, with money raised at Lobstah' Fest and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, aids 14 charities, including BSAC, Rotary's Camp Florida, the American Cancer Society and 4-H Foundation.
Each year Rotarians meeting at the Buckhorn Springs Golf & Country Club in Valrico get three votes each to cast for the charities they wish to support in the Greater Brandon area.
Each charity can get one vote, or one charity can get all three votes; it's up to the member to spend his votes as he or she sees fit. Then, each spring, the Rotary Club of Brandon South divvies out the money proportionately to those charities.
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The money is raised at the group's two major fundraisers — Lobstah Fest and the .
This year, checks on May 23 were given to:
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- SPCA Tampa Bay
- Honor Flight West Central Florida
- 4-H Foundation
- Hillsborough County Fair
- Brandon Outreach Clinic
- Steppin' Stone Farm school for troubled girls
- Giving Hope Through Faith Foundation, founded in memory of Zachary Taylor, who died from cancer at age 7.
- A Kid's Place in Brandon
- Rotary's Camp Florida, a camp for kids with special needs.
- Emergency Care Help Organization (ECHO) food bank and clothes closet for people in emergency situations.
- Ronald McDonald House
- American Cancer Society
- Bell Shoals Baptist Church, summer camp program
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