Swimmers and food bank were winners

Kaua’i Aquatic Association is a North Shore-based swim team. We have swimmers

of all ages, from toddlers to senior citizens, coached by Dick Oliver. We all

got together to raise some money for a travel fund so that our younger (ages 7

to 14) swimmers could participate in off-island competitions. For a $2

donation, we offered tickets for a drawing. The grand prize was a $250 Safeway

gift certificate, and there were five second prizes of 20 pounds of tropical

fruit from Kahili Farm.

In addition to our friends and families on the

North Shore, the tickets were offered to Safeway customers outside their store

weekdays between July 14 and Aug. 4. It seems that quite a few tourists shop at

Safeway. When approached, many of the visitors announced that they would be

gone before the drawing took place. A number of local people said they weren’t

interested in winning, but we had a suggestion for all these people: Get a

ticket anyway and fill it out in the name of the Kaua’i Food Bank.

Well,

people seemed to really like that idea, and the food bank ended up with a lot

of tickets in our box. On Aug. 9, swimmer Sophia Hurst pulled the winning

tickets. Guess who won the grand prize? You’re right: The food bank.

Judy

Lenthall, executive manager of the food bank, was thrilled and said the gift

certificate would be used to purchase Thanksgiving turkeys for the hungry.

The second-prize winners were Conrad Makarewicz, Ellen Delbene, Marge

Jacobsen, Jeffrey Goodman and Paula Simpson.

Kaua’i Aquatic Association

thanks the people of Kaua’i and our visitors for making our first fund-raising

effort a success. We’d also like to thank the following association members who

volunteered their time and effort for this fund-raiser: Jane Wright, Julie

Hurst, Marta Birchard, Lois Lutz, Sara Wall, Shana Lee Tolmna, Celeste Wilson,

Valerie Owen, Judy Waite, Sienna Makarewicz, Andrea Smith, Dick and Barbara

Smith, Holly Young, Cheri Hamilton, Liz Gonsalves and all their kids who helped

out.

CANDACE STRONG

Kaua’i Aquatic Association