
Rotary steps up with $50,000 donation to Battlefords Humane Society
The Rotary Club of the Battlefords has stepped up in a big way to show its support to the Battlefords Humane Society’s project to build a new animal shelter facility.
The Rotary Club is fulfilling its total commitment to give $50,000 to the Humane Society for the project. The first $25,000 was donated about three years ago, with the remaining $25,000 coming through now.
“We have the funds available as a result of the many fundraisers in the community, like the Spudnut Booth, the hockey draft,…” said Jason Russell, a past president of Rotary. “There’s lots of [initiatives] that we do to raise money. It’s just some of the funds that we put back into the community.”
Russell noted that Terry Blanchette, who was with Rotary, originally spearheaded this project to help the Humane Society. Blanchette has since passed away, so other Rotary members have been carrying on with the effort since then.