Tahoe Douglas Rotary cancels annual St. Patrick's Celebration due to Covid-19 concerns

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. - The Tahoe Douglas Rotary Club has decided to cancel its 52nd annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration planned for March 20, 2020, but people may still participate in an online auction and Hawaiian vacation raffle.

The club said, that though no cases of the CoronaVirus Covid-19 have been confirmed in this area, they wanted to keep with its commitment to benefit the community and not hold the popular event.

“The Tahoe-Douglas Rotary Board of Directors did not take this decision lightly. This is the Club’s major fundraiser of the year that allows us to financially support a multitude of projects, grants to local non-profits, and student scholarships but we felt this was the right decision for our community,” stated Club President Cam McKay.

500-600 people normally attend the event which offers a full Irish buffet dinner and open wine bar, live music and dancing, a renowned silent auction, and an Aloha Hawaii 7-day vacation raffle.

“Even though the live event will not take place this year we are still promoting the Club’s extensive Silent Auction online. We invite the public to take advantage of these popular auction opportunities at www.tdrotary.com. And tickets for our signature Aloha Hawaii 7-Day Vacation raffle are still available through Tahoe Douglas Rotary members,” said McKay.

In the next few days, Tahoe-Douglas Rotary members will be contacting those who generously bought St. Patrick’s Celebration tickets or donated silent auction items to confirm their wishes regarding refunds, conversion of their payments to donations or Hawaii Vacation raffle tickets, and continued inclusion of their items in the auction.

The Tahoe-Douglas Rotary Club has been an active member of Lake Tahoe’s South Shore community since 1962. The Club meets Fridays at noon at Stateline’s MontBleu Resort Hotel.

For more information contact Cam McKay at lakeskater@msn.com.

To learn more about Rotary’s contribution to ending Polio, see https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/ending-polio.

Rotary International, the world’s largest service organization, has a long history of promoting and protecting public health. In addition to supporting many clean water projects and medical clinics internationally, Rotary is well known as the driving force behind the global eradication of Polio. 1.2 million members strong, Rotary has taken the world from 400,000 new cases of Polio per year to less than 100.