Club Projects

 

 

We will use the funds for our annual Cottonwoods Christmas Party:

 

The idea of Christmas in a bottle was presented to Glenna Gillan by her husband Art regarding Christmas in a bottle as she had raffled off 3 of these amazing bottles at the last Cottonwoods Christmas Party in November 2016. Fast forward:  Glenna thought yes it would be a great idea and how could we maximize the income from the project.  Wine bottles were collected from various members but we need 200.  Leo Gebert and his brother Andy kindly allowed us to go out to St. Hubertus winery and get as many empties as we needed. 

We received almost 200 Christmas decorations from various members and friends of Rotary.

 

Next we had to find used wine bags preferably used Christmas one’s and Carola was given $80 toward any other things we would be needed and she was able to secure 110 wine bags at a Dollar store for the above amount and many donated wine bags came in as well. 

 

The lights operate by an AA battery and thank you to the kind generosity of Richard White we have an unlimited supply he will give us. 

The bottles collected, Theresa and Rose came to the Gillans and washed all the bottles we got from the winery the on the Saturday, Carola, Marta, Len, Brenda, Sara, Glenna and Art got to work and assembled the 200 bottles.  It was fun and a great work bee.  We started at 10:00 am the project was finished by 3 pm.  Lunch was provided by the Gillans.

 

Thank you everyone for participating in this event to get us to the point where Carola, Glenna and  Brenda along with Rose, John, Len, Brian and Ron have been volunteering At the Kelowna General Hospital lobby on various dates for 10:00 am to 6:00 pm promoting Christmas in a bottle. 

We sell each bottle for $20.00 and $10.00 for a set of lights with a double AA battery. Each bottle comes with lights, an AA battery, a Christmas decoration (that can be taken off when it’s not Christmas), a wine bag, and pamphlet explaining the Cottonwoods Christmas party. 

 

To date we have sold over 200 bottles thanks to the support of the members of the Capri Rotary Club and the general public. Thanks to all members that donated materials, time and money.

 

We need small used Christmas decorations, used wine bags to put the package together. Volunteers are always needed to help put the package together.

We are collecting unique wine bottles.  If you have any or have friends that drink wine, please save the bottles for us.  We have testers to make sure the lights fit in the bottle.  We can come and pick them up.