Rotary will sponsor its 15th annual Reverse Raffle

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

St. Mary’s Assumption Social Center, 356 S. Belle Vista Ave., will be the location of the 15th annual Reverse Raffle sponsored by the Rotary Club of Youngstown on Friday.

The event will start with a social hour at 6 p.m., which includes an open bar and hors d’oeuvres and music provided by the Back Beat Band. Bidding will take place on the silent auction items, and there will be an opportunity to review the live auction items and buy tickets for the chance auction.

Some of the auction items featured this year are 18 holes for four at Kennsington Golf Course, in Canfield; kitchen design with drawings by Sam Pitzulo Homes; Cleveland Indians game tickets; dinner cooked by Rotary’s Elayne Bozick and her husband, Larry; pancake breakfast with Mill Creek maple syrup; and a week’s stay at Rheims, France, donated by Austintown Rotarian Kristofer Sperry.

Dinner will be at 7 p.m. and the reverse raffle will take place at 8.

Tickets are $100 for the reverse raffle or $150 for couples. Dinner-only tickets are $50. The grand prize reverse raffle will be $3,000.

Desserts will be provided by District Governor and Youngstown Rotarian Debbie Esbenshade.

For information or to purchase tickets, call Samantha Turner at 330-559-6679 or Elayne Bozick at 330-360-3799.