Things are a little different this year. We’ll still ring the bell for The Salvation Army in Oak Creek at the Woodman’s as we have for many years. However we want everyone to be safe so The Salvation Army has provided links for virtual Red Kettles to facilitate donations during the pandemic.

 

Recognizing the exploding demand for food at local pantries, the Rotary Club of Mitchell Field is donating to the Salvation Army in Oak Creek, Human Concerns in South Milwaukee and Project Concern in Cudahy. Each of the food pantries received a $500 grant in April followed by an additional $1000 grant in late summer.

 

Food pantry grants this year total $4500.

 

 

The evening show opens with performances by students who’ve attended the daylong Milwaukappella Workshop taught by Six Appeal members and other music professionals, followed by one of Six Appeal’s roof-raising, side-splitting performances that always leave audiences wondering how the group makes all that amazing music with just their voices.

The Rotary Club of Mitchell Field started running Food Truck Sundays in 2017 with Educator’s Credit Union, who was the event sponsor. Besides great food from the food trucks, visitors got to meet the staff at Educator’s Credit Union and score some free swag, like these sunglasses. After the fall event ended, the leftover sunglasses were donated by Educators to Rotary. A Rotarian then took the sunglasses to Guatemala. Dana, who was part of a Guatemala Medical Resources Partnership team, said “because people {in Guatemala] are in the sun so much, it is a great source of eye problems so we distribute as many sunglasses as we can get our hands on. One day as I was heading to the gates to get into clinic, I spotted these two cuties who had obviously been there on a prior day. Their mama graciously allowed me to take their photo.”