(Photo credit: Todd Bacon)
The January freeze in Palisades didn’t get us down. COVID-19 didn’t defeat us. Losing our long-time delivery company didn’t stop us. A change in venue didn’t cripple us. A late-season drought that forced us to prematurely halt sales didn’t (completely) unhinge us. Peach Sale 2020, by all accounts was a major success after we take into account all the hurdles we had to clear.
Big thanks to the committee and volunteers noted below … and to ALL of you who bought A box, or MULTIPLE boxes, of peaches!
By the (round) Numbers:
Total Net: $19,845
- 50% to your Denver Rotary Club Foundation: $9,923
- 50% to The Rotary Foundation: Split theirs 50/50 between Polio Plus and Annual Fund ($4,961 to each)
Compare to previous years:
- In 2019, our net was $21,084 (about 6% more than this year)
- In 2018, our net was $19,331 (about 2.5% less than this year)
Top Sellers:
- Peach Royalty Chuck Everill – 86 boxes (plus a three hundred dollar additional donation on top!)
- Craig Mills – 61 boxes
- Jim Wilkins – 39 boxes
- Bryan Guice – 30 boxes
- Harry Ellison – 25 boxes
- Don Kane – 23 boxes
- Charlie Miller – 20 boxes
- Kevin Shelledy – 20 boxes
- Paul Jones – 17 boxes
- Warren Donder – 15 boxes
Bob Lowdermilk – 15 boxes
These “top ten” brought in more than $15,000 of our total!
It’s also important to note that Dorsey & Whitney (through Rotarian Case Collard) typically orders more than 200 boxes of peaches as client gifts. Due to COVID-19 keeping people from their offices, thus complicating deliveries, Dorsey instead made a contribution of peaches (through us) and cash (directly) to the Food Bank of the Rockies. This highlights how peaches can be used, as Craig Mills also does with UBS, to benefit both DRCF and clients of Rotarians!
Thanks again to the 2020 Peach Committee and Volunteers:
- Todd Bacon (Photographer)
- President Debbie Beasley
- David Dickmann
- Harriet Downer (Peach Team Planner)
- Bryan Guice (Peach Sale Co-Chair)
- Lisza Gulyas
- Kris Hemenway
- Jim Johnston
- Don Kane
- District Governor Bob Kemp
- Thomas Longino
- Jeff Mason
- Steve Mast
- Lauren Mast
- Jill Santuccio (Fundraising VP)
- Kevin Shelledy (Peach Sale Co-Chair
- Rich Spong
- Pete Wall
A BIG thank you again everyone who supported our peach sale through hands-on volunteering, contributions, partaking in the peach pancake breakfast and to everyone who bought peaches!
