THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEAUFORT
Bring the Sweetness
(center), and David Youmans (right)
The Rotary Club of Beaufort is hosting its annual fundraiser, the sale of farm-fresh Vidalia onions. The money raised is used locally to support grant requests from local nonprofits and to support both inbound and outbound high school exchange students at Beaufort High School and Beaufort Academy.
The onions are delivered in early May, which is the height of the Vidalia onion season in Vidalia, GA, and its surrounding counties.
The onions cost $12 for a 10-pound bag or $25 for a 25-pound bag. They must be preordered before May 9th and will be available for pickup between noon and 12:30 p.m. in the parking lot of Sea Island Presbyterian Church, Lady’s Island, on May 14th.
The onions can be ordered through any member of the Rotary Club of Beaufort, from the club’s website, www.beaufortrotaryclub.org, or by scanning the QR code below.
And, with each order, the purchaser will receive a free Rotary Club of Beaufort Vidalia Onion Recipe Book, featuring some of Pat Conroy’s favorite recipes from his The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes and Stories of My Life.
This past year, the Rotary Club of Beaufort used the money raised for grants to the Good Neighbor Medical Clinic, the Beaufort-Jasper YMCA, the Early Grade Reading Program of United Way of the Lowcountry, Honor Flight Savannah, Lowcountry Legal Volunteers, children’s books donation to the Saint Helena Branch Library, and the South Carolina Nurse Retention Initiative, plus other nonprofits.
The motto of Rotary is “service above self.” Your purchase of Vidalia onions provides the funds needed for the Rotary Club of Beaufort to continue doing good deeds that directly affect the greater Beaufort community!
