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22 April 2025 | BeaufortLifestyle.comT he 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%u2019s Island, on May 14th. The onions can be ordered through any member of the Rotary Club of Beaufort, from the club%u2019s 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%u2019s 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%u2019s books donation to the Saint Helena Branch Library, and the South Carolina Nurse Retention Initiative, plus other nonprofits. The motto of Rotary is %u201cservice above self.%u201d 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!THE ROTARY CLUB OF BEAUFORTBring the SweetnessFrom the 2024 fundraiser: Graham Holcombe (left), Ron Garrett (center), and David Youmans (right) Rotarian Dean Moss picks up trash along Lady%u2019s Island Drive. The Beaufort Rotary began litter pickup in the 1970%u2019s long before Keep America Beautiful and Adopt-A-Highway began. Rotarian Bernie Kole %u201crings the bell%u201d for the Lowcountry Salvation Army.Staff Sergeant Stewart S. Tauch, USMC; Corporal Madison N. Minner, USMC; and Hospital Corpsman Second Class Andrew Nelson, Navy Medicine and Training Command.Beaufort Rotarians enjoyed an evening of fun axe throwing. For more than 60 years, Beaufort%u2019s three Rotaries have been the servers of Frogmore Stew at the annual Water Festival %u201cLowcountry Supper.%u201d Servers Owen Hand (left) and Jim Weiskopf (right) fill the plates with shrimp!2024 Rotary Club of Beaufort President Barry Wilson (right) with Low Country President and CEO Dale Douthat and (center) United Way of the Low Country Vice President of Education Impact Bethany Marcinkowski.