Tailgate event raises funds for fitness center publicity, planning
While Charlie’s Place owner and face painting artist Carl
Mann drew large Hortonville H’s, fangs, and sunken eyes
on several dozen children, several hundred fans at the Bulldogs
vs. Polar Bears (New London vs. Hortonville) football game last
Friday bought burgers, hot dogs, cookies, and soda at a pre-game
tailgate kick-off fund raiser for the new Polar Bear Community
Fitness Center.
Fitness Center Committee members, student volunteers, and athletic
booster parents sold food, worked a 50/50 raffle, and answered
questions about the $1.4 million dollar fitness center community
members and a good many student athletes would like to see added
to the south side of Hortonville High School’s auditorium-field
house-lobby complex.
Money raised at the kick-off will be used to fund publicity
and awareness initiatives committee members have planned for the
future. Polar Bear Community Fitness Center Committee Co-Chairman,
Jon Conrad said brochures, posters, publicity publications, design
work, all cost money. Conrad and community member Dave Schlichting
are co-chairing the committee’s fund-raising, publicity,
and planning efforts.
Best Choice Floral & Landscape, Porky’s Tap, Patti’s
Place Restaurant, AFS Service and Sales, Current Mortgage Solutions,
Weisner Insurance Agency, Karate America, Black Otter Supper Club,
Matt & Mary Vallafskey, Gilbert’s Super Value, Sara
Lee, and RJ Marx contributed money to fund the tailgate kick-off
event.
“I wanted to pass along a BIG THANK YOU to all of you
who helped make our Fitness Center kick-off event a success!!
A project of this size cannot be successful without the help of
many people!” said Schlichting.
