Master Auctioneer Steve Cassaday will keep the bids going up at the fourth annual Denver Tech Center Rotary Club For the Love of Children benefit on Saturday, November 11 at the Wildlife Experience, 10035 S. Peoria, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Cassaday is an expert at entertaining the crowd as well as at bringing in the bucks. He will be assisted by KCNC Channel 4's Jim Benneman.
Proceeds from the silent and live auction will be used to improve the lives of children around the world by providing clean water for those who are threatened by disease and death, food for those who are malnourised, vocational training for those who are deaf and advocacy and education for those with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).
In the past three years the DTC Rotary Club and its partners have raised over $100,000 to purchase 820 bio-sand water filters for indigent families in the Dominican Republic, saving 6,000 people from chronic intestinal, skin and other infections, and, over the next 50 years, the lives of approximately 650 children. The auction funded vocational education for 60 young deaf students in the Dominican Republic, enabling them to lead productive lives; funded the only daily nutritional meal 120 students receive at a school for undocumented children in the Dominican Republic; funded 1,000 vaccinations for underprivileged Colorado children through Swedish Hospital's Shots for Tots program; funded a scholarship for an outstanding member of the Rotary Interact Club at Thomas Jefferson High School; funded scholarships for two students to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards training program at Estes Park; paid the expenses of a child to participate Colorado Youth At Risk programs and funded research and programming for the KID Foundation supporting children with Sensory Processing Disorder.
Tickets are $60 per person. For more information, contact Kelly Evans, 303-221-2033, e-mail Auction@DTCRotary.org. The mailing address is Rotary Auction, c/o Kelley Evans, 8524 E. Jamison Ave., Englewood, CO 80112.