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Local Kiwanis Club Hosts Annual Beefsteak And Tricky Tray
More than 200 people attended, raising funds to help the club award $2,500 scholarships to local high school seniors.
Press release from Kiwanis Club of Caldwell West-Essex:
April 3, 2023
The Kiwanis Club of Caldwell West-Essex held their 11th Annual Beefsteak and Tricky Tray on Saturday Evening, March 25, 2023 at Charlie's Place, located at Notre Dame Church.
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Over 200 people attended the event, which helped raise funds for the Club, enabling them to award ten $2,500 scholarships to local high school seniors.
Individual members of the Club, as well as many community businesses, donated prizes that were raffled off. Some of the prizes included gift cards to local restaurants, a laptop, a television, a fire pit, Lego building sets, tickets to a Giants Game, and more.
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"The event was a great success." President Jessica Almeida of West Caldwell said. "The generosity of our community allows for us to do this each year. Without all the donations from local businesses, we wouldn't be able to award these scholarships. We are so grateful to everyone who attended and donated." In all, over 160 prizes were raffled off and a 50/50 was pulled that went for over $2,000.00.
The Tricky Tray Committee, which included Almeida, Joy Scally of Essex Fells, Diane Corter of Ringwood, Lenore Voorhis-Hayden and Maria DeFazio, both of North Caldwell, and many others, started soliciting prizes in November for the event. Tickets were sold out six weeks prior.
"Thank you to everyone who came and we are looking forward to next year's event!" said Almeida.
This press release was produced by Kiwanis Club of Caldwell West-Essex. The views expressed here are the author's own.
