Car Raffles

Thanks to the efforts of Rod Greaves, our club raised approximately $50,000 over a three-year period by conducting car raffles:
2000 - VW Beetle
2001 - VW Beetle The 2001 Drawing
2002 - Mazda Miata The 2002 Results

Jazz 'N Ribs Fundraiser for PolioPlus at the Mountain Room - 10/3/02

"Great Jazz, Great Food, Great Cause" was the theme of an evening to truly satisfy the soul and senses. In the jazz club setting of Mt. Southington's Mountain Room, the Southington Rotary Club hosted Jazz 'N Ribs, a fundraiser to benefit the Rotary International PolioPlus campaign to eradicate the polio virus worldwide.

Guests enjoyed succulent ribs and fixins' prepared by chef Patrick Noury, served by student volunteers fron the Southington High School Interact Club, then listened to the hot jazz of the Billy Cofrances Quartet featuring New York jazz vocalist Nicole Pasternak.

New haven-based saxophonist Cofrances, who cites Cannonball Adderly, Eric Kloss and Paul Desmond as influences, was backed by Tom Devino-drums, Steve Taylor-bass and Joe McWilliams-keyboards. The musicians seemed inspired by the tasty backdrop of oversized black and white posters of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis and delighted the capacity audience with two sets of energized jazz standards. Pasternak, whom Chuck Berg of JAZZTIMES has described as "reminiscent of a young Ella," often traded scat-laced vocals with Cofrances' tenor and alto licks. She even playfully blended in an audience request for Michael Franks' jazz/pop hit, "Popsicle Toes."

Billy's website features some wonderful pictures from the event.
More pictures... courtesy of Trish Walden

2002 Southington Rotary Golf Scramble

The 6th annual Southington Rotary Golf Scramble was held Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at Pine Valley Golf Club.

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2002 Annual Installation Dinner at the Mountain Room - 6/21/02

Incoming Officers:

Dolores Fanelli, President

Dan Daigle, Vice President

Victoria Triano

John Salerno, Treasurer

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Murder Mystery Cocktail Fundraiser at Carol Grant's House - 6/7/02

Who Put the Eccentric on Ice?

The year is 1953, and the unthinkable has happened! That most popular of private eyes, that gastronomic gumshoe himself, the famous Neron Volt has been murdered in his Manhattan brownstone. Gasp! Who could have committed such a deplorable deed? _ more...