PARSONS – The Tucker Community Foundation’s 34th annual Uncle Sam’s Birthday Party was held on July 5th in the Bear Paw Lodge at Canaan Valley Resort in Davis.
The event started with some social time and a dinner that included a petit fillet and crab cake before the elimination part of the evening started. During the elimination there were door prize winners and every 25th ticket drawn won $150. The $150 winners were Anne Berdslee, Shirley Dean, Ronnie Shaffer, Darrell Goff, Mike Bell, Doug Mayor, Ronald Martin, Kevin White, Joann Patterson, Bob Boone and Nancy Moore. Ticket # 250 was auctioned off for $2,200 before the 246th draw. The group of Kelly & Solena Roberts and Fred Meyer had the winning bid. The last 5 tickets had the opportunity to split all of the remaining prize money. However, since one of the last 5 did not want to split they were eliminated one at a time until there was only one ticket left. The final five were Jerry Righman won $200, Sondra Goss won $300, Debbie Stevens won $400, Jody Flanagan won $500 and the grand prize winners were Kelly & Solena Roberts and Fred Meyer who shared $5,000.
The Foundation sold raffle tickets during the event for 4 different prize packages. This year the packages were: The Greenbrier Package that included a 3 day 2 night weekend stay and $500 to spend at the Greenbrier Resort, The eBike package that included an eBike and $300 of accessories from Blackwater Bikes in Davis, and 2 Tucker Packages that were made of items and gift certificates from businesses in the surrounding area that totaled over $6,000. Jane Browning won the Greenbrier Package that was worth $1,900. Jason and Becky Myers won the eBike Package that was worth $2,000. Dennis Roth won one of the Tucker Packages that was worth $3,100 and Elaine Moore won the other Tucker Package that was worth $3,200. “This year the Tucker Community Foundation gave away $18,250 worth of prizes between the cash prizes for the elimination dinner and the four packages that were raffled off at the event.” said Michael Moore, Chief Financial Officer at the Foundation.
“We had another record crowd at the event this year and everyone seemed to have a really good time and people were already talking about next year’s event. Donna Patrick, chairman of the Uncle Sam’s Committee, and the rest of the committee did a wonderful job as always. The Foundation wants to thank the people that donated time, merchandise and money to make the event such a success. We couldn’t do without everyone’s help” said Moore.
The Tucker Community Foundation uses the proceeds from the event to help fund their scholarship and grant programs. These programs issue over $1,300,000 in grants and over 45 different scholarships to students in our region.
This year’s official judge for the event was Mike Moore.