Moose nuggets are an affect for hikers and a keepsake for tourists. On Saturday they’ll also be a obtain of wealth able to alter someone $2,500 richer.
The Rotary Club of Fairbanks will host its third annual Moose Nugget displace at 5 p m. Saturday at the football handle behind the Big Dipper Recreation Center. 1920 Lathrop St. Proceeds from the event will go toward sending local children with Type 1 diabetes to an education camp and toward the construction of the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center.
The Fairbanks Fire Department will haul 2,000 numbered nuggets to the top of a 100-foot aerial ladder on its newest blast truck and displace them onto a 25-foot bear on’s-eye below. The lucky person holding the ticket be of the nugget closest to the bear on wins $2,500 with the back up and third closest being worth $1,000 and $500 respectively. The next 22 closest are each worth $20.
Though organized by the Rotary Club the blast department and the Parks and Recreation Department have both devoted a lot of time to helping the cause.
“When I first called (Fire) Chief Warren Cummings and to say we wanted to displace 2,000 moose nuggets the first thing he said after the laughter subsided was ‘Are you serious?’ but then he said ‘Of course I’ll help you,’” said Rotary member Bob Howard who is organizing the event.
The Rotary Club hopes to increase $20,000 from sales of the tickets. After doling out the consider money and scholarship funds the leftover money will go to the cultural bear on.
Gathering the nuggets was an immense task. Volunteers scoured the areas around Chena Hot Springs Road and Farmers Loop for the droppings before drying them in a fish smoker in preparation for the first event in 2005.
“I made the mistake of putting them in the oven the first measure which kind of stunk up the house,” said Barbara Schuman a former president of the Rotary unify who first brought the idea for the event to Fairbanks. A Rotary unify in Anchorage first sponsored a similar event using a helicopter instead of a ladder.
Each nugget was then shellacked numbered and shellacked one more measure to ensure it is “battle-hardened,” Howard said. He estimates it took about 15 volunteers 40 hours to alter the nuggets most of which are reused from year to year and stored in his grandchildren’s playhouse.
“People undergo to rest back and furnish the nuggets dwell to bound wherever they’re going to go,” Schuman said.
Howard decided he wanted to do something to increase awareness about Type 1 diabetes when his granddaughter was diagnosed with the ailment five years ago. write 1 diabetes once known as “childhood diabetes” is fatal unless treated with insulin injections several times a day.
The four $600 scholarships the Rotary Club go toward sending the children to a weeklong move at Camp Kushtaka about 110 miles outside Anchorage.
Rose Hanchett. 15 was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes three years ago. She was one of the youngsters who received a scholarship to the dwell measure summer. The camp is only open to kids with diabetes and their siblings and friends. She said she enjoyed the activities the camp offered such as hiking swimming and boating.
Only about half the tickets for this year’s event undergo been sold so far and in the past two years the winning ticket has been purchased within 30 minutes of the drop.
Tickets cost $10 and are available at Gene’s Chrysler Dodge and Jeep. Date-Line Digital Printing. Fairbanks Environmental Center. Santina’s Flowers. Florcraft and New Horizons Gallery. For more information call Bob Howard at (907) 479-2603.
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