Sunrise Rotary E-bike Raffle Adds Extra This Year

For a fifth year the Sunrise Rotary club is holding a raffle draw for e-bikes, with the winner wheeling home two bikes, one yellow and one brown. This year the club is adding an extra draw for an always-popular 50/50 cash prize. This gives an option for those who may already have bikes and/or who would rather try their luck at the cash.

The club started the e-bike raffle in spring 2020, just as the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began and the members were amazed when the tickets sold out within just two weeks. People were looking for ways to get active during the period of isolation and wanted to try the relatively new electronic-assist bikes. These bikes can be ridden without the assist on and work just like regular bikes, or with the assist in operation riding up the hills of Medicine Hat is much easier, and the higher speed ,with less leg work, makes biking fun.

Now with four years of selling the bike tickets, the club has decided to give people an easy option this year with the cash draw. Tickets for both the e-bikes and the 50/50 are just $10 each. They can be bought from any member of the Sunrise club; members will be at a table in the Co-Op food stores on some Saturdays during the March to June months; or they can be bought online through the Sunrise Rotary Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MedHatSunriseRotary/ or https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/f99fe892-239d-44d9-b167-eb1921b8f685
The QR code is also included with this article in the picture.

The brown bike is on display at the 13th Avenue Co-Op mall while the bright yellow one is displayed at the entrance to the Excel Physical Therapy office at 568 South Railway Street. The draw will take place on Tuesday, June 25 so that there is time to enjoy the bikes and the cash during the summer.

The funds generated from the fundraiser are used by the club for some of the 25 causes that the members support, both locally and internationally. An emphasis of the club is to support literacy through such initiatives as the Sunrise Rotary Ride the Road to Reading program at the Medicine Hat Public Library, sponsoring free memberships at the library, funding scholarships at the Medicine Hat College, providing educational trips for school children on the Sunshine Trolley, and helping to fund the SerNINA project for children in Guatemala. 

For more information about Sunrise Rotary, or the other Rotary clubs in Medicine Hat, contact Keith Walker at kvwalker@telusplanet.net or visit the website at https://portal.clubrunner.ca/969.