Rotary Hosts Shoot-Out Fundraiser

On Oct. 5, the St. Louis Park Sunrise Rotary took a shot at raising some much needed funds.

The club hosted its ninth annual Sporting Clays and Wild Game Dinner at the Minnesota Horse and Hunt Club in Prior Lake.

Guests paid to enter the sporting clays contest, with the top team of five in line to win $1,000 for a charity of their choice. This year, the winners came from . Team members were: Chris Wagner, Jack Webber, Steve Coutant, Paul Kusliek and Mike Lundeen.

The fivesome decided to donate their $1,000 to the Minneapolis Children's Hospital. Mark Nevermann, social chair of the Rotary club, relayed how he learned about the significance of the donation during the check presentation to the hospital:

"(The team's top shooter) wasn't present, so of course I started giving them a hard time about that. Apparently he had to go home to his son's 10th birthday party. Fair enough, we've all been there. Well, when that son was four days old, he had open heart surgery at Children's Hospital. So his teammates insisted that there was no place else that the $1,000 donation should go then to Children's Hospital on his behalf—I couldn't agree more."

In addition to the $1,000 raised for the hospital, the event brought in roughly $5,000 for the Rotary club, which supports a wide variety of projects both locally and internationally.