Taste of College Park 2023 is Thursday, October 12, 2023, from 6pm to 9pm, at the Historic Dubsdread Ballroom and Courtyard.
Tickets include food from over a dozen of the best local restaurants from College Park and surrounding areas. Also included are craft beers from Ivanhoe Park Brewing Company and specially selected wines by Digress Wine!
During the event there will be a online/silent auction benefiting the charities listed below. Items include things all the way from vacation packages and sports collectibles to gift cards for local vendors and restaurants!
At 8:30 we will also be doing our drawing for our 50/50 Raffle! Last year’s pot was over $4,500! Proceeds from the raffle go to support Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, an organization that sends free books directly to children in communities right here in Orlando! We have ‘adopted’ the ZIP codes of 32808 (Pine Hills), 32810 (Rosemont), 32805 (Paramore), and our own 32804 (College Park). Our club has delivered over 35,000 books to promote early childhood literacy!
The Rotary Club of College Park is a local club of a world-wide organization with over 1.4 million members, 47 million volunteer hours in local communities annually and over $333 million awarded for global initiatives in 2020-21.
Your College Park Rotary Club has been here for over 35 years and works on local community projects like roadway clean-ups, contributions to charities listed below, giving out scholarships to local schools and much, much more!
Taste of College Park is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Orlando, Inc., a Florida 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation.
First held in 2002, Taste of College Park will be held October 12, 2023, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The Rotary Club of College Park Foundation, Inc. sponsors the Taste of College Park, the oldest and most important social event in College Park.
Taste of College Park combines food, wine, music, and an online/silent auction for an extraordinary evening in College Park. Over a dozen local restaurants and distributors provide food, beer, and wine. Local retailers supply items for the online/silent auction. College Park businesses and Rotary Club members sell over 300 tickets. Beneficiaries of the net proceeds from Taste of College Park include:
• Ronald McDonald House – a home away from home for families whose children are hospitalized during a medical crisis.
• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – in cooperation with the Dollywood Foundation. Since 2012, our club has provided over 35,000 free books to children from birth to five years of age.
• Christian Service Center – dedicated to preventing homelessness and combating poverty in our community.
• One Heart for Women and Children – provides assistance to Central Florida families in crisis.
• The Rotary Foundation – including the “End Polio Now Initiative.” Since 1988 there has been a 99.9% reduction in new cases of polio worldwide – in 2023 less than 10 cases worldwide.
• Student of the Month Program – honoring students from four local schools each month, Edgewater High School, Bishop Moore Catholic High School, College Park Middle School, and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School. and providing scholarships to two area high schools.
• Rotary 4-Way Test Essay Scholarships – seniors from Edgewater High School and Bishop Moore Catholic High School receive scholarships for further study based on writing an essay on Rotary 4-Way Test and how it has or will impact their lives.
The online/silent auction begins on September 10 and ends at 8:30 pm the night of the event. To bid on the auction, go to http://bforg.com/rotaryclubofcollegepark. For more information about Taste of College Park and the Rotary Club of College Park, go to https://rotarycollegepark.org/.