The popular “Cash & Bike Bash” event has annually been a profitable day for the Girdletree Volunteer Fire Company.
Yet the fundraiser’s 15th anniversary, set for June 1 at the firehouse on Snow Hill Road in Girdletree, features a grand prize four years in the making, literally and figuratively. Less than 10 miles south of this tiny Worcester County town, and just across the state line in Greenbackville, Va., lies a home that was built with one purpose — to help the fire company continue to protect the few hundred residents of Girdletree.
It took raising money through fundraisers since 2015 to construct the home that one lucky raffle ticket holder could win, which was difficult, fire company treasurer and fundraising committee chairman Jeff McMahon said, because “we don’t have a very big base to be able to raise funds.”
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It's a shame that recently the Ocean Pines VFD discontinued their annual house raffles, but I understand. It's a big financial investment to put on such a raffle. I will say, the OP VFD is now doing a nice truck raffle.
ReplyDeleteGlad that Girdletree VFD is doing a house raffle though, this guy got his ticket early!
What kind of Bike?
ReplyDelete920-It's a 2019 Harley-Davidson Street Glide in Midnight Blue.
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