The 22nd Anniversary "Cow Creek Country Classic Bike Ride" on Saturday June 28 is the Waxahachie Rotary Club's major annual fund raising event. Each year's ride is produced and presented by Rotary volunteers, students, Boy Scouts and other civic volunteers from throughout Waxahachie and the surrounding communities. There are no paid employees.
Each year's "Rider's Dollars" are deeply appreciated and
extremely important to Waxahachie Rotary and the community as a whole. In return
we work quite hard to see that those dollars are "well invested" in improving
the quality of life in the Waxahachie community. Over the prior 21 years your
ride dollars have enabled the Waxahachie Rotary Club to:
| * Build and pay for a $60,000 log Boy Scout cabin in Chapman Park. |
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| * Make a $25,000 donation to the construction of the new combined Boy's and Girl's Club / Salvation Army facility in Waxahachie. |
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| * Make some $15,000 in contributions to various Waxahachie YMCA expansion projects. |
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* A $10,000 contribution to the capital campaign for expansion of Baylor Medical Center in Waxahachie |
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| * A $35,000 commitment to fund the start up and purchase of the first 7 home sites for Ellis County Habitat for Humanity. |
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| * Rider's dollars provide 3 annual scholarships for WHS Junior Class students each summer to attend Rotary's Camp Ryla for Student Leadership Training. | |
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* In addition ride dollars are used by Waxahachie Rotary to fund a host of similar "non capital investment" community "needs" and activities each year. |
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