Orioles to host benefit to send kids to camp
The North Fort Myers Fraternal Order of Orioles will host the sixth annual Send Kids to Camp benefit on Saturday, May 31, from noon until midnight at its lodge on Cleveland Avenue.
The event will feature live entertainment, lots of food, including a clam bake, and a raffle dunk tank, among other things.
The event will benefit the Orioles’ Send Kids to Camp charity, will allows children to attend one week of summer camp at the North Fort Myers Community Center, which usually costs $75 per week.
Rose Hall, who is organizing the event, said the club wanted to do something for kids who are less fortunate, so they got together with the auxiliary to start it.
“We’ve sent kids to camp for the past six years for a week or two in North Fort Myers. It’s something that we donate our money and time to,” Hall said. “We got together with the people at the rec center and we’ve been doing it ever since.
The goal of the event is to send as many as 20 kids to camp, or about $1,500, Hall said.
Hall said the event will feature raffles for money and prizes, a slow ride on motorcycles for the kids for $10, all of which will go to the camp, and drink specials with Jell-O shots.
There also will be a clam bake with the traditional barbecue foods to go along with it, a dunk tank, and five bands: Dogfish, Push, Soundbite, Black Rose and Myth.
Admission is free.
The Orioles also do numerous poker runs and other activities for a Christmas families program through the schools so they can have dinner and presents, and recently did a yard sale and dinner for the Kids to Camp program.
The Fraternal Order of Orioles is a social organization that was founded in 1910, and is comprised of men and women who want to make a difference in their respective communities.
For more information, contact Hall at 656-6400.