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Car raffle and auction set for June 16
Mark Carter buys a Boys & Girls Club Car Raffle ticket from Club Board President Jack Weller. The winner this year will own a 2017 Chevrolet Cruze.

Mable Froneberger has had ticket #120 since 1975. She pays $100 each year for the ticket, but so far she hasn't won anything for her faithfulness. Some might say it is a poor investment, but Froneberger would beg to differ.
"We see the 'fruits of our labor' every day at the Club," says Froneberger, referring to the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland County (BGCCC). The ticket Froneberger purchases each year is for the BGCCC's Car Raffle, which is always held in June - this year's event will be on Friday, June 16, 2017.
"As a former school administrator, I know how important the Boys & Girls Club is to our community," says Faye Burton, another yearly raffle ticket purchaser. "These young people learn manners and good character. Many of the parents can't afford for their children to participate, but efforts like this raffle help to provide the necessary funds."
As BGCCC board members, Froneberger and Burton not only purchase raffle tickets for themselves, but they also sell tickets to friends and family members.
"I have never won, and no one I have sold a ticket to has ever won, but I always pull for the folks that buy them from me," says Burton.
In addition to the car raffle, a live auction and a silent auction will also be held on June 16.
Burton wants folks to know that the donations and contributions to the raffle and the auctions are vital.
"I think a lot of people think that if we sell 400 raffle tickets at $100 each, that should be plenty, but what they don't realize is that we have to purchase the car," she says. "Carter Chevrolet gives us a very good deal on the car, but we do have to pay for it."
This year's raffle prize is a 2017 Chevrolet Cruze from Carter Chevrolet in Shelby.
The car raffle and auction fundraiser was started by the then-Boys Club in 1975. The Club became the Boys & Girls Club in 1994. Each year since the raffle's beginning, BGCCC board members contact individuals to purchase tickets for the raffle.
"Our car raffle has grown into a social event - we have great food and homemade desserts made by the board members and wives and also by some of the staff at the Club," says Froneberger. "The auctions feature things like handmade pottery, Tweetsie Railroad tickets, Great Wolfe Lodge tickets, original paintings, dermabrasion treatments, and season football passes for all area high schools as well as for Gardner Webb. There is something for everyone no matter what your tastes might be."
The Car Raffle and Auction will begin with registration and a meal at 6 p.m. in the Goforth Hall of the Cleveland County Fairgrounds in Shelby. The drawing for the car will be held at 7 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased at the Boys & Girls Club at 412 W. Sumter St., Shelby, by calling the club at 704-471-2582, or by sending an e-mail to Josh Propst, executive director, at joshp@bgcclevelandcounty.org.
For more information about the BGCCC, visit the web site at
www.bgcclevelandcounty.org, or search for "Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland County" on Facebook.

By April Hoyle Shauf

Special to Community First Media


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