Our 2nd Annual "PreAuction" Auction is off and running! The "PreAuction" gives us a chance to offer items and packages that occur prior to our Annual Auction on November 20, 2026! We already have items on the site and open for bidding including fantastic seats to see Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever take on the WNBA league-leading Minnesota Lynx in Minneapolis!! Even more packages and items will continue to be added every week, so keep this link handy!!
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2nd Annual Rotary "PreAuction" Auction Underway
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Sam Harding
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2026-09-14 05:00:00Z |
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Posted on Oct 18, 2025
The Rotary Club of Jefferson will be holding its 27th Annual Charity Auction on Friday, November 21, 2025 at the Wild Rose Casino in Jefferson. Prior to the live event, the Silent Auction will kick off on November 15 and will continue until 8:15 PM on November 21! Doors for the live event will open at 5:30 for browsing through the various auction items with light snacks provided along with a full service cash bar.
There will also be Putting game and a Spinning Wheel game for prizes up to a $50 value. You will also be able to purchase tickets for the Raffle with 8 drawings for $250 cash prizes each, and you will also be able to purchase sets of beads for the Heads or Tails game featuring a $500 cash prize.
The Dinner will begin at 6:30 with the Dessert Auction, followed by a full buffet dinner featuring Prime Rib or Rosemary Chicken.
The Live Auction will begin following dinner . You may now purchase a table or individual tickets to the live auction! or by using the QR code below:
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27th Annual Rotary Auction Tickets Are On Sale
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2025-10-18 05:00:00Z |
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As the first ever "PreAuction" Auction finished up on October 15, we are able to take a look back and celebrate its success! It brought in very nearly $2,000.00 in sales to get things going for this year's Auction. We thank all the folks who bid, and we especially thank all of our lucky package winners. We have already heard from many of them that they had a great time at the event that they purchased, and that makes us feel even better! Watch for our second "PreAuction" next year as we look to build upon our success along with working on some things we learned this year that can make a difference next year!!
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"PreAuction" Auction Is A Success
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Sam Harding
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2025-10-18 05:00:00Z |
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Have you heard the news!! Our Auction has gotten so big, it won't all fit in November! So our solution is our "PreAuction" Auction!! We already have several items on the site and open for bidding including fantastic seats to see Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever take on the defending WNBA Runner-Up Minnesotal Lynx in Minneapolis!! Even more packages and items will continue to be added every week, so keep this link handy!!
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Our First Ever "PreAuction" Auction is Live!!
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Sam Harding
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2025-08-03 05:00:00Z |
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The Jefferson Rotary Club now has two meeting times! For those whose schedule permits, our noon club meets every Monday at 12:00pm in the Rotary Room at the Jefferson Public Golf Course. A hot meal is served and a speaker presents on a topic of interest for the community. This past summer, the Jefferson Rotary Club expanded its scope by launching an evening "satellite" club. The club meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 6pm. Children are welcome to attend with their parent(s)! The satellite club has money set aside for community projects and benefits from our annual charity auction, just as our noon club does. If you have a community need in mind, are service oriented, and are looking for group camaraderie, consider membership in one of our club groups! Ask any Rotarian for more information about membership. SERVICE ABOVE SELF
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Interested in Joining Rotary??
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2023-11-08 06:00:00Z |
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Applications available for Rotary grants The Rotary Club of Jefferson is now accepting applications for grants from the proceeds of its 2022
charity auction.
For the past 22 years, the club has directed proceeds from its annual charity auction to worthy non-
profit organizations and projects throughout Greene County. More than $475,000 has been aimed at
helping schools, libraries, community organizations and other entities make improvements and services
that benefit the county’s quality of life.
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Applications available for Rotary grants
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2023-03-06 06:00:00Z |
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Rotarians are happy to be able to offer both an online auction and a gala with a live auction.
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24th annual Charity Dinner and Auction set for Nov. 18
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Tori Riley
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2022-08-25 05:00:00Z |
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Jefferson Herald Article
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Adam Pedersen
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2022-04-29 05:00:00Z |
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Rotary Club of Jefferson: Celebrating 100 Years of Service and Positive IMPACT! Sunday, May 15, 2022, Reception 5-7 pm Jefferson Community Golf Course Rotary Room The program at 5:30 pm will feature inspiring messages from beneficiaries of the Club’s impact and support of their programs. Over $650,000 has been generated for the benefit of youth, education, community development, health and other projects throughout the county and the world. You won’t want to miss these stories! RSVP to email: jeffersoniarotary@gmail.com In recognition of the Club’s Centennial the following projects have been completed or are underway: - A District 6000 grant is enabling the Rotary Outdoor Classroom update. The project was started for the club’s 75th with the planting of 75 trees and bushes. Additional trees are being added to the area adjacent to the Greene County Elementary School and naming plaques added. A pollinator garden is being added at the request of teachers who want to include this is topic in their curriculum.
- $50,000 in proceeds from the Club’s 23rd Annual Charity Auction (and previous) will fund the development of the Rotary Club of Jefferson’s Dog Park adjacent to the new Greene County Animal Shelter under construction in Jefferson.
- For nearly two dozen years, the Rotary Club of Jefferson has raised through its Auction hundreds of thousands of dollars for the benefit of countless projects and programs in the area along with the
- sponsorship of generous college scholarships,
- a High School Interact Club chartered in 1997
- sending 2 Interact members to India to participate in a District-sponsored National Immunization Day and
- sponsoring 4 Interact members to Xicotepec, Mexico to assist with the district project there, the first Interactors to participate,
- along with RYLA sponsorships, and much more.
- Hundreds of young people received a free admission to the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower in Jefferson including a “ride to the top!” This project was launched in the summer of 2021 as the club began its Centennial celebration. The tower was designed by District 6000 Past District Governor Dale Belknap in the early 1960s and was dedicated in 1966. Rising to a height of over 168 feet, the tower features a four octave carillon of 47 bells. A variety of music emanates from the carillon at regular intervals and also is played during special concerts by “Mahanay Maestros.”
- A special literacy project in with the Club will participate is being launched with a D6000 Literacy grant provided by Save the Children. Our project will at the Head Start program.
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100 Years of Service!
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2022-02-09 06:00:00Z |
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Jefferson Rotarians are preparing for their 22nd annual Charity Auction, slated as an online-only auction with bidding open at 9 am on Nov. 17 through Nov. 21. Several travel packages headline the auction including a one-week stay in a 2 bedroom condo at the Royal Mauian on Maui, Hawaii; a week in a 3-bedroom condo in Gulf Shores, AL, with $500 to spend on “extras”; and a five-night package which may include weekend days at the centrally located historic Mills House hotel in Charleston, SC, along with a carriage ride, a $100 hotel food and beverage credit, and $500 to spend “on the town.” For those who prefer a min-vacation, there are play-and-stay packages from the Wild Rose properties in Jefferson, Emmetsburg and Clinton. Golfers may want to bid on four Goodman Club tickets for the U.S. Senior Open at the Omaha Country Club July 10-11, 2021. The package includes a $500 gift card and two rooms with two queen beds each at either the Embassy Suites in Omaha or the Harrah Casino & Hotel in Council Bluffs (buyers’ choice) for July 10. As in recent years, Hamilton Redi-Mix has donated a truckload of concrete – 10 cubic yards – with an offer to match the high bidder up to $2,000 with a cash donation to the Rotary Club. For sports fans, the auction offers framed autographed photos of Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famers Roger Staubach and Tony Dorsett; Kris Bryant bobbleheads from his time with the Iowa Cubs; and Iowa and Kansas City Chiefs footballs signed by Ed Podolak. The auction also includes home improvement items, home décor, gift baskets, and, because it’s 2020, a case of Who Gives a Crap toilet tissue. As many as 50 items will be on the auction. In its 21 years, the Rotary Charity Auction has raised more than $600,000 for worthwhile causes in Greene County and, through the Rotary International Foundation, across the globe. This year the Rotary Club is focusing on major projects to mark its centennial, May 1, 2022. The first recipient of Centennial Major Project funds will be the dog park adjacent to the new Greene County Animal Shelter. “We wish we could hold our dinner and a live auction, but we think we’ve found a great pandemic-friendly way to have a fun auction and raise money for community projects,” said Travis Dvorak, Rotary past president and auction chair. “People will find our online format easy to use, and we’re excited by the great items we’ve lined up for the auction,” he continued. The auction is posted at www.32auctions.com/JeffersonRotary. Items are being added daily. Bidding will open Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 9 am and close Saturday, Nov. 21, at 7 pm.
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2020 Jefferson Rotary Auction online!
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Jacquelynn Andrew
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2020-11-03 06:00:00Z |
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Club will disburse more than $40,000 in auction proceeds The Rotary Club of Jefferson is now accepting applications for grants from the proceeds of its 2017 charity auction.
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Club will disburse more than $40,000 in auction proceeds
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2018-01-05 06:00:00Z |
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Thanks to the partnership of individual and business donors with the Rotary Club of Jefferson, the annual Rotary Charity Auction has raised more $500,000 to benefit dozens of non-profit organizations and projects throughout Greene County and the world. Examples of projects receiving funding from the auction include:
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Impact of the Rotary Auction
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2017-10-19 05:00:00Z |
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Posted by John Brunow
November 4, the Jefferson Rotary Club will stage the 18th Annual Charity Auction and Dinner. We are working to expand this event by moving to a new location, the Greene Events Center at the Wild Rose Casino located at the northwest corner of the intersections of Highways 30 and 4 north of Jefferson. We want to create an event with regional impact.
We extend an offer to Rotary Clubs in West Central Iowa so they can benefit from participating in this Charity Auction and Dinner. When Rotarians and their guests fill the seats for a table (8) or more at the event the Jefferson Rotary Club will pass on 20% of those Rotarians' successful live auction bids to their club. For example, eight guests from the Coon Rapids Club creates a Coon Rapids table. When those Coon Rapids Rotarians are the successful bidders on a live auction item then twenty percent of the winning bid goes to their club. We are promoting and rewarding participation.
Tickets for the Jefferson Rotary Charity Auction and Dinner are $40 per person. We ask that Rotarians from a club allow us to seat them together and introduce them as a group. Our social time begins at 5:30 PM. Supper will begin being served at 6:30 PM. The Auction will follow supper. Our goal is to have you on your way home before 10:00 PM. Although our new Cobblestone Inn right next to the Greene Events Center would be a lovely place to stay.
Won't you join us for this effort to create a regional event benefiting Rotary Clubs in West Central Iowa. Talk this auction up at your club, recruit participants, and register for dinner tickets online using this link:
https://www.crsadmin.com/EventPortal/Registrations/PublicFill/EventPublicFill.aspx?evtid=ee3b88a1-495a-43d7-9533-de5eebd9233b
When Rotarians log in using their ClubRunner ID and password then their information for registering is auto filled by ClubRunner.
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Will It Build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
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John Brunow
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