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Dexter Rotary Club Announce 2011 Playhouse Raffle Winner

Dexter residents Renee and Glen Wiczorek are the grand prize winners.

After a highly anticipated one-month wait, the winners of the were revealed on Saturday during the annual Apple Daze Festival.

Village Trustee Paul Cousins was our emcee and spoke to the shivering but plentiful crowd about the work Rotary does for the Dexter community, including our scholarship program, our community garden efforts, Faith in Action support, Ronald McDonald House dinners, supporting library and community events, and numerous other social safety net activities.

The winning ticket was drawn by a young women in the crowd chosen at random. The ticket belonged to Renee and Glen Wiczorek of Dexter.

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The playhouse delivery was scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Rotary members Jim Brady, Jeff Brown, Paul Cousins, Steve Feinman and Karl Fink assembled at 4 p.m. to make the delivery. As the drive to the delivery got underway, Glen Wiczorek and his father were frantically clearing underbrush and vegetation from the playhouse’s future home. Lindsey Wiczorek, the soon to be playhouse occupant, saw her father and grandfather working but it wasn’t until Jim Brady’s truck with the trailer pulled into her back yard that Lindsey’s mom told her that she won the playhouse.

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