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After a one-year break, the Hudson Daybreak Rotary Car Raffle will be kicking off at Booster Days. Since 2005, the car raffle has been one of the largest fundraising engines in the Hudson community, raising over $420,000. Put on by the Hudson Daybreak Rotary — an organization committed to improving youth opportunities — much of the money raised has gone to enhancing education, youth athletics and more.
In Julianna’s kitchen, a pot of dried corn bubbles over open flames. Her makeshift stove is a wood table fireproofed with layers of dried mud. For Guatemalan women like Julianna, the days begin and end with crackling flames that spew ash and blacken the corrugated metal walls.
Cooking is the primary job of indigenous women in the country’s villages.
And it’s killing them.
The Hudson Daybreak Rotary Club donated $24,021 to the St. Croix Valley Food Bank to help serve the more than 45 pantries, shelters and backpack programs in St. Croix, Polk, Pierce and Burnett counties.
“We are just so grateful for community support,” Food Bank Executive Director Ann Searles said.
This donation will help the mobile pop-up pantries the food bank uses to reach rural, impoverished communities in western Wisconsin.
This story was written by Hannah Coyle, Hudson Star Observer. Continue reading the full story by clicking the Read More button under the photo.
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