Fundraising for the Sanborn County “Raise the Roof” 4-H Building Addition has had great success over the past three years, raising a total of $364,000 to date. The fundraising goal has been updated a few times as construction costs changed, and then most recently when items like new tables, chairs and racks were added to the total, making the current goal $470,000, with $100,000 of that total committed by the Sanborn County Commissioners. 

The addition was completed in February and has played host to various 4-H and community events.

A very successful part of the fundraising has been the “Shoot the 4 of Clubs” activity.  Each week tickets were sold for a Monday night drawing, usually hosted at Jake’s Lounge in Letcher. The drawing was shared via Facebook Live and participants did not need to be present to win.  The lucky winner of the weekly drawing picked a sealed and numbered envelope from a group of 54, each containing a card from a deck of cards.  The goal of the drawing winner was to pick the envelope containing the four of clubs, which meant they would win 50 percent of the Shoot the 4 of Clubs “cumulative pot.” If they did not pick the envelope with the 4 of Clubs, the lucky winner still received 10 percent of the weekly ticket sales. The remainder of the ticket sales went towards the cumulative pot. The tickets from the weekly sales were then discarded and sales for the next week began.  

…Read on and see a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!