Rotary Cruise-In October 7

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

If you are one of those folks who can’t get enough chrome, the Sunbury-Galena Rotary Club is host­ing its 20th annual Clas­sic Coun­try Car Show on Sun­day, Octo­ber 7, with one major change — the location.

For the last 19 years, weather per­mit­ting, the cruise-in has been held on his­toric Sun­bury Vil­lage Square. This year, in order to accom­mo­date the growth of the show while ensur­ing safe, easy access for car own­ers and spec­ta­tors, the show will be held at the Big Wal­nut High School park­ing lot in Sunbury.

This show brings with it the poten­tial for over 300 cars, and fea­tures clas­sic car own­ers and enthu­si­asts from all over Cen­tral Ohio and all mod­els of clas­sic cars, trucks and street rods; and cruise-in orga­niz­ers will hand out a host of tro­phies, includ­ing sev­eral “Best of …” cat­e­gories along with Favorites awards, and the cov­eted Best of Show Award.

The Rotar­i­ans have teamed up with Bry-Air Relay for Life Team to serve food, includ­ing break­fast sand­wiches and cof­fee for early birds, and will fea­ture a spe­cial recipe Fried Bologna sand­wich along with Coney’s and all the fix­ings dur­ing the afternoon.

Reg­is­tra­tion runs from 9 a.m. until 12 noon and the cost is a mod­est $10 per vehi­cle. Dash plaques go to the first 200 reg­is­trants along with a ticket for a chance to win one of many door prizes.

Roger Bishop, of Hyper Sounds Enter­tain­ment, will spin clas­sic tunes through­out the day, mak­ing it a fun after­noon for the entire fam­ily; and there’s no charge to stop by and take a walk down mem­ory lane.

Pro­ceeds from the annual Cruise-In ben­e­fits the club’s char­i­ta­ble efforts, which include col­lege schol­ar­ships for Big Wal­nut stu­dents and the Sunbury-Galena Rotary’s Swim for Life Pro­gram. The Swim for Life Pro­gram pro­vides free swim lessons for chil­dren from low-income fam­i­lies in the local community.

Major spon­sors for the Galena-Rotary Club’s 20th Annual Clas­sic Coun­try Car Show include Ruark & Sons Auto­mo­tive, Phil’s Col­li­sion Repair, Eagle Auto Repair, Hyper Sounds Enter­tain­ment, Delaware County Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney Carol O’Brien and Body by Vi Challenge.

The Sunbury-Galena Rotary Club is a local chap­ter of Rotary Inter­na­tional, a world­wide orga­ni­za­tion of busi­ness and pro­fes­sional mem­bers work­ing together pro­vid­ing human­i­tar­ian ser­vice and help­ing pro­mote peace and good­will in the world.

Big Wal­nut High School is located at 555 South Old 3C High­way (South Colum­bus Street) in Sunbury.

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