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The Rotary Club of Kitchener-Conestoga wishes to announce that the 39th Lobsterfest will be held at Bingemans on June 4th, 2010.

 For tickets call the Rotary hotline at 519.743.2997 or visit:  

Mosaic Counselling & Family Services at 400 Queen St. South, Kitchener;

Bingemans at 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener;

 Waterloo Nissan at 35 Weber St. North, Waterloo;

or Caudle's Catch Seafood at 60 Otonabee Drive, Kitchener. 

On-line sales have ended. Or e-mail your request to: info@rotary-kc.ca

 
Evening highlights include all you can eat lobster & bbq ribs and music  by Lulu's Roadhouse Band and Traces Steel Band. Be sure to visit our new wine and seafood bar featuring a great selection of wines by the glass and jumbo shrimp and fresh oysters shucked by PEI's Oyster shucking champion. Doors open at 5:30 pm with dinner served at 6:30 pm.  Enjoy dancing and great music till midnight.

                   

  Yes, we are really serving ribs this year.  Really.

 

Tickets are $75.00 each. Group or corporate tables of any size can be accommodated.

 Special Draw for Table Buyers!  Buy a table of ten and you will be automatically entered in our draw for your own Lobsterfest at your home or place of business for twenty people, professionally catered by Bingemans. Draw to take place at Lobsterfest.  

The History of our Lobsterfest

Almost forty years ago on a hillside in Prince Edward Island a rickety old church was holding it's annual picnic to celebrate the opening of the lobster season.

The air was full of laughter and fiddle music. Dance executed as only down-easterners can. This was a fortunate time for the Rotary Club of Kitchener-Conestoga as one of our charter members, Harold Freure, was there at that event. As more and more plump, meaty lobsters were dropped into the cauldrons of boiling water and seaweed and butter dripped down many a chin, Harold remarked to his wife Heidi: "we could take this great idea back home as a fund raiser!" Thus was born our annual Lobsterfest at Bingeman's.

Thirty eight years and thousands of heavenly lobsters later, our Rotary Club is still raising funds for its World Community Service Committee through the sheer fun of Lobsterfest.

This committee over the years has been able to multiply the funds raised by as much as eight-fold through the matching grant programmes of Rotary International and our Canadian Government. These monies have enabled us to supply an ambulance, build a clinic, generate electricity, and dig a well all in West Kenya. We have built water catchments up in the jungle mountains of Honduras and created an actual water utility for the villagers. But this is only two of scores of projects we have accomplished.
Through your buying a Lobsterfest ticket, you help us to save lives, give others hope and improve their quality of life. What could be more noble than to help someone you will quite likely never meet?

The Rotary Club of Kitchener-Conestoga believes it must help. And we will help. So please participate and celebrate with us and the king of seafood. Get a little butter on your chin and laugh with your friends knowing you have lent a hand.
Rotary Lobsterfest is the 1st Friday of June every year. Come & enjoy! Bingemans is located at 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener and we are in Marshall Hall.