The Chestertown Rotary Club presented Kent County Public Schools this month with a donation for its visual arts program.
Beverly Birkmire, the club's foundation chair, attended the Board of Education's monthly meeting Jan. 12 with a check for $3,500.
The money was raised during the club's annual Soup and Sip event, held last October at Chester River Yacht and Country Club.
The club is a frequent booster for Kent County Public Schools, with past donations to the Makerspace afterschool program and Galena Elementary School's annual One School, One Book reading event.
Birkmire said this year's Soup and Sip organizers chose to focus on the school system's visual arts program.
For the Soup and Sip event, a friendly cooking competition among local chefs, the Chester River Yacht and Country Club was decorated with student artwork.
Birkmire said attendees were impressed with the art.
"Actually there were several people who asked if they were for sale," Birkmire said.
She presented the donation check to Superintendent Dr. Mary Boswell-McComas on behalf of David White, president of the Rotary Club of Chestertown, and Jamie Williams, chair of the Soup and Sip event committee and director of economic and tourism development for Kent County.
