Rotary to offers spaghetti to address hazard

The local Rotary Club will put on a spaghetti dinner April 28, to raise funds to help replace disintegrating stage curtains at Lake Roosevelt Schools.

The club, which took a lead role in organizing community support and talks around the new school, built in 2014, continues working toward school improvements with fund-raisers and member donations.

The curtains on the stage of the old Lake Roosevelt gym, the one LR’s seniors walk across at graduation, has reportedly been in bad shape for decades and may be the kind of capital project that’s difficult to focus on when budget numbers get squeezed, at least without an extra community push.

“We couldn’t use them,” said PTA President Rebecca Hunt after the group recently sponsored the Missoula Children’s Theatre production that involved 60 local kids on the stage. “They have big holes in them.”

Hunt said the curtains, which she described as “almost powdery,” have been tied up to keep them from falling down. “They are a hazard,” she said.

Hunt said she’s been told the curtains are about 60 years old, and the PTA has been looking for ways to fund replacements.

Estimates for the curtain replacements range in the tens of thousands of dollars.

The Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club dinner will be held in the school cafeteria from 4:30-6:30 p.m. A single ticket is $10; a family ticket is $25. They are available from Rotary Club members and at The Star office.