Sports Bar to Fundraise for Students Today
WASHINGTON — Kep’s Sports Bar and Grill in Washington is supporting the ICC CONNECT office by donating a portion of today’s profits to the scholarship fund that the CONNECT students operate.
Every year, students from the CONNECT office here at ICC raise money to fund scholarships that their office awards to three members of CONNECT. Two of these scholarships are awarded to transferring sophomores, and the third goes to an “outstanding freshman.”
The scholarships are completely funded by student fundraising efforts, and CONNECT has found many ways to raise the money for them. This year they have partnered with Kep’s Sports Bar and Grill in Washington to help boost revenue.
“The amounts for the scholarships each year vary depending on how much fundraising is done,” said Mindi Miller, coordinator of college transitions in the ICC Transfer Center, “so the more fundraising they do with the candy bar sales and the fundraising events, the more money they get for the scholarships.”
According to Miller, about $1000 was raised for the scholarships last year, a year when they partnered with Buffalo Wild Wings for a fundraising day. This year, they hope the efforts with Kep’s will be even more beneficial because, unlike at Buffalo Wild Wings, customers don’t have to show a coupon or anything to get the restaurant to donate to CONNECT.
“Ten percent of the day’s proceeds from Kep’s goes to our scholarship fund,” said Rachel Noe, a CONNECT student employee, “so basically we just need people to show up and eat there, and we will get ten percent of today’s profits.”
January and February are normally the months when CONNECT fundraises, and the scholarships will be awarded in April to three CONNECT members. Students interested in joining CONNECT should stop by the CONNECT office in 302B in the East Peoria Campus Academic Building.
Kep’s Sports Bar and Grill will be collecting ten percent of their non-achoholic profits from 11 a.m. to midnight today, Feb. 19, to give to CONNECT. Kep’s is located at 313 Muller Road in Washington just south of Gary Uftring’s Used Car Outlet.