In addition to the orchids, food, entertainment, wine and cheese tasting, bounce house, pottery, and art and jewelry vendors at the Orchid Festival, the festival is a showcase for participating non-profit organizations. Reporter Dan Stork tells which nonprofits are participating this year, and how you can help your favorite charities earn money there…
The 19th Annual Morongo Basin Orchid Festival will be held on October 4th and 5th at Gubler Orchids, 2200 Belfield Blvd. in Landers.
Sixteen Morongo Basin charities will be showcased at the festival this year. They include Armed Services YMCA, Theater 29, Boys and Girls Club of the High Desert, Johnson Valley Improvement Association, Homestead Valley Park and Recreation, Joshua Tree Tortoise Rescue, Morongo Basin Community Emergency Response Team, Morongo Basin Ambulance, The Orchid Society of Arizona, Reach Out 29, Soroptomists, The Joshua Tree Sportettes, the Yucca Valley High School Cheerleader Booster Club, Unity Home, Reach Out Morongo Basin, and Relay for Life. Representatives of these organizations will be on hand to explain what they do and who they serve. Nonprofits at the festival earn “Rotary Bucks” that are given to festival-goers as they enter, and which are re-distributed by the visitors to the charities of their choice. After the festival, the Sunset Rotary gives each charity a minimum of $1 for each Rotary Buck the charity received from festival goers.
