Grand Marais Lions President Cheryl Woodard presented a smiling Carolyn Dry with both a ceremonial $10,000 check and a smaller one that Carolyn could take to the bank and deposit. Photos courtesy of the Grand Marais Lions Club
As a tired group of Grand Marais Lions gathered their sold raffle tickets into the metal cylinder on Sunday, August 5, at 5 p.m. the fog began to dissipate and the sun came out.
One by one silhouetted sailboats appeared in sharp detail as the harbor fog lifted. They were unwrapped like presents on Christmas morning, the water, now a robin egg blue, lay like crinkled, wrinkled wrapping paper on a disappearing floor.
For a brief moment, as a little girl pulled Grand Marais Carolyn Dry’s name from the cylinder and Dry was announced as the winner of the $10,000 grand prize, summer was in full force.
Minutes later, angry clouds formed just above the Sawtooth Mountains, rumbling as they rambled into town.
It went from pea soup thick fog covering the bay to sunshine and no fog to shuddering, thundering storm clouds, rain, peasized hail and lightning menacing the downtown area in about the span of 10 minutes.
With the exception of some Sunday night bingo, it was a dramatic way to end the four-day Grand Marais Lions Club Fisherman’s Picnic.
Kelly Roberts was the lucky raffle-drawing winner of the Grand Marais Lions Fisherman’s Picnic $1,000 second place check.
As the large crowd on hand dissipated several children took turns pulling raffle tickets for the three Lions protected underneath a small tent: Kelly Roberts, Grand Marais won the second place $1,000 cash prize; and Mike Kobelinski, also from Grand Marais, won the third place $500 and then the rain really came down.
None of the top three prizewinners were on hand for the final drawing, but for each of them, when they found out they had won, it had to feel a little bit like Christmas.
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