The Newtown Rotary Club will launch a new fundraiser Labor Day weekend.

Ticket sales for the inaugural Thirty For Twenty Restaurant Raffle will open Saturday, September 3. On the table for this new event are collections of $100 gift certificates from 30 local restaurants.

Tickets are $20 each, and will be available through the local club’s website, newtownctrotary.org.

Tickets will also be available Monday, September 5, during the Labor Day Parade. The group plans to have a table set up at its traditional location at The Pleasance, 1 Main Street.

First place is 15 restaurant gift cards, second place is ten restaurant gift cards, and third place is five gift cards.

Rotary Club of Newtown President Alex Villamil is looking forward to the new offering.

“We’re excited to introduce this raffle to Newtown,” he said August 30. For a very reasonable cost, he said, anyone can have the opportunity to win gift certificates to multiple local restaurants.

“We are limiting sales to 2,000 tickets so the more tickets that you buy, the better your chances are at winning,” Villamil noted.

The Rotary Club president sees the new offering as a win-win for all involved.

“Participants get a chance to win, restaurants get exposure through our advertising, and all net proceeds from this raffle go to town local causes and organizations such as The Newtown Rotary Scholarship Fund, Newtown Community Center, The High School Book Project, Newtown Parent Connection, Dorothy Day Hospitality House, and more,” he said.

The winning tickets will be drawn Saturday, December 3, at 11:30 am, during Rotary’s Annual Pancake Breakfast.

For additional information contact Villamil at 203-223-3524 or visit newtownCTrotary.org.