SEQUIM — Alice Beebe makes the most of penny and nickel slots.
Those are all she plays when she goes to casinos, be they the 7 Cedars in Blyn or something bigger on the Las Vegas strip.
And when Beebe wins, so do a lot of charity groups.
She’s given $25,000 in casino winnings to the noon Sequim Rotary Club since she joined in 2000.
“When I win, they get half my ill-gotten gains,” said Beebe.
Sure, a lot of gamblers go down to Vegas and lose.
“I’m the one who goes down and wins,” she said.
Beebe, owner of the Olympic Game Farm, was honored last week at a major donor dinner with Rotary International President Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar, who came from Sweden for the event at the Fircrest Golf Club near Tacoma.
Rotarians discussed the service club’s efforts to eradicate polio around the globe, and its clean-water projects in underdeveloped countries.
Rotary’s anti-polio campaign resonates with the 54-year-old Beebe, she said, because she grew up with friends who suffered from the disease.
