Rotary delivers stars and stripes Posted by the Times-Beacon Newspapers on 09/14/06 BY BOB VOSSELLER STAFF WRITER LACEY — Five years ago, at 8:46 a.m. the first of two commercial airplanes struck the World Trade Center. It was the first of three attacks on the nation. At 8:46 a.m. on Monday morning, Deputy Mayor Gary Quinn and fellow members of the Lacey Rotary Club were busy planting American flags around the township. "It went very well," Quinn said. Quinn previously served as Lacey Rotary president. He joined fellow past President Vinnie Layton and current president Bruce Halliday. Halliday said that the organization's 64 members were divided up into five teams who went out to put out flags along the businesses of Route 9 and Lacey Road. The Rotarians began placing the flags along Route 9 before 8 a.m. While the club serves as the caretakers of the flags, they are sold to businesses along Route 9 and Lacey Road at $35 each, two flags for $60 and three for $100. "We put them out and pick them up. We do this on Veterans Day, Labor Day, Flag Day and the Fourth of July. Patriot's Day (named in honor of 9/11) has just been added," Halliday said. "We're up to 400 flags. We start off early to try and get them up by 8 a.m. and we come and take them down around 6 p.m. "The money from the flags goes back to the community through local scholarships and our holiday programs," Halliday added. The Lacey Rotary Club heads two holiday programs for Thanksgiving and Christmas. "We supply Christmas for 800 children in Barnegat, Waretown and Lacey," Halliday said. Halliday said that the club also has a major fundraiser coming up on Oct. 29, the Autumn Windfall 50/50 cash raffle. The Rotarians will sell 300 tickets at $100. $15,000 in cash will be awarded during a party at the Captain's Inn. "We hold (the party) on a Sunday afternoon and it is always fun," Halliday said. "The money from this goes to our Thanksgiving food program and our Christmas Elf program." .