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Today I interviewed Roland Davis, secretary of the Chesapeake Rotary and co-chairman of the Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival, for an upcoming story I’m working on.

Traditionally, the Chesapeake Rotary put together an annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser to benefit its charity partners. But over time, the dinner had gotten stale, and Davis and his nephew helped launch the idea of a wine festival for 2010 as a replacement. That’s what the rotary did, and it was wildly successful, bringing in $150,000 to support several nonprofit organizations — the Sidney M. Oman Cancer Center was the main beneficiary. (Check out the video to the right.)