A local community organization is counting on a playful fundraiser this weekend to aid its efforts to raise funds for a new roof.

To that end, St. Peter’s Community Resource Center in Weissport will hold a drive-by dunk tank and school supply collection from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The “dunkees” will include Lehighton Elementary Center Principal Aaron Sebelin (noon to 1 p.m.); Carbon County Commissioner Chris Lukasevich (1-2 p.m.); Lehighton Area School Board Director Rita Spinelli (2-3 p.m.); and Pastor Tony Pagotto (3-4 p.m.)

People’s EC Church Pastor Mike Coulson, who also is a board member for the St. Peter’s Community Resource Center, explained that the objective is to help raise funds for a new roof for St. Peter’s Resource Center.

“We were looking for something that we could do to get the community involved with it, something that would be safe and socially distant,” Coulson said. “It’s a little bit different than your normal fundraiser, but I really love how it’s getting people from the community involved with it as well.”

Coulson explained that St. Peter’s Community Resource Center used to be a church that closed down about five to six years ago, and added that St. Peter’s Community Resource Center has been operating for about the past three years.

“We’re doing more and more to be a resource for the community,” he said. “Our goal is to be a one-stop location that people can come to and we can find out what their situation is and help direct them (in the right direction), and we’ve been building toward that for the last three years.”

Essentially, Coulson said the objective is to have a building that is in good shape that people can come to.

“We want to just keep doing more to give back,” he said. “There’s already a lot of groups that are doing awesome things to give back, but a lot of times the people in our county who are in need of services don’t know that these different things exist or where do you turn to first; we want to be a place where they can come and find out what their situation is and get them pointed in the right direction to get things started.”

Coulson said the cost of the roof is $25,000. Of that, he said $12,500 has been secured.