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Article: FESTIVAL BOOTH HELPED SKATING CLUB GETS DONATIONS
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2007
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Local residents helped the Greater Evansville Figure Skating Club
in its time of need.
Guests at the Deaconess Hospital Foundation's annual gala Saturday
night raised enough in cash and pledges to cover much of the damage
done to the figure skating club's fundraising booth.
The West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is next week, and the figure
skating organization raises substantial operating funds during the
popular weeklong event.
But without a working booth, cooking appliances and refrigerator,
the skating group's Fall Festival effort was in jeopardy - until
Saturday.
The Deaconess foundation's "Party of the Year" was conducted,
ironically, at Swonder Ice Arena. Figure skating club members had ...