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Text Box: The Country Store — THIS VENUE HAS BEEN CANCELLED Carrie’s Famous Taco Dinner — 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. Dinner includes: Taco Shells, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Cheese, Onions and selection of taco sauces. Build your own tacos. Dinner also includes a variety of desserts. (Included in ticket.) Dance Lessons & Music — 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. Line Dance Lesson at 4:30 p.m. by Shirley Perkins. Partner Dance Lesson at 6:00 p.m. by John & Freida Utzig. Music will be playing continuously from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. Music requests are $1.00 each going to the Cancer Benefit. Snack Shack — Continous — All Evening PLEASE DO NOT BRING IN ANY SNACKS OR OTHER FOOD ITEMS AS WE WILL BE SELLING SNACKS TO BENEFIT CANCER. Popcorn, Pretzels and Other Snacks for sale by the basket. In Memorium Vigil Candles — All Evening As you enter the hall, there will be a table of vigil lights. For $1.00 each, you can light a candle which will burn throughout the evening in remembrance of a loved one. There will be memorial cards available for you to write the name of your loved one to be placed in front of the candle. Flasher Booth — Continous — All Evening The “Sheboygan Ladies” at their finest will have everything imaginable that will light up and flash in the dark for you to purchase. Mystery Prize Booth — Continous — All Evening There will be 3 levels of Mystery Prizes - $1.00--$2.00--$3.00 Your prize will be in a plain unmarked box (cannot peek). Who knows what “treasure” will await you! The Lollipop Tree — Continous — All Evening The Lollipop Tree will have 100 lollipops on the tree. For $1.00, you can pull a lollipop from the tree and you get: White Tip - Lollipop Only Blue Tip - Five $1.00 prizes Red Tip - Four $2.00 prizes Yellow Tip - Three $3.00 prizes Green Tip - Two $4.00 prizes Purple Tip - One $5.00 prize CD Sales — Continous — All Evening Trent & Mary will be selling all of their original CD’s and compilations for $1.00 each. A variety of selections—something for everyone! Relay For Life Bracelets — Continous — All Evening For $2.00 each, purchase a beautiful hand-made RFL bracelet. 100% of sale price will go to Midge Lopez in Joliet, Illinois, who makes these bracelets to honor her 4 sisters, mother and mother-in-law who all have breast cancer. Midge and her family raised over $8,000.00 last year for RFL, and are sincerely grateful for the support received by the Wisconsin dancers. 50/50 Cash Raffle — Continous — Until 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $1.00 each, or 6 for $5.00. Winners announced at 7:00 p.m. 50% goes to donors — 50% goes to Cancer Benefit. You have 4 chances to win, with 4 places being paid out. Must be present to claim prize (or representative). Raffle Ticket Drop — Continous — Until 7:30 pm A wonderful variety of items valued between $25.00-$100.00. Tickets are $1.00 each, or 6 for $5.00. Winners announced at 7:30 p.m. Drop as many tickets as you want inside the canister in front of the prize you desire. (Must be present to claim prize.) Sensational Super Sale — Continous — Until 8:00 pm Great “high-end” donated items valued over $100.00. Tickets are $2.00 each, or 3 for $5.00. Winners announced at 8:00 p.m. DO NOT have to be present to win. Be sure to list name and phone number on back of the ticket. PRE-EVENT — Phones For Hope Help in the fight against breast cancer by turning in your old cell phones and they will be mailed to a recycling center. For every cell phone turned in from March 31-October 31, 2008, ReCellular will donate $1.00 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure with a guaranteed minimum donation of $10,000.00. Since this offer expires on October 31, 2008, we are going to ask instructors in the area to collect the phones during normal classes and dances—to be turned over no later than October 21, 2008 to Mary Cummings. Free postage is being provided by the recycling center. On the night of our event, a total will be announced. PRE-EVENT — Dance in Beloit, WI — Friday, Nov. 7th John & Freida Utzig invite all dancers in Wisconsin & Illinois to join in a pre-event dance. Canisters will be put out at the dance for any and all donations. We hope that many from our area come and join Trent and I to start the weekend off with a “bang”. PRE-EVENT — Canister Collection — All Dancing Venues For all instructors in the Midwest area that would like to participate, we ask that you place a canister at all your dancing events throughout the month of October for this event. Please mail a check to Mary Cummings by November 2nd with the total amount collected and the name of your group. If you plan on attending the event, please bring your donation along for a special presentation. We thank all our country dancing family in advance for your participation. INFORMATION BOOTH — Continous — All Evening There will be a FREE information booth with brochures on many types of cancer, treatment and care, and other related subjects. There will also be a “visual” display of cancer awareness. You will be able to sign your name and the “answer to the question”, and the closest entry will win a fabulous prize. There is NO CHARGE for participation in this contest.