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Cool Treats on Downtown Streets for Tasty Fundraiser
(July 9, 2010) Tickets are available for the first
ever, all-you-can-eat, Downtown Paris Ice Cream Social,
slated for Saturday, July 31. A minimum donation of $10
is requested for adult tickets and a $5 donation for
children under 12. The 2010 beneficiary is R.E.A.L. Hope
Youth Center.
Sponsored by the Downtown Paris Association, the event
has attracted 22 organizations and businesses as booth
sponsors and the list is growing. “Several of those
participants are partnering with other groups,” said
Kathy Ray, chairperson for the Ice Cream Social.
“Partnering is a great way to keep cut the work and cost
in half while still taking part in this delicious
fundraiser.
It’s not too late to sponsor a booth, according to Ray.
The deadline for entering has been extended and other
groups are encouraged to join the fun and help raise
money for R.E.A.L. Hope Youth Center. “We were hoping
for 15 booths,” said Ray. “We’re well over that now;
this event is really taking off.”
Homemade ice cream is encouraged, but not essential.
“What matters is that ticket holders get their fill of
lots of different cold, creamy desserts at this
all-you-can-eat event and that we raise lots of money
for this year’s beneficiary.” Awards will be given for
Best Theme, Best Ice Cream and Best of Show. “We’ve got
some folks doing some hilarious booths,” said Ray.
Tickets are available from booth sponsors. The current
list includes: Continental Loans; Dr. Dunkerson; E.W.
James/Pepsi/Prairie Farms; Elect Tim Wirgau; First Bank;
First Presbyterian/Grace Episcopal; First United
Methodist Church; H & R Block, Kroger; Lakeway IGA;
Leach’s Music/Conger Music Studio; LFG Specialty
Products, LLC; Lee Academy for the Arts/Arts Council;
Lowe’s; MyParisMagazine.com; Paris on the Square/Jack
Jones Flowers/Dr. Buddy Gardner; Quota; Re-Elect Butch
Borchert; REAL Hope Youth Center; Sally Lane’s Candy
Farm; Trinity Methodist Men and TVCC.
Tickets for the event are actually paper bracelets.
“Folks wearing R.E.A.L. Hope bracelets can eat all of
the ice cream they can hold from 3:00 until 6 p.m.,”
said Ray. “We’ll have cups at each booth and our guests
can sample a half cut at each one of them.”
For more information, call Kathy Ray at 731-642-8000 or
email her at
kray@firstbankonline.com.
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